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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Java 167 93 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.23% 13.66% 13.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.26% 40.79% 38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 74 76
10th Percentile £312 £350 £400
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £502
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.76% +0.30%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £603
90th Percentile £625 £530 £674
Scotland median daily rate £497 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +12.95% -7.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.58
25th Percentile - - £49.86
Median hourly rate - - £52.62
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.65
Scotland median hourly rate - - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +5.41%

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 369 228 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 51.32% 33.48% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 166 185
10th Percentile £313 £337 £400
25th Percentile £408 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £590
90th Percentile £613 £597 £725
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £483
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.74% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £26.31 £17.72 £48.87
25th Percentile £43.15 £18.92 £51.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -65.93% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 £30.32 £64.61
90th Percentile £61.00 £49.63 £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £33.30 £59.03
% change year-on-year +80.21% -43.60% +19.71%

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
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 21 September 2025.

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 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 5 (2.99%) CMS
2 4 (2.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.20%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.20%) Mule
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 50 (29.94%) AWS
2 34 (20.36%) Azure
3 19 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (11.38%) GitHub
4 12 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.39%) BlazeMeter
6 6 (3.59%) SaaS
7 5 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.40%) Apigee
8 4 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.40%) Datadog
8 4 (2.40%) GCP
8 4 (2.40%) Slack
9 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.80%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.80%) PaaS
9 3 (1.80%) Serverless
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) DHCP
1 5 (2.99%) DNS
1 5 (2.99%) HTTP
2 4 (2.40%) SSL
2 4 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.20%) AMQP
3 2 (1.20%) DSL
3 2 (1.20%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (28.74%) MongoDB
2 41 (24.55%) Relational Database
3 26 (15.57%) DB2
4 16 (9.58%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.19%) MySQL
6 7 (4.19%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.80%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.80%) MSDE
10 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.60%) GIS
12 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (26.35%) JUnit
2 37 (22.16%) Jenkins
3 28 (16.77%) Git
4 21 (12.57%) JIRA
5 16 (9.58%) Bitbucket
6 14 (8.38%) IntelliJ
6 14 (8.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 13 (7.78%) PyCharm
7 13 (7.78%) Visual Studio
8 8 (4.79%) GitLab
9 7 (4.19%) Maven
10 6 (3.59%) Mockito
11 4 (2.40%) Gradle
11 4 (2.40%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.80%) Vite
13 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.20%) Selenium
13 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 75 (44.91%) Finance
2 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
3 38 (22.75%) Banking
4 30 (17.96%) Investment Banking
5 26 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (13.17%) Front Office
7 15 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 123 (73.65%) Developer
2 105 (62.87%) Java Developer
3 32 (19.16%) SQL Developer
4 23 (13.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (12.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 18 (10.78%) Core Java Developer
7 17 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.18%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 17 (10.18%) Sybase Developer
8 15 (8.98%) Linux Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Python Engineer
9 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.78%) Senior
11 11 (6.59%) Java Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Python Developer
13 7 (4.19%) React Developer
13 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (53.89%) Spring
2 50 (29.94%) Kafka
3 44 (26.35%) Spring Boot
4 30 (17.96%) React
5 27 (16.17%) AngularJS
6 23 (13.77%) JMS
7 19 (11.38%) RESTful
8 13 (7.78%) CSS
8 13 (7.78%) REST
9 10 (5.99%) SOAP
10 9 (5.39%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.39%) OAuth
11 7 (4.19%) OAuth2
11 7 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.59%) Ext JS
13 5 (2.99%) HTML
13 5 (2.99%) Node.js
14 4 (2.40%) OpenID
14 4 (2.40%) SAML
14 4 (2.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.75%) Data Structures
2 22 (13.17%) Public Cloud
3 20 (11.98%) Equities
4 14 (8.38%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (7.78%) Algorithms
5 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
6 11 (6.59%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.39%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (2.99%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.80%) Derivative
10 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (47.31%) Linux
2 15 (8.98%) Windows
3 11 (6.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (55.69%) Agile
2 70 (41.92%) CI/CD
3 59 (35.33%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (35.33%) SDLC
4 53 (31.74%) Software Engineering
5 44 (26.35%) DevOps
6 38 (22.75%) Microservices
7 37 (22.16%) Multithreading
8 36 (21.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (17.37%) Performance Tuning
10 24 (14.37%) Test Automation
11 22 (13.17%) Open Source
12 21 (12.57%) Database Tuning
13 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
14 18 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (8.98%) Machine Learning
17 14 (8.38%) Community of Practice
17 14 (8.38%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (40.72%) SQL
2 66 (39.52%) Python
3 33 (19.76%) TypeScript
4 30 (17.96%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.97%) Shell Script
6 16 (9.58%) C#
7 7 (4.19%) Go
8 6 (3.59%) Bash
8 6 (3.59%) Perl
9 2 (1.20%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (3.59%) Degree
2 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (11.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (23.35%) Terraform
2 38 (22.75%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.78%) Ansible
4 11 (6.59%) Grafana
5 4 (2.40%) Argo
5 4 (2.40%) Istio
6 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (15.57%) Sybase
2 13 (7.78%) Oracle
3 9 (5.39%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.39%) Splunk
4 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.59%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.99%) F5
6 5 (2.99%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.80%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.80%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) SAP
9 1 (0.60%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.60%) Facebook
9 1 (0.60%) Google
9 1 (0.60%) Kronos
9 1 (0.60%) Pega
9 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.60%) Thunderhead
9 1 (0.60%) Workday
9 1 (0.60%) Xceptor