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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 74 170 119
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.10% 22.40% 14.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.33% 43.70% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 78 88
10th Percentile £312 £300 £379
25th Percentile £400 £352 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -0.66% -20.35%
75th Percentile £565 £500 £513
90th Percentile £651 £550 £689
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.07% -6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.89%

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 281 389 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.56% 51.25% 39.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 198 214
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £467 £453
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +3.09% -13.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 £623
Scotland median daily rate £450 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -4.46% -0.84% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £15.09 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +247.91% -73.76% -2.58%
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £57.50
% change year-on-year +131.41% -58.67% -2.59%

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 30 May 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 6 (8.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (4.05%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.05%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.05%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
3 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (44.59%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) GitHub
3 12 (16.22%) Azure
3 12 (16.22%) ChatGPT
4 10 (13.51%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (12.16%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.11%) GCP
6 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.70%) Slack
10 1 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.73%) Relational Database
2 13 (17.57%) MySQL
3 12 (16.22%) Metadata
3 12 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 11 (14.86%) DB2
5 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.41%) Flink
6 4 (5.41%) Oracle Database
6 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
8 1 (1.35%) Big Data
8 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.76%) GitLab
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
5 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.70%) Selenium
6 2 (2.70%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.35%) JUnit
7 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.35%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (48.65%) Finance
2 20 (27.03%) Banking
3 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Investment Banking
4 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (14.86%) Front Office
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.35%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 40 (54.05%) Developer
2 28 (37.84%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.51%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Python Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Power Platform Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) DB2 Developer
9 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Gen AI Developer
9 2 (2.70%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Site Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.49%) Spring
2 24 (32.43%) Spring Boot
3 14 (18.92%) React
4 9 (12.16%) Kafka
5 7 (9.46%) RESTful
6 6 (8.11%) CSS
6 6 (8.11%) HTML
6 6 (8.11%) Jest
7 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.76%) CSS3
7 5 (6.76%) HTML5
7 5 (6.76%) Redux
7 5 (6.76%) Spring MVC
8 4 (5.41%) REST
9 3 (4.05%) Apache Axis
9 3 (4.05%) Apache Camel
9 3 (4.05%) Middleware
9 3 (4.05%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (4.05%) Spring Batch
10 2 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (14.86%) Derivative
3 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Equities
7 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.24%) CI/CD
2 22 (29.73%) Microservices
2 22 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.68%) TDD
4 18 (24.32%) BDD
4 18 (24.32%) DevOps
5 16 (21.62%) Agile
5 16 (21.62%) AI
5 16 (21.62%) SDLC
5 16 (21.62%) Test Automation
6 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
7 12 (16.22%) Data Lineage
7 12 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (16.22%) LLM
7 12 (16.22%) Machine Learning
8 11 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.51%) Data Governance
10 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.16%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) SQL
2 23 (31.08%) Python
3 10 (13.51%) C++
3 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.11%) Perl
4 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.05%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) Data Quality
1 10 (13.51%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (29.73%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.62%) Terraform
3 5 (6.76%) Istio
4 2 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) Argo
4 2 (2.70%) Grafana
4 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) Oracle
2 11 (14.86%) Sybase
3 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.46%) IBM
5 3 (4.05%) Databricks
5 3 (4.05%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.35%) TOWER Software