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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 40 78 46
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.40% 10.71% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 11.75% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 32
10th Percentile £370 £308 £350
25th Percentile £420 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +5.68% -16.59%
75th Percentile £588 £543 £500
90th Percentile £625 £585 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £464
% change year-on-year - +2.43% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £68.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.33% - +4.35%

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 984 664 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.67% 91.21% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 407 434
10th Percentile £278 £300 £272
25th Percentile £363 £373 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £566
90th Percentile £675 £613 £674
Scotland median daily rate £473 £466 £450
% change year-on-year +1.39% +3.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 16
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.32 £15.11
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.45 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +100.63% -20.23% +50.83%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £36.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £26.21 £53.27
Scotland median hourly rate £16.49 £20.00 £20.29
% change year-on-year -17.58% -1.40% +5.76%

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 20 September 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 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) GCP
3 8 (20.00%) GitHub
4 7 (17.50%) Azure
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (10.00%) Akamai
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.00%) Cloudflare
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (10.00%) Kong
6 4 (10.00%) Serverless
7 3 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (7.50%) Azure AI
7 3 (7.50%) ChatGPT
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) Google Gemini
7 3 (7.50%) Vertex AI
8 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.50%) NAS
2 1 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.50%) MariaDB
4 3 (7.50%) Metadata
4 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.00%) Db2
5 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.00%) Flink
6 1 (2.50%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.50%) Gradle
3 3 (7.50%) Maven
3 3 (7.50%) webpack
4 2 (5.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Front Office
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) International Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Prime Brokerage
6 1 (2.50%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Python Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Core Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Python Programmer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Programmer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) React
2 7 (17.50%) Kafka
3 6 (15.00%) OAuth
3 6 (15.00%) OAuth2
3 6 (15.00%) Spring
4 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.50%) RESTful
4 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 5 (12.50%) Terraform
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
5 4 (10.00%) gRPC
5 4 (10.00%) Node.js
5 4 (10.00%) OpenID
5 4 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (10.00%) SAML
5 4 (10.00%) WebSockets
6 3 (7.50%) Jest
6 3 (7.50%) Redux
6 3 (7.50%) Semantic Kernel
6 3 (7.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 8 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.50%) Derivative
4 3 (7.50%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Market Risk
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.50%) Equities
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (32.50%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) AI
4 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (22.50%) Computer Science
5 9 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) DevOps
6 8 (20.00%) Microservices
7 7 (17.50%) Analytics
7 7 (17.50%) LLM
7 7 (17.50%) Observability
8 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.00%) SDLC
9 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
9 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 5 (12.50%) Generative AI
9 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 5 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Python
2 15 (37.50%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (7.50%) Bash
5 3 (7.50%) Go
5 3 (7.50%) Groovy
5 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) Embedded C
6 2 (5.00%) Embedded C++
6 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) GPFS
2 1 (2.50%) NFS
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Google
2 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 4 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) Foundry
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.50%) Brocade
5 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) EMC
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) NetApp
5 1 (2.50%) Okta
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) VMware