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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 36 58 52
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.95% 7.20% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 7.83% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 26
10th Percentile £320 £328 £393
25th Percentile £390 £364 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.20% +1.23%
75th Percentile £575 £521 £750
90th Percentile £619 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% +10.82%
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 £75.44 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 618 741 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.89% 92.05% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 447 534
10th Percentile £306 £313 £344
25th Percentile £381 £367 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.84%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £484
% change year-on-year - -6.93% +1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 26
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.15 £16.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +47.71% +53.81%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.13 £30.19
90th Percentile £61.35 £65.00 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +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 19 February 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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) GitHub
3 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.56%) DB2
6 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
1 5 (13.89%) JUnit
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Mockito
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Gradle
3 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.78%) Vite
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Banking
3 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Azure Software Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Java Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Spring
1 12 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.89%) React
4 4 (11.11%) NumPy
4 4 (11.11%) Pandas
4 4 (11.11%) PySpark
4 4 (11.11%) REST
4 4 (11.11%) RESTful
5 3 (8.33%) .NET
6 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.56%) J2EE
6 2 (5.56%) Jest
6 2 (5.56%) JPA
6 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.78%) JWT
7 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (25.00%) Microservices
4 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.22%) SDLC
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (13.89%) API Development
8 4 (11.11%) Community of Practice
8 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.11%) Observability
8 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
8 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 3 (8.33%) AI
9 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis
9 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
9 3 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Java
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.56%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) Rust
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) COBOL
7 1 (2.78%) JCL
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Grafana
5 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Cloudera
2 3 (8.33%) Databricks
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow