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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 77 179 139
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.64% 21.83% 15.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.80% 43.34% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 99 97
10th Percentile £313 £341 £373
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.55% -18.40% -23.08%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £675
90th Percentile £620 £550 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £441 £483
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.23 - £52.50
75th Percentile £64.34 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.26%

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 277 413 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.26% 50.37% 39.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 205 231
10th Percentile £313 £318 £363
25th Percentile £378 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -11.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £638
90th Percentile £606 £588 £726
Scotland median daily rate £455 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -2.15% -7.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £42.50 - £51.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.56
Median hourly rate £56.86 £19.59 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +190.26% -63.55% +13.16%
75th Percentile £62.02 - £56.56
90th Percentile £63.42 - £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +161.73% -62.91% +1.37%

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 28 February 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 4 (5.19%) Apache
2 3 (3.90%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.90%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (3.90%) CMS
2 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.90%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.90%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (50.65%) AWS
2 15 (19.48%) Azure
3 10 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (12.99%) Serverless
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (7.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.19%) GCP
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.60%) PaaS
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.30%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Relational Database
2 11 (14.29%) MySQL
3 9 (11.69%) Data Lake
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.19%) DB2
8 4 (5.19%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.30%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.30%) Flink
10 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.30%) HBase
10 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Jenkins
2 15 (19.48%) Git
3 13 (16.88%) GitLab
4 12 (15.58%) Bitbucket
5 10 (12.99%) JUnit
6 9 (11.69%) JIRA
7 8 (10.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.60%) Gradle
9 2 (2.60%) Mockito
9 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.30%) Vite
General
1 31 (40.26%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Banking
3 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
5 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.79%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.49%) Front Office
8 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.30%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.30%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 29 (37.66%) Developer
2 28 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 13 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.88%) Senior
4 8 (10.39%) SQL Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (7.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Linux Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (42.86%) Spring
2 24 (31.17%) Spring Boot
3 21 (27.27%) React
4 13 (16.88%) Kafka
5 9 (11.69%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.39%) Node.js
7 7 (9.09%) RESTful
8 6 (7.79%) Jest
9 5 (6.49%) Hibernate
10 4 (5.19%) JMS
10 4 (5.19%) PySpark
11 3 (3.90%) Apache Axis
11 3 (3.90%) Apache Camel
11 3 (3.90%) Ext JS
11 3 (3.90%) Middleware
11 3 (3.90%) Model Context Protocol
12 2 (2.60%) CSS3
12 2 (2.60%) JPA
12 2 (2.60%) REST
12 2 (2.60%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) Equities
3 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) IVR
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (45.45%) Microservices
2 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 23 (29.87%) DevOps
3 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (29.87%) SDLC
4 22 (28.57%) Agile
5 18 (23.38%) Containerisation
6 16 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
7 14 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.99%) AI
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.39%) Data Science
10 8 (10.39%) Decision-Making
10 8 (10.39%) Machine Learning
10 8 (10.39%) Runbook
10 8 (10.39%) TDD
10 8 (10.39%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) Python
2 21 (27.27%) SQL
3 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.09%) Perl
5 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.09%) Ruby
6 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.60%) Rust
8 1 (1.30%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) QA
2 6 (7.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (33.77%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.48%) Terraform
3 7 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Oracle
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) Sybase
4 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.30%) Confluent
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) TOWER Software