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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 31 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 27 56 56
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.83% 6.74% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 7.24% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 27
10th Percentile £328 £303 £394
25th Percentile £390 £365 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -8.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £750
90th Percentile £620 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £519 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +8.64% -4.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.92%

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 582 774 846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.55% 93.14% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 486 534
10th Percentile £306 £311 £313
25th Percentile £381 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.79% +1.88%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 36
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.17 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +10.17% +55.64%
75th Percentile £49.15 £53.75 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.91 £75.24 £68.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +20.00%

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 17 March 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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) CICS
2 1 (3.70%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) DB2
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.11%) JUnit
2 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.41%) Gradle
2 2 (7.41%) Mockito
2 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Banking
3 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Software Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) React
3 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
4 2 (7.41%) J2EE
4 2 (7.41%) JPA
4 2 (7.41%) PySpark
4 2 (7.41%) REST
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.70%) Flask
5 1 (3.70%) Jest
5 1 (3.70%) jQuery
5 1 (3.70%) NumPy
5 1 (3.70%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
3 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (25.93%) Microservices
3 7 (25.93%) SDLC
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) API Development
6 3 (11.11%) Community of Practice
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.11%) Observability
6 3 (11.11%) Operational Stability
6 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Go
5 2 (7.41%) Rust
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) COBOL
6 1 (3.70%) JCL
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (7.41%) Grafana
4 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow