Java Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £433, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 61 36
Rank change year-on-year +36 -25 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 54 18 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.65% 2.15% 5.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.50% 2.24% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 32
10th Percentile £350 £370 £419
25th Percentile £356 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% -15.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £475 £631 £750
90th Percentile £513 £705 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £481
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.44% +6.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 635 803 846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 96.05% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 548 657
10th Percentile £230 £325 £250
25th Percentile £356 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% +6.44%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £681
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 16
10th Percentile £11.78 £12.13 £13.83
25th Percentile £16.07 £12.23 £15.90
Median hourly rate £19.59 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +35.10% -61.26% +12.67%
75th Percentile £29.34 £17.98 £44.38
90th Percentile £43.42 £40.72 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £18.38 £18.93 £17.72
% change year-on-year -2.93% +6.83% -8.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (72.22%) Spring
3 27 (50.00%) Agile
4 26 (48.15%) SQL
5 25 (46.30%) Spring Boot
6 24 (44.44%) Finance
6 24 (44.44%) AWS
7 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
8 19 (35.19%) Linux
9 18 (33.33%) Banking
10 17 (31.48%) Unix
10 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
11 16 (29.63%) SDLC
11 16 (29.63%) Software Engineering
12 15 (27.78%) Kafka
13 14 (25.93%) Multithreading
13 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
14 12 (22.22%) Microservices
14 12 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (22.22%) Design Patterns
14 12 (22.22%) Docker
15 11 (20.37%) Azure
15 11 (20.37%) Unit Testing
15 11 (20.37%) Git
15 11 (20.37%) JIRA
15 11 (20.37%) Python
16 10 (18.52%) React
16 10 (18.52%) Data Structures
16 10 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving

Java Developer Skill Set
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 4 (7.41%) Camunda
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) IIS
2 2 (3.70%) JBoss
2 2 (3.70%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.26%) GCP
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.41%) Serverless
7 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.70%) Datadog
8 2 (3.70%) npm
8 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (3.70%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.70%) SAN
2 2 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.96%) DB2
3 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.70%) Big Data
7 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Git
1 11 (20.37%) JIRA
2 8 (14.81%) TeamCity
3 7 (12.96%) JUnit
4 4 (7.41%) Ant
4 4 (7.41%) Eclipse
4 4 (7.41%) IntelliJ
4 4 (7.41%) Maven
5 3 (5.56%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.56%) Postman
5 3 (5.56%) SoapUI
6 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.85%) Mockito
7 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (44.44%) Finance
2 18 (33.33%) Banking
3 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Investment Banking
5 5 (9.26%) Front Office
6 4 (7.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (72.22%) Spring
2 25 (46.30%) Spring Boot
3 15 (27.78%) Kafka
4 10 (18.52%) React
5 8 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 8 (14.81%) CSS
6 7 (12.96%) CSS3
6 7 (12.96%) HTML
6 7 (12.96%) HTML5
7 6 (11.11%) Middleware
8 5 (9.26%) Node.js
8 5 (9.26%) REST
9 4 (7.41%) jBPM
9 4 (7.41%) RESTful
10 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
10 3 (5.56%) JMS
10 3 (5.56%) JPA
10 3 (5.56%) jQuery
10 3 (5.56%) Spring MVC
10 3 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.41%) Equities
2 4 (7.41%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.70%) NVMe
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.19%) Linux
2 17 (31.48%) Unix
3 5 (9.26%) Windows
4 2 (3.70%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 16 (29.63%) SDLC
3 16 (29.63%) Software Engineering
4 14 (25.93%) Multithreading
5 12 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 12 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (22.22%) Microservices
6 11 (20.37%) Unit Testing
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Code Quality
8 7 (12.96%) DevOps
9 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.11%) OO
10 5 (9.26%) Containerisation
10 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
11 4 (7.41%) Backlog Refinement
11 4 (7.41%) Distributed Cache
11 4 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (7.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (48.15%) SQL
3 11 (20.37%) Python
4 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.26%) Perl
6 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) GPFS
2 2 (3.70%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Grafana
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Istio
3 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (3.70%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Sybase
2 4 (7.41%) Google
2 4 (7.41%) TIBCO
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Brocade
4 2 (3.70%) EMC
4 2 (3.70%) IBM
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) NetApp
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (3.70%) Veritas
5 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) Veracode