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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 92 140 127
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.86% 19.10% 14.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.09% 41.67% 37.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 82 87
10th Percentile £311 £350 £388
25th Percentile £358 £356 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £417 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% -18.33% -21.54%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £693
90th Percentile £606 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -1.57%
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 - £65.77
% change year-on-year - - +5.49%

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 278 336 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 41.87% 45.84% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 167 209
10th Percentile £322 £350 £392
25th Percentile £395 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -16.00% +0.48%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £585 £580 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £468 £523
% change year-on-year +1.44% -10.38% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £52.00 - £50.25
25th Percentile £55.00 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -62.69% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £55.63
90th Percentile £63.60 - £56.75
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £23.77 £60.50
% change year-on-year +149.76% -60.71% +7.86%

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 22 January 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 5 (5.43%) CMS
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.09%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 39 (42.39%) AWS
2 21 (22.83%) Azure
3 11 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (11.96%) Serverless
4 10 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.61%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (6.52%) GitHub
7 6 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.35%) GCP
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.17%) Apigee
10 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.17%) PaaS
11 1 (1.09%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.70%) Firewall
2 3 (3.26%) DHCP
2 3 (3.26%) DNS
3 2 (2.17%) HTTP
3 2 (2.17%) SSL
3 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) Relational Database
2 16 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.78%) DB2
4 7 (7.61%) MySQL
5 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.26%) MSDE
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.09%) GIS
8 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.09%) HBase
8 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.57%) JUnit
3 16 (17.39%) Git
4 13 (14.13%) Bitbucket
4 13 (14.13%) JIRA
5 11 (11.96%) GitLab
6 8 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (6.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.26%) IntelliJ
8 3 (3.26%) Mockito
8 3 (3.26%) PyCharm
8 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.17%) Gradle
9 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.17%) Vite
10 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 39 (42.39%) Finance
2 28 (30.43%) Banking
3 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.70%) Front Office
7 7 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (55.43%) Developer
2 43 (46.74%) Java Developer
3 16 (17.39%) SQL Developer
4 14 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (14.13%) Senior
5 13 (14.13%) Software Engineer
6 12 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (10.87%) Java Engineer
8 9 (9.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (8.70%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 8 (8.70%) Linux Developer
9 8 (8.70%) Sybase Developer
10 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Architect
12 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (48.91%) Spring
2 29 (31.52%) Spring Boot
3 23 (25.00%) React
4 22 (23.91%) Kafka
5 19 (20.65%) AngularJS
6 12 (13.04%) RESTful
7 10 (10.87%) Node.js
8 8 (8.70%) Hibernate
8 8 (8.70%) JMS
8 8 (8.70%) REST
9 6 (6.52%) Jest
10 5 (5.43%) Ext JS
11 4 (4.35%) SOAP
12 3 (3.26%) .NET
12 3 (3.26%) HTML
12 3 (3.26%) JPA
13 2 (2.17%) CSS
13 2 (2.17%) Flask
13 2 (2.17%) J2EE
13 2 (2.17%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.70%) Equities
2 8 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.09%) IVR
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (40.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Unix
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.57%) CI/CD
2 35 (38.04%) Agile
2 35 (38.04%) Microservices
3 31 (33.70%) DevOps
4 26 (28.26%) Software Engineering
5 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.00%) SDLC
7 22 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (22.83%) Containerisation
9 19 (20.65%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (16.30%) Multithreading
11 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.87%) Fintech
13 10 (10.87%) Observability
14 8 (8.70%) Database Tuning
14 8 (8.70%) Open Source
15 7 (7.61%) AI
15 7 (7.61%) Computer Science
15 7 (7.61%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) Python
2 28 (30.43%) SQL
3 13 (14.13%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.87%) Perl
6 9 (9.78%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.61%) Ruby
9 4 (4.35%) C#
10 3 (3.26%) Bash
11 2 (2.17%) Rust
12 1 (1.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.26%) Degree
2 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (30.43%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.30%) Terraform
3 12 (13.04%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Oracle
2 8 (8.70%) Sybase
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.26%) F5
4 3 (3.26%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.09%) Confluent
6 1 (1.09%) Kronos
6 1 (1.09%) Pega
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.09%) Workday