Java Developer Contracts 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 0
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 119 68 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.91% 7.75% 6.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.64% 8.16% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 48 38
10th Percentile £300 £370 £439
25th Percentile £396 £400 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -39.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £500 £638 -
90th Percentile £550 £750 -
Scotland median daily rate £441 £450 £499
% change year-on-year -2.00% -9.73% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +9.99% +1.55%
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £56.37
% change year-on-year - -6.86% +19.93%

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 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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.

1 119 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (64.71%) Spring
3 64 (53.78%) Linux
3 64 (53.78%) SQL
4 46 (38.66%) Agile
4 46 (38.66%) Multithreading
5 45 (37.82%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (36.13%) Finance
7 42 (35.29%) Relational Database
8 39 (32.77%) Data Structures
8 39 (32.77%) Software Engineering
9 38 (31.93%) Spring Boot
9 38 (31.93%) Kafka
10 37 (31.09%) JUnit
11 35 (29.41%) SDLC
12 34 (28.57%) DB2
13 33 (27.73%) MongoDB
14 31 (26.05%) Sybase
14 31 (26.05%) Python
15 30 (25.21%) Front Office
16 29 (24.37%) Banking
17 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
17 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
18 25 (21.01%) Shell Script
19 24 (20.17%) Open Source
20 22 (18.49%) JMS
21 21 (17.65%) CI/CD
22 20 (16.81%) Unix
22 20 (16.81%) Equities
22 20 (16.81%) Performance Tuning

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 1 (0.84%) JBoss
1 1 (0.84%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.97%) AWS
2 6 (5.04%) Azure
3 4 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.36%) Azure AKS
4 3 (2.52%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.68%) GitHub
6 1 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.29%) Relational Database
2 34 (28.57%) DB2
3 33 (27.73%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.24%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (31.09%) JUnit
2 5 (4.20%) JIRA
3 2 (1.68%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.68%) Subversion
4 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) Mockito
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 43 (36.13%) Finance
2 30 (25.21%) Front Office
3 29 (24.37%) Banking
4 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
5 15 (12.61%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.72%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (64.71%) Spring
2 38 (31.93%) Kafka
2 38 (31.93%) Spring Boot
3 22 (18.49%) JMS
4 8 (6.72%) REST
5 6 (5.04%) React
5 6 (5.04%) SOAP
6 5 (4.20%) Middleware
7 4 (3.36%) J2EE
7 4 (3.36%) Web Services
8 3 (2.52%) CSS
9 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.68%) JDBC
9 2 (1.68%) JSON
9 2 (1.68%) MSMQ
10 1 (0.84%) Java EE
10 1 (0.84%) Java SE
10 1 (0.84%) JAX-RS
10 1 (0.84%) JPA
10 1 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (32.77%) Data Structures
2 20 (16.81%) Equities
3 17 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 9 (7.56%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.04%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.52%) Derivative
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (53.78%) Linux
2 20 (16.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.66%) Agile
1 46 (38.66%) Multithreading
2 45 (37.82%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (32.77%) Software Engineering
4 35 (29.41%) SDLC
5 24 (20.17%) Open Source
6 21 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 20 (16.81%) Concurrent Programming
7 20 (16.81%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (15.13%) Database Tuning
9 14 (11.76%) Process Improvement
10 13 (10.92%) Project Delivery
11 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (7.56%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.56%) Design Patterns
12 9 (7.56%) Microservices
13 8 (6.72%) Event-Driven
14 7 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (5.04%) Code Quality
15 6 (5.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 119 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (53.78%) SQL
3 31 (26.05%) Python
4 25 (21.01%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.84%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Terraform
2 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.84%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) Sybase
2 7 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.52%) DocuSign
3 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.52%) IBM
3 3 (2.52%) Splunk
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
43 Java Developer jobs in Scotland