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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 76 172 118
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.17% 23.12% 14.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.14% 44.44% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 79 87
10th Percentile £320 £300 £378
25th Percentile £401 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.66% -18.38%
75th Percentile £568 £525 £509
90th Percentile £657 £575 £675
Scotland median daily rate £525 £463 £453
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.10% -6.84%
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 - - -9.89%

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 280 387 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.78% 52.02% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 195 214
10th Percentile £308 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +3.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £581 £620
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -6.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £39.00 £18.83 £51.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £24.44 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.05 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.94% -39.05% -2.58%
75th Percentile £57.79 £46.90 £62.50
90th Percentile £59.47 £53.26 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £24.66 £57.50
% change year-on-year +123.03% -57.11% -2.59%

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 6 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 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (3.95%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.95%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) AWS
2 14 (18.42%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) GitHub
3 12 (15.79%) ChatGPT
4 10 (13.16%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (11.84%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (10.53%) GCP
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.63%) Slack
11 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.95%) Relational Database
2 13 (17.11%) MongoDB
2 13 (17.11%) MySQL
3 12 (15.79%) Metadata
4 11 (14.47%) Db2
5 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.26%) Flink
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (1.32%) Big Data
9 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Git
2 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.26%) GitLab
3 4 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.95%) Selenium
5 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.63%) JUnit
5 2 (2.63%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.32%) Appium
6 1 (1.32%) GoCD
6 1 (1.32%) Gradle
6 1 (1.32%) JProfiler
6 1 (1.32%) Maven
6 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.32%) Subversion
6 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (48.68%) Finance
2 21 (27.63%) Banking
3 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
4 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
5 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (15.79%) Investment Banking
6 11 (14.47%) Front Office
7 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.63%) Law
9 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.32%) Military
9 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.32%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Developer
2 30 (39.47%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.79%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Python Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Core Java Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Java Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Site Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (38.16%) Spring
2 26 (34.21%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.74%) React
4 10 (13.16%) Kafka
5 9 (11.84%) RESTful
6 7 (9.21%) Jest
7 6 (7.89%) CSS
7 6 (7.89%) HTML
8 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.58%) CSS3
8 5 (6.58%) HTML5
8 5 (6.58%) Redux
8 5 (6.58%) REST
8 5 (6.58%) Spring MVC
9 3 (3.95%) Apache Axis
9 3 (3.95%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.95%) Middleware
9 3 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (3.95%) Node.js
9 3 (3.95%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (14.47%) Derivative
3 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Equities
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 24 (31.58%) Microservices
3 22 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (26.32%) DevOps
4 20 (26.32%) TDD
5 19 (25.00%) BDD
6 17 (22.37%) Agile
6 17 (22.37%) AI
6 17 (22.37%) Test Automation
7 15 (19.74%) Containerisation
7 15 (19.74%) SDLC
8 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (17.11%) Machine Learning
9 12 (15.79%) Data Lineage
9 12 (15.79%) LLM
10 11 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (14.47%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
11 10 (13.16%) Data Governance
12 9 (11.84%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) SQL
2 24 (31.58%) Python
3 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.16%) C++
5 7 (9.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.89%) Perl
7 3 (3.95%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 10 (13.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.74%) Terraform
3 5 (6.58%) Istio
4 3 (3.95%) Ansible
5 2 (2.63%) Argo
5 2 (2.63%) Grafana
5 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) Oracle
2 11 (14.47%) Sybase
3 9 (11.84%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.21%) IBM
5 3 (3.95%) Databricks
5 3 (3.95%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software