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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Java 117 189 96
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.15% 23.65% 13.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.59% 45.65% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 93 80
10th Percentile £301 £300 £373
25th Percentile £322 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -16.19%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £497
90th Percentile £580 £595 £538
Scotland median daily rate £445 £470 £440
% change year-on-year -5.32% +6.82% -8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 359 414 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.22% 51.81% 36.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 224 184
10th Percentile £305 £300 £327
25th Percentile £320 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £471 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +7.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £510 £552 £500
90th Percentile £625 £600 £613
Scotland median daily rate £430 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.57 £34.09
25th Percentile - £33.80 £51.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £43.75 £58.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year -25.53% +9.30% -6.52%

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 August 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 (6.84%) Apache
2 4 (3.42%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.56%) Apache Geronimo
3 3 (2.56%) Apache ServiceMix
3 3 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.56%) Confluence
3 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (37.61%) AWS
2 21 (17.95%) GitHub
3 18 (15.38%) Azure
4 12 (10.26%) ChatGPT
4 12 (10.26%) GCP
5 11 (9.40%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.13%) Google Play
7 6 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.71%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.71%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) HTTP
1 2 (1.71%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.09%) MongoDB
2 19 (16.24%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.26%) Metadata
4 11 (9.40%) Db2
4 11 (9.40%) MySQL
5 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.27%) Flink
8 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.71%) Big Data
10 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.71%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (37.61%) Git
2 23 (19.66%) Jenkins
3 16 (13.68%) Gradle
4 14 (11.97%) Maven
5 11 (9.40%) JUnit
6 9 (7.69%) JIRA
7 8 (6.84%) GoCD
8 7 (5.98%) JProfiler
9 6 (5.13%) Android Studio
9 6 (5.13%) Selenium
10 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.42%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.42%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.42%) GitLab
11 4 (3.42%) Postman
11 4 (3.42%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.42%) Subversion
12 3 (2.56%) Appium
12 3 (2.56%) SpecFlow
13 2 (1.71%) IntelliJ
General
1 45 (38.46%) Finance
2 31 (26.50%) Banking
3 26 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 18 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.97%) Public Sector
6 13 (11.11%) Front Office
6 13 (11.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.71%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) International Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 82 (70.09%) Developer
2 59 (50.43%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.80%) Senior
4 17 (14.53%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.68%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (9.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Lead
7 9 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Android Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Developer
11 3 (2.56%) Core Java Developer
11 3 (2.56%) Gen AI Developer
11 3 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (44.44%) Spring
2 48 (41.03%) Spring Boot
3 28 (23.93%) REST
4 25 (21.37%) React
5 17 (14.53%) RESTful
6 16 (13.68%) Kafka
7 15 (12.82%) JPA
8 13 (11.11%) HTML
8 13 (11.11%) JSF
8 13 (11.11%) Node.js
9 12 (10.26%) CSS
10 11 (9.40%) FreeMarker
11 10 (8.55%) HTML5
11 10 (8.55%) Redux
12 9 (7.69%) CSS3
12 9 (7.69%) Jest
12 9 (7.69%) Spring MVC
13 8 (6.84%) AngularJS
14 7 (5.98%) Web Services
15 6 (5.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.26%) Derivative
2 12 (10.26%) Equity Derivative
3 7 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.27%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.42%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) Equities
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.82%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Unix
3 7 (5.98%) Android
4 2 (1.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 42 (35.90%) Agile
3 35 (29.91%) Microservices
4 33 (28.21%) TDD
5 32 (27.35%) Test Automation
6 31 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (22.22%) Scrum
8 25 (21.37%) DevOps
8 25 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.53%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.68%) BDD
11 15 (12.82%) AI
11 15 (12.82%) Containerisation
11 15 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.97%) Data Lineage
13 13 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 12 (10.26%) LLM
15 11 (9.40%) Event-Driven
15 11 (9.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.04%) SQL
2 30 (25.64%) Python
3 25 (21.37%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.40%) C++
5 9 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.98%) Perl
7 6 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.27%) Bash
9 4 (3.42%) C#
9 4 (3.42%) Ruby
10 3 (2.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.71%) Scala
12 1 (0.85%) Groovy
12 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.84%) Degree
2 8 (6.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) IIBA
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.40%) Data Quality
1 11 (9.40%) QA
2 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.69%) Terraform
3 8 (6.84%) Ansible
4 5 (4.27%) Istio
5 2 (1.71%) Argo
5 2 (1.71%) Netcool
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Oracle
2 15 (12.82%) MuleSoft
3 11 (9.40%) Sybase
4 8 (6.84%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.98%) IBM
6 6 (5.13%) Google
7 3 (2.56%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.85%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.85%) Okta
9 1 (0.85%) Solace
9 1 (0.85%) Temenos