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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 81 175 141
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.05% 21.71% 15.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.22% 44.53% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 98 99
10th Percentile £313 £337 £371
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -19.60% -23.08%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £675
90th Percentile £620 £550 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £440 £480
% change year-on-year +19.32% -8.33% -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.23 - £52.50
75th Percentile £64.34 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.26%

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 287 393 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.15% 48.76% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 193 233
10th Percentile £313 £329 £363
25th Percentile £381 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £638
90th Percentile £602 £581 £726
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +1.65% -9.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £42.50 - £51.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.56
Median hourly rate £56.86 £19.59 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +190.26% -63.55% +13.16%
75th Percentile £62.02 - £56.56
90th Percentile £63.42 - £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +164.57% -62.91% +1.37%

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 21 February 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 3 (3.70%) Apache
1 3 (3.70%) CMS
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Geronimo
2 2 (2.47%) Apache ServiceMix
2 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.15%) AWS
2 15 (18.52%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (12.35%) Serverless
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.94%) GCP
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.47%) PaaS
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 12 (14.81%) MySQL
3 9 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.88%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.41%) DB2
6 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.94%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.23%) Flink
9 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.23%) HBase
9 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (20.99%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.75%) Git
3 13 (16.05%) GitLab
4 12 (14.81%) Bitbucket
4 12 (14.81%) JUnit
5 9 (11.11%) JIRA
6 8 (9.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.70%) Mockito
9 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.47%) Gradle
9 2 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.23%) Vite
General
1 33 (40.74%) Finance
2 23 (28.40%) Banking
3 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
5 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.64%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.41%) Front Office
7 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.23%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.23%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) Developer
2 31 (38.27%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Senior
4 13 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) SQL Developer
6 9 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Linux Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Sybase Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (44.44%) Spring
2 25 (30.86%) Spring Boot
3 21 (25.93%) React
4 14 (17.28%) Kafka
5 10 (12.35%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.88%) Node.js
7 7 (8.64%) RESTful
8 6 (7.41%) Jest
9 5 (6.17%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.17%) JMS
10 4 (4.94%) PySpark
11 3 (3.70%) Ext JS
11 3 (3.70%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (3.70%) REST
12 2 (2.47%) Apache Axis
12 2 (2.47%) CSS3
12 2 (2.47%) HTML5
12 2 (2.47%) JPA
12 2 (2.47%) Middleware
12 2 (2.47%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.64%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Equities
4 5 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) IVR
7 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.21%) Microservices
2 28 (34.57%) CI/CD
3 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (29.63%) SDLC
5 23 (28.40%) Agile
5 23 (28.40%) DevOps
6 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
7 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 16 (19.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (19.75%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (12.35%) AI
9 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 9 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (9.88%) Data Science
11 8 (9.88%) Decision-Making
11 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
11 8 (9.88%) Multithreading
11 8 (9.88%) Runbook
11 8 (9.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.33%) Python
2 23 (28.40%) SQL
3 11 (13.58%) TypeScript
4 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.64%) Perl
5 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.64%) Ruby
6 5 (6.17%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.47%) Rust
8 1 (1.23%) C++
8 1 (1.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) QA
2 6 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (32.10%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.52%) Terraform
3 7 (8.64%) Ansible
4 2 (2.47%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Oracle
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.17%) Sybase
4 3 (3.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.47%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.23%) Confluent
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) TOWER Software