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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 99 130 126
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.62% 17.91% 14.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.90% 40.75% 36.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 79 85
10th Percentile £311 £350 £383
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -21.57% -21.54%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £685
90th Percentile £609 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £497 £439 £495
% change year-on-year +13.16% -11.36% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.23 - -
75th Percentile £64.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 - £65.77
% change year-on-year - - +5.49%

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 292 319 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.13% 43.94% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 160 210
10th Percentile £333 £350 £394
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -16.67% +0.96%
75th Percentile £550 £523 £650
90th Percentile £606 £582 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £457 £513
% change year-on-year +9.53% -10.93% +6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £22.88 £61.00
% change year-on-year +159.51% -62.50% +16.19%

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 January 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 5 (5.05%) CMS
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) Mule
3 1 (1.01%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.01%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.38%) AWS
2 24 (24.24%) Azure
3 11 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (11.11%) Serverless
4 10 (10.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.07%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (6.06%) GitHub
7 6 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.03%) GCP
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.02%) Apigee
9 2 (2.02%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.02%) PaaS
10 1 (1.01%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) DHCP
2 3 (3.03%) DNS
3 2 (2.02%) HTTP
3 2 (2.02%) SSL
3 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.01%) AMQP
4 1 (1.01%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.19%) MongoDB
1 19 (19.19%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.11%) DB2
3 9 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.06%) MySQL
6 4 (4.04%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.03%) MSDE
7 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.01%) GIS
8 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.01%) HBase
8 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (26.26%) Jenkins
2 20 (20.20%) JUnit
3 17 (17.17%) Git
4 13 (13.13%) Bitbucket
4 13 (13.13%) JIRA
5 12 (12.12%) GitLab
6 8 (8.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (6.06%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.03%) IntelliJ
8 3 (3.03%) Mockito
8 3 (3.03%) PyCharm
8 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (3.03%) Vite
9 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.02%) Gradle
9 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 42 (42.42%) Finance
2 32 (32.32%) Banking
3 28 (28.28%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.14%) Investment Banking
5 10 (10.10%) Front Office
5 10 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (54.55%) Developer
2 46 (46.46%) Java Developer
3 19 (19.19%) SQL Developer
4 17 (17.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 14 (14.14%) Senior
7 13 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (12.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (10.10%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 10 (10.10%) Java Engineer
9 10 (10.10%) Sybase Developer
10 9 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (9.09%) Linux Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.05%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.05%) Senior Developer
13 4 (4.04%) Architect
13 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (49.49%) Spring
2 32 (32.32%) Spring Boot
3 25 (25.25%) Kafka
4 23 (23.23%) React
5 18 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 13 (13.13%) RESTful
7 10 (10.10%) JMS
7 10 (10.10%) Node.js
8 8 (8.08%) Hibernate
8 8 (8.08%) REST
9 6 (6.06%) Jest
10 5 (5.05%) Ext JS
10 5 (5.05%) SOAP
11 3 (3.03%) .NET
11 3 (3.03%) FastAPI
11 3 (3.03%) Flask
11 3 (3.03%) HTML
11 3 (3.03%) JPA
11 3 (3.03%) Next.js
12 2 (2.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Data Structures
2 10 (10.10%) Equities
3 9 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.04%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.01%) IVR
9 1 (1.01%) NHS
9 1 (1.01%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (40.40%) Linux
2 4 (4.04%) Unix
2 4 (4.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 38 (38.38%) Agile
3 35 (35.35%) Microservices
4 34 (34.34%) DevOps
5 29 (29.29%) Software Engineering
6 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (25.25%) SDLC
8 23 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (21.21%) Containerisation
9 21 (21.21%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (17.17%) Multithreading
11 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (12.12%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.10%) Database Tuning
13 10 (10.10%) Fintech
13 10 (10.10%) Observability
13 10 (10.10%) Open Source
14 8 (8.08%) AI
14 8 (8.08%) Infrastructure Automation
15 7 (7.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.42%) Python
2 31 (31.31%) SQL
3 14 (14.14%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 10 (10.10%) Perl
7 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.07%) Ruby
9 4 (4.04%) C#
10 3 (3.03%) Bash
11 2 (2.02%) Rust
12 1 (1.01%) DataWeave
12 1 (1.01%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.02%) Degree
4 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.11%) QA
2 8 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (29.29%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.01%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (25.25%) Kubernetes
2 19 (19.19%) Terraform
3 13 (13.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Oracle
2 10 (10.10%) Sybase
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.03%) F5
4 3 (3.03%) Infoblox
4 3 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.01%) Confluent
6 1 (1.01%) Kronos
6 1 (1.01%) Pega
6 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.01%) Workday