Software Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Software Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Software Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £498 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 60 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 13 28 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.63% 3.09% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 3.24% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 7
10th Percentile £496 £363 £335
25th Percentile £497 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £499 £525 £534
90th Percentile £500 £545 £656
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%

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 756 864 908
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 95.26% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 609 695
10th Percentile £262 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +7.33% +8.43%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £539
90th Percentile £619 £676 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £472
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.64% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 21 18
10th Percentile £11.85 £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% +86.87%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.73 £43.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.55 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £20.22 £37.43
% change year-on-year -3.56% -45.98% +16.97%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Glasgow

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Glasgow

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (84.62%) Degree
2 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 11 (84.62%) C#
2 11 (84.62%) HTML
2 11 (84.62%) Python
2 11 (84.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) PayPal
2 11 (84.62%) Chatbot
2 11 (84.62%) Conversational UI
2 11 (84.62%) Code Quality
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) SDET
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) BDD
3 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
3 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
4 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Agile

Software 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:

Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) Code Quality
1 11 (84.62%) Conversational UI
1 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) BDD
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) SDET
2 2 (15.38%) Service Management
2 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Microservices
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (84.62%) C#
2 11 (84.62%) Python
2 11 (84.62%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) PayPal
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle