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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Java 125 165 92
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.53% 22.92% 13.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.57% 44.84% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 67 73
10th Percentile £300 £313 £350
25th Percentile £318 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.94% -13.00%
75th Percentile £480 £563 £484
90th Percentile £538 £625 £533
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -15.00% +13.64% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 396 368 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.36% 51.11% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 188 165
10th Percentile £311 £313 £336
25th Percentile £325 £408 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £500
90th Percentile £588 £616 £598
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile - £26.31 £17.72
25th Percentile - £43.15 £18.92
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -65.93%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £30.32
90th Percentile - £61.00 £49.63
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £33.30
% change year-on-year -41.67% +80.21% -43.60%

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 23 September 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 (4.80%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) Camunda
4 1 (0.80%) JBoss
4 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.60%) AWS
2 20 (16.00%) GitHub
3 14 (11.20%) Azure
4 11 (8.80%) ChatGPT
4 11 (8.80%) GCP
5 10 (8.00%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (4.80%) Google Play
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.40%) Kong
11 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.40%) Serverless
12 2 (1.60%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) HTTP
1 2 (1.60%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.60%) SSL
1 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.20%) MongoDB
1 19 (15.20%) Relational Database
2 14 (11.20%) MySQL
3 11 (8.80%) Metadata
4 10 (8.00%) Db2
5 7 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.60%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.00%) Flink
8 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.20%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.60%) Big Data
10 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (35.20%) Git
2 28 (22.40%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.20%) Maven
4 18 (14.40%) Gradle
5 11 (8.80%) JUnit
6 9 (7.20%) JIRA
7 8 (6.40%) GoCD
8 7 (5.60%) JProfiler
9 6 (4.80%) Android Studio
9 6 (4.80%) Selenium
10 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.20%) Postman
11 4 (3.20%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.20%) Subversion
12 3 (2.40%) Appium
12 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
12 3 (2.40%) GitLab
12 3 (2.40%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.40%) webpack
General
1 56 (44.80%) Finance
2 42 (33.60%) Banking
3 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.40%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.80%) Front Office
8 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Law
8 2 (1.60%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) International Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.80%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 80 (64.00%) Developer
2 59 (47.20%) Java Developer
3 20 (16.00%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Lead
8 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (7.20%) Python Developer
10 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Android Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Developer
13 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 4 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.20%) Power Platform Developer
14 3 (2.40%) Automation Tester
14 3 (2.40%) Core Java Developer
14 3 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
14 3 (2.40%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (46.40%) Spring
2 54 (43.20%) Spring Boot
3 31 (24.80%) REST
4 29 (23.20%) React
5 24 (19.20%) RESTful
6 16 (12.80%) JPA
6 16 (12.80%) Kafka
6 16 (12.80%) Node.js
7 15 (12.00%) Terraform
8 14 (11.20%) HTML
8 14 (11.20%) JSF
9 13 (10.40%) CSS
10 12 (9.60%) AngularJS
10 12 (9.60%) FreeMarker
10 12 (9.60%) Redux
11 10 (8.00%) HTML5
11 10 (8.00%) Jest
11 10 (8.00%) Spring MVC
11 10 (8.00%) Web Services
12 9 (7.20%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.60%) Derivative
3 11 (8.80%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.80%) Equity Derivative
4 8 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.20%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Equities
8 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Linux
2 11 (8.80%) Unix
3 9 (7.20%) Android
4 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.60%) CI/CD
2 46 (36.80%) Agile
3 39 (31.20%) Microservices
4 33 (26.40%) TDD
5 32 (25.60%) Test Automation
6 28 (22.40%) Scrum
7 27 (21.60%) DevOps
7 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (20.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (14.40%) Containerisation
9 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (13.60%) Mentoring
11 15 (12.00%) BDD
11 15 (12.00%) SDLC
11 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
12 14 (11.20%) AI
12 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (10.40%) Data Lineage
13 13 (10.40%) Event-Driven
14 11 (8.80%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) SQL
2 31 (24.80%) Python
3 26 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.20%) C++
5 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.60%) Perl
7 6 (4.80%) Bash
7 6 (4.80%) Go
7 6 (4.80%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.20%) C#
8 4 (3.20%) Ruby
9 3 (2.40%) Groovy
9 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) IIBA
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 10 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 21 (16.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.40%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Grafana
3 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.40%) Istio
5 2 (1.60%) Netcool
6 1 (0.80%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) MuleSoft
1 16 (12.80%) Oracle
2 10 (8.00%) Sybase
3 7 (5.60%) Google
4 6 (4.80%) IBM
5 5 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.60%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.80%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.80%) IFS
8 1 (0.80%) Okta
8 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.80%) Solace
8 1 (0.80%) Splunk
8 1 (0.80%) Temenos
8 1 (0.80%) webMethods