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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 122 171 97
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.65% 23.46% 14.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.85% 44.88% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 75 78
10th Percentile £300 £313 £350
25th Percentile £321 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £493 £440
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +12.05% -12.26%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £499
90th Percentile £549 £620 £538
Scotland median daily rate £425 £484 £440
% change year-on-year -12.19% +10.00% -7.37%
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 383 381 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.42% 52.26% 33.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 201 170
10th Percentile £311 £313 £349
25th Percentile £333 £408 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £500
90th Percentile £600 £613 £600
Scotland median daily rate £445 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -11.00% +10.38% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile - £26.31 £17.72
25th Percentile - £43.15 £18.92
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +38.21% -30.79%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - £61.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +12.15% -8.18%

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 September 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 4 (3.28%) Apache
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.64%) Camunda
3 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.07%) AWS
2 21 (17.21%) GitHub
3 15 (12.30%) Azure
4 12 (9.84%) ChatGPT
5 11 (9.02%) Anthropic Claude
5 11 (9.02%) GCP
6 9 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.38%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.92%) Google Play
8 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.46%) Kong
10 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.64%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) HTTP
1 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.64%) SSL
1 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.39%) MongoDB
2 19 (15.57%) Relational Database
3 14 (11.48%) MySQL
4 12 (9.84%) Metadata
5 11 (9.02%) Db2
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.28%) Flink
8 4 (3.28%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.46%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.64%) Big Data
10 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (34.43%) Git
2 25 (20.49%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.57%) Maven
4 18 (14.75%) Gradle
5 11 (9.02%) JUnit
6 8 (6.56%) GoCD
6 8 (6.56%) JIRA
7 7 (5.74%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.92%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.92%) Selenium
9 5 (4.10%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.28%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.28%) Postman
10 4 (3.28%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.28%) Subversion
11 3 (2.46%) Appium
11 3 (2.46%) GitLab
11 3 (2.46%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.46%) webpack
12 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 52 (42.62%) Finance
2 38 (31.15%) Banking
3 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.66%) Investment Banking
7 12 (9.84%) Front Office
8 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Law
9 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.82%) International Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Military
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (65.57%) Developer
2 58 (47.54%) Java Developer
3 20 (16.39%) Senior
4 15 (12.30%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.48%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.02%) Lead
7 9 (7.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (7.38%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.56%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Android Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (4.10%) Power Platform Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Automation Tester
12 3 (2.46%) Core Java Developer
12 3 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.46%) Gen AI Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 3 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (44.26%) Spring
2 51 (41.80%) Spring Boot
3 30 (24.59%) REST
4 27 (22.13%) React
5 24 (19.67%) RESTful
6 16 (13.11%) JPA
6 16 (13.11%) Node.js
7 15 (12.30%) Kafka
8 14 (11.48%) HTML
8 14 (11.48%) JSF
9 13 (10.66%) CSS
9 13 (10.66%) Terraform
10 12 (9.84%) FreeMarker
10 12 (9.84%) Redux
11 10 (8.20%) AngularJS
11 10 (8.20%) HTML5
11 10 (8.20%) Jest
11 10 (8.20%) Spring MVC
12 9 (7.38%) CSS3
12 9 (7.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Derivative
1 13 (10.66%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.84%) Equity Derivative
3 10 (8.20%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.64%) Equities
9 2 (1.64%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Linux
2 10 (8.20%) Unix
3 9 (7.38%) Android
4 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.46%) CI/CD
2 44 (36.07%) Agile
3 37 (30.33%) Microservices
4 33 (27.05%) TDD
5 32 (26.23%) Test Automation
6 27 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (22.13%) Scrum
7 25 (20.49%) DevOps
7 25 (20.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (13.11%) BDD
9 16 (13.11%) Containerisation
9 16 (13.11%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.30%) AI
11 14 (11.48%) Data Lineage
11 14 (11.48%) SDLC
11 14 (11.48%) Software Engineering
11 14 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (10.66%) Event-Driven
13 12 (9.84%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.69%) SQL
2 31 (25.41%) Python
3 26 (21.31%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.66%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.20%) C++
6 9 (7.38%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.74%) Perl
8 6 (4.92%) Bash
8 6 (4.92%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.10%) Go
10 4 (3.28%) C#
10 4 (3.28%) Ruby
11 3 (2.46%) Groovy
11 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.64%) Scala
13 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) Degree
4 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.46%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.82%) IIBA
6 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) Data Quality
1 11 (9.02%) QA
2 8 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (15.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (25.41%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.56%) Ansible
3 4 (3.28%) Grafana
3 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.46%) Istio
5 2 (1.64%) Netcool
6 1 (0.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (13.11%) MuleSoft
2 15 (12.30%) Oracle
3 11 (9.02%) Sybase
4 7 (5.74%) Google
4 7 (5.74%) IBM
5 6 (4.92%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.82%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.82%) IFS
8 1 (0.82%) Okta
8 1 (0.82%) Solace
8 1 (0.82%) Splunk
8 1 (0.82%) Temenos