Java Contracts in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 119 140 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.67% 15.75% 12.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.73% 42.30% 42.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 86 84
10th Percentile £379 £414 £327
25th Percentile £409 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +13.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £513 £676 £561
90th Percentile £689 £750 £634
Scotland median daily rate £460 £492 £506
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.91% +18.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £48.58 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.86 £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.62 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +11.95% -20.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £48.00
90th Percentile - £57.65 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £58.27 £54.50
% change year-on-year -9.89% +6.91% +36.25%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 324 331 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.95% 37.23% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 214 200
10th Percentile £333 £400 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £525 £496
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +5.74% +16.82%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £550
90th Percentile £623 £749 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £494 £488
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.33% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £42.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £43.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +31.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £46.88
90th Percentile - £67.66 £47.55
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £43.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +34.93% -3.85%

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 29 May 2024.

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 10 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (8.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.52%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) SAS
3 2 (1.68%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.68%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.68%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.68%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.68%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 78 (65.55%) AWS
2 29 (24.37%) Azure
3 13 (10.92%) GCP
4 11 (9.24%) Snowflake
5 8 (6.72%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.20%) Serverless
7 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.52%) npm
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.84%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.84%) Rekognition
10 1 (0.84%) Slack
10 1 (0.84%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (2.52%) iSCSI
2 2 (1.68%) HTTP
2 2 (1.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.13%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.04%) MariaDB
2 6 (5.04%) MySQL
3 5 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.36%) DB2
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.52%) Big Data
6 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.84%) GIS
7 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.84%) Power BI
7 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (10.92%) JIRA
2 10 (8.40%) Cucumber
3 8 (6.72%) JUnit
4 7 (5.88%) Git
5 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.04%) Mockito
6 5 (4.20%) Selenium
7 3 (2.52%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.52%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.68%) GitLab
8 2 (1.68%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.68%) Subversion
9 1 (0.84%) Gatling
9 1 (0.84%) JMeter
9 1 (0.84%) Maven
9 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 25 (21.01%) Finance
2 13 (10.92%) Banking
3 12 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.72%) Social Skills
6 7 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (64.71%) Developer
2 68 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 14 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (11.76%) Senior
4 13 (10.92%) Java Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (10.08%) Full Stack Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 11 (9.24%) Java Scala Developer
6 11 (9.24%) Scala Developer
7 10 (8.40%) Linux Developer
7 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Backend Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Snowflake Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Lead
12 4 (3.36%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (50.42%) Spring
2 44 (36.97%) Spring Boot
3 26 (21.85%) Kafka
4 25 (21.01%) RESTful
5 22 (18.49%) REST
6 21 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 21 (17.65%) CSS
7 16 (13.45%) HTML
8 14 (11.76%) React
9 11 (9.24%) JPA
10 8 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.72%) OpenTracing
11 4 (3.36%) AWS CDK
12 3 (2.52%) Flash
12 3 (2.52%) Gherkin
12 3 (2.52%) Node.js
12 3 (2.52%) POSIX
12 3 (2.52%) Spring Security
13 2 (1.68%) J2EE
13 2 (1.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 13 (10.92%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.72%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.20%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.52%) NVMe
7 2 (1.68%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Linux
2 10 (8.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.68%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (51.26%) Agile
2 55 (46.22%) Microservices
3 39 (32.77%) Software Engineering
4 37 (31.09%) CI/CD
5 32 (26.89%) SDLC
6 29 (24.37%) Full Stack Development
7 22 (18.49%) Test Automation
8 19 (15.97%) DevOps
9 16 (13.45%) Artificial Intelligence
9 16 (13.45%) Machine Learning
10 14 (11.76%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.76%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (10.92%) Computer Science
11 13 (10.92%) Operational Stability
12 12 (10.08%) Scrum
12 12 (10.08%) Unit Testing
13 11 (9.24%) GitOps
14 10 (8.40%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (8.40%) DataOps
14 10 (8.40%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.61%) SQL
2 33 (27.73%) Scala
3 20 (16.81%) Python
4 16 (13.45%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.92%) Kotlin
6 8 (6.72%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.36%) C#
7 4 (3.36%) Perl
8 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (2.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.68%) Degree
2 2 (1.68%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.36%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.84%) GDPR
2 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) NFS
3 2 (1.68%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 30 (25.21%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.92%) Terraform
3 8 (6.72%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.72%) Zipkin
4 7 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (1.68%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (0.84%) Argo
6 1 (0.84%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (9.24%) Databricks
1 11 (9.24%) Oracle
2 6 (5.04%) IBM
3 4 (3.36%) AVEVA
3 4 (3.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.52%) Google
4 3 (2.52%) Splunk
4 3 (2.52%) Sybase
5 2 (1.68%) Brocade
5 2 (1.68%) EMC
5 2 (1.68%) Greenplum
5 2 (1.68%) NetApp
5 2 (1.68%) Veritas
6 1 (0.84%) Atlassian