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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 35 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 75 34 26
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.14% 4.89% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.38% 5.48% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 19
10th Percentile £313 £350 £429
25th Percentile £322 £371 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £530
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -16.98% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £476 £638
90th Percentile £610 £510 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £460 £530
% change year-on-year +3.26% -13.21% +3.41%
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 £63.75 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +26.32%

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 659 621 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.05% 89.22% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 412 492
10th Percentile £300 £268 £343
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.93
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.16% +0.56%

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 17 October 2025.

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 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) AWS
2 13 (17.33%) Azure
3 6 (8.00%) BlazeMeter
4 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.33%) GitHub
4 4 (5.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (4.00%) Datadog
5 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.33%) Apigee
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DHCP
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) SSL
2 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 18 (24.00%) Relational Database
3 10 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (6.67%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.33%) Big Data
7 4 (5.33%) Redis
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.00%) DB2
9 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.00%) JUnit
3 5 (6.67%) Xcode
4 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
4 4 (5.33%) Mockito
5 3 (4.00%) Git
5 3 (4.00%) GitLab
5 3 (4.00%) Vite
6 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.67%) Gradle
6 2 (2.67%) JIRA
6 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.33%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (44.00%) Finance
2 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Banking
3 12 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Front Office
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Developer
2 25 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 23 (30.67%) Software Engineer
4 16 (21.33%) Python Engineer
5 11 (14.67%) Java Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Core Java Developer
7 9 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) Data Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (9.33%) Senior
10 6 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) Linux Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) React Developer
12 4 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (29.33%) Spring
2 15 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 13 (17.33%) Kafka
3 13 (17.33%) React
4 12 (16.00%) AngularJS
5 9 (12.00%) OAuth
5 9 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (10.67%) FastAPI
6 8 (10.67%) OAuth2
6 8 (10.67%) REST
6 8 (10.67%) RESTful
7 7 (9.33%) CSS
7 7 (9.33%) Flask
8 6 (8.00%) NumPy
8 6 (8.00%) Pandas
9 5 (6.67%) Hugging Face
9 5 (6.67%) PySpark
9 5 (6.67%) PyTorch
9 5 (6.67%) SwiftUI
9 5 (6.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Data Structures
2 10 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 8 (10.67%) Virtual Team
5 7 (9.33%) Algorithms
6 6 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (6.67%) Credit Risk
7 5 (6.67%) iPad
7 5 (6.67%) iPhone
7 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
7 5 (6.67%) Public Cloud
8 4 (5.33%) AI Agents
8 4 (5.33%) Equities
8 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
8 4 (5.33%) Private Cloud
9 3 (4.00%) Fixed Income
9 3 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (4.00%) Market Risk
9 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.33%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Android
2 5 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (53.33%) Agile
3 25 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (29.33%) Microservices
5 21 (28.00%) SDLC
6 19 (25.33%) Computer Science
7 17 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (20.00%) DevOps
9 14 (18.67%) AI
10 13 (17.33%) Scrum
11 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
11 12 (16.00%) Unit Testing
12 11 (14.67%) Containerisation
12 11 (14.67%) Operational Stability
13 10 (13.33%) BDD
13 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (13.33%) Observability
13 10 (13.33%) Performance Testing
14 9 (12.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (65.33%) Java
2 28 (37.33%) Python
3 25 (33.33%) SQL
4 14 (18.67%) JavaScript
5 13 (17.33%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.33%) Go
7 6 (8.00%) PL/SQL
8 5 (6.67%) Objective-C
8 5 (6.67%) Swift
9 3 (4.00%) C++
10 2 (2.67%) C#
10 2 (2.67%) Perl
10 2 (2.67%) Rust
10 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.33%) Bash
11 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (9.33%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.33%) Grafana
3 10 (13.33%) Terraform
4 5 (6.67%) Ansible
5 4 (5.33%) Kustomize
5 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Splunk
2 6 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.00%) Cloudera
3 3 (4.00%) Databricks
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) F5
4 2 (2.67%) Infoblox
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.33%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.33%) Facebook
5 1 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.33%) Sybase