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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 105 195 111
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.31% 23.58% 14.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.61% 46.21% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 95 89
10th Percentile £308 £300 £373
25th Percentile £387 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +6.82% -16.19%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £500
90th Percentile £585 £606 £663
Scotland median daily rate £525 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +11.70% +4.44% -6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - £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 343 422 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.69% 51.03% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 227 208
10th Percentile £306 £300 £338
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.44% -10.54%
75th Percentile £522 £550 £513
90th Percentile £619 £600 £624
Scotland median daily rate £449 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.47% +5.56% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £22.57 £37.52
25th Percentile - £33.80 £51.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -6.82%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -5.60%

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 12 July 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 8 (7.62%) Apache
2 4 (3.81%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.86%) Apache Geronimo
3 3 (2.86%) Apache ServiceMix
3 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.90%) AWS
2 19 (18.10%) GitHub
3 17 (16.19%) Azure
4 12 (11.43%) ChatGPT
5 11 (10.48%) Anthropic Claude
5 11 (10.48%) GCP
6 9 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.90%) Slack
11 1 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 17 (16.19%) MySQL
3 16 (15.24%) MongoDB
4 12 (11.43%) Metadata
5 11 (10.48%) Db2
6 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.76%) Flink
8 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.90%) Big Data
10 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (27.62%) Git
2 16 (15.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.62%) Maven
4 7 (6.67%) Gradle
4 7 (6.67%) JUnit
5 6 (5.71%) JIRA
5 6 (5.71%) Selenium
6 5 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.76%) GoCD
7 4 (3.81%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.81%) GitLab
7 4 (3.81%) JProfiler
7 4 (3.81%) Postman
7 4 (3.81%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.81%) Subversion
8 3 (2.86%) Appium
8 3 (2.86%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.90%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (40.95%) Finance
2 28 (26.67%) Banking
3 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 19 (18.10%) Public Sector
5 18 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (11.43%) Front Office
6 12 (11.43%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Law
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) International Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Military
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.95%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 63 (60.00%) Developer
2 46 (43.81%) Java Developer
3 19 (18.10%) Senior
4 13 (12.38%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.43%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Lead
10 4 (3.81%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Automation Tester
11 3 (2.86%) Azure Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Core Java Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Gen AI Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (41.90%) Spring
2 40 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 21 (20.00%) React
4 16 (15.24%) REST
5 14 (13.33%) RESTful
6 12 (11.43%) Kafka
7 10 (9.52%) HTML
7 10 (9.52%) JSF
8 9 (8.57%) CSS
8 9 (8.57%) Jest
8 9 (8.57%) JPA
9 8 (7.62%) HTML5
9 8 (7.62%) Redux
10 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.67%) CSS3
10 7 (6.67%) Node.js
10 7 (6.67%) Spring MVC
11 6 (5.71%) Hibernate
12 5 (4.76%) FreeMarker
12 5 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 12 (11.43%) Equity Derivative
3 11 (10.48%) Derivative
4 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Equities
7 2 (1.90%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Linux
2 4 (3.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 34 (32.38%) Microservices
3 33 (31.43%) TDD
4 31 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (27.62%) Agile
6 28 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 25 (23.81%) DevOps
7 25 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (20.00%) BDD
9 19 (18.10%) AI
9 19 (18.10%) SDLC
10 18 (17.14%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 15 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 14 (13.33%) Data Lineage
12 14 (13.33%) Machine Learning
12 14 (13.33%) Scrum
13 13 (12.38%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (11.43%) Computer Science
14 12 (11.43%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.24%) SQL
2 29 (27.62%) Python
3 23 (21.90%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.48%) C++
6 7 (6.67%) Perl
7 4 (3.81%) Bash
7 4 (3.81%) C#
7 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.95%) Groovy
9 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.95%) Ruby
9 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Degree
1 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.86%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.95%) IIBA
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.29%) QA
2 11 (10.48%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (15.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.33%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) Ansible
3 5 (4.76%) Istio
4 2 (1.90%) Argo
4 2 (1.90%) Grafana
4 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Oracle
2 11 (10.48%) MuleSoft
2 11 (10.48%) Sybase
3 9 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.67%) IBM
5 3 (2.86%) Databricks
5 3 (2.86%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.95%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.95%) Okta
6 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) TOWER Software