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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 76 180 123
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.12% 23.41% 14.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.84% 44.67% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 84 89
10th Percentile £308 £300 £384
25th Percentile £399 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -2.17% -24.44%
75th Percentile £570 £502 £538
90th Percentile £623 £568 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.26% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 273 403 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.35% 52.41% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 202 215
10th Percentile £306 £300 £350
25th Percentile £352 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -1.89% -12.04%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £577
90th Percentile £625 £575 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.58%
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £57.50
% change year-on-year +131.41% -58.67% -2.59%

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 11 May 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 (6.58%) Apache
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.95%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.95%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.68%) AWS
2 11 (14.47%) Azure
3 10 (13.16%) ChatGPT
3 10 (13.16%) GitHub
4 9 (11.84%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (10.53%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.58%) GCP
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.26%) Serverless
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (30.26%) Relational Database
2 16 (21.05%) MySQL
3 10 (13.16%) Metadata
3 10 (13.16%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.84%) DB2
5 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.95%) Flink
7 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.32%) Big Data
9 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.32%) HBase
9 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.21%) JIRA
4 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.89%) GitLab
5 4 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.63%) Selenium
6 2 (2.63%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.32%) JUnit
7 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (44.74%) Finance
2 18 (23.68%) Banking
3 17 (22.37%) Public Sector
4 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Investment Banking
6 9 (11.84%) Front Office
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.32%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 36 (47.37%) Developer
2 27 (35.53%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Senior
5 6 (7.89%) Power Platform Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Python Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Gen AI Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) Spring
2 23 (30.26%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.74%) React
4 9 (11.84%) Kafka
5 6 (7.89%) Jest
6 5 (6.58%) CSS
6 5 (6.58%) CSS3
6 5 (6.58%) HTML
6 5 (6.58%) HTML5
6 5 (6.58%) Redux
6 5 (6.58%) REST
6 5 (6.58%) RESTful
6 5 (6.58%) Spring MVC
7 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.95%) Apache Axis
8 3 (3.95%) Apache Camel
8 3 (3.95%) Middleware
8 3 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (3.95%) Node.js
8 3 (3.95%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Equity Derivative
2 9 (11.84%) Derivative
3 8 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) CI/CD
2 27 (35.53%) Microservices
3 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (25.00%) DevOps
4 19 (25.00%) SDLC
5 17 (22.37%) TDD
6 16 (21.05%) AI
6 16 (21.05%) BDD
7 15 (19.74%) Containerisation
7 15 (19.74%) Test Automation
8 14 (18.42%) Agile
9 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (13.16%) LLM
10 9 (11.84%) Data Lineage
10 9 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (11.84%) Machine Learning
10 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
10 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (10.53%) Data Governance
11 8 (10.53%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.53%) SQL
2 23 (30.26%) Python
3 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.53%) C++
5 7 (9.21%) Perl
6 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.95%) Bash
7 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.95%) Ruby
8 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) Degree
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 8 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) HDFS
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (32.89%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.74%) Terraform
3 5 (6.58%) Istio
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Argo
4 2 (2.63%) Grafana
4 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Oracle
2 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.84%) Sybase
4 5 (6.58%) IBM
5 3 (3.95%) Databricks
5 3 (3.95%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.32%) Confluent
6 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software