Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 22 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 107 52 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.52% 7.45% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.40% 7.90% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 19
10th Percentile £301 £355 £410
25th Percentile £408 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -19.58% +20.89%
75th Percentile £528 £500 £638
90th Percentile £573 £515 £685
Scotland median daily rate £450 £435 £462
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.74% +1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
Scotland median hourly rate - - £47.73

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 695 658 796
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 94.27% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 465 533
10th Percentile £265 £236 £328
25th Percentile £363 £370 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.07%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £575
90th Percentile £601 £659 £685
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 25
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.48 £12.26
Median hourly rate £21.86 £21.87 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +50.83% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £41.66 £47.73
90th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.47% +3.10% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 2025, 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.

1 107 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (71.96%) Spring
3 64 (59.81%) SQL
4 59 (55.14%) Linux
5 54 (50.47%) Agile
6 47 (43.93%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (41.12%) Kafka
8 43 (40.19%) MongoDB
8 43 (40.19%) Finance
9 40 (37.38%) Relational Database
10 39 (36.45%) JUnit
11 38 (35.51%) Data Structures
12 35 (32.71%) Software Engineering
12 35 (32.71%) Multithreading
13 33 (30.84%) Spring Boot
13 33 (30.84%) SDLC
14 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
14 31 (28.97%) Python
15 29 (27.10%) CI/CD
16 28 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (24.30%) Sybase
17 26 (24.30%) DB2
18 24 (22.43%) Banking
18 24 (22.43%) Shell Script
18 24 (22.43%) Performance Tuning
19 23 (21.50%) JMS
19 23 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
20 22 (20.56%) Microservices
20 22 (20.56%) Front Office
20 22 (20.56%) Open Source

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 (3.74%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) JBoss
2 1 (0.93%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.21%) AWS
1 12 (11.21%) Azure
2 6 (5.61%) BlazeMeter
3 4 (3.74%) Apigee
4 3 (2.80%) GCP
5 2 (1.87%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) DHCP
1 5 (4.67%) DNS
1 5 (4.67%) HTTP
2 4 (3.74%) SSL
2 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (40.19%) MongoDB
2 40 (37.38%) Relational Database
3 26 (24.30%) DB2
4 11 (10.28%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.54%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.87%) MySQL
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (36.45%) JUnit
2 11 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.35%) Git
4 5 (4.67%) Maven
5 4 (3.74%) Mockito
6 2 (1.87%) GitLab
6 2 (1.87%) Gradle
6 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.87%) Vite
7 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 43 (40.19%) Finance
2 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 24 (22.43%) Banking
4 23 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (20.56%) Front Office
6 20 (18.69%) Investment Banking
7 11 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (71.96%) Spring
2 44 (41.12%) Kafka
3 33 (30.84%) Spring Boot
4 23 (21.50%) JMS
5 19 (17.76%) React
6 18 (16.82%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.41%) REST
7 9 (8.41%) RESTful
8 7 (6.54%) CSS
9 6 (5.61%) Hibernate
9 6 (5.61%) SOAP
10 5 (4.67%) Ext JS
11 4 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (2.80%) J2EE
12 3 (2.80%) OAuth
13 2 (1.87%) JAX-WS
13 2 (1.87%) JPA
13 2 (1.87%) Middleware
13 2 (1.87%) Node.js
13 2 (1.87%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (35.51%) Data Structures
2 20 (18.69%) Equities
3 14 (13.08%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (9.35%) Algorithms
5 9 (8.41%) Public Cloud
6 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.67%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (4.67%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.80%) Derivative
8 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 59 (55.14%) Linux
2 10 (9.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.47%) Agile
2 47 (43.93%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (32.71%) Multithreading
3 35 (32.71%) Software Engineering
4 33 (30.84%) SDLC
5 29 (27.10%) CI/CD
6 28 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (22.43%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (20.56%) Microservices
8 22 (20.56%) Open Source
9 21 (19.63%) Database Tuning
10 16 (14.95%) Computer Science
11 15 (14.02%) DevOps
12 10 (9.35%) Operational Stability
12 10 (9.35%) Unit Testing
13 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (8.41%) Front End Development
14 8 (7.48%) Micro Frontends
14 8 (7.48%) Test Automation
15 7 (6.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 107 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (59.81%) SQL
3 31 (28.97%) Python
4 24 (22.43%) Shell Script
5 13 (12.15%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.67%) Perl
8 4 (3.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (2.80%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Grafana
1 8 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (24.30%) Sybase
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle
3 6 (5.61%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.61%) Splunk
4 5 (4.67%) F5
4 5 (4.67%) Infoblox
5 4 (3.74%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.80%) IBM
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.93%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.93%) Facebook
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow