Java Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +34 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 117 66 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.63% 8.62% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.33% 9.09% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 48 18
10th Percentile £300 £370 £409
25th Percentile £408 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £552
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -20.29% +24.39%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £638
90th Percentile £575 £610 £747
Scotland median daily rate £450 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% +5.56%
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 £47.73
% change year-on-year - +9.99% +1.55%

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 763 726 862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 94.78% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 507 589
10th Percentile £300 £242 £325
25th Percentile £368 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -9.55% +10.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £630 £673
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 27
10th Percentile - £11.76 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £12.94
Median hourly rate £19.90 £40.94 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.39% +182.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £56.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.75 £71.25 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £19.71 £18.32 £17.72
% change year-on-year +7.57% +3.40% -52.66%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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.

1 117 (100.00%) Java
2 84 (71.79%) Spring
3 73 (62.39%) SQL
4 67 (57.26%) Linux
5 57 (48.72%) Agile
6 53 (45.30%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (43.59%) Relational Database
7 51 (43.59%) Finance
8 49 (41.88%) JUnit
9 46 (39.32%) Data Structures
10 44 (37.61%) MongoDB
11 43 (36.75%) Kafka
11 43 (36.75%) Software Engineering
11 43 (36.75%) Multithreading
12 39 (33.33%) SDLC
13 36 (30.77%) DB2
13 36 (30.77%) Python
14 35 (29.91%) Sybase
14 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
15 31 (26.50%) Spring Boot
15 31 (26.50%) Analytical Skills
16 28 (23.93%) Front Office
16 28 (23.93%) Shell Script
16 28 (23.93%) Open Source
17 26 (22.22%) Banking
17 26 (22.22%) Equities
17 26 (22.22%) JMS
18 24 (20.51%) CI/CD
19 23 (19.66%) Performance Tuning
19 23 (19.66%) Database 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 (0.85%) Apache
1 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.85%) CMS
1 1 (0.85%) JBoss
1 1 (0.85%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.11%) AWS
2 9 (7.69%) Azure
3 6 (5.13%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (2.56%) GCP
4 3 (2.56%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.71%) Apigee
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.85%) GitHub
6 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (1.71%) DHCP
2 2 (1.71%) DNS
2 2 (1.71%) SSL
2 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (43.59%) Relational Database
2 44 (37.61%) MongoDB
3 36 (30.77%) DB2
4 11 (9.40%) RDBMS
5 8 (6.84%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) MySQL
8 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (41.88%) JUnit
2 8 (6.84%) Git
3 7 (5.98%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.27%) Maven
4 5 (4.27%) Mockito
5 3 (2.56%) GitLab
6 2 (1.71%) Gradle
6 2 (1.71%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.71%) Subversion
7 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.85%) JIRA
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 51 (43.59%) Finance
2 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 31 (26.50%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (23.93%) Front Office
5 26 (22.22%) Banking
6 19 (16.24%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (71.79%) Spring
2 43 (36.75%) Kafka
3 31 (26.50%) Spring Boot
4 26 (22.22%) JMS
5 12 (10.26%) React
6 11 (9.40%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.69%) REST
8 7 (5.98%) CSS
8 7 (5.98%) RESTful
9 4 (3.42%) Hibernate
9 4 (3.42%) SOAP
9 4 (3.42%) Web Services
10 3 (2.56%) J2EE
10 3 (2.56%) JAX-RS
10 3 (2.56%) JPA
10 3 (2.56%) JSON
10 3 (2.56%) OAuth
10 3 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.71%) Node.js
11 2 (1.71%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 46 (39.32%) Data Structures
2 26 (22.22%) Equities
3 14 (11.97%) Algorithms
4 13 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (5.98%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (3.42%) Derivative
6 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (57.26%) Linux
2 12 (10.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (48.72%) Agile
2 53 (45.30%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (36.75%) Multithreading
3 43 (36.75%) Software Engineering
4 39 (33.33%) SDLC
5 28 (23.93%) Open Source
6 24 (20.51%) CI/CD
7 23 (19.66%) Database Tuning
7 23 (19.66%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (17.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.53%) Microservices
10 14 (11.97%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.97%) Concurrent Programming
11 11 (9.40%) DevOps
12 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.55%) Unit Testing
13 9 (7.69%) Test Automation
14 8 (6.84%) Event-Driven
14 8 (6.84%) Front End Development
14 8 (6.84%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 117 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (62.39%) SQL
3 36 (30.77%) Python
4 28 (23.93%) Shell Script
5 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.71%) Bash
7 2 (1.71%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (1.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.84%) Grafana
2 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (29.91%) Sybase
2 6 (5.13%) Dynatrace
2 6 (5.13%) Oracle
2 6 (5.13%) Splunk
3 4 (3.42%) IBM
3 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.71%) F5
5 2 (1.71%) Infoblox
5 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.85%) Facebook
6 1 (0.85%) Google