Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 16 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 31 99 52
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.25% 12.21% 5.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.51% 13.31% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 48 37
10th Percentile £390 - £369
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £439 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.90% -12.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £648 £490 £750
90th Percentile £669 £538 -
Scotland median daily rate £438 £431 £466
% change year-on-year +1.45% -7.51% -25.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -19.23%

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 688 744 882
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 91.74% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 472 586
10th Percentile £290 £311 £313
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £655 £625 £698
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 32
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.60 £11.58
25th Percentile £22.39 £17.46 £15.61
Median hourly rate £31.55 £21.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.24% +21.50% -44.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.86 £40.94
90th Percentile £61.84 £44.75 £73.25
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £23.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +4.74% -43.82% +92.57%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 31 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (87.10%) Spring
3 17 (54.84%) SQL
4 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (51.61%) Spring Boot
5 15 (48.39%) Agile
6 13 (41.94%) Microservices
7 12 (38.71%) Kafka
7 12 (38.71%) Linux
8 11 (35.48%) Docker
8 11 (35.48%) React
9 10 (32.26%) AWS
9 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
9 10 (32.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (32.26%) JUnit
9 10 (32.26%) SDLC
10 9 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (25.81%) Azure
11 8 (25.81%) Multithreading
11 8 (25.81%) Oracle
11 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
12 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
12 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
12 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
12 7 (22.58%) MongoDB
13 6 (19.35%) DevOps
13 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
14 5 (16.13%) Database Tuning
14 5 (16.13%) DB2
14 5 (16.13%) Hibernate

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 3 (9.68%) CMS
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
2 7 (22.58%) MongoDB
3 5 (16.13%) DB2
4 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (3.23%) Flink
6 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.23%) HBase
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) JUnit
2 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.23%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) Vite
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Banking
4 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Investment Banking
5 6 (19.35%) Front Office
6 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.23%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (3.23%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (87.10%) Spring
2 16 (51.61%) Spring Boot
3 12 (38.71%) Kafka
4 11 (35.48%) React
5 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (16.13%) Hibernate
6 5 (16.13%) Jest
6 5 (16.13%) JMS
7 4 (12.90%) RESTful
8 3 (9.68%) Ext JS
9 2 (6.45%) CSS
9 2 (6.45%) CSS3
9 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (6.45%) HTML
9 2 (6.45%) HTML5
9 2 (6.45%) J2EE
9 2 (6.45%) JPA
9 2 (6.45%) Redux
9 2 (6.45%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.13%) Equities
2 5 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 13 (41.94%) Microservices
4 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 10 (32.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (32.26%) SDLC
5 9 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (25.81%) Multithreading
7 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 6 (19.35%) DevOps
8 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
9 5 (16.13%) Database Tuning
9 5 (16.13%) Open Source
10 4 (12.90%) Front End Development
10 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
10 4 (12.90%) Observability
11 3 (9.68%) DevSecOps
11 3 (9.68%) Operational Stability
11 3 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (54.84%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Sybase
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft