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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 119 182 83
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.31% 24.11% 12.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.81% 45.84% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 87 68
10th Percentile £301 £300 £381
25th Percentile £318 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% +7.95% -15.38%
75th Percentile £482 £550 £500
90th Percentile £549 £611 £541
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £440
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 352 397 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.46% 52.58% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 215 171
10th Percentile £305 £307 £325
25th Percentile £320 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £509 £575 £506
90th Percentile £601 £604 £613
Scotland median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.57 £18.26
25th Percentile - £33.80 £27.82
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £36.25 £58.75 £51.00
% change year-on-year -38.30% +15.20% -11.30%

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 14 August 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 (5.04%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.52%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Camunda
3 2 (1.68%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Geronimo
4 1 (0.84%) Apache ServiceMix
4 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 47 (39.50%) AWS
2 22 (18.49%) GitHub
3 15 (12.61%) Azure
4 12 (10.08%) ChatGPT
4 12 (10.08%) GCP
5 11 (9.24%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.04%) Google Play
8 6 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) HTTP
1 2 (1.68%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.97%) MongoDB
1 19 (15.97%) Relational Database
2 13 (10.92%) MySQL
3 12 (10.08%) Metadata
4 11 (9.24%) Db2
5 7 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.04%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.20%) Flink
7 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.36%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.68%) Big Data
10 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.84%) Apache Ignite
11 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (37.82%) Git
2 25 (21.01%) Jenkins
3 18 (15.13%) Gradle
3 18 (15.13%) Maven
4 11 (9.24%) JUnit
5 9 (7.56%) JIRA
6 8 (6.72%) GoCD
7 7 (5.88%) JProfiler
8 6 (5.04%) Android Studio
8 6 (5.04%) Selenium
9 5 (4.20%) Cucumber
9 5 (4.20%) GitLab
10 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
10 4 (3.36%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.36%) Postman
10 4 (3.36%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.36%) Subversion
11 3 (2.52%) Appium
11 3 (2.52%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.52%) webpack
General
1 45 (37.82%) Finance
2 31 (26.05%) Banking
3 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
4 18 (15.13%) Public Sector
5 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.92%) Front Office
7 12 (10.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.68%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.84%) International Banking
9 1 (0.84%) Military
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.84%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 81 (68.07%) Developer
2 58 (48.74%) Java Developer
3 21 (17.65%) Senior
4 16 (13.45%) Senior Developer
5 15 (12.61%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Lead
7 9 (7.56%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Lead Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Android Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 3 (2.52%) Automation Tester
13 3 (2.52%) Core Java Developer
13 3 (2.52%) Gen AI Developer
13 3 (2.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (47.06%) Spring
2 52 (43.70%) Spring Boot
3 29 (24.37%) REST
4 25 (21.01%) React
5 22 (18.49%) RESTful
6 16 (13.45%) JPA
6 16 (13.45%) Kafka
6 16 (13.45%) Node.js
7 14 (11.76%) JSF
8 13 (10.92%) HTML
9 12 (10.08%) CSS
9 12 (10.08%) FreeMarker
9 12 (10.08%) Redux
10 10 (8.40%) HTML5
10 10 (8.40%) Jest
11 9 (7.56%) AngularJS
11 9 (7.56%) CSS3
11 9 (7.56%) Spring MVC
12 8 (6.72%) Web Services
13 7 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Derivative
1 13 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.08%) Equity Derivative
3 8 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.20%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.36%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.68%) Equities
8 2 (1.68%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.84%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.45%) Linux
2 8 (6.72%) Android
2 8 (6.72%) Unix
3 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (51.26%) CI/CD
2 46 (38.66%) Agile
3 38 (31.93%) Microservices
4 34 (28.57%) TDD
5 32 (26.89%) Test Automation
6 28 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (23.53%) Scrum
7 24 (20.17%) DevOps
8 22 (18.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.45%) BDD
10 16 (13.45%) Containerisation
11 15 (12.61%) AI
12 14 (11.76%) Data Lineage
12 14 (11.76%) Software Engineering
13 13 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (10.92%) Event-Driven
13 13 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (10.08%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.93%) SQL
2 29 (24.37%) Python
3 25 (21.01%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.40%) C++
4 10 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.56%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.88%) Bash
6 7 (5.88%) Perl
7 6 (5.04%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.36%) C#
8 4 (3.36%) Ruby
9 3 (2.52%) Groovy
9 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Degree
4 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.84%) IIBA
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) Data Quality
1 11 (9.24%) QA
2 9 (7.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (15.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.56%) Terraform
3 8 (6.72%) Ansible
4 5 (4.20%) Istio
5 2 (1.68%) Argo
5 2 (1.68%) Netcool
Vendors
1 17 (14.29%) Oracle
2 16 (13.45%) MuleSoft
3 11 (9.24%) Sybase
4 7 (5.88%) Google
4 7 (5.88%) IBM
4 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.84%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.84%) Okta
7 1 (0.84%) Solace
7 1 (0.84%) Temenos
7 1 (0.84%) TIBCO