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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 72 175 120
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.24% 23.00% 14.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.57% 43.86% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 80 88
10th Percentile £305 £300 £379
25th Percentile £400 £355 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -0.66% -22.89%
75th Percentile £568 £510 £513
90th Percentile £657 £575 £723
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.89%

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 271 399 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.79% 52.43% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 199 214
10th Percentile £306 £300 £344
25th Percentile £328 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £468
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -0.11% -10.95%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £580 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £15.09 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +247.91% -73.76% -2.58%
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year +140.44% -60.22% -2.59%

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 May 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 5 (6.94%) Apache
2 3 (4.17%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (4.17%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.17%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.17%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) ChatGPT
2 12 (16.67%) GitHub
3 11 (15.28%) Azure
4 10 (13.89%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.56%) GCP
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.78%) Slack
10 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.56%) Relational Database
2 13 (18.06%) MySQL
3 12 (16.67%) Metadata
3 12 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 11 (15.28%) DB2
5 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.56%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.17%) Flink
7 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.39%) Big Data
9 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.39%) HBase
9 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) GitLab
2 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.56%) JIRA
4 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.78%) Selenium
5 2 (2.78%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (47.22%) Finance
2 19 (26.39%) Banking
3 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 14 (19.44%) Public Sector
5 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 11 (15.28%) Front Office
7 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.39%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 38 (52.78%) Developer
2 28 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.50%) Senior
4 8 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Python Developer
6 6 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) DB2 Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Gen AI Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Perl Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.11%) Spring
2 23 (31.94%) Spring Boot
3 13 (18.06%) React
4 8 (11.11%) Kafka
5 6 (8.33%) Jest
6 5 (6.94%) CSS
6 5 (6.94%) CSS3
6 5 (6.94%) HTML
6 5 (6.94%) HTML5
6 5 (6.94%) Redux
6 5 (6.94%) REST
6 5 (6.94%) RESTful
6 5 (6.94%) Spring MVC
7 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.17%) Apache Axis
8 3 (4.17%) Apache Camel
8 3 (4.17%) Middleware
8 3 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (4.17%) Spring Batch
9 2 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (15.28%) Derivative
3 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (29.17%) Microservices
4 19 (26.39%) TDD
5 18 (25.00%) BDD
6 17 (23.61%) Test Automation
7 16 (22.22%) AI
7 16 (22.22%) DevOps
7 16 (22.22%) SDLC
8 14 (19.44%) Agile
9 12 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 12 (16.67%) LLM
10 11 (15.28%) Data Lineage
10 11 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (15.28%) Machine Learning
11 10 (13.89%) Data Governance
11 10 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (13.89%) Software Engineering
12 9 (12.50%) Metadata Management
13 8 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) SQL
2 22 (30.56%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) C++
4 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.94%) Perl
6 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) Bash
8 1 (1.39%) Go
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) Data Quality
1 10 (13.89%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (20.83%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Istio
4 2 (2.78%) Ansible
4 2 (2.78%) Argo
4 2 (2.78%) Grafana
4 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) Sybase
3 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.72%) IBM
5 3 (4.17%) Databricks
5 3 (4.17%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.39%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.39%) TOWER Software