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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 132 172 95
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.95% 22.93% 13.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.96% 44.56% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 68 77
10th Percentile £300 £339 £350
25th Percentile £321 £409 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.94% -13.52%
75th Percentile £479 £575 £475
90th Percentile £538 £625 £523
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 413 386 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.27% 51.47% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 199 167
10th Percentile £311 £333 £333
25th Percentile £348 £410 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +9.20% -13.00%
75th Percentile £486 £550 £500
90th Percentile £577 £613 £594
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 £60.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -41.67% +206.28% -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 2 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 (4.55%) Apache
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Camunda
4 1 (0.76%) JBoss
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.61%) AWS
2 21 (15.91%) GitHub
3 17 (12.88%) Azure
4 14 (10.61%) GCP
5 10 (7.58%) ChatGPT
6 9 (6.82%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.82%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.55%) Google Play
8 5 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.27%) Kong
10 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.27%) Serverless
11 2 (1.52%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) HTTP
1 2 (1.52%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.52%) SSL
1 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) Relational Database
2 18 (13.64%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.33%) MySQL
4 10 (7.58%) Metadata
5 9 (6.82%) Db2
6 7 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.79%) Flink
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.03%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.52%) Big Data
11 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (35.61%) Git
2 30 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 21 (15.91%) Gradle
4 20 (15.15%) Maven
5 12 (9.09%) JUnit
6 9 (6.82%) JIRA
7 8 (6.06%) GoCD
8 7 (5.30%) JProfiler
9 6 (4.55%) Android Studio
9 6 (4.55%) Selenium
10 5 (3.79%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.03%) GitLab
11 4 (3.03%) Postman
11 4 (3.03%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.03%) Subversion
12 3 (2.27%) Appium
12 3 (2.27%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 56 (42.42%) Finance
2 46 (34.85%) Banking
3 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.36%) Investment Banking
6 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.58%) Front Office
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.52%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) International Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (63.64%) Developer
2 62 (46.97%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.18%) Senior
4 17 (12.88%) Senior Developer
5 15 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.09%) Lead
8 11 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Python Developer
10 8 (6.06%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.30%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Android Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
13 4 (3.03%) Core Java Developer
13 4 (3.03%) Gen AI Developer
13 4 (3.03%) Java Engineer
13 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 4 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
14 3 (2.27%) Automation Tester
14 3 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (46.97%) Spring
2 56 (42.42%) Spring Boot
3 35 (26.52%) REST
4 27 (20.45%) React
4 27 (20.45%) RESTful
5 21 (15.91%) Kafka
6 19 (14.39%) Terraform
7 17 (12.88%) JPA
8 16 (12.12%) Node.js
9 14 (10.61%) AngularJS
9 14 (10.61%) JSF
10 12 (9.09%) FreeMarker
11 11 (8.33%) HTML
12 10 (7.58%) CSS
12 10 (7.58%) Web Services
13 9 (6.82%) JWT
13 9 (6.82%) OAuth
13 9 (6.82%) OAuth2
13 9 (6.82%) Redux
14 8 (6.06%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.33%) Derivative
4 10 (7.58%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.03%) Equities
7 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.27%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.52%) Replication
9 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.94%) Linux
2 11 (8.33%) Unix
3 9 (6.82%) Android
4 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 47 (35.61%) Agile
3 44 (33.33%) Microservices
4 33 (25.00%) TDD
5 32 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 31 (23.48%) DevOps
7 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.21%) Scrum
8 27 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (15.91%) Containerisation
10 19 (14.39%) Event-Driven
11 18 (13.64%) Mentoring
12 17 (12.88%) Software Engineering
13 16 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (11.36%) AI
15 14 (10.61%) BDD
15 14 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (9.85%) Data Lineage
16 13 (9.85%) SDLC
17 12 (9.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.79%) SQL
2 33 (25.00%) Python
3 23 (17.42%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 10 (7.58%) C++
7 9 (6.82%) Bash
8 8 (6.06%) Go
9 7 (5.30%) Perl
10 6 (4.55%) Kotlin
11 4 (3.03%) C#
11 4 (3.03%) Ruby
12 3 (2.27%) Groovy
12 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.27%) Scala
13 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) Degree
4 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) IIBA
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.61%) QA
2 10 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (32.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.58%) Ansible
3 5 (3.79%) Grafana
3 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.27%) Istio
5 2 (1.52%) Netcool
6 1 (0.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (12.12%) MuleSoft
1 16 (12.12%) Oracle
2 9 (6.82%) Sybase
3 7 (5.30%) Google
4 5 (3.79%) IBM
5 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.52%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.76%) IFS
7 1 (0.76%) Okta
7 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.76%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.76%) Solace
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk
7 1 (0.76%) Temenos
7 1 (0.76%) webMethods
210 Java jobs in Glasgow