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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 88 159 132
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.66% 20.65% 14.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.77% 42.63% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 91 89
10th Percentile £313 £350 £373
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £408 £510
Median % change year-on-year +25.61% -20.00% -21.54%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £722
90th Percentile £612 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £537 £441 £485
% change year-on-year +21.77% -9.07% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.23 - -
75th Percentile £64.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £65.77
% change year-on-year - - +5.49%

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 277 373 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.86% 48.44% 39.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 182 223
10th Percentile £333 £350 £379
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -13.63% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £533 £650
90th Percentile £588 £581 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +1.28% -6.20% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -64.38% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.61 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +170.14% -62.91% +1.37%

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 6 February 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 (4.55%) CMS
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Geronimo
3 1 (1.14%) Apache ServiceMix
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.45%) AWS
2 19 (21.59%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (11.36%) Serverless
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.95%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.55%) GCP
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.41%) GitHub
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.27%) PaaS
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 11 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.50%) MySQL
3 8 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (9.09%) DB2
4 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.14%) GIS
9 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.14%) HBase
9 1 (1.14%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 19 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 16 (18.18%) JUnit
3 14 (15.91%) Git
4 11 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.50%) GitLab
5 9 (10.23%) JIRA
6 8 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (6.82%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.41%) Mockito
9 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.27%) Gradle
9 2 (2.27%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.14%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.14%) PyCharm
10 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.14%) Vite
General
1 37 (42.05%) Finance
2 26 (29.55%) Banking
3 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.77%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.95%) Front Office
8 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 39 (44.32%) Developer
2 35 (39.77%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) SQL Developer
5 11 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 7 (7.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Sybase Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Linux Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.55%) Architect
11 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (48.86%) Spring
2 30 (34.09%) Spring Boot
3 25 (28.41%) React
4 16 (18.18%) Kafka
5 14 (15.91%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.23%) Node.js
6 9 (10.23%) RESTful
7 7 (7.95%) Jest
7 7 (7.95%) JMS
8 6 (6.82%) Hibernate
9 4 (4.55%) Ext JS
9 4 (4.55%) REST
10 3 (3.41%) .NET
10 3 (3.41%) Model Context Protocol
11 2 (2.27%) CSS
11 2 (2.27%) FastAPI
11 2 (2.27%) Flask
11 2 (2.27%) HTML
11 2 (2.27%) J2EE
11 2 (2.27%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Data Structures
2 9 (10.23%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.95%) Equities
4 6 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.14%) IVR
8 1 (1.14%) NHS
8 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.68%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Microservices
2 34 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 28 (31.82%) DevOps
3 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (29.55%) Agile
4 26 (29.55%) SDLC
5 23 (26.14%) Software Engineering
6 21 (23.86%) Containerisation
6 21 (23.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (20.45%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (12.50%) AI
9 11 (12.50%) Multithreading
10 10 (11.36%) Test Automation
11 9 (10.23%) Fintech
11 9 (10.23%) Observability
12 8 (9.09%) Data Science
12 8 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 8 (9.09%) Runbook
12 8 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.23%) Python
2 25 (28.41%) SQL
3 14 (15.91%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.95%) Perl
6 7 (7.95%) Ruby
6 7 (7.95%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.27%) C#
7 2 (2.27%) Rust
8 1 (1.14%) C++
8 1 (1.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) QA
2 7 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (30.68%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (30.68%) Kubernetes
2 19 (21.59%) Terraform
3 10 (11.36%) Ansible
4 2 (2.27%) Grafana
4 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.95%) Sybase
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.14%) Confluent
5 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.14%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.14%) TOWER Software