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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 125 171 91
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.36% 23.39% 13.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.88% 44.76% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 78 73
10th Percentile £301 £300 £364
25th Percentile £321 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +7.95% -13.73%
75th Percentile £486 £550 £500
90th Percentile £563 £616 £538
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 369 382 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.55% 52.26% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 202 169
10th Percentile £310 £313 £331
25th Percentile £322 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £550 £500
90th Percentile £600 £606 £606
Scotland median daily rate £440 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -6.25%
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 £35.00 £58.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.43% +2.17% -

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 27 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 5 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) Confluence
2 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Camunda
3 2 (1.60%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Geronimo
4 1 (0.80%) Apache ServiceMix
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.80%) AWS
2 22 (17.60%) GitHub
3 15 (12.00%) Azure
4 12 (9.60%) ChatGPT
4 12 (9.60%) GCP
5 11 (8.80%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.20%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.80%) Google Play
8 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) HTTP
1 2 (1.60%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.60%) SSL
1 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) Relational Database
2 19 (15.20%) MongoDB
3 13 (10.40%) MySQL
4 12 (9.60%) Metadata
5 11 (8.80%) Db2
6 7 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.80%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.20%) Flink
9 4 (3.20%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.60%) Big Data
11 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (34.40%) Git
2 25 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (14.40%) Gradle
3 18 (14.40%) Maven
4 11 (8.80%) JUnit
5 9 (7.20%) JIRA
6 8 (6.40%) GoCD
7 7 (5.60%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.80%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.80%) Selenium
9 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.20%) GitLab
10 4 (3.20%) Postman
10 4 (3.20%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.20%) Subversion
11 3 (2.40%) Appium
11 3 (2.40%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.40%) webpack
12 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (40.80%) Finance
2 36 (28.80%) Banking
3 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (11.20%) Investment Banking
7 12 (9.60%) Front Office
8 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) International Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (65.60%) Developer
2 59 (47.20%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.80%) Senior
4 16 (12.80%) Senior Developer
5 15 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (8.80%) Lead
7 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Android Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.40%) Architect
13 3 (2.40%) Automation Tester
13 3 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (2.40%) Project Manager
13 3 (2.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (45.60%) Spring
2 54 (43.20%) Spring Boot
3 30 (24.00%) REST
4 26 (20.80%) React
5 23 (18.40%) RESTful
6 16 (12.80%) JPA
6 16 (12.80%) Node.js
7 15 (12.00%) Kafka
8 14 (11.20%) HTML
8 14 (11.20%) JSF
9 13 (10.40%) CSS
9 13 (10.40%) Terraform
10 12 (9.60%) FreeMarker
10 12 (9.60%) Redux
11 10 (8.00%) AngularJS
11 10 (8.00%) HTML5
11 10 (8.00%) Jest
12 9 (7.20%) CSS3
12 9 (7.20%) Spring MVC
12 9 (7.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Derivative
1 13 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.60%) Equity Derivative
3 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.40%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.60%) Equities
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Linux
2 11 (8.80%) Unix
3 9 (7.20%) Android
4 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 46 (36.80%) Agile
3 39 (31.20%) Microservices
4 33 (26.40%) TDD
5 32 (25.60%) Test Automation
6 28 (22.40%) Scrum
7 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (20.00%) DevOps
9 23 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (14.40%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.60%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.80%) BDD
13 15 (12.00%) AI
14 14 (11.20%) Data Lineage
14 14 (11.20%) Software Engineering
14 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (10.40%) Event-Driven
15 13 (10.40%) SDLC
16 12 (9.60%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) SQL
2 31 (24.80%) Python
3 26 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.00%) C++
6 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.60%) Bash
7 7 (5.60%) Perl
8 6 (4.80%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.20%) C#
9 4 (3.20%) Ruby
10 3 (2.40%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.60%) Go
11 2 (1.60%) Scala
12 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.20%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) IIBA
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.80%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (15.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.40%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Istio
4 3 (2.40%) Grafana
4 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.60%) Argo
5 2 (1.60%) Netcool
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) MuleSoft
1 16 (12.80%) Oracle
2 11 (8.80%) Sybase
3 7 (5.60%) Google
3 7 (5.60%) IBM
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.80%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.80%) IFS
6 1 (0.80%) Okta
6 1 (0.80%) Solace
6 1 (0.80%) Temenos
6 1 (0.80%) TIBCO