Software Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 23 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 66 66 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.96% 7.00% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 7.60% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 24
10th Percentile £298 £400 £358
25th Percentile £378 £476 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -0.60%
75th Percentile £521 £750 £681
90th Percentile £555 - £701
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.37% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and 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 776 868 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 92.05% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 549 647
10th Percentile £308 £313 £322
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £606 £694 £723
Scotland median daily rate £455 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -5.21% +1.05% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 39 25
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £23.17 £18.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% +44.00% -68.75%
75th Percentile £67.56 £47.35 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £65.00 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £19.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.95% +10.05% -46.30%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Camunda
2 1 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.52%) OpenROAD
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) AWS
2 13 (19.70%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
5 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) NAS
1 5 (7.58%) SAN
2 1 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 13 (19.70%) MongoDB
3 10 (15.15%) DB2
4 7 (10.61%) RDBMS
5 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.03%) KDB
6 2 (3.03%) Kdb+
6 2 (3.03%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 2 (3.03%) Tableau
7 1 (1.52%) Big Data
7 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.52%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (25.76%) JUnit
2 8 (12.12%) Git
3 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.58%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.03%) Mockito
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (28.79%) Finance
2 17 (25.76%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Financial Institution
4 6 (9.09%) Front Office
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (63.64%) Developer
2 35 (53.03%) Java Developer
3 15 (22.73%) Linux Developer
4 12 (18.18%) Linux Scripter
5 9 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Python Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Core Java Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Database Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Lead
9 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.03%) C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Head of Engineering
10 2 (3.03%) Junior
10 2 (3.03%) Junior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Lead Java Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (42.42%) Spring
2 16 (24.24%) Spring Boot
3 12 (18.18%) Kafka
4 5 (7.58%) JMS
5 4 (6.06%) React
5 4 (6.06%) REST
6 3 (4.55%) CSS
6 3 (4.55%) Middleware
6 3 (4.55%) SOAP
7 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.03%) MSMQ
8 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.52%) CSS3
8 1 (1.52%) Node.js
8 1 (1.52%) Pandas
8 1 (1.52%) PySpark
8 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.52%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.52%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Algorithms
2 14 (21.21%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.06%) Equities
3 4 (6.06%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.03%) Derivative
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (45.45%) Linux
2 20 (30.30%) Unix
3 8 (12.12%) Windows
4 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Multithreading
1 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (36.36%) Agile
3 20 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 17 (25.76%) Concurrent Programming
4 17 (25.76%) SDLC
5 12 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 10 (15.15%) DevOps
7 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
7 7 (10.61%) Process Improvement
7 7 (10.61%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 6 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 6 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 6 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.58%) Data Deduplication
9 5 (7.58%) Machine Learning
9 5 (7.58%) Microservices
9 5 (7.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 50 (75.76%) Java
2 33 (50.00%) SQL
3 23 (34.85%) Python
4 8 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.58%) C++
7 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.55%) C#
9 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.52%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.12%) Terraform
3 5 (7.58%) NetBackup
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Ansible
5 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Sybase
2 5 (7.58%) Veritas
3 2 (3.03%) DocuSign
3 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.03%) IBM
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (1.52%) Adobe