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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 24 69 77
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.22% 8.71% 8.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 9.29% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 40 43
10th Percentile £345 £300 £400
25th Percentile £418 £386 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £470 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -5.53% -0.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £511
90th Percentile £594 £575 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £478 £498
% change year-on-year +9.95% -4.02% +4.74%
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 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +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 616 743 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.68% 93.81% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 479 518
10th Percentile £307 £308 £281
25th Percentile £367 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £603 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 40
10th Percentile £16.12 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.09 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.65% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £70.74 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £19.34
% change year-on-year -7.36% +11.66% +9.11%

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 30 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 (4.17%) CICS
1 1 (4.17%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) GCP
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (8.33%) ChatGPT
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) DB2
3 2 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office
4 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
1 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Core Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
1 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) React
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.33%) Derivative
1 2 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (8.33%) Market Risk
1 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) AI
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) SDLC
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.67%) LLM
4 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.67%) Observability
4 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (12.50%) Microservices
5 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) COBOL
6 1 (4.17%) JCL
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Sybase