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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Java 76 181 145
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.56% 22.26% 15.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.92% 43.10% 37.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 90 106
10th Percentile £310 £300 £373
25th Percentile £387 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £471
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -4.46% -27.12%
75th Percentile £574 £500 £632
90th Percentile £629 £564 £744
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.20% -6.05%
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 - - -11.06%

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 254 420 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.28% 51.66% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 210 247
10th Percentile £310 £300 £363
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -9.55% -9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £618
90th Percentile £625 £576 £700
Scotland median daily rate £449 £470 £498
% change year-on-year -4.47% -5.53% +1.53%
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 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.41% -60.39% -3.94%

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 15 April 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 4 (5.26%) Apache
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.95%) Apache ServiceMix
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
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (56.58%) AWS
2 14 (18.42%) Azure
3 13 (17.11%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (13.16%) Serverless
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (9.21%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (9.21%) ChatGPT
7 6 (7.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub
7 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (6.58%) GCP
8 5 (6.58%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) Relational Database
2 14 (18.42%) MySQL
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.21%) Metadata
5 6 (7.89%) DB2
5 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.32%) Flink
10 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.32%) HBase
10 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Git
2 12 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.47%) JIRA
4 10 (13.16%) Bitbucket
5 9 (11.84%) GitLab
6 8 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.95%) JUnit
8 2 (2.63%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (46.05%) Finance
2 22 (28.95%) Banking
3 17 (22.37%) Public Sector
4 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 7 (9.21%) 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 32 (42.11%) Developer
2 25 (32.89%) Java Developer
3 15 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) Spring
2 23 (30.26%) Spring Boot
3 19 (25.00%) React
4 8 (10.53%) Jest
4 8 (10.53%) Node.js
5 6 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.89%) Kafka
5 6 (7.89%) RESTful
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%) Spring MVC
7 3 (3.95%) Apache Axis
7 3 (3.95%) Apache Camel
7 3 (3.95%) Middleware
7 3 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (2.63%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.21%) Equity Derivative
3 6 (7.89%) Derivative
4 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) IVR
6 1 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) Microservices
2 28 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 24 (31.58%) DevOps
4 19 (25.00%) SDLC
5 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 15 (19.74%) Agile
8 14 (18.42%) TDD
9 13 (17.11%) AI
10 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (14.47%) BDD
12 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
13 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
13 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (10.53%) Data Protection
14 8 (10.53%) Runbook
15 7 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
15 7 (9.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.26%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) SQL
3 10 (13.16%) Perl
4 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.21%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.21%) Ruby
5 6 (7.89%) C++
5 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) AWS Certification
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (35.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.68%) Terraform
3 5 (6.58%) Istio
4 4 (5.26%) Ansible
5 2 (2.63%) Argo
5 2 (2.63%) Grafana
5 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Oracle
2 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) Sybase
4 3 (3.95%) Databricks
4 3 (3.95%) IBM
4 3 (3.95%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.32%) Confluent
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software