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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 132 159 93
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.85% 21.34% 13.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.63% 42.86% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 65 71
10th Percentile £301 £351 £350
25th Percentile £322 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £476 £575 £482
90th Percentile £538 £625 £513
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -15.00% +13.64% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £61.23 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.83% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £61.23 -
% change year-on-year -42.83% - -

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 431 371 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.41% 49.80% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 196 158
10th Percentile £313 £351 £333
25th Percentile £359 £409 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £499
90th Percentile £550 £619 £589
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile - £30.05 £17.45
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -60.82%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £63.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.61 £19.59
% change year-on-year -42.26% +209.41% -66.81%

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 October 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 6 (4.55%) Apache
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.52%) Camunda
3 2 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) JBoss
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.09%) AWS
2 20 (15.15%) GitHub
3 19 (14.39%) Azure
4 16 (12.12%) GCP
5 10 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.55%) Google Play
8 5 (3.79%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (3.79%) ChatGPT
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.27%) Kong
10 3 (2.27%) Serverless
11 2 (1.52%) Akamai
11 2 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.52%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) HTTP
1 2 (1.52%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.52%) SSL
1 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.12%) MongoDB
1 16 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.33%) MySQL
3 8 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.79%) Db2
6 5 (3.79%) Flink
6 5 (3.79%) Metadata
7 4 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.03%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.52%) Big Data
8 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.76%) Power BI
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (34.85%) Git
2 32 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 22 (16.67%) Gradle
4 21 (15.91%) Maven
5 13 (9.85%) JUnit
6 9 (6.82%) JIRA
7 8 (6.06%) GoCD
8 7 (5.30%) JProfiler
8 7 (5.30%) Selenium
9 6 (4.55%) Android Studio
9 6 (4.55%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.79%) Cypress.io
10 5 (3.79%) GitLab
10 5 (3.79%) Postman
10 5 (3.79%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.03%) Appium
11 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.03%) SpecFlow
11 4 (3.03%) Subversion
12 3 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 50 (37.88%) Finance
2 45 (34.09%) Banking
3 32 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.61%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.06%) Front Office
7 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.52%) Law
7 2 (1.52%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (1.52%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) International Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (62.88%) Developer
2 62 (46.97%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.18%) Senior
4 18 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (12.88%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (10.61%) Lead
8 9 (6.82%) Lead Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Python Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Android Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Automation Tester
12 4 (3.03%) Consultant
12 4 (3.03%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Tester
13 3 (2.27%) Core Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (46.97%) Spring
2 55 (41.67%) Spring Boot
3 38 (28.79%) REST
4 29 (21.97%) React
5 27 (20.45%) RESTful
6 22 (16.67%) Kafka
7 17 (12.88%) JPA
8 16 (12.12%) AngularJS
8 16 (12.12%) Node.js
8 16 (12.12%) Terraform
9 14 (10.61%) JSF
10 12 (9.09%) FreeMarker
11 11 (8.33%) HTML
12 10 (7.58%) CSS
12 10 (7.58%) JWT
12 10 (7.58%) OAuth
12 10 (7.58%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.58%) Web Services
13 9 (6.82%) Redux
14 8 (6.06%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (10.61%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.30%) Derivative
4 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.79%) Equities
6 5 (3.79%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.79%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.27%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.52%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.52%) Replication
9 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
2 11 (8.33%) Unix
3 9 (6.82%) Android
4 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Windows
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (55.30%) CI/CD
2 49 (37.12%) Agile
3 47 (35.61%) Microservices
4 33 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 32 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (23.48%) DevOps
7 30 (22.73%) Scrum
7 30 (22.73%) TDD
8 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 18 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.64%) Event-Driven
11 16 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.12%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.61%) SDLC
12 14 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (9.85%) Observability
14 12 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (8.33%) AI
15 11 (8.33%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.76%) SQL
2 28 (21.21%) Python
3 26 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 9 (6.82%) Go
7 8 (6.06%) Bash
8 7 (5.30%) C++
9 6 (4.55%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.79%) C#
11 4 (3.03%) Groovy
11 4 (3.03%) Perl
11 4 (3.03%) Ruby
12 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.27%) Scala
13 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.06%) Degree
3 6 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.03%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) IIBA
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) QA
2 8 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.58%) Ansible
3 5 (3.79%) Grafana
3 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.52%) Netcool
5 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (12.88%) Oracle
2 16 (12.12%) MuleSoft
3 7 (5.30%) Google
4 5 (3.79%) Sybase
5 4 (3.03%) IBM
6 3 (2.27%) ForgeRock
6 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.52%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.76%) IFS
8 1 (0.76%) Okta
8 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.76%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.76%) Solace
8 1 (0.76%) Splunk
8 1 (0.76%) Temenos
8 1 (0.76%) webMethods