Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £403, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -33 +4 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 43 113 67
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.53% 14.58% 8.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.83% 15.25% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 48
10th Percentile £301 £300 £370
25th Percentile £318 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +6.82% -21.43%
75th Percentile £459 £538 £513
90th Percentile £663 £575 £610
Scotland median daily rate £405 £450 £435
% change year-on-year -10.11% +3.45% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.99%

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 891 741 731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 95.61% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 468 505
10th Percentile £300 £300 £238
25th Percentile £358 £367 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -8.54%
75th Percentile £588 £546 £553
90th Percentile £675 £600 £624
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 34
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.76
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.91 £19.90 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +206.08% -51.39% +131.04%
75th Percentile £61.61 £26.21 £56.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.75 £71.25
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.90 £18.38
% change year-on-year +75.88% +8.30% +3.70%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 27 (62.79%) Spring
3 23 (53.49%) Spring Boot
4 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
5 20 (46.51%) SQL
6 18 (41.86%) Git
6 18 (41.86%) Microservices
7 17 (39.53%) AWS
8 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (34.88%) TDD
9 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (30.23%) Agile
10 13 (30.23%) React
11 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
11 12 (27.91%) Test Automation
12 10 (23.26%) DevOps
12 10 (23.26%) Oracle
13 9 (20.93%) Azure
13 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
13 9 (20.93%) JSF
13 9 (20.93%) MuleSoft
13 9 (20.93%) Relational Database
13 9 (20.93%) RESTful
14 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (18.60%) Jest
14 8 (18.60%) Kafka
14 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
15 7 (16.28%) AI
15 7 (16.28%) Data Protection
15 7 (16.28%) Docker

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 (4.65%) Apache
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) ChatGPT
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Relational Database
2 7 (16.28%) MySQL
3 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.30%) Db2
4 4 (9.30%) Metadata
4 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Big Data
6 2 (4.65%) Flink
6 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.33%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (41.86%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) Gradle
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.95%) Maven
3 5 (11.63%) GoCD
3 5 (11.63%) JUnit
4 4 (9.30%) JProfiler
5 3 (6.98%) Subversion
6 2 (4.65%) JIRA
7 1 (2.33%) Bundler
7 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.33%) Leiningen
General
1 17 (39.53%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Banking
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Front Office
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Law
7 1 (2.33%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (2.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (62.79%) Spring
2 23 (53.49%) Spring Boot
3 13 (30.23%) React
4 9 (20.93%) JSF
4 9 (20.93%) RESTful
5 8 (18.60%) Jest
5 8 (18.60%) Kafka
6 7 (16.28%) HTML
6 7 (16.28%) Redux
7 6 (13.95%) CSS
7 6 (13.95%) HTML5
7 6 (13.95%) REST
7 6 (13.95%) Spring MVC
8 5 (11.63%) CSS3
8 5 (11.63%) FreeMarker
8 5 (11.63%) Hibernate
8 5 (11.63%) Node.js
9 4 (9.30%) Web Services
10 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
10 3 (6.98%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.30%) Derivative
2 4 (9.30%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 18 (41.86%) Microservices
3 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (34.88%) TDD
4 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (30.23%) Agile
6 12 (27.91%) Test Automation
7 10 (23.26%) DevOps
8 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
9 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (16.28%) AI
10 7 (16.28%) Data Protection
10 7 (16.28%) Scrum
11 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
11 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
11 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
11 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.95%) MVC
11 6 (13.95%) SDLC
12 5 (11.63%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (46.51%) SQL
3 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.95%) Python
5 3 (6.98%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) C++
6 2 (4.65%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Oracle
2 9 (20.93%) MuleSoft
3 4 (9.30%) Sybase
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.65%) IBM