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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 125 173 92
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.76% 23.63% 13.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.97% 45.65% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 74 73
10th Percentile £300 £313 £350
25th Percentile £321 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £484 £440
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% -12.26%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £494
90th Percentile £544 £621 £533
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £440
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 391 379 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.65% 51.78% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 199 165
10th Percentile £311 £313 £345
25th Percentile £335 £408 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £500
90th Percentile £600 £613 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.38% -5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile - £26.31 £17.72
25th Percentile - £43.15 £18.92
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +38.21% -30.79%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - £61.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +12.15% -9.37%

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 17 September 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 5 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) Camunda
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.00%) AWS
2 21 (16.80%) GitHub
3 14 (11.20%) Azure
4 12 (9.60%) ChatGPT
5 11 (8.80%) Anthropic Claude
5 11 (8.80%) GCP
6 9 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.20%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.80%) Google Play
8 5 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.40%) Kong
10 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.40%) Serverless
11 2 (1.60%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) HTTP
1 2 (1.60%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.60%) SSL
1 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) MongoDB
1 20 (16.00%) Relational Database
2 14 (11.20%) MySQL
3 12 (9.60%) Metadata
4 11 (8.80%) Db2
5 7 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.00%) Flink
8 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.20%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.60%) Big Data
10 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (34.40%) Git
2 27 (21.60%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.20%) Maven
4 18 (14.40%) Gradle
5 11 (8.80%) JUnit
6 8 (6.40%) GoCD
6 8 (6.40%) JIRA
7 7 (5.60%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.80%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.80%) Selenium
9 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.20%) Postman
10 4 (3.20%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.20%) Subversion
11 3 (2.40%) Appium
11 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.40%) GitLab
11 3 (2.40%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.40%) webpack
General
1 56 (44.80%) Finance
2 42 (33.60%) Banking
3 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 12 (9.60%) Front Office
7 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.60%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.80%) International Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.80%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 81 (64.80%) Developer
2 59 (47.20%) Java Developer
3 20 (16.00%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Lead
8 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (7.20%) Python Developer
10 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Android Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Developer
13 5 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
14 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 4 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
15 3 (2.40%) Automation Tester
15 3 (2.40%) Core Java Developer
15 3 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
15 3 (2.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (44.80%) Spring
2 52 (41.60%) Spring Boot
3 31 (24.80%) REST
4 28 (22.40%) React
5 24 (19.20%) RESTful
6 16 (12.80%) JPA
6 16 (12.80%) Kafka
6 16 (12.80%) Node.js
7 15 (12.00%) Terraform
8 14 (11.20%) HTML
8 14 (11.20%) JSF
9 13 (10.40%) CSS
10 12 (9.60%) FreeMarker
10 12 (9.60%) Redux
11 11 (8.80%) AngularJS
12 10 (8.00%) HTML5
12 10 (8.00%) Jest
12 10 (8.00%) Spring MVC
13 9 (7.20%) CSS3
13 9 (7.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Derivative
1 13 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.60%) Equity Derivative
3 11 (8.80%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.20%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Equities
8 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Linux
2 11 (8.80%) Unix
3 9 (7.20%) Android
4 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (54.40%) CI/CD
2 46 (36.80%) Agile
3 39 (31.20%) Microservices
4 34 (27.20%) TDD
5 33 (26.40%) Test Automation
6 28 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (22.40%) Scrum
7 27 (21.60%) DevOps
8 26 (20.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (13.60%) Containerisation
10 17 (13.60%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.80%) BDD
12 15 (12.00%) AI
12 15 (12.00%) SDLC
12 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.20%) Data Lineage
13 14 (11.20%) Event-Driven
13 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (9.60%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) SQL
2 32 (25.60%) Python
3 26 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.00%) C++
6 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.60%) Perl
8 6 (4.80%) Bash
8 6 (4.80%) Go
8 6 (4.80%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.20%) C#
9 4 (3.20%) Ruby
10 3 (2.40%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.60%) Scala
12 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) IIBA
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.40%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Grafana
3 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.40%) Istio
5 2 (1.60%) Netcool
6 1 (0.80%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) MuleSoft
2 15 (12.00%) Oracle
3 11 (8.80%) Sybase
4 7 (5.60%) Google
4 7 (5.60%) IBM
5 6 (4.80%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.60%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.80%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.80%) IFS
8 1 (0.80%) Okta
8 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.80%) Solace
8 1 (0.80%) Splunk
8 1 (0.80%) Temenos
8 1 (0.80%) webMethods