Java Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 42 36
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 68 50 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.04% 5.64% 5.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.46% 5.92% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 34 28
10th Percentile £369 £422 £321
25th Percentile £400 £549 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £703 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.94% +56.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £525 £750 £475
90th Percentile £750 - £515
Scotland median daily rate £450 £499 £450
% change year-on-year -9.73% +10.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.99% +1.55% -19.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £47.73 £47.00
% change year-on-year +9.99% +1.55% +17.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 804 845 926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 95.37% 96.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 619 711
10th Percentile £252 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £464
% change year-on-year - +2.37% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 19 14
10th Percentile £11.94 £12.45 £21.45
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.71 £23.77
Median hourly rate £36.22 £18.50 £38.72
Median % change year-on-year +95.78% -52.21% +121.23%
75th Percentile £54.69 £53.24 £46.88
90th Percentile £68.75 £61.75 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £31.50 £22.13 £29.93
% change year-on-year +42.37% -26.07% -20.20%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024, 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 68 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (63.24%) Spring
3 41 (60.29%) AWS
4 39 (57.35%) Microservices
5 35 (51.47%) Agile
6 32 (47.06%) Spring Boot
7 27 (39.71%) Software Engineering
8 25 (36.76%) Scala
9 22 (32.35%) SQL
10 21 (30.88%) Kafka
11 20 (29.41%) RESTful
11 20 (29.41%) SDLC
12 19 (27.94%) CI/CD
13 17 (25.00%) Finance
14 16 (23.53%) Azure
15 14 (20.59%) REST
15 14 (20.59%) Data Structures
15 14 (20.59%) Linux
15 14 (20.59%) Full Stack Development
15 14 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
16 13 (19.12%) Docker
16 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
17 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
17 12 (17.65%) Kotlin
17 12 (17.65%) GCP
17 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
18 11 (16.18%) AngularJS
18 11 (16.18%) Distributed Systems
19 10 (14.71%) Unix
19 10 (14.71%) Banking

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 9 (13.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 41 (60.29%) AWS
2 16 (23.53%) Azure
3 12 (17.65%) GCP
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.41%) npm
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (2.94%) HTTP
1 2 (2.94%) NetScaler
1 2 (2.94%) SSL
1 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.41%) Big Data
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.47%) DB2
4 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) JIRA
2 6 (8.82%) Git
3 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.35%) JUnit
4 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.41%) Mockito
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) Subversion
6 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Maven
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Banking
3 8 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.41%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (63.24%) Spring
2 32 (47.06%) Spring Boot
3 21 (30.88%) Kafka
4 20 (29.41%) RESTful
5 14 (20.59%) REST
6 11 (16.18%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.76%) CSS
7 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (11.76%) OpenTracing
8 7 (10.29%) React
9 5 (7.35%) HTML
10 3 (4.41%) JPA
11 2 (2.94%) JSON
11 2 (2.94%) Spring Security
11 2 (2.94%) XML
12 1 (1.47%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.47%) Node.js
12 1 (1.47%) Spring MVC
12 1 (1.47%) Spring Web Flow
12 1 (1.47%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Data Structures
2 11 (16.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.82%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) Microservices
2 35 (51.47%) Agile
3 27 (39.71%) Software Engineering
4 20 (29.41%) SDLC
5 19 (27.94%) CI/CD
6 14 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
6 14 (20.59%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.24%) Scrum
9 8 (11.76%) Backlog Refinement
9 8 (11.76%) Design Patterns
9 8 (11.76%) Release Management
10 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.29%) Machine Learning
10 7 (10.29%) TDD
10 7 (10.29%) Unit Testing
11 6 (8.82%) Dependency Injection
12 5 (7.35%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (36.76%) Scala
3 22 (32.35%) SQL
4 12 (17.65%) Kotlin
5 5 (7.35%) Python
6 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) Perl
6 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.94%) Bash
8 1 (1.47%) PHP
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 8 (11.76%) Zipkin
3 5 (7.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Oracle
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Splunk
3 2 (2.94%) F5
3 2 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (1.47%) Databricks
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.47%) Sybase