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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -32 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 22 66 77
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.85% 8.66% 9.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 9.26% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 34 42
10th Percentile £444 £300 £400
25th Percentile £453 £370 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £470 £499
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -5.76% -0.25%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £509
90th Percentile £631 £575 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £478 £493
% change year-on-year +9.95% -3.05% +2.82%
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 £52.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 645 713 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.44% 93.57% 92.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 446 501
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £625
Scotland median daily rate £459 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -0.27% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 37
10th Percentile £15.85 £15.59 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.77 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.71 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.63% -37.43% +121.05%
75th Percentile £77.50 £23.86 £53.75
90th Percentile - £72.17 £67.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.90 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.50% +2.05% +21.95%

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 22 May 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 (4.55%) CICS
1 1 (4.55%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (13.64%) ChatGPT
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) Metadata
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Front Office
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
1 7 (31.82%) Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Core Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Project Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Spring
1 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.09%) React
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Derivative
1 3 (13.64%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Market Risk
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) AI
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) LLM
5 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) BDD
7 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.64%) Microservices
7 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
7 3 (13.64%) SDLC
7 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
7 3 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) COBOL
5 1 (4.55%) JCL
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) IBM
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Sybase
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft