Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 170 145 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.78% 16.16% 18.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.91% 17.00% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 92 104
10th Percentile £324 £400 £352
25th Percentile £393 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +16.67% +6.51%
75th Percentile £500 £716 £525
90th Percentile £563 £750 £621
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £464
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.37% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £30.32 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +1.55% -19.95%
75th Percentile £46.61 - £48.00
90th Percentile £50.89 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 776 853 890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 95.09% 96.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 603 677
10th Percentile £257 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +8.43%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £688 £620
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 18
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.13 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £23.77
Median hourly rate £40.94 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +182.34% -61.26% +113.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.73 £43.36
90th Percentile £67.50 £60.55 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Glasgow

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 77 (45.29%) Java
2 76 (44.71%) Agile
3 70 (41.18%) AWS
4 66 (38.82%) SQL
5 49 (28.82%) Software Engineering
6 48 (28.24%) Spring
7 46 (27.06%) Microservices
8 35 (20.59%) Spring Boot
9 33 (19.41%) SDLC
9 33 (19.41%) RESTful
9 33 (19.41%) Oracle
10 32 (18.82%) Python
10 32 (18.82%) Finance
11 28 (16.47%) CI/CD
12 27 (15.88%) Kafka
13 26 (15.29%) Data Modelling
14 25 (14.71%) JIRA
14 25 (14.71%) Scala
15 24 (14.12%) Test Automation
15 24 (14.12%) Unix
16 22 (12.94%) PL/SQL
16 22 (12.94%) HTML
16 22 (12.94%) JavaScript
16 22 (12.94%) Azure
17 20 (11.76%) React
17 20 (11.76%) Unit Testing
18 19 (11.18%) Artificial Intelligence
19 18 (10.59%) Degree
19 18 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
20 17 (10.00%) Code Quality

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.06%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.59%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Maximo
1 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 70 (41.18%) AWS
2 22 (12.94%) Azure
3 14 (8.24%) Amazon S3
4 13 (7.65%) GCP
5 9 (5.29%) Serverless
6 8 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.76%) npm
10 3 (1.76%) SaaS
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.18%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) Oracle Database
1 13 (7.65%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.88%) Big Data
3 8 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.53%) MySQL
4 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.94%) Power BI
6 4 (2.35%) GIS
6 4 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.35%) Parquet
7 3 (1.76%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.76%) Impala
7 3 (1.76%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.76%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (14.71%) JIRA
2 16 (9.41%) Git
3 13 (7.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.53%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.94%) JUnit
6 4 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.76%) Mockito
7 3 (1.76%) webpack
8 2 (1.18%) Selenium
8 2 (1.18%) Subversion
8 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.59%) GitLab
9 1 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 32 (18.82%) Finance
2 17 (10.00%) Banking
3 13 (7.65%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.65%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Law
8 1 (0.59%) Local Government
8 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (28.24%) Spring
2 35 (20.59%) Spring Boot
3 33 (19.41%) RESTful
4 27 (15.88%) Kafka
5 22 (12.94%) HTML
6 20 (11.76%) React
7 16 (9.41%) CSS
7 16 (9.41%) REST
8 13 (7.65%) PySpark
9 11 (6.47%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.29%) JSON
10 9 (5.29%) Web Services
11 8 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.71%) OpenTracing
11 8 (4.71%) XML
12 7 (4.12%) Node.js
13 6 (3.53%) LDAP
13 6 (3.53%) OpenID
14 5 (2.94%) AWS CDK
15 4 (2.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.24%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) CMDB
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.59%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.12%) Unix
2 11 (6.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (44.71%) Agile
2 49 (28.82%) Software Engineering
3 46 (27.06%) Microservices
4 33 (19.41%) SDLC
5 28 (16.47%) CI/CD
6 26 (15.29%) Data Modelling
7 24 (14.12%) Test Automation
8 20 (11.76%) Unit Testing
9 19 (11.18%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
11 17 (10.00%) Code Quality
12 14 (8.24%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (8.24%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (7.06%) Scrum
14 11 (6.47%) Conversational UI
14 11 (6.47%) TDD
15 10 (5.88%) Machine Learning
15 10 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
16 9 (5.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.29%) Java
2 66 (38.82%) SQL
3 32 (18.82%) Python
4 25 (14.71%) Scala
5 22 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.94%) PL/SQL
6 15 (8.82%) Shell Script
7 13 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 12 (7.06%) C#
9 10 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.53%) C
10 6 (3.53%) Go
11 3 (1.76%) Bash
11 3 (1.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.59%) Degree
2 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.53%) QA
2 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.59%) GDPR
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.82%) Docker
2 7 (4.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.71%) Prometheus
2 8 (4.71%) Zipkin
3 7 (4.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (19.41%) Oracle
2 11 (6.47%) PayPal
3 9 (5.29%) Avaloq
4 6 (3.53%) Cadence
5 4 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (2.35%) Google
5 4 (2.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.76%) Splunk
7 2 (1.18%) IBM
7 2 (1.18%) Sage
8 1 (0.59%) Adobe
8 1 (0.59%) Databricks
8 1 (0.59%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.59%) IFS
8 1 (0.59%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.59%) Sybase
8 1 (0.59%) Xamarin