Java Contracts in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Java 190 112 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.75% 14.62% 13.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.26% 37.84% 37.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 89 69
10th Percentile £300 £373 £413
25th Percentile £363 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £544
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -19.12% +3.62%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £650
90th Percentile £611 £675 £676
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +4.44% -6.25% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.58
25th Percentile - £51.25 £49.86
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £52.62
Median % change year-on-year - -0.22% +11.95%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.65
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +5.50%

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 402 296 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.25% 38.64% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 205 198
10th Percentile £300 £336 £400
25th Percentile £396 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £521
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -13.67% +4.25%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £615
90th Percentile £582 £650 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.08% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £22.57 £37.52 £51.99
25th Percentile £33.80 £51.88 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -6.82% +31.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +25.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.05%) JBoss
2 2 (1.05%) OpenROAD
3 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) Mule
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Finacle
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 51 (26.84%) AWS
2 29 (15.26%) Azure
3 19 (10.00%) GitHub
4 16 (8.42%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.21%) BlazeMeter
8 7 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.16%) SaaS
9 6 (3.16%) Serverless
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.11%) GCP
10 4 (2.11%) PaaS
10 4 (2.11%) Slack
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.58%) Datadog
11 3 (1.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) HTTP
1 3 (1.58%) SSL
2 2 (1.05%) DHCP
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) AMQP
3 1 (0.53%) DSL
3 1 (0.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (26.84%) Relational Database
2 48 (25.26%) MongoDB
3 38 (20.00%) DB2
4 12 (6.32%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.79%) RDBMS
6 9 (4.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.68%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.16%) MySQL
9 5 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (28.95%) JUnit
2 29 (15.26%) Git
3 23 (12.11%) Jenkins
4 22 (11.58%) JIRA
5 12 (6.32%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.79%) IntelliJ
6 11 (5.79%) Mockito
6 11 (5.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (5.26%) PyCharm
7 10 (5.26%) Visual Studio
8 9 (4.74%) Maven
9 8 (4.21%) GitLab
9 8 (4.21%) Subversion
10 6 (3.16%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (3.16%) PVCS
11 5 (2.63%) Cucumber
12 4 (2.11%) Gradle
12 4 (2.11%) Selenium
12 4 (2.11%) Terragrunt
13 2 (1.05%) Mercurial
General
1 88 (46.32%) Finance
2 53 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 42 (22.11%) Banking
4 35 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (16.32%) Investment Banking
6 29 (15.26%) Front Office
7 11 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.26%) Financial Institution
8 10 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (73.68%) Developer
2 117 (61.58%) Java Developer
3 26 (13.68%) SQL Developer
4 19 (10.00%) Linux Developer
5 17 (8.95%) Core Java Developer
6 16 (8.42%) Python Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 13 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.84%) Senior
8 13 (6.84%) Sybase Developer
9 11 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Architect
12 7 (3.68%) Lead
13 6 (3.16%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) Oracle Developer
13 6 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (51.58%) Spring
2 50 (26.32%) Kafka
3 41 (21.58%) Spring Boot
4 27 (14.21%) JMS
5 17 (8.95%) React
6 15 (7.89%) AngularJS
7 13 (6.84%) REST
7 13 (6.84%) RESTful
8 11 (5.79%) CSS
9 7 (3.68%) Hibernate
9 7 (3.68%) Java EE
9 7 (3.68%) OAuth
10 6 (3.16%) J2EE
10 6 (3.16%) SOAP
11 5 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.11%) JSON
12 4 (2.11%) OAuth2
12 4 (2.11%) OpenID
12 4 (2.11%) SAML
12 4 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.21%) Data Structures
2 26 (13.68%) Equities
3 20 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (8.42%) Algorithms
4 16 (8.42%) Public Cloud
5 14 (7.37%) Management Information System
6 13 (6.84%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (5.79%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.68%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (3.68%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.63%) Derivative
10 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.53%) Clustering
13 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 90 (47.37%) Linux
2 12 (6.32%) Unix
3 11 (5.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (48.95%) Agile
2 71 (37.37%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (30.00%) SDLC
4 53 (27.89%) Software Engineering
5 50 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 44 (23.16%) Multithreading
7 36 (18.95%) DevOps
8 31 (16.32%) Microservices
9 28 (14.74%) Open Source
10 27 (14.21%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
12 24 (12.63%) Community of Practice
12 24 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (12.11%) Database Tuning
14 22 (11.58%) Machine Learning
15 20 (10.53%) Unit Testing
16 19 (10.00%) Decision-Making
17 17 (8.95%) Risk Management
18 16 (8.42%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 83 (43.68%) SQL
2 75 (39.47%) Python
3 36 (18.95%) TypeScript
4 35 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 34 (17.89%) Shell Script
6 12 (6.32%) C#
7 8 (4.21%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.68%) Go
9 6 (3.16%) C
9 6 (3.16%) ProC
10 3 (1.58%) Bash
11 2 (1.05%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 5 (2.63%) AWS Certification
1 5 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (2.63%) Degree
2 4 (2.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.58%) QA
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (17.89%) Terraform
2 29 (15.26%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.32%) Ansible
4 10 (5.26%) Grafana
5 4 (2.11%) Argo
5 4 (2.11%) Istio
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (19.47%) Sybase
2 19 (10.00%) Oracle
3 8 (4.21%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.21%) Splunk
4 6 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.11%) IBM
5 4 (2.11%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.58%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.05%) F5
7 2 (1.05%) Google
7 2 (1.05%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.53%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.53%) Facebook
8 1 (0.53%) Okta
8 1 (0.53%) Talend
8 1 (0.53%) Temenos
8 1 (0.53%) Thunderhead