Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 43 78 38
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.53% 10.82% 4.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.91% 11.96% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 39 27
10th Percentile £267 - £400
25th Percentile £420 £350 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £408 £618
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -33.93% -17.67%
75th Percentile £606 £485 £750
90th Percentile - £538 £762
Scotland median daily rate £439 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +3.24% -12.82% -22.00%

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 622 652 836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 90.43% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 402 555
10th Percentile £254 £291 £313
25th Percentile £378 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £601
90th Percentile £643 £637 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.22% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 19
10th Percentile £16.17 £11.78 £12.11
25th Percentile £22.39 £16.37 £15.71
Median hourly rate £26.09 £19.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.18% +11.94% +4.48%
75th Percentile £47.45 £29.44 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.78 £43.27 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.50 £23.30 £46.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -49.90% +162.42%

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 20 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 20 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 43 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (81.40%) Spring
3 23 (53.49%) Agile
3 23 (53.49%) SQL
4 22 (51.16%) Linux
5 20 (46.51%) Kafka
6 19 (44.19%) Spring Boot
7 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
8 16 (37.21%) Microservices
9 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (34.88%) MongoDB
10 14 (32.56%) JUnit
10 14 (32.56%) Multithreading
11 13 (30.23%) AngularJS
11 13 (30.23%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (30.23%) React
12 12 (27.91%) SDLC
13 11 (25.58%) Docker
13 11 (25.58%) Python
13 11 (25.58%) Relational Database
14 10 (23.26%) DevOps
15 9 (20.93%) AWS
15 9 (20.93%) Azure
15 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
16 8 (18.60%) Database Tuning
16 8 (18.60%) DB2
16 8 (18.60%) Fintech
16 8 (18.60%) JMS
16 8 (18.60%) Open Source

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 5 (11.63%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) Apigee
3 1 (2.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) DHCP
1 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) HTTP
2 2 (4.65%) SSL
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.88%) MongoDB
2 11 (25.58%) Relational Database
3 8 (18.60%) DB2
4 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.33%) HBase
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) JUnit
2 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.65%) Mockito
3 2 (4.65%) Vite
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (37.21%) Finance
3 13 (30.23%) Banking
4 9 (20.93%) Investment Banking
5 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (18.60%) Front Office
6 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (81.40%) Spring
2 20 (46.51%) Kafka
3 19 (44.19%) Spring Boot
4 13 (30.23%) AngularJS
4 13 (30.23%) React
5 8 (18.60%) JMS
6 7 (16.28%) Hibernate
7 6 (13.95%) RESTful
8 5 (11.63%) Ext JS
9 4 (9.30%) Jest
9 4 (9.30%) REST
10 3 (6.98%) SOAP
11 2 (4.65%) J2EE
11 2 (4.65%) JPA
11 2 (4.65%) Next.js
11 2 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
12 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (2.33%) Middleware
12 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Data Structures
2 8 (18.60%) Equities
2 8 (18.60%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (13.95%) Public Cloud
4 4 (9.30%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (51.16%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Agile
2 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
3 16 (37.21%) Microservices
4 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (32.56%) Multithreading
6 13 (30.23%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (27.91%) SDLC
8 10 (23.26%) DevOps
9 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
10 8 (18.60%) Database Tuning
10 8 (18.60%) Fintech
10 8 (18.60%) Open Source
11 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
11 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (13.95%) Observability
12 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
13 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
13 4 (9.30%) Operational Stability
13 4 (9.30%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (53.49%) SQL
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 8 (18.60%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
1 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle
1 8 (18.60%) Sybase
2 3 (6.98%) F5
2 3 (6.98%) Infoblox
3 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft