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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 151 95 111
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 19.97% 13.42% 13.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.06% 36.82% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 70 81
10th Percentile £339 £348 £362
25th Percentile £409 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £626
90th Percentile £625 £513 £726
Scotland median daily rate £500 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +13.64% -7.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.23 - -
75th Percentile £64.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +5.51%

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 359 258 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.49% 36.44% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 156 195
10th Percentile £347 £325 £363
25th Percentile £402 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £491 £636
90th Percentile £625 £591 £750
Scotland median daily rate £479 £450 £491
% change year-on-year +6.44% -8.40% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £30.05 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.61 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +209.41% -67.08% +32.26%

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 31 October 2025.

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 6 (3.97%) CMS
2 4 (2.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.32%) Mule
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.44%) AWS
2 36 (23.84%) Azure
3 20 (13.25%) GitHub
4 19 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.97%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (3.97%) SaaS
7 6 (3.97%) Serverless
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.65%) Apigee
8 4 (2.65%) Datadog
8 4 (2.65%) GCP
8 4 (2.65%) Slack
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) DHCP
1 5 (3.31%) DNS
1 5 (3.31%) HTTP
2 4 (2.65%) Firewall
2 4 (2.65%) SSL
2 4 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.32%) AMQP
3 2 (1.32%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.17%) MongoDB
2 30 (19.87%) Relational Database
3 21 (13.91%) DB2
4 15 (9.93%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.64%) MySQL
7 6 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.99%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.99%) MSDE
9 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.66%) GIS
11 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (27.81%) Jenkins
2 38 (25.17%) JUnit
3 30 (19.87%) Git
4 24 (15.89%) JIRA
5 19 (12.58%) Bitbucket
6 14 (9.27%) IntelliJ
6 14 (9.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 13 (8.61%) GitLab
7 13 (8.61%) PyCharm
7 13 (8.61%) Visual Studio
8 8 (5.30%) Mockito
9 6 (3.97%) Maven
10 5 (3.31%) Gradle
10 5 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.65%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.65%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.65%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.99%) Vite
13 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 73 (48.34%) Finance
2 44 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 40 (26.49%) Banking
4 26 (17.22%) Investment Banking
5 23 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (12.58%) Front Office
7 15 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (6.62%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 98 (64.90%) Developer
2 80 (52.98%) Java Developer
3 31 (20.53%) SQL Developer
4 22 (14.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (13.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 18 (11.92%) Software Engineer
7 17 (11.26%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 17 (11.26%) Senior
7 17 (11.26%) Sybase Developer
8 15 (9.93%) Java Engineer
9 13 (8.61%) Linux Developer
10 12 (7.95%) Python Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Core Java Developer
13 8 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) Python Developer
14 7 (4.64%) React Developer
15 6 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 6 (3.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (51.66%) Spring
2 42 (27.81%) Kafka
3 41 (27.15%) Spring Boot
4 30 (19.87%) AngularJS
4 30 (19.87%) React
5 21 (13.91%) RESTful
6 19 (12.58%) JMS
7 14 (9.27%) REST
8 12 (7.95%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.62%) CSS
9 10 (6.62%) SOAP
10 9 (5.96%) OAuth
11 8 (5.30%) Node.js
12 7 (4.64%) Ext JS
12 7 (4.64%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.31%) HTML
13 5 (3.31%) J2EE
13 5 (3.31%) JPA
14 4 (2.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.88%) Data Structures
2 22 (14.57%) Public Cloud
3 18 (11.92%) Equities
4 13 (8.61%) Cloud Native
4 13 (8.61%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.62%) Virtual Team
6 9 (5.96%) Algorithms
6 9 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (5.30%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.64%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.31%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.32%) Derivative
11 2 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.66%) Clustering
12 1 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 72 (47.68%) Linux
2 15 (9.93%) Windows
3 8 (5.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (54.97%) Agile
2 74 (49.01%) CI/CD
3 54 (35.76%) SDLC
4 50 (33.11%) DevOps
5 49 (32.45%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (31.13%) Software Engineering
7 44 (29.14%) Microservices
8 34 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (19.21%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (17.88%) Multithreading
11 25 (16.56%) Test Automation
12 19 (12.58%) Database Tuning
12 19 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (11.92%) Open Source
14 17 (11.26%) Containerisation
15 15 (9.93%) Computer Science
15 15 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (9.27%) Observability
17 13 (8.61%) AI
17 13 (8.61%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (43.71%) Python
2 56 (37.09%) SQL
3 32 (21.19%) TypeScript
4 28 (18.54%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.91%) Shell Script
6 16 (10.60%) C#
7 9 (5.96%) Perl
8 6 (3.97%) Bash
8 6 (3.97%) Go
9 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.99%) Ruby
11 2 (1.32%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (3.97%) Degree
2 5 (3.31%) AWS Certification
2 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.32%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) QA
2 7 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.32%) WCAG
4 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 27 (17.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (29.14%) Kubernetes
2 37 (24.50%) Terraform
3 22 (14.57%) Ansible
4 8 (5.30%) Grafana
5 4 (2.65%) Argo
5 4 (2.65%) Istio
6 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (13.25%) Sybase
2 17 (11.26%) Oracle
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.97%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.97%) MuleSoft
4 6 (3.97%) Splunk
5 5 (3.31%) F5
5 5 (3.31%) Infoblox
6 2 (1.32%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (0.66%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.66%) Facebook
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.66%) Kronos
7 1 (0.66%) Pega
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) Thunderhead
7 1 (0.66%) Workday
7 1 (0.66%) Xceptor