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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 141 117 121
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 18.65% 15.75% 13.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.06% 41.05% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 78 86
10th Percentile £345 £350 £381
25th Percentile £410 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £479 £638
90th Percentile £625 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.23 - -
75th Percentile £64.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - -1.09%

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 352 285 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 46.56% 38.36% 37.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 159 216
10th Percentile £358 £350 £398
25th Percentile £402 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £506 £650
90th Percentile £625 £603 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £17.45 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +193.52% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile £63.79 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%

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 30 November 2025.

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 (4.26%) CMS
2 4 (2.84%) Confluence
3 2 (1.42%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) Mule
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 56 (39.72%) AWS
2 34 (24.11%) Azure
3 18 (12.77%) GitHub
4 17 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (8.51%) Serverless
6 11 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.26%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.84%) Apigee
10 4 (2.84%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (2.84%) Datadog
10 4 (2.84%) SaaS
10 4 (2.84%) Slack
11 3 (2.13%) GCP
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) Firewall
2 5 (3.55%) DHCP
2 5 (3.55%) DNS
2 5 (3.55%) HTTP
3 4 (2.84%) SSL
3 4 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.42%) AMQP
4 2 (1.42%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.86%) MongoDB
2 27 (19.15%) Relational Database
3 17 (12.06%) DB2
4 11 (7.80%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.96%) MySQL
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.84%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.13%) MSDE
10 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.42%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.71%) GIS
11 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.71%) HBase
11 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (26.24%) Jenkins
2 29 (20.57%) JUnit
3 28 (19.86%) Git
4 26 (18.44%) JIRA
5 21 (14.89%) Bitbucket
6 12 (8.51%) GitLab
6 12 (8.51%) IntelliJ
6 12 (8.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (7.80%) PyCharm
7 11 (7.80%) Visual Studio
8 7 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.55%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.84%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.84%) Mockito
10 4 (2.84%) Terragrunt
11 3 (2.13%) Vite
12 2 (1.42%) Gradle
12 2 (1.42%) Selenium
12 2 (1.42%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.71%) Maven
General
1 67 (47.52%) Finance
2 38 (26.95%) Banking
3 37 (26.24%) Social Skills
4 21 (14.89%) Investment Banking
5 19 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.64%) Front Office
6 15 (10.64%) Public Sector
7 12 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 82 (58.16%) Developer
2 66 (46.81%) Java Developer
3 27 (19.15%) SQL Developer
4 22 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (13.48%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (13.48%) Software Engineer
6 18 (12.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 16 (11.35%) Senior
8 15 (10.64%) Java Engineer
9 14 (9.93%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 14 (9.93%) Sybase Developer
10 12 (8.51%) Linux Developer
11 10 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (6.38%) Python Engineer
13 8 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Python Developer
15 6 (4.26%) Architect
15 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 6 (4.26%) Core Java Developer
16 5 (3.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (47.52%) Spring
2 38 (26.95%) Kafka
3 37 (26.24%) Spring Boot
4 28 (19.86%) React
5 24 (17.02%) AngularJS
6 17 (12.06%) RESTful
7 15 (10.64%) JMS
8 13 (9.22%) REST
9 10 (7.09%) Hibernate
9 10 (7.09%) Node.js
9 10 (7.09%) SOAP
10 7 (4.96%) CSS
10 7 (4.96%) Ext JS
10 7 (4.96%) OAuth
10 7 (4.96%) OAuth2
11 5 (3.55%) J2EE
11 5 (3.55%) Jest
11 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.84%) HTML
12 4 (2.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.89%) Data Structures
2 19 (13.48%) Public Cloud
3 14 (9.93%) Equities
4 12 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 12 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.67%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.96%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.96%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.55%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.71%) Derivative
12 1 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.71%) IVR
12 1 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 68 (48.23%) Linux
2 13 (9.22%) Windows
3 8 (5.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (50.35%) Agile
2 66 (46.81%) CI/CD
3 47 (33.33%) Microservices
4 46 (32.62%) DevOps
5 45 (31.91%) SDLC
6 41 (29.08%) Software Engineering
7 40 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (21.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 27 (19.15%) Performance Tuning
10 23 (16.31%) Multithreading
10 23 (16.31%) Test Automation
11 19 (13.48%) Containerisation
11 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.64%) Database Tuning
13 14 (9.93%) Open Source
14 13 (9.22%) Observability
15 12 (8.51%) AI
15 12 (8.51%) Computer Science
15 12 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (7.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.68%) Python
2 46 (32.62%) SQL
3 27 (19.15%) TypeScript
4 22 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.35%) Shell Script
6 14 (9.93%) C#
7 12 (8.51%) Perl
8 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.26%) Ruby
10 5 (3.55%) Bash
11 4 (2.84%) Go
12 2 (1.42%) DataWeave
12 2 (1.42%) Rust
13 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (3.55%) Degree
3 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) QA
2 7 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (19.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 35 (24.82%) Terraform
3 21 (14.89%) Ansible
4 5 (3.55%) Grafana
5 4 (2.84%) Argo
5 4 (2.84%) Istio
6 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (12.77%) Oracle
2 16 (11.35%) Sybase
3 8 (5.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.55%) F5
5 5 (3.55%) Infoblox
6 4 (2.84%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.84%) Splunk
7 2 (1.42%) SAP
7 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.71%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.71%) Facebook
8 1 (0.71%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) Kronos
8 1 (0.71%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.71%) Thunderhead
8 1 (0.71%) Workday
8 1 (0.71%) Xceptor