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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 30 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 46 48 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.85% 6.67% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% 7.32% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 19
10th Percentile £313 £339 £415
25th Percentile £333 £359 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £429 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -18.33% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £750
90th Percentile £610 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +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 £55.00 £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +14.29%

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 581 656 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.46% 91.11% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 400 518
10th Percentile £286 £311 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £623
90th Percentile £626 £639 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 16
10th Percentile £14.05 £16.75 £13.71
25th Percentile £16.04 £18.50 £15.86
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% +42.06% -42.80%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.93 £43.73 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +4.00%

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 11 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.52%) GitHub
3 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.17%) Apigee
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.17%) PaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DHCP
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
2 1 (2.17%) SSL
2 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) Relational Database
2 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.17%) Big Data
7 1 (2.17%) DB2
7 1 (2.17%) MySQL
7 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) JUnit
3 4 (8.70%) Git
4 3 (6.52%) GitLab
4 3 (6.52%) Mockito
4 3 (6.52%) Vite
5 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.35%) Gradle
5 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
General
1 21 (45.65%) Finance
2 12 (26.09%) Banking
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Software Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Python Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Java Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Azure Software Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Python Software Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior
7 4 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) React Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 13 (28.26%) Spring
3 7 (15.22%) REST
4 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 6 (13.04%) NumPy
4 6 (13.04%) Pandas
4 6 (13.04%) React
5 5 (10.87%) FastAPI
5 5 (10.87%) PySpark
5 5 (10.87%) RESTful
6 4 (8.70%) .NET
6 4 (8.70%) Flask
7 3 (6.52%) Kafka
7 3 (6.52%) Next.js
7 3 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.35%) J2EE
8 2 (4.35%) JPA
8 2 (4.35%) OAuth
8 2 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Equities
5 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 15 (32.61%) Agile
3 12 (26.09%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (21.74%) Microservices
6 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (19.57%) SDLC
7 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.04%) Analytics
8 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 6 (13.04%) Data Analytics
8 6 (13.04%) Data Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Observability
8 6 (13.04%) Operational Stability
8 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.87%) AI
9 5 (10.87%) API Development
9 5 (10.87%) Data Analysis
9 5 (10.87%) OO
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Java
2 20 (43.48%) Python
3 13 (28.26%) SQL
4 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL
6 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.70%) Go
8 2 (4.35%) Perl
8 2 (4.35%) Rust
9 1 (2.17%) Bash
9 1 (2.17%) C#
9 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Terraform
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 4 (8.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Cloudera
1 3 (6.52%) Databricks
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) F5
2 2 (4.35%) Infoblox
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle
2 2 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow