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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 32 55
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 57 43 24
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.78% 5.76% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 6.39% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 16
10th Percentile £313 £335 £409
25th Percentile £323 £356 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £520 £750
90th Percentile £595 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £468 £530
% change year-on-year +1.60% -11.79% +8.16%
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 £55.00 £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +14.29%

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 636 673 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.77% 90.21% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 431 542
10th Percentile £297 £306 £344
25th Percentile £381 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 16
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £12.06
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £46.61 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.59
% change year-on-year -13.04% +23.72% +2.65%

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 15 December 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 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) AWS
1 15 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (7.02%) GitHub
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.75%) Apigee
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.75%) Datadog
5 1 (1.75%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) DHCP
1 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Relational Database
2 13 (22.81%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.77%) RDBMS
4 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.51%) Big Data
6 2 (3.51%) DB2
6 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.51%) Redis
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) JUnit
3 3 (5.26%) Git
3 3 (5.26%) GitLab
3 3 (5.26%) Mockito
3 3 (5.26%) Vite
4 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.51%) Gradle
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.75%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.75%) Xcode
General
1 26 (45.61%) Finance
2 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Banking
4 6 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Software Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Python Engineer
3 13 (22.81%) Developer
4 12 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 10 (17.54%) Java Engineer
6 9 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (14.04%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (12.28%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (12.28%) Data Engineer
9 6 (10.53%) Azure Software Engineer
9 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Senior
10 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (8.77%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (7.02%) Core Java Developer
11 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
12 3 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
12 3 (5.26%) PowerShell Engineer
12 3 (5.26%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) Spring
1 15 (26.32%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.04%) Kafka
2 8 (14.04%) REST
3 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
3 7 (12.28%) React
4 6 (10.53%) FastAPI
4 6 (10.53%) NumPy
4 6 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (10.53%) Pandas
4 6 (10.53%) RESTful
5 5 (8.77%) Flask
5 5 (8.77%) PySpark
6 4 (7.02%) .NET
6 4 (7.02%) OAuth
7 3 (5.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (5.26%) J2EE
7 3 (5.26%) Next.js
7 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Data Structures
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.26%) Equities
4 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.26%) Market Risk
4 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) iPhone
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
2 23 (40.35%) Agile
3 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (24.56%) Microservices
5 13 (22.81%) DevOps
6 12 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (21.05%) SDLC
7 10 (17.54%) Computer Science
8 9 (15.79%) Observability
9 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (12.28%) AI
10 7 (12.28%) Data Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) OO
10 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
10 7 (12.28%) Scrum
10 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
11 6 (10.53%) Analytics
11 6 (10.53%) Data Analytics
11 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) Java
2 24 (42.11%) Python
3 17 (29.82%) SQL
4 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.28%) Go
6 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
7 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) C++
9 2 (3.51%) C#
9 2 (3.51%) Perl
9 2 (3.51%) Rust
10 1 (1.75%) Bash
10 1 (1.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.04%) Grafana
2 8 (14.04%) Terraform
3 5 (8.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Splunk
2 3 (5.26%) Cloudera
2 3 (5.26%) Databricks
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.51%) F5
3 2 (3.51%) Infoblox
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft