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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -41 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 28 72 58
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.69% 8.80% 7.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 9.60% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 39
10th Percentile £421 £300 £400
25th Percentile £444 £312 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -1.05% -12.04%
75th Percentile £597 £541 £500
90th Percentile £625 £575 £510
Scotland median daily rate £525 £470 £455
% change year-on-year +11.70% +3.30% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% +8.33% +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 878 750 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.34% 91.69% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 486 476
10th Percentile £283 £300 £269
25th Percentile £358 £375 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -8.16%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 25
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.31 £13.03
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £16.70
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.71 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% -51.86% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.09% +6.90%

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 21 July 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 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Smallworld
2 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (10.71%) ChatGPT
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Google Gemini
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Vertex AI
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Metadata
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Db2
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.14%) Flink
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) Redis
5 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Gradle
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Banking
3 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Front Office
5 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.57%) International Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Core Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 4 (14.29%) React
1 4 (14.29%) Spring
1 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) OAuth
2 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
2 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 2 (7.14%) CSS
3 2 (7.14%) HTML
3 2 (7.14%) Middleware
3 2 (7.14%) Node.js
3 2 (7.14%) Sass
3 2 (7.14%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (3.57%) CSS3
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) SAML
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Derivative
2 3 (10.71%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) AI
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (25.00%) LLM
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Analytics
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
6 5 (17.86%) TDD
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (14.29%) Generative AI
7 4 (14.29%) Microservices
8 3 (10.71%) BDD
8 3 (10.71%) Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) C++
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Argo
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Foundry
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) IBM
2 2 (7.14%) Sybase
3 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.57%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Okta
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk