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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 39 55
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 -28
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 67 38 24
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 8.74% 5.19% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 5.85% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 17
10th Percentile £313 £350 £464
25th Percentile £344 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £530
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.45% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £440 £638
90th Percentile £625 £526 £750
Scotland median daily rate £488 £440 £525
% change year-on-year +10.80% -16.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% +14.92%

All Process and 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 670 650 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.35% 88.80% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 427 537
10th Percentile £300 £289 £350
25th Percentile £388 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £615
90th Percentile £625 £674 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.40% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 19
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.08 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.99 £21.87 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +41.83% -52.55%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.44 £18.33
90th Percentile £59.00 £41.70 £28.10
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.34
% change year-on-year -12.57% +18.28% +3.15%

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 16 November 2025.

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 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) AWS
2 15 (22.39%) Azure
3 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.97%) BlazeMeter
3 4 (5.97%) GitHub
3 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (4.48%) Datadog
4 3 (4.48%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.49%) Apigee
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.49%) GCP
6 1 (1.49%) PaaS
6 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DHCP
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) SSL
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) NoSQL
2 16 (23.88%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.45%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.46%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.97%) Big Data
6 4 (5.97%) Redis
7 3 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.48%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.99%) DB2
8 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.43%) JUnit
3 4 (5.97%) Artifactory
3 4 (5.97%) Mockito
4 3 (4.48%) Git
4 3 (4.48%) GitLab
4 3 (4.48%) Vite
5 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.99%) Gradle
5 2 (2.99%) JIRA
5 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.99%) Xcode
6 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.49%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (44.78%) Finance
2 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Banking
4 10 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Software Engineer
2 20 (29.85%) Developer
3 19 (28.36%) Java Developer
4 15 (22.39%) Python Engineer
5 12 (17.91%) Java Engineer
6 10 (14.93%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (11.94%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) Core Java Developer
8 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (10.45%) Senior
9 6 (8.96%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (5.97%) React Developer
11 4 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.36%) Spring
2 15 (22.39%) Spring Boot
3 12 (17.91%) Kafka
4 11 (16.42%) React
5 10 (14.93%) AngularJS
6 9 (13.43%) OAuth
6 9 (13.43%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (13.43%) RESTful
7 8 (11.94%) FastAPI
7 8 (11.94%) OAuth2
7 8 (11.94%) REST
8 7 (10.45%) Flask
9 6 (8.96%) NumPy
9 6 (8.96%) Pandas
10 5 (7.46%) CSS
10 5 (7.46%) Hugging Face
10 5 (7.46%) PySpark
10 5 (7.46%) PyTorch
11 4 (5.97%) LangChain
11 4 (5.97%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
1 10 (14.93%) Data Structures
2 9 (13.43%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.46%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.97%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.48%) Equities
5 3 (4.48%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.48%) Market Risk
5 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.99%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.99%) iPad
6 2 (2.99%) iPhone
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) CI/CD
2 33 (49.25%) Agile
3 21 (31.34%) Microservices
4 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (26.87%) SDLC
6 17 (25.37%) Computer Science
7 16 (23.88%) DevOps
8 15 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (17.91%) AI
10 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.93%) Machine Learning
10 10 (14.93%) Observability
10 10 (14.93%) Scrum
10 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
11 9 (13.43%) Analytics
11 9 (13.43%) Data Engineering
11 9 (13.43%) Operational Stability
11 9 (13.43%) Risk Management
11 9 (13.43%) Test Automation
12 8 (11.94%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (65.67%) Java
2 26 (38.81%) Python
3 22 (32.84%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.45%) Go
7 6 (8.96%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.48%) C++
9 2 (2.99%) C#
9 2 (2.99%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.99%) Perl
9 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.99%) Rust
9 2 (2.99%) Swift
10 1 (1.49%) Bash
10 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (35.82%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.90%) Grafana
3 10 (14.93%) Terraform
4 5 (7.46%) Ansible
5 4 (5.97%) Kustomize
5 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Splunk
2 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.48%) Cloudera
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.99%) F5
4 2 (2.99%) Infoblox
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.49%) Facebook
5 1 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow