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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 125 174 90
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.50% 23.29% 13.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.09% 44.62% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 71 72
10th Percentile £300 £313 £350
25th Percentile £318 £407 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.94% -13.26%
75th Percentile £480 £563 £481
90th Percentile £538 £625 £535
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -15.00% +13.64% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £61.23 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.83% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £61.23 -
% change year-on-year -42.83% - -

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 402 390 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.78% 52.21% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 202 166
10th Percentile £311 £313 £337
25th Percentile £325 £407 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £500
90th Percentile £588 £613 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile - £30.05 £17.45
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -65.74%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £63.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -41.67% +206.28% -66.81%

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 26 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 46 (36.80%) AWS
2 20 (16.00%) GitHub
3 15 (12.00%) Azure
4 12 (9.60%) GCP
5 11 (8.80%) ChatGPT
6 10 (8.00%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.80%) Google Play
10 5 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.40%) Kong
12 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.40%) Serverless
13 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 12 (9.60%) MySQL
3 11 (8.80%) Metadata
4 10 (8.00%) Db2
5 7 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.60%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
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%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (36.00%) Git
2 28 (22.40%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.20%) Gradle
3 19 (15.20%) Maven
4 11 (8.80%) JUnit
5 9 (7.20%) JIRA
6 8 (6.40%) GoCD
7 7 (5.60%) JProfiler
8 6 (4.80%) Android Studio
8 6 (4.80%) Selenium
9 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.20%) GitLab
10 4 (3.20%) Postman
10 4 (3.20%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.20%) Subversion
11 3 (2.40%) Appium
11 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.40%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.40%) webpack
General
1 56 (44.80%) Finance
2 44 (35.20%) Banking
3 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (11.20%) 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 78 (62.40%) Developer
2 57 (45.60%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.80%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Lead
7 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Lead Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Android Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.40%) Automation Tester
12 3 (2.40%) Core Java Developer
12 3 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.40%) Gen AI Developer
12 3 (2.40%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (45.60%) Spring
2 53 (42.40%) Spring Boot
3 31 (24.80%) REST
4 27 (21.60%) React
5 25 (20.00%) RESTful
6 17 (13.60%) Kafka
7 16 (12.80%) JPA
7 16 (12.80%) Node.js
7 16 (12.80%) Terraform
8 14 (11.20%) JSF
9 12 (9.60%) AngularJS
9 12 (9.60%) FreeMarker
9 12 (9.60%) HTML
10 11 (8.80%) CSS
11 10 (8.00%) Redux
11 10 (8.00%) Web Services
12 8 (6.40%) HTML5
12 8 (6.40%) Jest
12 8 (6.40%) JWT
12 8 (6.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.60%) Derivative
4 11 (8.80%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (5.60%) 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 70 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 45 (36.00%) Agile
3 40 (32.00%) Microservices
4 33 (26.40%) TDD
5 32 (25.60%) Test Automation
6 28 (22.40%) DevOps
6 28 (22.40%) Scrum
7 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (15.20%) Containerisation
10 18 (14.40%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.00%) BDD
12 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.20%) AI
13 14 (11.20%) Data Lineage
13 14 (11.20%) Event-Driven
13 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (10.40%) SDLC
15 11 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.80%) SQL
2 32 (25.60%) Python
3 24 (19.20%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.20%) C++
5 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.60%) Bash
6 7 (5.60%) Go
6 7 (5.60%) Perl
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
9 3 (2.40%) Scala
10 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.60%) 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 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (17.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (29.60%) 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 4 (3.20%) 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