Java Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 111 189 110
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.83% 23.05% 14.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.44% 45.54% 37.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 90 88
10th Percentile £304 £300 £373
25th Percentile £363 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £469 £440
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +6.48% -16.19%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £583 £601 £583
Scotland median daily rate £490 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +4.59% +4.11% -6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 - - -9.89%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 353 415 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.44% 50.61% 38.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 221 208
10th Percentile £306 £300 £338
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +3.78% -10.27%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £513
90th Percentile £610 £600 £624
Scotland median daily rate £440 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £22.57 £37.52
25th Percentile - £33.80 £51.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -6.82%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -5.60%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Java job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java

Java
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 8 (7.21%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Geronimo
3 3 (2.70%) Apache ServiceMix
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (39.64%) AWS
2 20 (18.02%) GitHub
3 17 (15.32%) Azure
4 12 (10.81%) ChatGPT
5 11 (9.91%) Anthropic Claude
5 11 (9.91%) GCP
6 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.50%) Google Play
9 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.80%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.62%) Relational Database
2 16 (14.41%) MongoDB
2 16 (14.41%) MySQL
3 12 (10.81%) Metadata
4 11 (9.91%) Db2
5 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.50%) Flink
7 5 (4.50%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.80%) Big Data
9 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.80%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (31.53%) Git
2 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.81%) Gradle
4 8 (7.21%) Maven
5 7 (6.31%) JUnit
6 6 (5.41%) JIRA
6 6 (5.41%) Selenium
7 5 (4.50%) Android Studio
7 5 (4.50%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.50%) GoCD
8 4 (3.60%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.60%) GitLab
8 4 (3.60%) JProfiler
8 4 (3.60%) Postman
8 4 (3.60%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.60%) Subversion
9 3 (2.70%) Appium
9 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.70%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (39.64%) Finance
2 29 (26.13%) Banking
3 25 (22.52%) Social Skills
4 18 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.81%) Front Office
5 12 (10.81%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.80%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) International Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Military
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (0.90%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 69 (62.16%) Developer
2 47 (42.34%) Java Developer
3 20 (18.02%) Senior
4 14 (12.61%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Android Developer
9 5 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Lead
10 4 (3.60%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Automation Tester
11 3 (2.70%) Azure Developer
11 3 (2.70%) Core Java Developer
11 3 (2.70%) Gen AI Developer
11 3 (2.70%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (39.64%) Spring
2 40 (36.04%) Spring Boot
3 22 (19.82%) React
4 18 (16.22%) REST
5 17 (15.32%) RESTful
6 12 (10.81%) Kafka
7 10 (9.01%) HTML
7 10 (9.01%) Jest
7 10 (9.01%) JSF
8 9 (8.11%) CSS
8 9 (8.11%) JPA
9 8 (7.21%) HTML5
9 8 (7.21%) Redux
10 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.31%) CSS3
10 7 (6.31%) Node.js
10 7 (6.31%) Spring MVC
11 6 (5.41%) Hibernate
12 5 (4.50%) FreeMarker
12 5 (4.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.81%) Equity Derivative
3 11 (9.91%) Derivative
4 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) Equities
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Linux
2 5 (4.50%) Android
2 5 (4.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 35 (31.53%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (30.63%) Agile
3 34 (30.63%) Microservices
3 34 (30.63%) TDD
4 29 (26.13%) Test Automation
5 26 (23.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (22.52%) DevOps
7 21 (18.92%) BDD
8 19 (17.12%) AI
8 19 (17.12%) Scrum
9 18 (16.22%) Mentoring
9 18 (16.22%) SDLC
10 15 (13.51%) Containerisation
10 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (13.51%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.61%) Data Lineage
11 14 (12.61%) Machine Learning
12 13 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (10.81%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.23%) SQL
2 29 (26.13%) Python
3 23 (20.72%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.91%) C++
6 7 (6.31%) Perl
7 5 (4.50%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.50%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.60%) Bash
8 4 (3.60%) C#
9 2 (1.80%) Scala
10 1 (0.90%) Groovy
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.90%) Ruby
10 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) Degree
1 9 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.90%) IIBA
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) QA
2 11 (9.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (14.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.61%) Terraform
3 5 (4.50%) Ansible
3 5 (4.50%) Istio
4 2 (1.80%) Argo
4 2 (1.80%) Grafana
4 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.90%) Netcool
Vendors
1 24 (21.62%) Oracle
2 12 (10.81%) MuleSoft
3 11 (9.91%) Sybase
4 9 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.31%) IBM
6 5 (4.50%) Google
7 3 (2.70%) Databricks
7 3 (2.70%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.90%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.90%) Okta
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) TOWER Software