Java Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 68 79
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 6 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.75% 1.60% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.68% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile £357 £393 £630
25th Percentile £423 £414 £636
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £671
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -34.76% +21.93%
75th Percentile £480 £488 £703
90th Percentile - £500 £708
Scotland median daily rate £466 £438 £423
% change year-on-year +6.57% +3.43% -15.40%

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 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Glasgow

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in Glasgow

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in Glasgow

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Spring
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Kafka
5 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
5 2 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (33.33%) Front Office
5 2 (33.33%) JMS
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Mockito
5 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (16.67%) Node.js
6 1 (16.67%) CSS3
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
6 1 (16.67%) OO
6 1 (16.67%) Java EE

Java Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 2 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) JMS
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) Java EE
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 2 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase
29 Java Engineer jobs in Scotland