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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 116 187 95
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.03% 23.67% 13.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.49% 45.95% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 92 79
10th Percentile £301 £300 £373
25th Percentile £318 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -15.79%
75th Percentile £509 £541 £495
90th Percentile £580 £598 £518
Scotland median daily rate £440 £470 £440
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 357 407 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.94% 51.52% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 223 183
10th Percentile £305 £301 £327
25th Percentile £320 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £473 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +7.39% -12.00%
75th Percentile £513 £565 £500
90th Percentile £625 £600 £613
Scotland median daily rate £430 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.57 £34.09
25th Percentile - £33.80 £51.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.50 £58.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year -36.17% +9.30% -6.52%

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 5 August 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 7 (6.03%) Apache
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.59%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.59%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.72%) Apache Geronimo
3 2 (1.72%) Apache ServiceMix
3 2 (1.72%) Camunda
3 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 43 (37.07%) AWS
2 22 (18.97%) GitHub
3 17 (14.66%) Azure
4 12 (10.34%) ChatGPT
4 12 (10.34%) GCP
5 11 (9.48%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.76%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.17%) Google Play
8 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
1 2 (1.72%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.24%) Relational Database
2 19 (16.38%) MongoDB
3 12 (10.34%) Metadata
4 11 (9.48%) Db2
5 10 (8.62%) MySQL
6 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.31%) Flink
8 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.72%) Big Data
10 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.72%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (37.07%) Git
2 23 (19.83%) Jenkins
3 16 (13.79%) Gradle
4 14 (12.07%) Maven
5 11 (9.48%) JUnit
6 9 (7.76%) JIRA
7 8 (6.90%) GoCD
8 7 (6.03%) JProfiler
9 6 (5.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (5.17%) Selenium
10 5 (4.31%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.45%) GitLab
11 4 (3.45%) Postman
11 4 (3.45%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.45%) Subversion
12 3 (2.59%) Appium
12 3 (2.59%) SpecFlow
13 2 (1.72%) IntelliJ
General
1 44 (37.93%) Finance
2 31 (26.72%) Banking
3 25 (21.55%) Social Skills
4 18 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
6 13 (11.21%) Front Office
6 13 (11.21%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.86%) International Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.86%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 83 (71.55%) Developer
2 60 (51.72%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.97%) Senior
4 17 (14.66%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Lead
7 9 (7.76%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Android Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Lead Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Developer
12 3 (2.59%) Core Java Developer
12 3 (2.59%) Gen AI Developer
12 3 (2.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (44.83%) Spring
2 48 (41.38%) Spring Boot
3 28 (24.14%) REST
4 23 (19.83%) React
5 18 (15.52%) RESTful
6 17 (14.66%) Kafka
7 15 (12.93%) JPA
8 13 (11.21%) HTML
8 13 (11.21%) JSF
8 13 (11.21%) Node.js
9 12 (10.34%) CSS
10 11 (9.48%) FreeMarker
11 10 (8.62%) HTML5
11 10 (8.62%) Redux
12 9 (7.76%) CSS3
12 9 (7.76%) Jest
12 9 (7.76%) Spring MVC
13 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
13 7 (6.03%) Web Services
14 6 (5.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.34%) Derivative
2 12 (10.34%) Equity Derivative
3 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Equities
8 2 (1.72%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.93%) Linux
2 8 (6.90%) Unix
3 7 (6.03%) Android
4 2 (1.72%) Windows
5 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 42 (36.21%) Agile
3 35 (30.17%) Microservices
4 33 (28.45%) TDD
5 31 (26.72%) Test Automation
6 30 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (22.41%) Scrum
8 24 (20.69%) DevOps
9 23 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (14.66%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.79%) BDD
12 15 (12.93%) AI
12 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.07%) Data Lineage
14 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
14 13 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (10.34%) Event-Driven
15 12 (10.34%) LLM
15 12 (10.34%) Software Engineering
16 11 (9.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.34%) SQL
2 29 (25.00%) Python
3 24 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.62%) C++
5 8 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.03%) Perl
7 6 (5.17%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.31%) Bash
9 4 (3.45%) C#
9 4 (3.45%) Ruby
10 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.72%) Scala
12 1 (0.86%) Groovy
12 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.76%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Degree
4 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.86%) IIBA
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) Data Quality
1 11 (9.48%) QA
2 8 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.62%) Terraform
3 8 (6.90%) Ansible
4 5 (4.31%) Istio
5 2 (1.72%) Argo
5 2 (1.72%) Netcool
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Oracle
2 15 (12.93%) MuleSoft
3 11 (9.48%) Sybase
4 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.03%) Google
5 7 (6.03%) IBM
6 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.72%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.86%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.86%) Okta
8 1 (0.86%) Solace
8 1 (0.86%) Temenos