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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 67 187 140
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.48% 22.72% 14.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.59% 43.59% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 104 97
10th Percentile £311 £300 £369
25th Percentile £387 £362 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -10.90% -23.08%
75th Percentile £579 £493 £660
90th Percentile £644 £550 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £483
% change year-on-year +16.67% -6.83% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -11.06%

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 252 429 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.64% 52.13% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 217 239
10th Percentile £312 £312 £363
25th Percentile £363 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £632
90th Percentile £608 £575 £704
Scotland median daily rate £449 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -3.13% -7.30% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +140.44% -61.88% -0.91%

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 March 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 (5.97%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (4.48%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.48%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.48%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (61.19%) AWS
2 14 (20.90%) Azure
3 10 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (14.93%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (14.93%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (14.93%) Serverless
4 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (10.45%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (7.46%) GCP
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.99%) PaaS
9 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) Relational Database
2 14 (20.90%) MySQL
3 8 (11.94%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.48%) DB2
6 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.49%) Apache Ignite
8 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.49%) Flink
8 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.49%) HBase
8 1 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Git
2 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.93%) Bitbucket
3 10 (14.93%) GitLab
3 10 (14.93%) JIRA
4 8 (11.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (10.45%) JUnit
6 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.99%) Mockito
8 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 26 (38.81%) Finance
2 20 (29.85%) Banking
3 15 (22.39%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Front Office
7 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.49%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.49%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) Developer
2 24 (35.82%) Java Developer
3 12 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (17.91%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (5.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.81%) Spring
2 23 (34.33%) Spring Boot
3 19 (28.36%) React
4 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
4 8 (11.94%) Jest
4 8 (11.94%) Node.js
5 7 (10.45%) Kafka
6 6 (8.96%) REST
6 6 (8.96%) RESTful
7 5 (7.46%) CSS
7 5 (7.46%) CSS3
7 5 (7.46%) HTML
7 5 (7.46%) HTML5
7 5 (7.46%) Redux
7 5 (7.46%) Spring MVC
8 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.48%) Apache Axis
9 3 (4.48%) Apache Camel
9 3 (4.48%) JPA
9 3 (4.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.99%) Equities
3 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Derivative
4 1 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.49%) IVR
4 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.40%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) Microservices
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 23 (34.33%) SDLC
4 21 (31.34%) DevOps
5 18 (26.87%) Agile
6 17 (25.37%) Containerisation
7 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
10 9 (13.43%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (13.43%) TDD
10 9 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.94%) AI
11 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (11.94%) Runbook
12 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.45%) Data Protection
12 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
13 6 (8.96%) BDD
13 6 (8.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 16 (23.88%) SQL
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.45%) Perl
4 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.45%) Ruby
5 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.99%) C++
6 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.49%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (32.84%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (40.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.39%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Istio
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Oracle
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) Sybase
3 3 (4.48%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.49%) Confluent
4 1 (1.49%) IBM
4 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.49%) TOWER Software