Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 31 56 49
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.34% 6.89% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 7.46% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 23
10th Percentile £319 £331 £388
25th Percentile £379 £364 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -12.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £750
90th Percentile £620 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +7.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 597 751 822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.50% 92.37% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 465 528
10th Percentile £306 £313 £325
25th Percentile £381 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.79% +2.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £646 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 35
10th Percentile £15.01 £16.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.05 £24.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +34.17% +69.33%
75th Percentile £51.25 £35.13 £40.94
90th Percentile £61.54 £65.00 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £23.58
% change year-on-year -13.04% -2.46% +33.07%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) CICS
2 1 (3.23%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
2 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.23%) DB2
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) GitLab
2 3 (9.68%) JUnit
3 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.45%) Gradle
3 2 (6.45%) Mockito
3 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) Vite
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Azure Software Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Java Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) Spring
1 10 (32.26%) Spring Boot
2 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
3 4 (12.90%) React
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) NumPy
4 3 (9.68%) Pandas
4 3 (9.68%) PySpark
4 3 (9.68%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
5 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.45%) FastAPI
5 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.45%) J2EE
5 2 (6.45%) JPA
5 2 (6.45%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) jQuery
6 1 (3.23%) OAuth
6 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (25.81%) Microservices
4 8 (25.81%) SDLC
5 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) API Development
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.90%) Community of Practice
8 4 (12.90%) Operational Stability
9 3 (9.68%) AI
9 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
9 3 (9.68%) Observability
9 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Java
2 10 (32.26%) Python
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) Go
6 2 (6.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.45%) Rust
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) COBOL
7 1 (3.23%) JCL
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.13%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
3 3 (9.68%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow