Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 103 53 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.45% 7.83% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.37% 8.33% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 20
10th Percentile £300 £350 £411
25th Percentile £407 £381 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £537
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -18.99% +19.33%
75th Percentile £534 £475 £638
90th Percentile £563 £513 £680
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £466
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.80% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
Scotland median hourly rate - - £47.73

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 670 636 785
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 93.94% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 451 527
10th Percentile £263 £225 £325
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £614 £673 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 23
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.65 £13.71
Median hourly rate £21.86 £19.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% +11.94% -53.25%
75th Percentile £26.21 £32.17 £53.24
90th Percentile £57.50 £46.58 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.31% +2.31% -5.49%

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
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 22 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, 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.

1 103 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (73.79%) Spring
3 62 (60.19%) SQL
4 56 (54.37%) Linux
5 54 (52.43%) Agile
6 46 (44.66%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (42.72%) MongoDB
8 43 (41.75%) Kafka
9 41 (39.81%) Finance
10 37 (35.92%) JUnit
10 37 (35.92%) Relational Database
11 36 (34.95%) Data Structures
12 34 (33.01%) SDLC
12 34 (33.01%) Multithreading
13 33 (32.04%) Software Engineering
13 33 (32.04%) Spring Boot
14 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
15 29 (28.16%) CI/CD
15 29 (28.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (28.16%) Python
16 25 (24.27%) Sybase
16 25 (24.27%) DB2
16 25 (24.27%) Banking
17 24 (23.30%) Performance Tuning
17 24 (23.30%) Microservices
18 23 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
19 22 (21.36%) Front Office
19 22 (21.36%) Shell Script
19 22 (21.36%) JMS
20 21 (20.39%) Investment Banking

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 5 (4.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.97%) Apache
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.65%) AWS
2 11 (10.68%) Azure
3 6 (5.83%) BlazeMeter
4 4 (3.88%) Apigee
5 3 (2.91%) GCP
6 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) DHCP
1 5 (4.85%) DNS
1 5 (4.85%) HTTP
2 4 (3.88%) SSL
2 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (42.72%) MongoDB
2 37 (35.92%) Relational Database
3 25 (24.27%) DB2
4 12 (11.65%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.94%) MySQL
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (35.92%) JUnit
2 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.71%) Git
4 5 (4.85%) Maven
5 4 (3.88%) Mockito
6 3 (2.91%) Vite
7 2 (1.94%) GitLab
7 2 (1.94%) Gradle
7 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 41 (39.81%) Finance
2 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
3 25 (24.27%) Banking
4 23 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (21.36%) Front Office
6 21 (20.39%) Investment Banking
7 12 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (73.79%) Spring
2 43 (41.75%) Kafka
3 33 (32.04%) Spring Boot
4 22 (21.36%) JMS
5 21 (20.39%) React
6 18 (17.48%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.74%) REST
7 9 (8.74%) RESTful
8 7 (6.80%) CSS
8 7 (6.80%) Hibernate
9 6 (5.83%) Ext JS
9 6 (5.83%) SOAP
10 4 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.91%) J2EE
11 3 (2.91%) Next.js
11 3 (2.91%) OAuth
12 2 (1.94%) JAX-WS
12 2 (1.94%) JPA
12 2 (1.94%) Middleware
12 2 (1.94%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 36 (34.95%) Data Structures
2 20 (19.42%) Equities
3 14 (13.59%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (9.71%) Algorithms
4 10 (9.71%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.83%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.85%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (4.85%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (4.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.91%) Derivative
7 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (54.37%) Linux
2 9 (8.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.43%) Agile
2 46 (44.66%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (33.01%) Multithreading
3 34 (33.01%) SDLC
4 33 (32.04%) Software Engineering
5 29 (28.16%) CI/CD
5 29 (28.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (23.30%) Microservices
6 24 (23.30%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (20.39%) Database Tuning
7 21 (20.39%) Open Source
8 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
9 14 (13.59%) DevOps
10 11 (10.68%) Operational Stability
11 9 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (8.74%) Front End Development
11 9 (8.74%) Micro Frontends
11 9 (8.74%) Unit Testing
12 8 (7.77%) Test Automation
13 7 (6.80%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (60.19%) SQL
3 29 (28.16%) Python
4 22 (21.36%) Shell Script
5 13 (12.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.85%) Perl
8 4 (3.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (2.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) QA
2 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (7.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.77%) Grafana
3 3 (2.91%) Terraform
4 1 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (24.27%) Sybase
2 10 (9.71%) Oracle
3 6 (5.83%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.83%) Splunk
4 5 (4.85%) F5
4 5 (4.85%) Infoblox
5 4 (3.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.91%) IBM
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.97%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.97%) Facebook
7 1 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow