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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 87 177 115
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.85% 23.44% 14.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.90% 45.97% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 81 88
10th Percentile £309 £300 £379
25th Percentile £399 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +3.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £553 £525 £502
90th Percentile £623 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £525 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +12.42% +3.78% -6.74%
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 - - -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 301 385 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.09% 50.99% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 194 203
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.44% -14.08%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £513
90th Percentile £625 £589 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £39.00 £22.57 £51.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.80 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.58%
75th Percentile £57.79 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £59.47 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £31.08 £57.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -45.95% -1.31%

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 June 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 (8.05%) Apache
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.45%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.68%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) GitHub
3 12 (13.79%) ChatGPT
4 10 (11.49%) Anthropic Claude
4 10 (11.49%) GCP
5 9 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.30%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.30%) Slack
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.44%) Relational Database
2 14 (16.09%) MongoDB
2 14 (16.09%) MySQL
3 12 (13.79%) Metadata
4 11 (12.64%) Db2
5 6 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.75%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.60%) Flink
7 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.30%) Big Data
8 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.15%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (27.59%) Git
2 11 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.75%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.75%) JIRA
3 5 (5.75%) Selenium
4 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.60%) GitLab
4 4 (4.60%) Maven
5 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.45%) Gradle
5 3 (3.45%) JUnit
5 3 (3.45%) Postman
5 3 (3.45%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 3 (3.45%) Subversion
6 2 (2.30%) Appium
6 2 (2.30%) GoCD
6 2 (2.30%) JProfiler
6 2 (2.30%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (43.68%) Finance
2 24 (27.59%) Banking
3 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
4 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
6 12 (13.79%) Investment Banking
7 11 (12.64%) Front Office
8 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.30%) Law
10 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Military
10 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.15%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 50 (57.47%) Developer
2 38 (43.68%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.69%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Core Java Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Automation Tester
9 2 (2.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (2.30%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.78%) Spring
2 29 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 17 (19.54%) React
4 11 (12.64%) RESTful
5 10 (11.49%) Kafka
6 8 (9.20%) Jest
7 7 (8.05%) CSS
7 7 (8.05%) HTML
7 7 (8.05%) JSF
7 7 (8.05%) REST
7 7 (8.05%) Spring MVC
8 6 (6.90%) CSS3
8 6 (6.90%) HTML5
9 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.75%) Redux
10 4 (4.60%) Node.js
10 4 (4.60%) Playwright
10 4 (4.60%) Web Services
11 3 (3.45%) Hibernate
11 3 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (12.64%) Derivative
3 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.60%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.15%) Equities
9 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (47.13%) CI/CD
2 29 (33.33%) Microservices
3 27 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (31.03%) TDD
4 24 (27.59%) DevOps
5 23 (26.44%) Test Automation
6 22 (25.29%) Agile
7 21 (24.14%) BDD
8 18 (20.69%) AI
8 18 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (18.39%) Containerisation
9 16 (18.39%) SDLC
10 14 (16.09%) Machine Learning
11 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
12 12 (13.79%) Data Lineage
12 12 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (13.79%) LLM
12 12 (13.79%) Software Engineering
13 10 (11.49%) Data Governance
14 9 (10.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 34 (39.08%) SQL
2 26 (29.89%) Python
3 16 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.49%) C++
5 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.90%) Perl
7 3 (3.45%) Bash
7 3 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
8 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.75%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) QA
2 10 (11.49%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (28.74%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.24%) Terraform
3 5 (5.75%) Istio
4 4 (4.60%) Ansible
5 2 (2.30%) Argo
5 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) Oracle
2 11 (12.64%) Sybase
3 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.05%) IBM
5 6 (6.90%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.45%) Databricks
6 3 (3.45%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software