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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 123 152 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.47% 17.16% 12.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.83% 45.10% 42.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 95 80
10th Percentile £384 £421 £325
25th Percentile £413 £456 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £592 £498
Median % change year-on-year -22.30% +18.99% +20.61%
75th Percentile £538 £676 £553
90th Percentile £750 £750 £614
Scotland median daily rate £470 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £48.58 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.86 £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.62 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +11.95% -19.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £48.00
90th Percentile - £57.65 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £58.27 £54.50
% change year-on-year -9.89% +6.91% +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 334 337 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.29% 38.04% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 223 190
10th Percentile £350 £410 £350
25th Percentile £403 £428 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £478
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.95% +12.35%
75th Percentile £577 £653 £538
90th Percentile £675 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £38.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +37.27% -35.34%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £45.75
90th Percentile - £67.66 £47.10
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%

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 12 May 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 (8.13%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (8.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.07%) SAS
3 3 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.44%) Confluence
4 2 (1.63%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.63%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.63%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.63%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 79 (64.23%) AWS
2 31 (25.20%) Azure
3 13 (10.57%) GCP
4 11 (8.94%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.07%) Serverless
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.63%) npm
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.81%) Rekognition
10 1 (0.81%) Slack
10 1 (0.81%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (4.07%) HTTP
1 5 (4.07%) iSCSI
2 4 (3.25%) SAN
3 3 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (2.44%) NetScaler
3 3 (2.44%) SSL
3 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.45%) Relational Database
2 8 (6.50%) DB2
3 7 (5.69%) MariaDB
3 7 (5.69%) MySQL
4 6 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.07%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.44%) Big Data
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.81%) GIS
9 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.81%) HBase
9 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.81%) Power BI
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Git
1 13 (10.57%) JIRA
2 10 (8.13%) Cucumber
2 10 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.50%) JUnit
4 6 (4.88%) Mockito
5 5 (4.07%) Selenium
6 3 (2.44%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.63%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.63%) GitLab
7 2 (1.63%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.63%) Subversion
7 2 (1.63%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.81%) Gatling
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Maven
8 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 29 (23.58%) Finance
2 18 (14.63%) Banking
3 14 (11.38%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.94%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.50%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Law
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (61.79%) Developer
2 68 (55.28%) Java Developer
3 14 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (11.38%) Linux Developer
4 13 (10.57%) Java Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) Java Scala Developer
4 13 (10.57%) Scala Developer
4 13 (10.57%) Senior
5 12 (9.76%) Full Stack Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Backend Developer
8 6 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Lead
10 4 (3.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (47.15%) Spring
2 44 (35.77%) Spring Boot
3 25 (20.33%) Kafka
3 25 (20.33%) REST
3 25 (20.33%) RESTful
4 22 (17.89%) AngularJS
5 21 (17.07%) CSS
6 17 (13.82%) HTML
7 12 (9.76%) React
8 11 (8.94%) JPA
9 9 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.50%) OpenTracing
11 5 (4.07%) Flash
11 5 (4.07%) POSIX
12 4 (3.25%) AWS CDK
13 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
13 3 (2.44%) Node.js
13 3 (2.44%) Spring Security
14 2 (1.63%) HTML5
14 2 (1.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.38%) Data Structures
3 13 (10.57%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.50%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.88%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.07%) NVMe
7 4 (3.25%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.76%) Linux
2 16 (13.01%) Unix
3 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.25%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (3.25%) Windows
4 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (47.97%) Agile
2 56 (45.53%) Microservices
3 40 (32.52%) CI/CD
4 38 (30.89%) Software Engineering
5 32 (26.02%) SDLC
6 27 (21.95%) Full Stack Development
7 23 (18.70%) Test Automation
8 22 (17.89%) DevOps
9 15 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (12.20%) Computer Science
9 15 (12.20%) Machine Learning
10 14 (11.38%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (10.57%) Decision-Making
11 13 (10.57%) Operational Stability
12 12 (9.76%) GitOps
12 12 (9.76%) Unit Testing
13 11 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (8.94%) Scrum
14 10 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (8.13%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.15%) SQL
2 35 (28.46%) Scala
3 26 (21.14%) Python
4 17 (13.82%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.76%) Kotlin
6 10 (8.13%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.32%) Perl
8 5 (4.07%) Bash
9 4 (3.25%) C#
9 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.81%) Groovy
10 1 (0.81%) PHP
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.63%) Degree
2 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (24.39%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) NFS
3 4 (3.25%) GPFS
4 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (26.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.38%) Terraform
3 8 (6.50%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.50%) Zipkin
4 7 (5.69%) Grafana
5 4 (3.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (0.81%) Argo
6 1 (0.81%) FreeIPA
6 1 (0.81%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.81%) Icinga
6 1 (0.81%) Istio
6 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (9.76%) Oracle
2 11 (8.94%) Databricks
3 8 (6.50%) IBM
4 5 (4.07%) Google
4 5 (4.07%) Splunk
4 5 (4.07%) Sybase
5 4 (3.25%) AVEVA
5 4 (3.25%) Brocade
5 4 (3.25%) EMC
5 4 (3.25%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.25%) NetApp
5 4 (3.25%) Veritas
6 3 (2.44%) F5
7 2 (1.63%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.81%) Atlassian