Java Contracts in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 185 129 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.18% 14.71% 17.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.47% 36.54% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 93 102
10th Percentile £300 £397 £426
25th Percentile £363 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £636
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -24.03% +27.15%
75th Percentile £510 £634 £712
90th Percentile £575 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £450 £479 £499
% change year-on-year -6.05% -3.91% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.58
25th Percentile - £51.25 £49.86
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £52.62
Median % change year-on-year - -0.22% +9.00%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.65
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -11.06% +8.31%

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 416 353 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 52.13% 40.25% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 225 232
10th Percentile £313 £367 £410
25th Percentile £400 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -11.36% +14.46%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £675
90th Percentile £581 £691 £750
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £51.88 £51.99
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -2.58% +31.17%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.24%) Confluence
2 2 (1.08%) JBoss
2 2 (1.08%) OpenROAD
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Finacle
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 48 (25.95%) AWS
2 20 (10.81%) Azure
3 14 (7.57%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (6.49%) GitHub
5 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.16%) Azure AKS
7 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.16%) Serverless
8 3 (1.62%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.62%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (1.62%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.08%) PaaS
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.54%) GCP
10 1 (0.54%) IaaS
10 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) FTP
1 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.32%) Relational Database
2 37 (20.00%) DB2
2 37 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.03%) RDBMS
4 9 (4.86%) MySQL
5 8 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.16%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (23.78%) JUnit
2 15 (8.11%) JIRA
3 11 (5.95%) Git
4 8 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.32%) Subversion
5 6 (3.24%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.24%) Mockito
5 6 (3.24%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (3.24%) PVCS
6 5 (2.70%) Maven
7 4 (2.16%) Selenium
8 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.62%) GitLab
9 2 (1.08%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.54%) Gradle
10 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.54%) Toad
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 67 (36.22%) Finance
2 45 (24.32%) Banking
3 41 (22.16%) Social Skills
4 33 (17.84%) Front Office
5 32 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (14.05%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.49%) Financial Institution
8 10 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 143 (77.30%) Developer
2 119 (64.32%) Java Developer
3 20 (10.81%) Linux Developer
4 16 (8.65%) SQL Developer
5 12 (6.49%) Linux Scripter
6 11 (5.95%) Core Java Developer
7 10 (5.41%) Lead
7 10 (5.41%) Python Engineer
8 9 (4.86%) Senior
9 8 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 8 (4.32%) JavaScript Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Sybase Developer
11 6 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.24%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (3.24%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.24%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.70%) Architect
12 5 (2.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (53.51%) Spring
2 56 (30.27%) Spring Boot
3 43 (23.24%) Kafka
4 25 (13.51%) JMS
5 11 (5.95%) REST
6 10 (5.41%) React
7 8 (4.32%) Java EE
8 6 (3.24%) CSS
8 6 (3.24%) J2EE
8 6 (3.24%) Middleware
8 6 (3.24%) SOAP
9 5 (2.70%) RESTful
10 4 (2.16%) Web Services
11 3 (1.62%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.62%) CSS3
11 3 (1.62%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.62%) HTML
11 3 (1.62%) HTML5
11 3 (1.62%) Spring Batch
11 3 (1.62%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.16%) Data Structures
2 21 (11.35%) Equities
3 18 (9.73%) Algorithms
4 16 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.24%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.16%) Derivative
10 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 83 (44.86%) Linux
2 20 (10.81%) Unix
3 5 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (35.14%) Agile
2 62 (33.51%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (28.11%) Software Engineering
4 48 (25.95%) Multithreading
5 41 (22.16%) SDLC
6 30 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 24 (12.97%) Microservices
7 24 (12.97%) Open Source
8 22 (11.89%) Concurrent Programming
9 21 (11.35%) DevOps
10 20 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (10.81%) Test Automation
11 19 (10.27%) Process Improvement
12 18 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence
12 18 (9.73%) Database Tuning
13 17 (9.19%) Community of Practice
14 16 (8.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (8.65%) Project Delivery
15 14 (7.57%) Data Security
15 14 (7.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (41.62%) SQL
2 59 (31.89%) Python
3 38 (20.54%) Shell Script
4 30 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.41%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.32%) C#
7 6 (3.24%) C
7 6 (3.24%) ProC
8 2 (1.08%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
1 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (0.54%) Degree
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.62%) QA
3 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.54%) SLA
3 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (15.14%) Terraform
2 12 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.70%) Ansible
4 3 (1.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (17.84%) Sybase
2 14 (7.57%) Oracle
3 9 (4.86%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.62%) DocuSign
4 3 (1.62%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.62%) IBM
4 3 (1.62%) Splunk
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.54%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.54%) Google
6 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.54%) Okta
6 1 (0.54%) Talend
6 1 (0.54%) Temenos