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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 85 176 114
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.42% 23.13% 14.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.05% 45.71% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 81 87
10th Percentile £309 £300 £378
25th Percentile £400 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £555 £525 £500
90th Percentile £629 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £525 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +12.96% +3.28% -6.25%
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 - - -8.70%

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 303 385 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.59% 50.59% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 195 202
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +3.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £513
90th Percentile £625 £588 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £472 £461
% change year-on-year -4.71% +2.38% -6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £39.00 £22.57 £51.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.80 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.58%
75th Percentile £57.79 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £59.47 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £31.08 £57.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -45.95% -1.31%

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 18 June 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 7 (8.24%) Apache
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.53%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.53%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.53%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.35%) AWS
2 16 (18.82%) GitHub
3 15 (17.65%) Azure
4 12 (14.12%) ChatGPT
5 10 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (10.59%) GCP
6 9 (10.59%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.53%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.35%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.06%) Relational Database
2 14 (16.47%) MongoDB
2 14 (16.47%) MySQL
3 12 (14.12%) Metadata
4 11 (12.94%) Db2
5 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.71%) Flink
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.35%) Big Data
8 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (25.88%) Git
2 10 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.88%) Selenium
4 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.71%) JIRA
4 4 (4.71%) Maven
5 3 (3.53%) GitLab
5 3 (3.53%) Gradle
5 3 (3.53%) JUnit
5 3 (3.53%) Postman
5 3 (3.53%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.53%) SpecFlow
5 3 (3.53%) Subversion
6 2 (2.35%) Appium
6 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.35%) GoCD
6 2 (2.35%) JProfiler
6 2 (2.35%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (43.53%) Finance
2 23 (27.06%) Banking
3 22 (25.88%) Social Skills
4 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
6 12 (14.12%) Investment Banking
7 11 (12.94%) Front Office
8 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.35%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.18%) Military
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.18%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 50 (58.82%) Developer
2 38 (44.71%) Java Developer
3 17 (20.00%) Senior
4 11 (12.94%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.94%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (8.24%) Python Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Core Java Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Gen AI Developer
10 2 (2.35%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) Spring
2 29 (34.12%) Spring Boot
3 17 (20.00%) React
4 11 (12.94%) RESTful
5 10 (11.76%) Kafka
6 8 (9.41%) Jest
7 7 (8.24%) CSS
7 7 (8.24%) HTML
7 7 (8.24%) JSF
7 7 (8.24%) REST
7 7 (8.24%) Spring MVC
8 6 (7.06%) CSS3
8 6 (7.06%) HTML5
9 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.88%) Redux
10 4 (4.71%) Playwright
10 4 (4.71%) Web Services
11 3 (3.53%) Hibernate
11 3 (3.53%) Middleware
11 3 (3.53%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (12.94%) Derivative
3 7 (8.24%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.18%) Equities
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 28 (32.94%) Microservices
3 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (31.76%) TDD
4 23 (27.06%) Test Automation
5 22 (25.88%) Agile
5 22 (25.88%) DevOps
6 21 (24.71%) BDD
7 18 (21.18%) AI
7 18 (21.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 15 (17.65%) SDLC
9 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
10 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
11 12 (14.12%) Data Lineage
11 12 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (14.12%) LLM
12 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
13 10 (11.76%) Data Governance
14 9 (10.59%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.00%) SQL
2 24 (28.24%) Python
3 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.76%) C++
5 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.88%) Perl
7 3 (3.53%) Bash
7 3 (3.53%) C#
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Degree
3 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) QA
2 10 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (28.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.29%) Terraform
3 5 (5.88%) Istio
4 3 (3.53%) Ansible
5 2 (2.35%) Argo
5 2 (2.35%) Grafana
5 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (22.35%) Oracle
2 11 (12.94%) Sybase
3 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.24%) IBM
5 6 (7.06%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.53%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software