Java Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 35 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 67 58 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.58% 6.32% 5.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.98% 6.64% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 38 29
10th Percentile £369 £439 £310
25th Percentile £400 £613 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +66.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 - £475
90th Percentile £750 - £512
Scotland median daily rate £450 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -10.58% +11.83% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.99% +1.55% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £56.37 £47.00
% change year-on-year -6.86% +19.93% +17.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 840 874 983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 95.31% 96.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 647 746
10th Percentile £270 £313 £209
25th Percentile £380 £406 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 11
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.97 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.26 £28.75 £25.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +13.75% +13.60%
75th Percentile £47.35 £58.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.56 £48.00
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
% change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (52.24%) Spring
3 34 (50.75%) Microservices
4 33 (49.25%) AWS
4 33 (49.25%) Agile
5 25 (37.31%) Software Engineering
5 25 (37.31%) Spring Boot
6 23 (34.33%) Scala
7 21 (31.34%) SQL
8 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
9 18 (26.87%) SDLC
9 18 (26.87%) Linux
9 18 (26.87%) REST
10 16 (23.88%) RESTful
10 16 (23.88%) Finance
11 14 (20.90%) Kafka
11 14 (20.90%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (19.40%) Unix
13 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
14 11 (16.42%) AngularJS
14 11 (16.42%) Banking
15 10 (14.93%) Python
15 10 (14.93%) Azure
16 9 (13.43%) End-to-End Testing
16 9 (13.43%) Kotlin
16 9 (13.43%) Git
16 9 (13.43%) Relational Database
17 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
17 8 (11.94%) Data Structures
17 8 (11.94%) CSS

Java Developer Skill Set
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 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 33 (49.25%) AWS
2 10 (14.93%) Azure
3 6 (8.96%) GCP
4 2 (2.99%) npm
4 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (7.46%) HTTP
1 5 (7.46%) NetScaler
1 5 (7.46%) SSL
1 5 (7.46%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.49%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.48%) DB2
3 2 (2.99%) Big Data
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.99%) Power BI
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Git
2 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.45%) JIRA
4 4 (5.97%) JUnit
5 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.99%) Mockito
5 2 (2.99%) Subversion
6 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.49%) GitLab
6 1 (1.49%) Maven
General
1 16 (23.88%) Finance
2 11 (16.42%) Banking
3 8 (11.94%) Financial Institution
4 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (52.24%) Spring
2 25 (37.31%) Spring Boot
3 18 (26.87%) REST
4 16 (23.88%) RESTful
5 14 (20.90%) Kafka
6 11 (16.42%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.94%) CSS
8 6 (8.96%) HTML
9 5 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (7.46%) OpenTracing
9 5 (7.46%) React
10 4 (5.97%) JSON
10 4 (5.97%) XML
11 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.48%) JPA
12 2 (2.99%) Spring Security
12 2 (2.99%) Twisted
13 1 (1.49%) Node.js
13 1 (1.49%) Spring MVC
13 1 (1.49%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Data Structures
1 8 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.87%) Linux
2 13 (19.40%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) Microservices
2 33 (49.25%) Agile
3 25 (37.31%) Software Engineering
4 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.87%) SDLC
6 14 (20.90%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.43%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (11.94%) TDD
10 6 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (8.96%) Machine Learning
10 6 (8.96%) Scrum
11 5 (7.46%) Backlog Refinement
11 5 (7.46%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (7.46%) Design Patterns
11 5 (7.46%) DevOps
11 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (7.46%) Release Management
11 5 (7.46%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (34.33%) Scala
3 21 (31.34%) SQL
4 10 (14.93%) Python
5 9 (13.43%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.96%) Perl
7 5 (7.46%) Bash
8 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.49%) PHP
9 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
2 5 (7.46%) Zipkin
3 2 (2.99%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) F5
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle
3 2 (2.99%) Databricks
3 2 (2.99%) IBM
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.49%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.49%) Sybase