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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 75 179 137
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.53% 21.72% 14.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.41% 42.52% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 98 95
10th Percentile £311 £300 £363
25th Percentile £383 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.48% -12.00% -23.66%
75th Percentile £575 £492 £680
90th Percentile £616 £550 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +16.67% -6.93% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.23 - £52.50
75th Percentile £64.34 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

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 264 421 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.08% 51.09% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 208 232
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £375 £365 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -11.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £638
90th Percentile £591 £580 £725
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £41.00 - £51.63
25th Percentile £50.00 - £52.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -64.38% -9.17%
75th Percentile £60.59 - £58.75
90th Percentile £62.84 - £61.00
Scotland median hourly rate £56.86 £22.44 £57.50
% change year-on-year +153.43% -60.98% -11.54%

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 March 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 (5.33%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (4.00%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.67%) CMS
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (54.67%) AWS
2 14 (18.67%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (13.33%) Serverless
4 8 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (10.67%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (9.33%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.67%) GCP
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.67%) GitHub
9 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.67%) PaaS
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) Relational Database
2 11 (14.67%) MySQL
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.33%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (5.33%) DB2
7 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.33%) Flink
9 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.33%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.67%) Git
3 12 (16.00%) GitLab
4 10 (13.33%) Bitbucket
4 10 (13.33%) JIRA
4 10 (13.33%) JUnit
5 8 (10.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.67%) Gradle
7 2 (2.67%) Mockito
7 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.33%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.33%) Vite
General
1 31 (41.33%) Finance
2 23 (30.67%) Banking
3 15 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.67%) Front Office
6 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 27 (36.00%) Developer
2 25 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 14 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Senior
4 7 (9.33%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Sybase Developer
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (41.33%) Spring
2 25 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 21 (28.00%) React
4 12 (16.00%) Kafka
5 10 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.67%) Node.js
7 7 (9.33%) RESTful
8 6 (8.00%) Hibernate
8 6 (8.00%) Jest
9 4 (5.33%) JMS
9 4 (5.33%) REST
10 3 (4.00%) Apache Axis
10 3 (4.00%) Apache Camel
10 3 (4.00%) JPA
10 3 (4.00%) Middleware
10 3 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
11 2 (2.67%) CSS3
11 2 (2.67%) PySpark
11 2 (2.67%) Redux
11 2 (2.67%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.33%) Equities
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) IVR
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) Microservices
2 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 24 (32.00%) DevOps
4 23 (30.67%) SDLC
5 21 (28.00%) Agile
5 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 16 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (13.33%) AI
11 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (10.67%) Data Science
12 8 (10.67%) Decision-Making
12 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
12 8 (10.67%) Runbook
12 8 (10.67%) TDD
13 7 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.33%) Python
2 17 (22.67%) SQL
3 11 (14.67%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.33%) Perl
5 7 (9.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.33%) Ruby
6 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.67%) Rust
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (34.67%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.33%) Terraform
3 7 (9.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Istio
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (30.67%) Oracle
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) Sybase
4 3 (4.00%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.33%) Confluent
5 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.33%) TOWER Software