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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 85 164 139
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.41% 21.11% 14.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.37% 43.27% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 92 95
10th Percentile £313 £350 £367
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £417 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.05% -16.70% -23.08%
75th Percentile £576 £490 £693
90th Percentile £621 £538 £750
Scotland median daily rate £531 £441 £480
% change year-on-year +20.41% -8.13% -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.23 - £52.50
75th Percentile £64.34 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 271 379 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.56% 48.78% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 184 230
10th Percentile £333 £349 £375
25th Percentile £400 £363 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -12.94% -3.62%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £650
90th Percentile £588 £579 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £52.00 - £51.38
25th Percentile £55.00 - £51.56
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -63.55% +13.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £56.56
90th Percentile £63.60 - £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £60.61 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +170.14% -62.91% +1.37%

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 7 February 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 4 (4.71%) CMS
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Geronimo
3 1 (1.18%) Apache ServiceMix
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) AWS
2 18 (21.18%) Azure
3 10 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (11.76%) Serverless
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.24%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.71%) GCP
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.35%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.35%) PaaS
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.18%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 12 (14.12%) MySQL
3 10 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.41%) DB2
5 7 (8.24%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.18%) HBase
9 1 (1.18%) MSDE
9 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (17.65%) JUnit
3 14 (16.47%) Git
4 11 (12.94%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.94%) GitLab
5 9 (10.59%) JIRA
6 8 (9.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.88%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.53%) Mockito
9 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.35%) Gradle
9 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.18%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.18%) PyCharm
10 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.18%) Vite
General
1 36 (42.35%) Finance
2 25 (29.41%) Banking
3 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
5 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.41%) Investment Banking
7 7 (8.24%) Front Office
8 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Developer
2 34 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 14 (16.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (16.47%) Senior
4 13 (15.29%) SQL Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Sybase Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Linux Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (49.41%) Spring
2 29 (34.12%) Spring Boot
3 25 (29.41%) React
4 15 (17.65%) Kafka
5 12 (14.12%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.59%) Node.js
7 8 (9.41%) RESTful
8 7 (8.24%) Jest
8 7 (8.24%) JMS
9 6 (7.06%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.71%) Ext JS
10 4 (4.71%) REST
11 3 (3.53%) .NET
11 3 (3.53%) CSS
11 3 (3.53%) HTML
11 3 (3.53%) Model Context Protocol
12 2 (2.35%) CSS3
12 2 (2.35%) J2EE
12 2 (2.35%) JPA
12 2 (2.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Data Structures
1 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.24%) Equities
3 6 (7.06%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.18%) IVR
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.59%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) Microservices
2 31 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (31.76%) SDLC
4 26 (30.59%) DevOps
5 25 (29.41%) Agile
6 21 (24.71%) Software Engineering
7 20 (23.53%) Containerisation
8 19 (22.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (12.94%) Multithreading
12 10 (11.76%) AI
13 9 (10.59%) Test Automation
14 8 (9.41%) Data Science
14 8 (9.41%) Decision-Making
14 8 (9.41%) Machine Learning
14 8 (9.41%) Observability
14 8 (9.41%) Runbook
14 8 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.12%) Python
2 24 (28.24%) SQL
3 13 (15.29%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.24%) Perl
5 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.24%) Ruby
5 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.35%) Rust
7 1 (1.18%) C#
7 1 (1.18%) C++
7 1 (1.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) QA
2 6 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (30.59%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.18%) Terraform
3 9 (10.59%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Oracle
2 7 (8.24%) Sybase
3 6 (7.06%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.53%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.18%) Confluent
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software