Software Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 68 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 9 20 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.10% 2.22% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.33% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £336 £413 £350
25th Percentile £360 £416 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -11.90% +13.51%
75th Percentile - £540 £563
90th Percentile - £638 £575
Scotland median daily rate £354 £493 £550
% change year-on-year -28.17% -10.45% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £40.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +41.98% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £58.75 £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £45.81
% change year-on-year +4.35% +25.52% -

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 776 857 894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 95.12% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 608 679
10th Percentile £257 £325 £214
25th Percentile £363 £410 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +8.43%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £688 £625
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%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) C++
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded C++
4 3 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (22.22%) NVIDIA
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) CUDA
5 2 (22.22%) REST
5 2 (22.22%) OpenCV
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) Spring
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
6 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
6 1 (11.11%) Greenplum
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 1 (11.11%) JPA
6 1 (11.11%) Git
6 1 (11.11%) UX Design
6 1 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (11.11%) RESTful
6 1 (11.11%) Azure

Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OpenCV
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CUDA
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
4 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) SOLID
4 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C++
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded C++
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) NVIDIA
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Greenplum
2 1 (11.11%) Xamarin
66 Software Engineer jobs in Scotland