Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 18 38
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 37 85 40
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.41% 11.29% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.75% 12.43% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 44 28
10th Percentile £343 - £400
25th Percentile £408 £350 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £417 £621
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% -32.96% -17.17%
75th Percentile £606 £490 £750
90th Percentile - £538 £759
Scotland median daily rate £438 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% -21.57%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 643 684 868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.84% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 422 576
10th Percentile £275 £301 £313
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 23
10th Percentile £16.17 £11.78 £11.50
25th Percentile £22.39 £15.60 £15.42
Median hourly rate £26.09 £19.59 £16.70
Median % change year-on-year +33.18% +17.31% -0.30%
75th Percentile £49.15 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.71 £40.10 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £22.94 £45.00
% change year-on-year -0.27% -49.03% +153.95%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (89.19%) Spring
3 22 (59.46%) SQL
4 18 (48.65%) Agile
4 18 (48.65%) Linux
4 18 (48.65%) Spring Boot
5 17 (45.95%) Kafka
5 17 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (37.84%) JUnit
6 14 (37.84%) Microservices
7 13 (35.14%) MongoDB
7 13 (35.14%) Multithreading
7 13 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (32.43%) React
8 12 (32.43%) SDLC
9 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
9 11 (29.73%) Relational Database
10 10 (27.03%) AngularJS
10 10 (27.03%) Docker
11 9 (24.32%) AWS
12 8 (21.62%) Azure
12 8 (21.62%) Database Tuning
12 8 (21.62%) DB2
12 8 (21.62%) DevOps
12 8 (21.62%) JMS
12 8 (21.62%) Open Source
12 8 (21.62%) Python
12 8 (21.62%) Shell Script
12 8 (21.62%) Sybase

Java Developer Skill Set
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 4 (10.81%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) MongoDB
2 11 (29.73%) Relational Database
3 8 (21.62%) DB2
4 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) HBase
6 1 (2.70%) MySQL
6 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) JUnit
2 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.41%) Mockito
4 1 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Vite
General
1 14 (37.84%) Finance
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Banking
3 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Front Office
3 8 (21.62%) Investment Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (89.19%) Spring
2 18 (48.65%) Spring Boot
3 17 (45.95%) Kafka
4 12 (32.43%) React
5 10 (27.03%) AngularJS
6 8 (21.62%) JMS
7 6 (16.22%) Hibernate
8 5 (13.51%) Jest
8 5 (13.51%) RESTful
9 4 (10.81%) Ext JS
10 2 (5.41%) J2EE
10 2 (5.41%) JPA
10 2 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
11 1 (2.70%) CSS
11 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (2.70%) HTML
11 1 (2.70%) HTML5
11 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (2.70%) Redux
11 1 (2.70%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Data Structures
2 8 (21.62%) Equities
3 7 (18.92%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
5 3 (8.11%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (37.84%) Microservices
4 13 (35.14%) Multithreading
4 13 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (32.43%) SDLC
6 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
7 8 (21.62%) Database Tuning
7 8 (21.62%) DevOps
7 8 (21.62%) Open Source
8 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) Fintech
9 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (13.51%) Observability
10 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
11 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
11 4 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
11 4 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (59.46%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Sybase
2 7 (18.92%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft