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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 93 136 126
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.24% 18.78% 14.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.19% 41.34% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 80 86
10th Percentile £311 £350 £386
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £404 £503
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% -19.68% -22.62%
75th Percentile £575 £491 £683
90th Percentile £606 £539 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +16.67% -8.16% -4.20%
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 - £65.77
% change year-on-year - - +5.49%

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 272 329 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 41.65% 45.44% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 162 209
10th Percentile £321 £350 £392
25th Percentile £391 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -16.10% +0.96%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £586 £581 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £518
% change year-on-year +6.50% -9.28% +5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £52.00 - £50.25
25th Percentile £55.00 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -62.69% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £55.63
90th Percentile £63.60 - £56.75
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £23.77 £60.50
% change year-on-year +149.76% -60.71% +15.24%

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 19 January 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 5 (5.38%) CMS
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.08%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) AWS
2 22 (23.66%) Azure
3 11 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (11.83%) Serverless
4 10 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.53%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.45%) GitHub
7 6 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.23%) GCP
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.15%) Apigee
9 2 (2.15%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
10 1 (1.08%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.60%) Firewall
2 3 (3.23%) DHCP
2 3 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (2.15%) HTTP
3 2 (2.15%) SSL
3 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) Relational Database
2 16 (17.20%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.68%) DB2
4 7 (7.53%) MySQL
5 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.23%) MSDE
7 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.08%) GIS
8 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.08%) HBase
8 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (26.88%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.35%) JUnit
3 16 (17.20%) Git
4 13 (13.98%) Bitbucket
4 13 (13.98%) JIRA
5 11 (11.83%) GitLab
6 8 (8.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (6.45%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.23%) IntelliJ
8 3 (3.23%) Mockito
8 3 (3.23%) PyCharm
8 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.15%) Gradle
9 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.15%) Vite
10 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 40 (43.01%) Finance
2 30 (32.26%) Banking
3 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.60%) Front Office
7 7 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (53.76%) Developer
2 42 (45.16%) Java Developer
3 16 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.20%) SQL Developer
4 14 (15.05%) Software Engineer
5 13 (13.98%) Senior
6 12 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (11.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (10.75%) Java Engineer
9 9 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (8.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 8 (8.60%) Linux Developer
10 8 (8.60%) Sybase Developer
11 6 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
13 4 (4.30%) Architect
13 4 (4.30%) Linux Engineer
13 4 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (48.39%) Spring
2 30 (32.26%) Spring Boot
3 22 (23.66%) Kafka
3 22 (23.66%) React
4 18 (19.35%) AngularJS
5 12 (12.90%) RESTful
6 10 (10.75%) Node.js
7 8 (8.60%) Hibernate
7 8 (8.60%) JMS
7 8 (8.60%) REST
8 6 (6.45%) Jest
9 5 (5.38%) Ext JS
10 4 (4.30%) SOAP
11 3 (3.23%) .NET
11 3 (3.23%) HTML
11 3 (3.23%) JPA
12 2 (2.15%) CSS
12 2 (2.15%) Flask
12 2 (2.15%) J2EE
12 2 (2.15%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.60%) Equities
2 8 (8.60%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (8.60%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.30%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.08%) IVR
8 1 (1.08%) NHS
8 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (39.78%) Linux
2 4 (4.30%) Unix
2 4 (4.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 34 (36.56%) Agile
2 34 (36.56%) Microservices
3 32 (34.41%) DevOps
4 27 (29.03%) Software Engineering
5 24 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (24.73%) SDLC
7 21 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (21.51%) Containerisation
9 19 (20.43%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (16.13%) Multithreading
11 12 (12.90%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.75%) Fintech
12 10 (10.75%) Observability
13 8 (8.60%) Database Tuning
13 8 (8.60%) Open Source
14 7 (7.53%) AI
14 7 (7.53%) User Experience
14 7 (7.53%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) Python
2 28 (30.11%) SQL
3 13 (13.98%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.83%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.75%) Perl
6 9 (9.68%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.53%) Ruby
9 4 (4.30%) C#
10 3 (3.23%) Bash
11 2 (2.15%) Rust
12 1 (1.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (8.60%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.15%) Degree
4 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (29.03%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (24.73%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.28%) Terraform
3 12 (12.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Oracle
2 8 (8.60%) Sybase
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.23%) F5
4 3 (3.23%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.08%) Confluent
6 1 (1.08%) Kronos
6 1 (1.08%) Pega
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Workday