Java Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 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
21 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 45 27
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 68 33 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.99% 3.75% 6.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.01% 3.91% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 43
10th Percentile - £400 £453
25th Percentile £350 £438 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £618 £750
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% -17.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £449 £750 -
90th Percentile £525 £768 -
Scotland median daily rate £408 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -14.11% -5.00% +11.11%

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 679 843 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.81% 95.90% 97.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 570 686
10th Percentile £283 £325 £247
25th Percentile £363 £400 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £618 £589
90th Percentile £652 £700 £713
Scotland median daily rate £450 £489 £475
% change year-on-year -7.93% +2.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 7
10th Percentile £11.78 £12.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.42 £13.83
Median hourly rate £19.59 £17.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +16.67% -60.06%
75th Percentile £24.18 £19.50 £24.63
90th Percentile £37.70 £36.70 £39.75
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £19.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.95% +10.05% -17.58%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 46 (67.65%) Spring
3 35 (51.47%) SQL
3 35 (51.47%) Linux
3 35 (51.47%) Spring Boot
4 31 (45.59%) Finance
5 27 (39.71%) Agile
6 26 (38.24%) Unix
7 25 (36.76%) Banking
7 25 (36.76%) CI/CD
8 24 (35.29%) Multithreading
9 23 (33.82%) SDLC
10 22 (32.35%) AWS
11 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
12 16 (23.53%) Kafka
12 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (23.53%) Software Engineering
13 15 (22.06%) Python
14 14 (20.59%) DB2
15 13 (19.12%) Front Office
16 12 (17.65%) Investment Banking
16 12 (17.65%) JIRA
16 12 (17.65%) Data Structures
16 12 (17.65%) Design Patterns
17 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
17 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
17 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
17 11 (16.18%) Relational Database
17 11 (16.18%) Terraform
17 11 (16.18%) Git

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 (5.88%) Camunda
2 2 (2.94%) Apache
2 2 (2.94%) IIS
2 2 (2.94%) JBoss
2 2 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 6 (8.82%) Azure
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.41%) Serverless
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.94%) Datadog
6 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) HTTP
2 2 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (2.94%) iSCSI
2 2 (2.94%) SAN
2 2 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) DB2
2 11 (16.18%) Relational Database
3 9 (13.24%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) JIRA
2 11 (16.18%) Git
3 10 (14.71%) JUnit
4 8 (11.76%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.88%) Ant
5 4 (5.88%) Eclipse
5 4 (5.88%) IntelliJ
5 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.88%) Maven
6 3 (4.41%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (4.41%) Postman
6 3 (4.41%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (45.59%) Finance
2 25 (36.76%) Banking
3 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
4 13 (19.12%) Front Office
5 12 (17.65%) Investment Banking
6 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (67.65%) Spring
2 35 (51.47%) Spring Boot
3 16 (23.53%) Kafka
4 11 (16.18%) Middleware
5 10 (14.71%) REST
6 8 (11.76%) React
7 7 (10.29%) CSS
7 7 (10.29%) CSS3
7 7 (10.29%) HTML
7 7 (10.29%) HTML5
7 7 (10.29%) JMS
8 5 (7.35%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.35%) Node.js
8 5 (7.35%) SOAP
9 4 (5.88%) jBPM
10 3 (4.41%) JDBC
10 3 (4.41%) JPA
10 3 (4.41%) jQuery
10 3 (4.41%) JSP
10 3 (4.41%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.82%) Equities
4 4 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.94%) NVMe
7 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (51.47%) Linux
2 26 (38.24%) Unix
3 6 (8.82%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Agile
2 25 (36.76%) CI/CD
3 24 (35.29%) Multithreading
4 23 (33.82%) SDLC
5 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 12 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
8 8 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (11.76%) DevOps
8 8 (11.76%) Project Delivery
9 7 (10.29%) Concurrent Programming
9 7 (10.29%) Microservices
9 7 (10.29%) Open Source
9 7 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (10.29%) Process Improvement
9 7 (10.29%) Unit Testing
10 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (8.82%) Multithreaded Programming
10 6 (8.82%) OO
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (51.47%) SQL
3 15 (22.06%) Python
4 9 (13.24%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.35%) Perl
7 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.94%) Bash
9 1 (1.47%) C#
9 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) GPFS
2 2 (2.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
1 11 (16.18%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Istio
2 2 (2.94%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (1.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Sybase
2 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.88%) TIBCO
3 3 (4.41%) DocuSign
3 3 (4.41%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Brocade
4 2 (2.94%) EMC
4 2 (2.94%) IBM
4 2 (2.94%) NetApp
4 2 (2.94%) Veritas
5 1 (1.47%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Veracode