Java Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 68 41 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.31% 4.57% 4.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.76% 4.81% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 25
10th Percentile £370 £413 £325
25th Percentile £400 £528 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £631 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +40.28% +6.51%
75th Percentile £513 £750 £475
90th Percentile £750 - £518
Scotland median daily rate £438 £499 £450
% change year-on-year -12.24% +10.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.99% +1.55% -20.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £47.73 £47.00
% change year-on-year +9.99% +1.55% +17.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 776 853 890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 95.09% 96.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 603 677
10th Percentile £257 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +8.43%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £688 £620
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 18
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.13 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £23.77
Median hourly rate £40.94 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +182.34% -61.26% +113.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.73 £43.36
90th Percentile £67.50 £60.55 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%

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 May 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 May 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 68 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (66.18%) Spring
3 43 (63.24%) AWS
4 40 (58.82%) Microservices
5 39 (57.35%) Agile
6 32 (47.06%) Spring Boot
7 27 (39.71%) Software Engineering
8 23 (33.82%) Kafka
9 22 (32.35%) Scala
9 22 (32.35%) SQL
10 21 (30.88%) SDLC
11 20 (29.41%) RESTful
12 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
13 17 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (23.53%) Azure
15 15 (22.06%) Finance
16 14 (20.59%) Data Structures
16 14 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
17 13 (19.12%) Docker
17 13 (19.12%) Kubernetes
17 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
18 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
18 12 (17.65%) REST
18 12 (17.65%) GCP
18 12 (17.65%) Kotlin
19 11 (16.18%) JIRA
19 11 (16.18%) Distributed Systems
20 10 (14.71%) Scrum
20 10 (14.71%) AngularJS
21 9 (13.24%) Apache Spark

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 9 (13.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (63.24%) AWS
2 16 (23.53%) Azure
3 12 (17.65%) GCP
4 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.41%) npm
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.41%) Big Data
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.47%) DB2
4 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) JIRA
2 5 (7.35%) JUnit
3 4 (5.88%) Git
4 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.41%) Mockito
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) Subversion
6 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Maven
General
1 15 (22.06%) Finance
2 9 (13.24%) Banking
3 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Law
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (66.18%) Spring
2 32 (47.06%) Spring Boot
3 23 (33.82%) Kafka
4 20 (29.41%) RESTful
5 12 (17.65%) REST
6 10 (14.71%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.76%) CSS
7 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (11.76%) OpenTracing
7 8 (11.76%) React
8 5 (7.35%) HTML
9 3 (4.41%) JPA
10 2 (2.94%) JSON
10 2 (2.94%) Spring Security
10 2 (2.94%) XML
11 1 (1.47%) .NET
11 1 (1.47%) Hibernate
11 1 (1.47%) Spring MVC
11 1 (1.47%) Spring Web Flow
11 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Data Structures
2 11 (16.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.35%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) Microservices
2 39 (57.35%) Agile
3 27 (39.71%) Software Engineering
4 21 (30.88%) SDLC
5 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 17 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
8 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.71%) Scrum
10 9 (13.24%) Backlog Refinement
10 9 (13.24%) Release Management
11 8 (11.76%) Design Patterns
12 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (10.29%) Machine Learning
12 7 (10.29%) TDD
12 7 (10.29%) Unit Testing
13 6 (8.82%) Dependency Injection
13 6 (8.82%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (32.35%) Scala
2 22 (32.35%) SQL
3 12 (17.65%) Kotlin
4 3 (4.41%) Python
4 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) Perl
6 1 (1.47%) PHP
6 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 8 (11.76%) Zipkin
3 5 (7.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Oracle
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Splunk
3 2 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (1.47%) Databricks
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.47%) Sybase