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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -39 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 29 73 67
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.90% 9.03% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 9.85% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 36 41
10th Percentile £409 £300 £400
25th Percentile £431 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% - -12.04%
75th Percentile £538 £541 £500
90th Percentile £601 £575 £613
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £455
% change year-on-year +10.53% +4.40% -12.50%
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 £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 844 741 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.40% 91.71% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 478 476
10th Percentile £284 £300 £265
25th Percentile £358 £378 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +3.56% -9.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £569
90th Percentile £675 £607 £628
Scotland median daily rate £453 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -2.21% +2.21% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 31
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.49 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £15.84
Median hourly rate £18.17 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -51.56% +187.30%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £20.62
% change year-on-year -3.35% -2.98% +35.22%

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 9 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 (6.90%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) CICS
2 1 (3.45%) Smallworld
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (10.34%) ChatGPT
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Akamai
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) Kong
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Relational Database
2 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Db2
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.90%) Flink
4 2 (6.90%) MySQL
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.45%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Gradle
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Front Office
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.45%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Core Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Gen AI Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Programmer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
1 5 (17.24%) React
1 5 (17.24%) Spring
1 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
2 3 (10.34%) OAuth
2 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
3 2 (6.90%) CSS
3 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.90%) Middleware
3 2 (6.90%) Node.js
3 2 (6.90%) Sass
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.45%) gRPC
4 1 (3.45%) Jest
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Derivative
2 3 (10.34%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) AI
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Computer Science
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.24%) LLM
7 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 5 (17.24%) TDD
8 4 (13.79%) Analytics
8 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
8 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 4 (13.79%) Migration
9 3 (10.34%) BDD
9 3 (10.34%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Java
2 12 (41.38%) Python
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.34%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) COBOL
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) JCL
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Sybase
3 1 (3.45%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.45%) Okta
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk