Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 26 117 66
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.60% 14.48% 7.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.81% 15.27% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 53 48
10th Percentile £300 £310 £356
25th Percentile £401 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +3.45% -42.00%
75th Percentile £606 £500 £638
90th Percentile £663 £550 £750
Scotland median daily rate £438 £441 £447
% change year-on-year -0.68% -1.45% -12.01%
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 - - -6.86%

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 683 766 866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 94.80% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 493 574
10th Percentile £309 £308 £275
25th Percentile £375 £373 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £451 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 39
10th Percentile £16.16 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.55 £19.83 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +59.08% -18.24% -15.63%
75th Percentile £60.83 £46.38 £47.35
90th Percentile £61.84 £69.10 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -37.14% +46.69%

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 April 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 April 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 26 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (69.23%) Spring
3 16 (61.54%) Spring Boot
4 12 (46.15%) AWS
4 12 (46.15%) SQL
5 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 11 (42.31%) React
6 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (34.62%) Azure
7 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
7 9 (34.62%) Docker
7 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (34.62%) Microservices
8 8 (30.77%) Agile
8 8 (30.77%) Jest
9 7 (26.92%) Data Protection
9 7 (26.92%) DevOps
10 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
10 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
10 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
10 6 (23.08%) Kafka
10 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
10 6 (23.08%) Relational Database
10 6 (23.08%) TDD
11 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (19.23%) CSS
11 5 (19.23%) CSS3
11 5 (19.23%) HTML
11 5 (19.23%) HTML5
11 5 (19.23%) MVC

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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) ChatGPT
4 2 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 5 (19.23%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) DB2
3 3 (11.54%) Metadata
3 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) Flink
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) HBase
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) JUnit
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Prime Brokerage
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (69.23%) Spring
2 16 (61.54%) Spring Boot
3 11 (42.31%) React
4 8 (30.77%) Jest
5 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 6 (23.08%) Kafka
6 5 (19.23%) CSS
6 5 (19.23%) CSS3
6 5 (19.23%) HTML
6 5 (19.23%) HTML5
6 5 (19.23%) Redux
6 5 (19.23%) RESTful
6 5 (19.23%) Spring MVC
7 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (7.69%) Spring Batch
8 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.85%) REST
8 1 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Derivative
1 3 (11.54%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
3 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (34.62%) Microservices
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Data Protection
5 7 (26.92%) DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
6 6 (23.08%) TDD
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (19.23%) MVC
7 5 (19.23%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) AI
8 4 (15.38%) Front End Development
8 4 (15.38%) Observability
8 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
9 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
9 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Sybase
3 2 (7.69%) IBM