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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -45 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 28 76 56
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.70% 9.46% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 10.33% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 36 37
10th Percentile £311 £300 £400
25th Percentile £423 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +6.82% -16.59%
75th Percentile £606 £541 £500
90th Percentile £625 £575 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £445
% change year-on-year +6.38% +5.62% -15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.38%

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 875 736 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.46% 91.66% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 476 458
10th Percentile £282 £300 £263
25th Percentile £358 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -8.91%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £603 £641
Scotland median daily rate £451 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.01% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 22
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.82 £15.07
25th Percentile £14.45 £16.84 £20.53
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.59 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.66% -52.15% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £43.27
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £62.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.68 £20.00 £20.29
% change year-on-year -11.60% -1.40% +14.48%

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 28 July 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 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
4 5 (17.86%) GCP
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (14.29%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Akamai
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon MSK
6 3 (10.71%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.71%) ChatGPT
6 3 (10.71%) Cloudflare
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (10.71%) Kong
7 2 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Google Gemini
7 2 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Relational Database
2 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Metadata
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Db2
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.14%) Flink
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.57%) Redis
5 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Gradle
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Front Office
4 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) International Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Core Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Integration Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Programmer
7 1 (3.57%) Systems Integration Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) React
2 5 (17.86%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) OAuth
2 5 (17.86%) OAuth2
3 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.71%) .NET
4 3 (10.71%) gRPC
4 3 (10.71%) OpenID
4 3 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) SAML
4 3 (10.71%) WebSockets
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) Middleware
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) Sass
5 2 (7.14%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.71%) Derivative
3 3 (10.71%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (39.29%) AI
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
5 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) LLM
7 6 (21.43%) Analytics
7 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (17.86%) Observability
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 4 (14.29%) Microservices
9 4 (14.29%) Runbook
9 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) C++
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Perl
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Argo
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.71%) ForgeRock
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Foundry
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Sybase
4 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) Okta
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) VMware