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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 122 127 129
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 16.85% 16.69% 14.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.97% 40.19% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 80 87
10th Percentile £312 £350 £383
25th Percentile £360 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £399 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.39% -20.25% -22.12%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £675
90th Percentile £614 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £433 £487
% change year-on-year +15.61% -11.10% -2.70%
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 £61.23 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - -5.31%

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 330 316 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 45.58% 41.52% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 167 214
10th Percentile £345 £350 £390
25th Percentile £401 £364 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -16.67% +3.96%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £650
90th Percentile £606 £612 £746
Scotland median daily rate £475 £465 £506
% change year-on-year +2.15% -8.10% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £52.06 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £55.15 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £59.36 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +203.02% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile £63.79 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £33.30 £60.02
% change year-on-year +80.21% -44.52% +14.95%

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 24 December 2025.

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 (4.92%) CMS
2 3 (2.46%) Confluence
3 2 (1.64%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.64%) Mule
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.82%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 50 (40.98%) AWS
2 32 (26.23%) Azure
3 15 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (11.48%) GitHub
5 13 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (10.66%) Serverless
6 12 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.74%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.28%) Apigee
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.46%) GCP
11 3 (2.46%) Slack
12 2 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.64%) Datadog
12 2 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.56%) Firewall
2 5 (4.10%) DHCP
2 5 (4.10%) DNS
3 4 (3.28%) HTTP
3 4 (3.28%) SSL
3 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.64%) AMQP
4 2 (1.64%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.85%) MongoDB
2 22 (18.03%) Relational Database
3 14 (11.48%) DB2
4 10 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.92%) MySQL
7 4 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.46%) MSDE
8 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.82%) GIS
10 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.82%) HBase
10 1 (0.82%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (29.51%) Jenkins
2 27 (22.13%) Git
3 23 (18.85%) JIRA
3 23 (18.85%) JUnit
4 20 (16.39%) Bitbucket
5 14 (11.48%) GitLab
6 10 (8.20%) IntelliJ
6 10 (8.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (7.38%) PyCharm
7 9 (7.38%) Visual Studio
8 8 (6.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (4.10%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.46%) Mockito
10 3 (2.46%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.46%) Vite
11 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.64%) Gradle
11 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 57 (46.72%) Finance
2 36 (29.51%) Banking
3 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.75%) Investment Banking
5 17 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
7 13 (10.66%) Front Office
8 9 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.82%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 66 (54.10%) Developer
2 54 (44.26%) Java Developer
3 23 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (18.03%) SQL Developer
5 17 (13.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (13.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (13.11%) Software Engineer
7 14 (11.48%) Senior
8 13 (10.66%) Java Engineer
9 12 (9.84%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 12 (9.84%) Sybase Developer
10 9 (7.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) Linux Developer
11 8 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (6.56%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Architect
12 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (45.08%) Spring
2 34 (27.87%) Spring Boot
3 32 (26.23%) Kafka
4 24 (19.67%) React
5 21 (17.21%) AngularJS
6 15 (12.30%) RESTful
7 13 (10.66%) JMS
8 11 (9.02%) REST
9 10 (8.20%) Node.js
10 9 (7.38%) Hibernate
11 8 (6.56%) SOAP
12 7 (5.74%) Ext JS
13 5 (4.10%) Jest
14 4 (3.28%) OAuth
14 4 (3.28%) OAuth2
14 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
15 3 (2.46%) ActiveMQ
15 3 (2.46%) Apache Camel
15 3 (2.46%) Flask
15 3 (2.46%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Public Cloud
2 16 (13.11%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.84%) Equities
4 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.38%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.10%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (4.10%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.82%) Clustering
10 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (45.90%) Linux
2 11 (9.02%) Windows
3 7 (5.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.36%) CI/CD
2 57 (46.72%) Agile
3 45 (36.89%) DevOps
4 40 (32.79%) Microservices
5 36 (29.51%) SDLC
6 33 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (27.05%) Software Engineering
7 26 (21.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (20.49%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (16.39%) Containerisation
9 20 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.39%) Multithreading
10 18 (14.75%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.66%) Database Tuning
12 12 (9.84%) Open Source
13 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (9.02%) Observability
14 10 (8.20%) Computer Science
14 10 (8.20%) Fintech
15 9 (7.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 58 (47.54%) Python
2 37 (30.33%) SQL
3 22 (18.03%) TypeScript
4 15 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.66%) Perl
5 13 (10.66%) Shell Script
6 12 (9.84%) C#
7 9 (7.38%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.74%) Ruby
9 5 (4.10%) Bash
10 3 (2.46%) Go
11 2 (1.64%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (7.38%) AWS Certification
2 5 (4.10%) Degree
3 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (24.59%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 31 (25.41%) Terraform
3 20 (16.39%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) Argo
4 3 (2.46%) Istio
5 1 (0.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (13.93%) Oracle
2 13 (10.66%) Sybase
3 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.92%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.10%) F5
5 5 (4.10%) Infoblox
6 2 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.82%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.82%) Confluent
7 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.82%) Kronos
7 1 (0.82%) Pega
7 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) Workday