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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Java 67 189 146
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.53% 22.83% 15.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.69% 43.65% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 101 103
10th Percentile £312 £300 £373
25th Percentile £390 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £580 £496 £646
90th Percentile £640 £550 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +16.67% -6.25% -4.00%
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 - - -11.06%

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 251 433 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.70% 52.29% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 214 244
10th Percentile £312 £313 £363
25th Percentile £360 £392 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £629
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £467 £500
% change year-on-year -3.64% -6.60% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.41% -60.39% -0.91%

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 2 April 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 (5.97%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Geronimo
2 3 (4.48%) Apache ServiceMix
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.48%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.48%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (61.19%) AWS
2 14 (20.90%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (14.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (14.93%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (14.93%) Serverless
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (10.45%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.46%) GCP
9 4 (5.97%) GitHub
9 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) MySQL
1 14 (20.90%) Relational Database
2 8 (11.94%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.48%) DB2
5 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.99%) Metadata
6 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.49%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.49%) Flink
7 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.49%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Git
2 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
3 11 (16.42%) JIRA
4 10 (14.93%) Bitbucket
4 10 (14.93%) GitLab
5 8 (11.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.97%) JUnit
7 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.99%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (41.79%) Finance
2 20 (29.85%) Banking
3 16 (23.88%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Front Office
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.49%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Developer
2 21 (31.34%) Java Developer
3 14 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.91%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.82%) Spring
2 22 (32.84%) Spring Boot
3 19 (28.36%) React
4 8 (11.94%) Jest
4 8 (11.94%) Node.js
5 6 (8.96%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.96%) Kafka
5 6 (8.96%) RESTful
6 5 (7.46%) CSS
6 5 (7.46%) CSS3
6 5 (7.46%) HTML
6 5 (7.46%) HTML5
6 5 (7.46%) Redux
6 5 (7.46%) REST
6 5 (7.46%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.48%) Apache Axis
7 3 (4.48%) Apache Camel
7 3 (4.48%) Middleware
7 3 (4.48%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.99%) Derivative
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.99%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.49%) Equities
4 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.49%) IVR
4 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Microservices
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 23 (34.33%) DevOps
4 20 (29.85%) SDLC
5 16 (23.88%) Agile
6 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
6 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (14.93%) TDD
9 9 (13.43%) AI
9 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.94%) Runbook
10 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.45%) BDD
11 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (10.45%) Data Protection
11 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
12 6 (8.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) Python
2 16 (23.88%) SQL
3 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.45%) Perl
3 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.45%) Ruby
4 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.48%) C++
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) Go
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) AWS Certification
2 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (38.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.37%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Istio
4 2 (2.99%) Argo
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Oracle
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) Sybase
3 3 (4.48%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.99%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.49%) Confluent
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) TOWER Software