Java EE Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Java EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 75 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Java EE 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.11% 0.92% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 3.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £269 -
25th Percentile £305 £270 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £315 - -
90th Percentile - £302 -
Scotland median daily rate £310 £280 £478
% change year-on-year +10.81% -41.41% +0.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 201 206 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.52% 27.11% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 124 115
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £320 £403 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £435
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +8.05% -16.75%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £500
90th Percentile £644 £607 £575
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £51.50
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +80.65%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.36% - +15.23%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java EE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Java EE job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java EE

Java EE
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) SAX
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA