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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 43 55 44
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.29% 7.30% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 7.98% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 22
10th Percentile £313 £350 £423
25th Percentile £342 £365 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £459 £543
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -15.44% -1.36%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £750
90th Percentile £615 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% +23.97% +7.86%

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 587 689 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 85.82% 91.50% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 416 542
10th Percentile £295 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £606
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £62.75 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

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 30 January 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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) CICS
2 1 (2.33%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) GitHub
3 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) Relational Database
2 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.65%) DB2
6 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.33%) Big Data
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) MySQL
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.63%) JUnit
3 3 (6.98%) GitLab
3 3 (6.98%) Mockito
4 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.65%) Git
4 2 (4.65%) Gradle
4 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.33%) Vite
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Banking
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Software Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Java Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Python Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Azure Software Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) PowerShell Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Python Data Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) Spring
1 11 (25.58%) Spring Boot
2 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
3 5 (11.63%) NumPy
3 5 (11.63%) Pandas
3 5 (11.63%) PySpark
3 5 (11.63%) React
3 5 (11.63%) REST
3 5 (11.63%) RESTful
4 4 (9.30%) .NET
4 4 (9.30%) FastAPI
5 3 (6.98%) Flask
5 3 (6.98%) Kafka
5 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (4.65%) Hugging Face
6 2 (4.65%) J2EE
6 2 (4.65%) Jest
6 2 (4.65%) JPA
6 2 (4.65%) OAuth
6 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Equities
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) CI/CD
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
3 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.26%) DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (20.93%) Microservices
6 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
6 8 (18.60%) SDLC
7 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
7 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (13.95%) Observability
7 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (11.63%) AI
8 5 (11.63%) Analytics
8 5 (11.63%) API Development
8 5 (11.63%) Data Analytics
8 5 (11.63%) Data Engineering
9 4 (9.30%) Data Development
9 4 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Java
2 16 (37.21%) Python
3 13 (30.23%) SQL
4 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.30%) Go
6 4 (9.30%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.65%) Rust
8 1 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) COBOL
8 1 (2.33%) JCL
8 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Grafana
4 4 (9.30%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) Cloudera
2 3 (6.98%) Databricks
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Splunk
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow