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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 126 120 125
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 17.19% 16.09% 14.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.28% 40.13% 36.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 78 86
10th Percentile £313 £350 £381
25th Percentile £401 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £399 £505
Median % change year-on-year +25.39% -21.04% -21.09%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £675
90th Percentile £612 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +17.65% -11.46% -4.00%
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 - - -5.31%

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 338 299 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 46.11% 40.08% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 162 221
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £401 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £431 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -17.86% +4.48%
75th Percentile £543 £515 £650
90th Percentile £606 £604 £750
Scotland median daily rate £484 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £51.50 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +206.28% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63.42 - -
90th Percentile £63.97 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £60.02
% change year-on-year +212.53% -67.36% +14.95%

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 December 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 (4.76%) CMS
2 3 (2.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.59%) Mule
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 50 (39.68%) AWS
2 31 (24.60%) Azure
3 16 (12.70%) GitHub
4 15 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (9.52%) Serverless
6 11 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.17%) Apigee
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.38%) Slack
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.59%) Datadog
13 2 (1.59%) GCP
13 2 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 5 (3.97%) DHCP
2 5 (3.97%) DNS
3 4 (3.17%) HTTP
3 4 (3.17%) SSL
3 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.59%) AMQP
4 2 (1.59%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.25%) MongoDB
1 23 (18.25%) Relational Database
2 15 (11.90%) DB2
3 9 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.35%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.56%) MySQL
6 4 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.38%) MSDE
7 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.59%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.79%) GIS
9 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.79%) HBase
9 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.84%) Git
3 23 (18.25%) JIRA
3 23 (18.25%) JUnit
4 19 (15.08%) Bitbucket
5 13 (10.32%) GitLab
6 10 (7.94%) IntelliJ
6 10 (7.94%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (7.14%) PyCharm
7 9 (7.14%) Visual Studio
8 7 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.97%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.17%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.38%) Mockito
11 3 (2.38%) Terragrunt
11 3 (2.38%) Vite
12 2 (1.59%) Gradle
12 2 (1.59%) Selenium
12 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (45.24%) Finance
2 35 (27.78%) Banking
3 33 (26.19%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
7 13 (10.32%) Front Office
8 8 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 72 (57.14%) Developer
2 58 (46.03%) Java Developer
3 24 (19.05%) SQL Developer
4 21 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.32%) Java Engineer
7 13 (10.32%) Senior
8 12 (9.52%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 12 (9.52%) Sybase Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Linux Developer
10 9 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Architect
12 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Python Developer
13 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (46.03%) Spring
2 35 (27.78%) Spring Boot
3 33 (26.19%) Kafka
4 24 (19.05%) React
5 21 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 16 (12.70%) RESTful
7 13 (10.32%) JMS
8 12 (9.52%) REST
9 9 (7.14%) Hibernate
9 9 (7.14%) Node.js
9 9 (7.14%) SOAP
10 7 (5.56%) Ext JS
11 5 (3.97%) Jest
12 4 (3.17%) J2EE
12 4 (3.17%) OAuth
12 4 (3.17%) OAuth2
12 4 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (2.38%) Apache Camel
13 3 (2.38%) Flask
13 3 (2.38%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 16 (12.70%) Public Cloud
3 12 (9.52%) Equities
4 11 (8.73%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.56%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.97%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (3.97%) Virtual Team
9 4 (3.17%) Algorithms
9 4 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.79%) NHS
11 1 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (48.41%) Linux
2 11 (8.73%) Windows
3 8 (6.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (46.83%) Agile
1 59 (46.83%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.13%) DevOps
3 40 (31.75%) Microservices
4 36 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (27.78%) SDLC
6 34 (26.98%) Software Engineering
7 26 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (19.84%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (15.87%) Multithreading
9 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
10 19 (15.08%) Containerisation
10 19 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (10.32%) Database Tuning
12 12 (9.52%) Open Source
13 11 (8.73%) Computer Science
13 11 (8.73%) Observability
14 10 (7.94%) Fintech
15 9 (7.14%) AI
15 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (44.44%) Python
2 41 (32.54%) SQL
3 22 (17.46%) TypeScript
4 17 (13.49%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 12 (9.52%) C#
6 12 (9.52%) Perl
7 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.76%) Ruby
9 5 (3.97%) Bash
10 3 (2.38%) Go
11 2 (1.59%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.59%) Rust
12 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.35%) AWS Certification
2 5 (3.97%) Degree
3 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) QA
2 7 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (23.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 30 (23.81%) Terraform
3 19 (15.08%) Ansible
4 3 (2.38%) Argo
4 3 (2.38%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Oracle
2 13 (10.32%) Sybase
3 7 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.97%) F5
5 5 (3.97%) Infoblox
6 2 (1.59%) SAP
6 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.79%) Confluent
7 1 (0.79%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.79%) Kronos
7 1 (0.79%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.79%) Splunk
7 1 (0.79%) Workday