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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 130 166 86
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.81% 22.31% 12.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.40% 43.68% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 69
10th Percentile £300 £351 £350
25th Percentile £320 £414 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -16.67%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £476
90th Percentile £538 £625 £518
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -15.00% +13.64% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £61.23 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.83% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £61.23 -
% change year-on-year -42.83% - -

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 414 380 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.41% 51.08% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 199 160
10th Percentile £311 £347 £325
25th Percentile £348 £407 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £484 £550 £500
90th Percentile £553 £613 £594
Scotland median daily rate £440 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile - £30.05 £17.45
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -65.74%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £63.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.61 £19.59
% change year-on-year -42.26% +209.41% -66.81%

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 6 October 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 6 (4.62%) Apache
2 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.54%) Camunda
3 2 (1.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.77%) JBoss
4 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.85%) AWS
2 21 (16.15%) GitHub
3 17 (13.08%) Azure
4 14 (10.77%) GCP
5 10 (7.69%) ChatGPT
6 9 (6.92%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.62%) Google Play
8 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.31%) Kong
10 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.31%) Serverless
11 2 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.54%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) HTTP
1 2 (1.54%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.54%) SSL
1 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.15%) Relational Database
2 18 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.46%) MySQL
4 10 (7.69%) Metadata
5 9 (6.92%) Db2
6 7 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.85%) Flink
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.08%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.54%) Big Data
11 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (35.38%) Git
2 30 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 21 (16.15%) Gradle
4 20 (15.38%) Maven
5 12 (9.23%) JUnit
6 8 (6.15%) GoCD
6 8 (6.15%) JIRA
7 7 (5.38%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.62%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.62%) Selenium
9 5 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.08%) Bitbucket
10 4 (3.08%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.08%) GitLab
10 4 (3.08%) Postman
10 4 (3.08%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.08%) Subversion
11 3 (2.31%) Appium
11 3 (2.31%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.31%) webpack
General
1 55 (42.31%) Finance
2 46 (35.38%) Banking
3 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 10 (7.69%) Front Office
8 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.54%) Law
8 2 (1.54%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.54%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.77%) International Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Military
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (65.38%) Developer
2 63 (48.46%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.46%) Senior
4 17 (13.08%) Senior Developer
5 15 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (9.23%) Lead
8 10 (7.69%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Android Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (3.08%) Core Java Developer
12 4 (3.08%) Gen AI Developer
12 4 (3.08%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (2.31%) Automation Tester
13 3 (2.31%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (46.92%) Spring
2 54 (41.54%) Spring Boot
3 35 (26.92%) REST
4 27 (20.77%) React
4 27 (20.77%) RESTful
5 22 (16.92%) Kafka
6 17 (13.08%) JPA
7 16 (12.31%) Node.js
7 16 (12.31%) Terraform
8 14 (10.77%) AngularJS
8 14 (10.77%) JSF
9 12 (9.23%) FreeMarker
10 11 (8.46%) HTML
11 10 (7.69%) CSS
11 10 (7.69%) Web Services
12 9 (6.92%) JWT
12 9 (6.92%) OAuth
12 9 (6.92%) OAuth2
12 9 (6.92%) Redux
13 8 (6.15%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.77%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.46%) Derivative
4 10 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
5 8 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (5.38%) Data Structures
6 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.08%) Equities
8 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.08%) Private Cloud
8 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.31%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.54%) Replication
10 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.77%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.46%) Linux
2 11 (8.46%) Unix
3 9 (6.92%) Android
4 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (56.15%) CI/CD
2 46 (35.38%) Agile
3 45 (34.62%) Microservices
4 33 (25.38%) TDD
5 32 (24.62%) Test Automation
6 28 (21.54%) DevOps
6 28 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (21.54%) Scrum
7 21 (16.15%) Containerisation
8 19 (14.62%) Event-Driven
9 17 (13.08%) Software Engineering
10 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (11.54%) AI
11 15 (11.54%) Mentoring
12 14 (10.77%) BDD
12 14 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (10.00%) Data Lineage
13 13 (10.00%) SDLC
14 12 (9.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.00%) SQL
2 32 (24.62%) Python
3 23 (17.69%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.77%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.46%) Shell Script
6 10 (7.69%) C++
7 9 (6.92%) Bash
8 8 (6.15%) Go
9 7 (5.38%) Perl
10 6 (4.62%) Kotlin
11 4 (3.08%) C#
11 4 (3.08%) Ruby
12 3 (2.31%) Groovy
12 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.31%) Scala
13 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.92%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.38%) Degree
3 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.77%) IIBA
6 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) QA
2 10 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (17.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (31.54%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.69%) Ansible
3 5 (3.85%) Grafana
3 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.54%) Netcool
Vendors
1 16 (12.31%) MuleSoft
1 16 (12.31%) Oracle
2 9 (6.92%) Sybase
3 7 (5.38%) Google
4 5 (3.85%) IBM
5 3 (2.31%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.54%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.54%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.77%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.77%) IFS
7 1 (0.77%) Okta
7 1 (0.77%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.77%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.77%) Solace
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.77%) Temenos
7 1 (0.77%) webMethods