Java Contracts in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 129 157 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.71% 17.16% 12.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.34% 45.77% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 99 80
10th Percentile £387 £425 £324
25th Percentile £413 £474 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £640 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +28.00% +18.34%
75th Percentile £634 £713 £550
90th Percentile £750 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.71% -0.30% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.58 £46.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.86 £46.89
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.62 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £49.16
90th Percentile - £57.65 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -11.06% +8.31% +36.25%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

Java is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 355 343 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.48% 37.49% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 229 201
10th Percentile £363 £410 £350
25th Percentile £413 £435 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +14.35% +13.18%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £538
90th Percentile £690 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £486 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +31.17% -32.33%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £48.39
90th Percentile - £67.66 £49.08
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
% change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
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 10 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.43%) SAS
3 3 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.55%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.55%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.55%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 74 (57.36%) AWS
2 27 (20.93%) Azure
3 12 (9.30%) Snowflake
4 8 (6.20%) GCP
5 6 (4.65%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.10%) Serverless
7 3 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.55%) npm
8 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.78%) Rekognition
9 1 (0.78%) Slack
9 1 (0.78%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) HTTP
2 9 (6.98%) SSL
2 9 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (5.43%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (5.43%) iSCSI
3 7 (5.43%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.40%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.75%) DB2
3 6 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (3.88%) MariaDB
4 5 (3.88%) MySQL
4 5 (3.88%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.33%) Big Data
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.55%) Power BI
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.78%) GIS
8 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.78%) HBase
8 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (13.95%) Git
2 15 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.75%) JIRA
4 8 (6.20%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.43%) JUnit
6 5 (3.88%) Mockito
7 3 (2.33%) GitLab
7 3 (2.33%) Selenium
7 3 (2.33%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.55%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.55%) Subversion
8 2 (1.55%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.78%) Gatling
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) Maven
9 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 33 (25.58%) Finance
2 19 (14.73%) Banking
2 19 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.20%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (61.24%) Developer
2 67 (51.94%) Java Developer
3 15 (11.63%) Java Engineer
3 15 (11.63%) Linux Developer
3 15 (11.63%) Senior
4 14 (10.85%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) Java Scala Developer
5 13 (10.08%) Scala Developer
6 12 (9.30%) Full Stack Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Full Stack Developer
8 10 (7.75%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 10 (7.75%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Backend Developer
10 7 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (40.31%) Spring
2 37 (28.68%) Spring Boot
3 31 (24.03%) REST
4 26 (20.16%) AngularJS
5 22 (17.05%) RESTful
6 21 (16.28%) CSS
7 19 (14.73%) Kafka
8 18 (13.95%) HTML
9 12 (9.30%) React
10 11 (8.53%) JPA
11 7 (5.43%) Flash
11 7 (5.43%) POSIX
12 6 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (3.88%) OpenTracing
13 5 (3.88%) Twisted
14 4 (3.10%) AWS CDK
14 4 (3.10%) Hibernate
14 4 (3.10%) JSON
14 4 (3.10%) XML
15 3 (2.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.08%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.20%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.88%) NVMe
5 4 (3.10%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (27.13%) Linux
2 23 (17.83%) Unix
3 7 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.65%) Windows
4 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.10%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.29%) Agile
2 52 (40.31%) Microservices
3 45 (34.88%) CI/CD
4 37 (28.68%) Software Engineering
5 33 (25.58%) SDLC
6 29 (22.48%) Full Stack Development
7 27 (20.93%) DevOps
8 21 (16.28%) Test Automation
9 15 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (11.63%) Computer Science
9 15 (11.63%) Machine Learning
10 14 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (10.85%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (10.08%) Operational Stability
12 12 (9.30%) GitOps
13 11 (8.53%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.53%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (8.53%) TDD
14 10 (7.75%) Data Engineering
14 10 (7.75%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.88%) SQL
2 37 (28.68%) Python
3 33 (25.58%) Scala
4 19 (14.73%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 16 (12.40%) Perl
6 11 (8.53%) Bash
7 9 (6.98%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.10%) C#
8 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (2.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.55%) Degree
2 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (18.60%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) NFS
3 4 (3.10%) GPFS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.85%) Terraform
3 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.88%) Zipkin
4 4 (3.10%) Grafana
4 4 (3.10%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.78%) Icinga
5 1 (0.78%) Istio
5 1 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (9.30%) Databricks
2 11 (8.53%) Oracle
3 8 (6.20%) IBM
4 7 (5.43%) F5
5 5 (3.88%) Sybase
6 4 (3.10%) AVEVA
6 4 (3.10%) Brocade
6 4 (3.10%) EMC
6 4 (3.10%) Google
6 4 (3.10%) NetApp
6 4 (3.10%) Veritas
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.55%) Greenplum
8 2 (1.55%) Splunk
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian