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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 24 33
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 42 76 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.45% 10.20% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 11.43% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 23
10th Percentile £360 £313 £350
25th Percentile £418 £322 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -16.98%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £476
90th Percentile £606 £610 £510
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% -14.15%

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 1,029 665 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.55% 89.26% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 411 419
10th Percentile £276 £300 £278
25th Percentile £363 £381 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £440
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £673
Scotland median daily rate £470 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 21 12
10th Percentile £13.43 £15.09 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.84 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -8.12% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £41.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.75 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -16.25% +0.31% +5.32%

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 October 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 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) GCP
3 8 (19.05%) Azure
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (11.90%) GitHub
5 4 (9.52%) Akamai
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.52%) Cloudflare
5 4 (9.52%) Kong
5 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) Azure AI
6 3 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (7.14%) Google Gemini
6 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.14%) Vertex AI
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) HTTP
2 3 (7.14%) iSCSI
2 3 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.14%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.76%) Db2
5 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.76%) Flink
5 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.38%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.38%) Metadata
6 1 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.14%) Gradle
3 3 (7.14%) Maven
3 3 (7.14%) webpack
4 2 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Banking
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Front Office
5 3 (7.14%) Legal
6 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Prime Brokerage
6 2 (4.76%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
7 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) International Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Software Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Python Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior
6 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Core Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Programmer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Programmer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Programmer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Python Programmer
8 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Kafka
1 8 (19.05%) React
1 8 (19.05%) Spring
2 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 6 (14.29%) OAuth
2 6 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 6 (14.29%) RESTful
2 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.90%) Terraform
4 4 (9.52%) gRPC
4 4 (9.52%) Node.js
4 4 (9.52%) OpenID
4 4 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (9.52%) SAML
4 4 (9.52%) WebSockets
5 3 (7.14%) Jest
5 3 (7.14%) Redux
5 3 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Data Structures
1 9 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.14%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Equities
5 2 (4.76%) Legacy Code
5 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Market Risk
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) Derivative
6 1 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.38%) NVMe
6 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (2.38%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.38%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
3 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (21.43%) AI
5 9 (21.43%) Microservices
5 9 (21.43%) SDLC
6 8 (19.05%) Observability
7 7 (16.67%) Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 5 (11.90%) Code Quality
9 5 (11.90%) Design Patterns
9 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (11.90%) Incident Response
9 5 (11.90%) LLM
9 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) SQL
3 11 (26.19%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.90%) C++
5 4 (9.52%) Go
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 3 (7.14%) Groovy
6 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.76%) C
7 2 (4.76%) Embedded C
7 2 (4.76%) Embedded C++
7 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) GPFS
2 3 (7.14%) NFS
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Argo
3 1 (2.38%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) Dynatrace
2 4 (9.52%) ForgeRock
2 4 (9.52%) IBM
2 4 (9.52%) Splunk
3 3 (7.14%) Foundry
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Brocade
4 2 (4.76%) EMC
4 2 (4.76%) NetApp
4 2 (4.76%) Sybase
5 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) Okta
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) Veritas
5 1 (2.38%) VMware