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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 116 188 107
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.15% 23.15% 14.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.13% 45.30% 37.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 91 85
10th Percentile £303 £300 £373
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +6.82% -16.19%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £582 £610 £616
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £440
% change year-on-year +1.71% +6.14% -8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 361 415 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.71% 51.11% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 222 203
10th Percentile £306 £300 £334
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +4.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £512 £550 £513
90th Percentile £624 £606 £643
Scotland median daily rate £439 £472 £450
% change year-on-year -7.04% +4.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £22.57 £37.52
25th Percentile - £33.80 £51.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -6.82%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -5.60%

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 18 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 8 (6.90%) Apache
2 4 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Geronimo
3 3 (2.59%) Apache ServiceMix
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.59%) Confluence
3 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (39.66%) AWS
2 21 (18.10%) GitHub
3 17 (14.66%) Azure
4 12 (10.34%) ChatGPT
5 11 (9.48%) Anthropic Claude
5 11 (9.48%) GCP
6 9 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.17%) Google Play
7 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.72%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) HTTP
1 1 (0.86%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 17 (14.66%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.79%) MySQL
4 12 (10.34%) Metadata
5 11 (9.48%) Db2
6 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.31%) Flink
8 5 (4.31%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.72%) Big Data
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%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (32.76%) Git
2 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 14 (12.07%) Gradle
4 10 (8.62%) Maven
5 8 (6.90%) JUnit
6 7 (6.03%) JIRA
7 6 (5.17%) Android Studio
7 6 (5.17%) GoCD
7 6 (5.17%) Selenium
8 5 (4.31%) Cucumber
8 5 (4.31%) JProfiler
9 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.45%) GitLab
9 4 (3.45%) Postman
9 4 (3.45%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.45%) Subversion
10 3 (2.59%) Appium
10 3 (2.59%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.72%) IntelliJ
General
1 45 (38.79%) Finance
2 29 (25.00%) Banking
3 26 (22.41%) Social Skills
4 18 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.52%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.34%) Front Office
5 12 (10.34%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) International Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Military
7 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (0.86%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 73 (62.93%) Developer
2 50 (43.10%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.10%) Senior
4 15 (12.93%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.76%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Android Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Lead
8 6 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Core Java Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Gen AI Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (40.52%) Spring
2 43 (37.07%) Spring Boot
3 24 (20.69%) React
4 21 (18.10%) REST
5 17 (14.66%) RESTful
6 12 (10.34%) Kafka
7 11 (9.48%) HTML
7 11 (9.48%) JSF
8 10 (8.62%) CSS
8 10 (8.62%) Jest
8 10 (8.62%) JPA
9 9 (7.76%) HTML5
9 9 (7.76%) Node.js
9 9 (7.76%) Redux
10 8 (6.90%) CSS3
10 8 (6.90%) Spring MVC
11 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
11 7 (6.03%) FreeMarker
12 6 (5.17%) Android Jetpack
12 6 (5.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.34%) Equity Derivative
3 11 (9.48%) Derivative
4 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
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%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) Android
2 6 (5.17%) Unix
3 2 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.55%) CI/CD
2 37 (31.90%) Agile
3 36 (31.03%) Microservices
3 36 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (30.17%) TDD
5 30 (25.86%) Test Automation
6 26 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (21.55%) DevOps
8 22 (18.97%) Scrum
9 21 (18.10%) BDD
10 19 (16.38%) AI
11 18 (15.52%) Mentoring
11 18 (15.52%) SDLC
12 16 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.93%) Containerisation
13 15 (12.93%) Software Engineering
14 14 (12.07%) Data Lineage
14 14 (12.07%) Machine Learning
15 13 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
16 12 (10.34%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.62%) SQL
2 29 (25.00%) Python
3 24 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.48%) C++
6 7 (6.03%) Perl
7 6 (5.17%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.45%) Bash
8 4 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.72%) Ruby
9 2 (1.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.76%) Degree
1 9 (7.76%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) IIBA
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) QA
2 11 (9.48%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.07%) Terraform
3 6 (5.17%) Ansible
4 5 (4.31%) Istio
5 2 (1.72%) Argo
5 2 (1.72%) Grafana
5 2 (1.72%) Netcool
5 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (21.55%) Oracle
2 13 (11.21%) MuleSoft
3 11 (9.48%) Sybase
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.03%) IBM
6 6 (5.17%) Google
7 3 (2.59%) Databricks
7 3 (2.59%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.86%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.86%) Okta
9 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.86%) TOWER Software