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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Java 128 170 92
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.65% 22.97% 13.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.37% 44.27% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 68 74
10th Percentile £300 £339 £350
25th Percentile £318 £409 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.94% -13.26%
75th Percentile £480 £575 £476
90th Percentile £538 £625 £530
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 408 384 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.94% 51.89% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 197 164
10th Percentile £311 £333 £335
25th Percentile £335 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £500
90th Percentile £586 £613 £594
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% -65.74%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £63.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -41.67% +206.28% -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 30 September 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 (4.69%) Apache
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) Confluence
3 2 (1.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.94%) AWS
2 20 (15.63%) GitHub
3 16 (12.50%) Azure
4 13 (10.16%) GCP
5 11 (8.59%) ChatGPT
6 10 (7.81%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.69%) Google Play
10 5 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.34%) Kong
12 3 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.34%) Serverless
13 2 (1.56%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) HTTP
1 2 (1.56%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.56%) SSL
1 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) Relational Database
2 19 (14.84%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.59%) Metadata
3 11 (8.59%) MySQL
4 10 (7.81%) Db2
5 7 (5.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.47%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.91%) Flink
8 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.13%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.34%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.56%) Big Data
10 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (35.16%) Git
2 28 (21.88%) Jenkins
3 19 (14.84%) Gradle
3 19 (14.84%) Maven
4 12 (9.38%) JUnit
5 9 (7.03%) JIRA
6 8 (6.25%) GoCD
7 7 (5.47%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.69%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.69%) Selenium
9 5 (3.91%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.13%) GitLab
10 4 (3.13%) Postman
10 4 (3.13%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.13%) Subversion
11 3 (2.34%) Appium
11 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.34%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.34%) webpack
General
1 58 (45.31%) Finance
2 46 (35.94%) Banking
3 28 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (11.72%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.59%) Front Office
7 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.56%) Law
7 2 (1.56%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) International Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.78%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 81 (63.28%) Developer
2 59 (46.09%) Java Developer
3 23 (17.97%) Senior
4 17 (13.28%) Senior Developer
5 15 (11.72%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.38%) Lead
8 11 (8.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (7.03%) Python Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Lead Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Android Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Gen AI Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (2.34%) Automation Tester
13 3 (2.34%) Core Java Developer
13 3 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.34%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (46.09%) Spring
2 54 (42.19%) Spring Boot
3 32 (25.00%) REST
4 27 (21.09%) React
5 25 (19.53%) RESTful
6 19 (14.84%) Kafka
7 17 (13.28%) JPA
8 16 (12.50%) Node.js
8 16 (12.50%) Terraform
9 14 (10.94%) JSF
10 13 (10.16%) AngularJS
11 12 (9.38%) FreeMarker
12 11 (8.59%) HTML
13 10 (7.81%) CSS
13 10 (7.81%) Web Services
14 9 (7.03%) Redux
15 8 (6.25%) JWT
15 8 (6.25%) OAuth
15 8 (6.25%) OAuth2
16 7 (5.47%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.94%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.38%) Derivative
4 11 (8.59%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.47%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.13%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.13%) Private Cloud
8 4 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.34%) Equities
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.41%) Linux
2 11 (8.59%) Unix
3 9 (7.03%) Android
4 3 (2.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 46 (35.94%) Agile
3 42 (32.81%) Microservices
4 33 (25.78%) TDD
5 32 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 28 (21.88%) DevOps
6 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (21.88%) Scrum
7 26 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (14.84%) Containerisation
9 18 (14.06%) Mentoring
10 16 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (12.50%) Event-Driven
10 16 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 15 (11.72%) BDD
12 14 (10.94%) AI
12 14 (10.94%) Data Lineage
12 14 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (9.38%) SDLC
14 11 (8.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.91%) SQL
2 33 (25.78%) Python
3 23 (17.97%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.16%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.59%) C++
6 9 (7.03%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.47%) Bash
7 7 (5.47%) Go
7 7 (5.47%) Perl
8 6 (4.69%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.13%) C#
9 4 (3.13%) Ruby
10 3 (2.34%) Groovy
10 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.34%) Scala
11 2 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) Degree
4 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.34%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) IIBA
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) QA
2 11 (8.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (17.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.25%) Ansible
3 5 (3.91%) Grafana
3 5 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.34%) Istio
5 2 (1.56%) Netcool
6 1 (0.78%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (12.50%) MuleSoft
1 16 (12.50%) Oracle
2 10 (7.81%) Sybase
3 7 (5.47%) Google
4 6 (4.69%) IBM
5 3 (2.34%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.78%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.78%) IFS
7 1 (0.78%) Okta
7 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Solace
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk
7 1 (0.78%) Temenos
7 1 (0.78%) webMethods