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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 75 182 135
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.42% 22.50% 14.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 43.86% 36.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 91 98
10th Percentile £312 £300 £379
25th Percentile £398 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.31% -26.52%
75th Percentile £573 £504 £626
90th Percentile £629 £575 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.15% -5.82%
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 250 415 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.72% 51.30% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 217 234
10th Percentile £309 £308 £363
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.12% -11.91%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £580 £684
Scotland median daily rate £450 £470 £483
% change year-on-year -4.26% -2.69% -1.43%
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
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.58%
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.41% -60.39% -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 23 April 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 (5.33%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (4.00%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.67%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (53.33%) AWS
2 13 (17.33%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (12.00%) ChatGPT
5 8 (10.67%) Anthropic Claude
5 8 (10.67%) GitHub
6 7 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (9.33%) Serverless
7 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.67%) GCP
9 4 (5.33%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 14 (18.67%) MySQL
3 9 (12.00%) Metadata
3 9 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.67%) DB2
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.67%) Flink
9 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (1.33%) Big Data
9 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.33%) HBase
9 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Git
2 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.67%) JIRA
4 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
4 7 (9.33%) GitLab
5 5 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.00%) JUnit
7 2 (2.67%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (45.33%) Finance
2 21 (28.00%) Banking
3 17 (22.67%) Public Sector
4 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
5 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 9 (12.00%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 35 (46.67%) Developer
2 26 (34.67%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Senior
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.33%) Spring
2 23 (30.67%) Spring Boot
3 19 (25.33%) React
4 8 (10.67%) Jest
5 7 (9.33%) Kafka
6 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.00%) RESTful
7 5 (6.67%) CSS
7 5 (6.67%) CSS3
7 5 (6.67%) HTML
7 5 (6.67%) HTML5
7 5 (6.67%) Node.js
7 5 (6.67%) Redux
7 5 (6.67%) REST
7 5 (6.67%) Spring MVC
8 3 (4.00%) Apache Axis
8 3 (4.00%) Apache Camel
8 3 (4.00%) Middleware
8 3 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (2.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Equity Derivative
2 8 (10.67%) Derivative
2 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) IVR
5 1 (1.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) CI/CD
2 28 (37.33%) Microservices
3 21 (28.00%) DevOps
4 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (25.33%) SDLC
5 16 (21.33%) TDD
6 15 (20.00%) Agile
6 15 (20.00%) AI
6 15 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 13 (17.33%) BDD
7 13 (17.33%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
9 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.00%) LLM
9 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
9 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.67%) Data Lineage
10 8 (10.67%) Runbook
10 8 (10.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) SQL
2 23 (30.67%) Python
3 8 (10.67%) C++
4 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.33%) Perl
5 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.33%) Ruby
7 2 (2.67%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) QA
2 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (24.00%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) Istio
4 4 (5.33%) Ansible
5 2 (2.67%) Argo
5 2 (2.67%) Grafana
5 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Oracle
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.67%) Sybase
4 5 (6.67%) IBM
5 3 (4.00%) Databricks
5 3 (4.00%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.33%) Confluent
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) TOWER Software