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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 98 185 112
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.12% 23.48% 14.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.06% 46.48% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 88 89
10th Percentile £307 £300 £373
25th Percentile £385 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +6.82% -19.12%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £582 £611 £675
Scotland median daily rate £525 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +11.70% +4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 £36.25 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

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 326 398 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.68% 50.51% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 211 201
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +3.78% -13.67%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £513
90th Percentile £625 £588 £613
Scotland median daily rate £449 £475 £453
% change year-on-year -5.47% +4.86% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.57 £51.88
25th Percentile - £33.80 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -2.58%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £43.04 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.17% -25.15% -

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 3 July 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 (7.14%) Apache
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.06%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.06%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) AWS
2 18 (18.37%) GitHub
3 15 (15.31%) Azure
4 12 (12.24%) ChatGPT
5 11 (11.22%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (9.18%) GCP
6 9 (9.18%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.12%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.06%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 2 (2.04%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.49%) Relational Database
2 17 (17.35%) MySQL
3 15 (15.31%) MongoDB
4 12 (12.24%) Metadata
5 11 (11.22%) Db2
6 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
6 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.10%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.10%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.08%) Flink
9 3 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.04%) Big Data
10 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.04%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.04%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.02%) Apache Ignite
11 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (28.57%) Git
2 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.16%) Maven
4 7 (7.14%) Gradle
5 6 (6.12%) JIRA
5 6 (6.12%) JUnit
5 6 (6.12%) Selenium
6 5 (5.10%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.10%) GoCD
7 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.08%) JProfiler
7 4 (4.08%) Postman
7 4 (4.08%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.08%) Subversion
8 3 (3.06%) Appium
8 3 (3.06%) GitLab
8 3 (3.06%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.04%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (41.84%) Finance
2 27 (27.55%) Banking
3 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.37%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.24%) Front Office
5 12 (12.24%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Military
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.02%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 59 (60.20%) Developer
2 45 (45.92%) Java Developer
3 19 (19.39%) Senior
4 13 (13.27%) Senior Developer
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Automation Tester
11 3 (3.06%) Azure Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Core Java Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Gen AI Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Lead
11 3 (3.06%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Tester
12 2 (2.04%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (40.82%) Spring
2 36 (36.73%) Spring Boot
3 20 (20.41%) React
4 13 (13.27%) REST
4 13 (13.27%) RESTful
5 10 (10.20%) JSF
5 10 (10.20%) Kafka
6 9 (9.18%) HTML
6 9 (9.18%) Jest
7 8 (8.16%) CSS
7 8 (8.16%) Redux
8 7 (7.14%) HTML5
8 7 (7.14%) JPA
8 7 (7.14%) Node.js
8 7 (7.14%) Spring MVC
9 6 (6.12%) CSS3
9 6 (6.12%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.10%) FreeMarker
10 5 (5.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Equity Derivative
1 12 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.22%) Derivative
3 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.02%) Equities
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 32 (32.65%) Microservices
3 31 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (31.63%) TDD
4 27 (27.55%) Test Automation
5 25 (25.51%) Agile
6 23 (23.47%) DevOps
7 22 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (21.43%) BDD
9 19 (19.39%) AI
10 18 (18.37%) SDLC
11 15 (15.31%) Mentoring
12 14 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 14 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 13 (13.27%) Data Lineage
13 13 (13.27%) Software Engineering
14 12 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (12.24%) LLM
14 12 (12.24%) Scrum
15 11 (11.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.71%) SQL
2 27 (27.55%) Python
3 22 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.22%) C++
4 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.12%) Perl
6 4 (4.08%) Bash
6 4 (4.08%) C#
7 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.02%) Groovy
8 1 (1.02%) Ruby
8 1 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.02%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) QA
2 10 (10.20%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (27.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.27%) Terraform
3 5 (5.10%) Ansible
3 5 (5.10%) Istio
4 2 (2.04%) Argo
4 2 (2.04%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (23.47%) Oracle
2 11 (11.22%) Sybase
3 10 (10.20%) MuleSoft
4 9 (9.18%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.14%) IBM
6 3 (3.06%) Databricks
6 3 (3.06%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.02%) TOWER Software