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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -36 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 22 62 78
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.70% 8.34% 9.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 8.93% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 44
10th Percentile £395 £299 £400
25th Percentile £455 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -4.57% -6.19%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £502
90th Percentile £613 £553 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -0.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% - +4.35%

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 680 694 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.44% 93.41% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 440 495
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £392 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.78% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £565
90th Percentile £675 £600 £618
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -0.81% - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 36
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.61 £11.94
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.71 £36.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -45.58% +161.05%
75th Percentile £77.50 £23.86 £54.69
90th Percentile - £72.17 £68.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £19.97 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +2.41% +34.48%

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 3 June 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 1 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) CICS
1 1 (4.55%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (13.64%) ChatGPT
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) DB2
3 3 (13.64%) Metadata
4 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.55%) Flink
5 1 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Front Office
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Core Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
1 3 (13.64%) React
1 3 (13.64%) Spring
1 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) LESS
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) RxJS
3 1 (4.55%) Sass
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Derivative
1 3 (13.64%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Market Risk
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) AI
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) LLM
4 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) TDD
6 3 (13.64%) BDD
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
6 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) C++
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) COBOL
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) JCL
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) IBM
2 2 (9.09%) Sybase
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow