Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £328, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 62 97 50
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.19% 13.02% 7.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.66% 13.88% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 39
10th Percentile £299 £300 £350
25th Percentile £313 £420 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.46% +9.41% -21.88%
75th Percentile £402 £538 £464
90th Percentile £489 £575 £513
Scotland median daily rate £377 £450 £423
% change year-on-year -16.22% +6.51% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 1,096 699 636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 93.83% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 417 445
10th Percentile £290 £263 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year - +0.45% -10.40%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £652
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 19 17
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.78
25th Percentile £35.00 £16.84 £15.22
Median hourly rate £40.32 £23.75 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +69.77% +21.24% +35.10%
75th Percentile £60.91 £32.12 £25.17
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.50 £43.12
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £18.13
% change year-on-year -3.35% +10.31% +2.31%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 62 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (72.58%) Spring
3 39 (62.90%) Spring Boot
4 35 (56.45%) CI/CD
5 33 (53.23%) Microservices
6 30 (48.39%) Git
7 23 (37.10%) Agile
7 23 (37.10%) REST
7 23 (37.10%) SQL
8 21 (33.87%) AWS
8 21 (33.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (32.26%) Kubernetes
9 20 (32.26%) TDD
10 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
10 18 (29.03%) React
11 17 (27.42%) Test Automation
12 16 (25.81%) Maven
13 15 (24.19%) JPA
13 15 (24.19%) Kafka
13 15 (24.19%) Linux
14 14 (22.58%) MuleSoft
15 13 (20.97%) DevOps
15 13 (20.97%) Event-Driven
15 13 (20.97%) JSF
15 13 (20.97%) RESTful
15 13 (20.97%) Scrum
16 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
16 12 (19.35%) FreeMarker
16 12 (19.35%) Node.js
17 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving

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 2 (3.23%) Apache
1 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.23%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.84%) ChatGPT
5 3 (4.84%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) HTTP
1 2 (3.23%) HTTPS
1 2 (3.23%) SSL
1 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Relational Database
2 10 (16.13%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.84%) Db2
5 3 (4.84%) Metadata
5 3 (4.84%) MySQL
5 3 (4.84%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) Flink
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.61%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (48.39%) Git
2 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
3 16 (25.81%) Maven
4 10 (16.13%) Gradle
4 10 (16.13%) JUnit
5 8 (12.90%) GoCD
6 7 (11.29%) JProfiler
7 5 (8.06%) JIRA
8 3 (4.84%) Subversion
9 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.23%) GitLab
10 1 (1.61%) Bundler
10 1 (1.61%) git-flow
10 1 (1.61%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.61%) Leiningen
10 1 (1.61%) Mockito
General
1 23 (37.10%) Finance
2 18 (29.03%) Banking
3 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Front Office
7 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.23%) Law
7 2 (3.23%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (3.23%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.61%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (72.58%) Spring
2 39 (62.90%) Spring Boot
3 23 (37.10%) REST
4 18 (29.03%) React
5 15 (24.19%) JPA
5 15 (24.19%) Kafka
6 13 (20.97%) JSF
6 13 (20.97%) RESTful
7 12 (19.35%) FreeMarker
7 12 (19.35%) Node.js
8 8 (12.90%) HTML
9 7 (11.29%) AngularJS
9 7 (11.29%) CSS
9 7 (11.29%) Web Services
10 6 (9.68%) Redux
10 6 (9.68%) Spring MVC
11 5 (8.06%) Hibernate
11 5 (8.06%) HTML5
11 5 (8.06%) JDBC
11 5 (8.06%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.06%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.45%) Derivative
5 3 (4.84%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.23%) Equities
6 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.61%) Replication
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.19%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) CI/CD
2 33 (53.23%) Microservices
3 23 (37.10%) Agile
4 21 (33.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (32.26%) TDD
6 17 (27.42%) Test Automation
7 13 (20.97%) DevOps
7 13 (20.97%) Event-Driven
7 13 (20.97%) Scrum
8 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
9 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.90%) Concurrent Programming
10 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.90%) Functional Programming
10 8 (12.90%) Multithreading
10 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
11 7 (11.29%) AI
11 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (11.29%) Web Accessibility
12 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (37.10%) SQL
3 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.06%) Python
5 4 (6.45%) Bash
5 4 (6.45%) Ruby
6 2 (3.23%) C++
6 2 (3.23%) Perl
6 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) QA
2 7 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) MuleSoft
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Sybase
4 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.61%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.61%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.61%) Solace
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) webMethods