Java Contracts in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 180 123 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.44% 14.47% 17.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.67% 36.83% 45.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 89 94
10th Percentile £300 £394 £425
25th Percentile £358 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £609
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -21.97% +21.75%
75th Percentile £502 £550 £676
90th Percentile £568 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £499
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.71% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.58
25th Percentile - £51.25 £49.86
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £52.62
Median % change year-on-year - -0.22% +11.95%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.65
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £58.27
% change year-on-year - -9.89% +6.91%

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 403 334 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 52.47% 39.29% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 216 224
10th Percentile £300 £350 £410
25th Percentile £400 £405 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -11.63% +11.98%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £657
90th Percentile £575 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £470 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -1.05% -3.55% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £51.88 £51.99
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -2.58% +37.27%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year -58.67% -2.59% +29.03%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.33%) Confluence
2 2 (1.11%) JBoss
2 2 (1.11%) OpenROAD
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Finacle
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.67%) AWS
2 21 (11.67%) Azure
3 15 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (7.22%) GitHub
5 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.78%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.22%) Azure AKS
7 4 (2.22%) Serverless
8 3 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.67%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.67%) PaaS
8 3 (1.67%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.11%) GCP
9 2 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) FTP
2 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.89%) Relational Database
2 41 (22.78%) MongoDB
3 34 (18.89%) DB2
4 12 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 10 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.89%) MySQL
6 7 (3.89%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.67%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.11%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (26.67%) JUnit
2 15 (8.33%) Git
3 13 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.22%) JIRA
4 9 (5.00%) Maven
4 9 (5.00%) Mockito
5 8 (4.44%) Subversion
6 7 (3.89%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (3.33%) PVCS
8 4 (2.22%) GitLab
9 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.67%) Gradle
10 2 (1.11%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.11%) Mercurial
10 2 (1.11%) PyCharm
10 2 (1.11%) Selenium
10 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (38.89%) Finance
2 44 (24.44%) Banking
3 42 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 32 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (17.22%) Front Office
6 26 (14.44%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (77.78%) Developer
2 118 (65.56%) Java Developer
3 19 (10.56%) Linux Developer
4 16 (8.89%) SQL Developer
5 12 (6.67%) Core Java Developer
6 11 (6.11%) Linux Scripter
6 11 (6.11%) Python Engineer
7 9 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 9 (5.00%) Senior
8 8 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (4.44%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 7 (3.89%) Lead
9 7 (3.89%) Python Developer
9 7 (3.89%) Sybase Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.78%) Architect
11 5 (2.78%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (54.44%) Spring
2 52 (28.89%) Spring Boot
3 41 (22.78%) Kafka
4 25 (13.89%) JMS
5 14 (7.78%) React
6 9 (5.00%) REST
7 8 (4.44%) CSS
7 8 (4.44%) Java EE
8 7 (3.89%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.89%) RESTful
9 4 (2.22%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.22%) Web Services
10 3 (1.67%) CSS3
10 3 (1.67%) HTML
10 3 (1.67%) J2EE
10 3 (1.67%) JAX-RS
10 3 (1.67%) Middleware
10 3 (1.67%) OAuth
10 3 (1.67%) SOAP
10 3 (1.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.11%) Data Structures
2 22 (12.22%) Equities
3 17 (9.44%) Algorithms
3 17 (9.44%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.89%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (3.89%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.78%) Derivative
7 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 74 (41.11%) Linux
2 15 (8.33%) Unix
3 6 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.67%) Agile
2 61 (33.89%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (28.89%) Software Engineering
4 46 (25.56%) Multithreading
5 41 (22.78%) SDLC
6 37 (20.56%) CI/CD
7 26 (14.44%) DevOps
8 24 (13.33%) Open Source
9 21 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (11.67%) Test Automation
10 20 (11.11%) Community of Practice
10 20 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
10 20 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (11.11%) Microservices
10 20 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (10.56%) Database Tuning
12 18 (10.00%) Process Improvement
13 17 (9.44%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.89%) Project Delivery
14 16 (8.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (40.00%) SQL
2 61 (33.89%) Python
3 33 (18.33%) Shell Script
4 31 (17.22%) TypeScript
5 29 (16.11%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.00%) C#
7 7 (3.89%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.33%) C
8 6 (3.33%) ProC
9 3 (1.67%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
1 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (0.56%) Degree
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (15.00%) Terraform
2 18 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.33%) Ansible
4 5 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (18.33%) Sybase
2 16 (8.89%) Oracle
3 7 (3.89%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.78%) Splunk
5 3 (1.67%) IBM
5 3 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.56%) Okta
7 1 (0.56%) Talend
7 1 (0.56%) Temenos