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

 6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 133 163 89
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.11% 21.73% 12.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.59% 43.12% 38.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 65 72
10th Percentile £301 £351 £350
25th Percentile £322 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £479 £575 £475
90th Percentile £538 £625 £513
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.94% -8.42%
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 421 378 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.17% 50.40% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 198 163
10th Percentile £311 £352 £327
25th Percentile £359 £408 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £500
90th Percentile £552 £613 £593
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.93%
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 £60.61 £19.59
% change year-on-year -42.26% +209.41% -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 9 October 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 (4.51%) Apache
2 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.50%) Camunda
3 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.08%) AWS
2 22 (16.54%) GitHub
3 17 (12.78%) Azure
4 14 (10.53%) GCP
5 10 (7.52%) ChatGPT
6 9 (6.77%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.77%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.51%) Google Play
8 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.26%) Kong
10 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.26%) Serverless
11 2 (1.50%) Akamai
11 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.50%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) HTTP
1 2 (1.50%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.50%) SSL
1 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) Relational Database
2 18 (13.53%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.27%) MySQL
4 10 (7.52%) Metadata
5 9 (6.77%) Db2
6 7 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.76%) Flink
9 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.01%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.50%) Big Data
11 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (33.83%) Git
2 31 (23.31%) Jenkins
3 21 (15.79%) Gradle
4 20 (15.04%) Maven
5 13 (9.77%) JUnit
6 8 (6.02%) GoCD
6 8 (6.02%) JIRA
7 7 (5.26%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.51%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.51%) Selenium
9 5 (3.76%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
10 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.01%) GitLab
10 4 (3.01%) Postman
10 4 (3.01%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.01%) Subversion
11 3 (2.26%) Appium
11 3 (2.26%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.26%) webpack
General
1 55 (41.35%) Finance
2 47 (35.34%) Banking
3 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.03%) Investment Banking
5 14 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
7 11 (8.27%) Front Office
8 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Law
8 2 (1.50%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.50%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.50%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) International Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (63.16%) Developer
2 62 (46.62%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.05%) Senior
4 17 (12.78%) Senior Developer
5 16 (12.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (11.28%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (9.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 13 (9.77%) Lead
8 10 (7.52%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.02%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Android Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (3.01%) Consultant
12 4 (3.01%) Gen AI Developer
12 4 (3.01%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (2.26%) Core Java Developer
13 3 (2.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (45.11%) Spring
2 53 (39.85%) Spring Boot
3 35 (26.32%) REST
4 28 (21.05%) React
5 27 (20.30%) RESTful
6 21 (15.79%) Kafka
7 17 (12.78%) JPA
8 16 (12.03%) Node.js
8 16 (12.03%) Terraform
9 15 (11.28%) AngularJS
10 14 (10.53%) JSF
11 12 (9.02%) FreeMarker
12 11 (8.27%) HTML
13 10 (7.52%) CSS
13 10 (7.52%) Web Services
14 9 (6.77%) JWT
14 9 (6.77%) OAuth
14 9 (6.77%) OAuth2
14 9 (6.77%) Redux
15 8 (6.02%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.02%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (8.27%) Derivative
5 10 (7.52%) Equity Derivative
6 7 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.51%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.76%) Equities
8 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
9 4 (3.01%) Private Cloud
9 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.50%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.50%) Replication
11 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.54%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Unix
3 9 (6.77%) Android
4 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (55.64%) CI/CD
2 46 (34.59%) Agile
3 44 (33.08%) Microservices
4 34 (25.56%) Test Automation
5 33 (24.81%) TDD
6 30 (22.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (21.05%) DevOps
7 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.05%) Scrum
8 20 (15.04%) Containerisation
9 18 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (13.53%) Event-Driven
10 17 (12.78%) Software Engineering
11 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
12 15 (11.28%) AI
13 14 (10.53%) BDD
13 14 (10.53%) SDLC
13 14 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (9.77%) Data Lineage
15 11 (8.27%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.82%) SQL
2 32 (24.06%) Python
3 23 (17.29%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.28%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.27%) Shell Script
6 10 (7.52%) C++
7 8 (6.02%) Bash
7 8 (6.02%) Go
8 7 (5.26%) Perl
9 6 (4.51%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.01%) C#
10 4 (3.01%) Ruby
11 3 (2.26%) Groovy
11 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.26%) Scala
12 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.02%) Degree
3 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) IIBA
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.77%) QA
2 10 (7.52%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.01%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (17.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (30.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.52%) Ansible
3 5 (3.76%) Grafana
3 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.50%) Netcool
Vendors
1 16 (12.03%) MuleSoft
1 16 (12.03%) Oracle
2 9 (6.77%) Sybase
3 7 (5.26%) Google
4 5 (3.76%) IBM
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.75%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.75%) IFS
7 1 (0.75%) Okta
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.75%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.75%) Solace
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) Temenos
7 1 (0.75%) webMethods
248 Java jobs in Glasgow