Software Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 43 41
Rank change year-on-year +26 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 78 45 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.54% 5.02% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.34% 5.32% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 14
10th Percentile £400 £363 £369
25th Percentile £413 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +7.69% +6.85%
75th Percentile £502 £638 £550
90th Percentile £750 £700 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.61% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £40.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +41.98% -31.77%
75th Percentile £62.50 £58.75 £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% +36.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 754 846 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.18% 94.31% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 589 649
10th Percentile £275 £349 £268
25th Percentile £376 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +7.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £561 £580 £538
90th Percentile £618 £688 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 34 19
10th Percentile £11.94 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.83
Median hourly rate £36.22 £13.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +161.05% -62.93% +87.15%
75th Percentile £54.69 £22.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.75 £56.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.28%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (8.97%) Azure
3 6 (7.69%) npm
4 5 (6.41%) GCP
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.85%) CloudFront
5 3 (3.85%) Serverless
6 2 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.28%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Big Data
1 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.13%) Parquet
3 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) DB2
4 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Cucumber
1 5 (6.41%) JUnit
1 5 (6.41%) Mockito
2 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) webpack
3 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.28%) Git
3 1 (1.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (21.79%) Finance
2 12 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (12.82%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.28%) Banking
4 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.28%) Law
4 1 (1.28%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (62.82%) Developer
2 27 (34.62%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Full Stack Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) Java Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) Software Developer
4 10 (12.82%) Lead
5 9 (11.54%) Java Scala Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Linux Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Scala Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 6 (7.69%) Backend Developer
7 6 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Lead Java Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.49%) HTML
2 17 (21.79%) Spring
3 13 (16.67%) PySpark
3 13 (16.67%) REST
3 13 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 12 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 12 (15.38%) CSS
5 10 (12.82%) RESTful
6 9 (11.54%) JPA
7 7 (8.97%) React
8 5 (6.41%) Kafka
9 4 (5.13%) Apache Avro
9 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.13%) OpenTracing
10 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.85%) Node.js
10 3 (3.85%) OAuth
11 2 (2.56%) OpenCV
12 1 (1.28%) .NET
12 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.97%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.56%) CUDA
6 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.51%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Unix
3 3 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (52.56%) Agile
2 29 (37.18%) CI/CD
3 26 (33.33%) SDLC
4 24 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
5 23 (29.49%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (23.08%) Operational Stability
7 17 (21.79%) Microservices
8 12 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 12 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 11 (14.10%) Community of Practice
9 11 (14.10%) Conversational UI
10 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
11 7 (8.97%) End-to-End Testing
11 7 (8.97%) Scrum
12 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
13 5 (6.41%) Data Modelling
14 4 (5.13%) Continuous Delivery
14 4 (5.13%) Continuous Integration
14 4 (5.13%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.28%) Java
2 28 (35.90%) Python
3 27 (34.62%) SQL
4 20 (25.64%) Scala
5 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
6 12 (15.38%) C#
6 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 8 (10.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.41%) C++
9 3 (3.85%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
2 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.13%) Zipkin
4 3 (3.85%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) PayPal
2 2 (2.56%) NVIDIA
3 1 (1.28%) Adobe
3 1 (1.28%) Greenplum
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.28%) VMware
3 1 (1.28%) Xamarin