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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 23 64 66
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.25% 7.79% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 8.32% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 38 32
10th Percentile £325 £297 £400
25th Percentile £379 £393 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £536 £750
90th Percentile £625 £558 -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +7.33% -4.50% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 579 769 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 81.90% 93.55% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 490 546
10th Percentile £308 £308 £313
25th Percentile £375 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year - -8.86% +3.95%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £607 £694
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £480
% change year-on-year -1.21% -5.10% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 39
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £47.35
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +10.05%

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 1 April 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 1 (4.35%) CICS
1 1 (4.35%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) ChatGPT
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) DB2
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
5 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Front Office
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Software Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Spring
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) PySpark
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.35%) jQuery
3 1 (4.35%) NumPy
3 1 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Derivative
2 1 (4.35%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) SDLC
5 4 (17.39%) API Development
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 3 (13.04%) AI
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 2 (8.70%) Business Strategy
7 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.70%) LLM
7 2 (8.70%) Observability
7 2 (8.70%) Proactive Maintenance
7 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) COBOL
5 1 (4.35%) JCL
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase