Java Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Java Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 80 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 13 30 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.59% 2.32% 2.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 2.43% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 40
10th Percentile £414 £415 £413
25th Percentile £415 £438 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -3.15% +17.65%
75th Percentile £451 £603 £550
90th Percentile £469 £688 £600
Scotland median daily rate £447 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -12.01% +12.89% +6.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 779 1,236 1,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 95.59% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,275
10th Percentile £200 £253 £230
25th Percentile £409 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 14 24
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.53 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Spring
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
5 6 (46.15%) React
5 6 (46.15%) DevOps
5 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
5 6 (46.15%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (46.15%) AWS
6 5 (38.46%) Node.js
6 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
6 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
7 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
7 4 (30.77%) Docker
7 4 (30.77%) API Development
7 4 (30.77%) REST
7 4 (30.77%) Python
8 3 (23.08%) Apache
8 3 (23.08%) Oracle
8 3 (23.08%) JUnit
8 3 (23.08%) Confluence
8 3 (23.08%) Maven
8 3 (23.08%) JIRA
8 3 (23.08%) Vue
8 3 (23.08%) Microservices
8 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
9 2 (15.38%) Subversion
9 2 (15.38%) TypeScript

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (23.08%) Apache
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) JBoss
2 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 2 (15.38%) WildFly
3 1 (7.69%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) GIS
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) JUnit
2 3 (23.08%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Subversion
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Spring
2 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
3 6 (46.15%) React
4 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
4 5 (38.46%) Node.js
5 4 (30.77%) REST
6 3 (23.08%) Vue
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
7 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
7 2 (15.38%) Java EE
7 2 (15.38%) JPA
7 2 (15.38%) JSP
7 2 (15.38%) JSTL
7 2 (15.38%) OAuth
7 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
7 2 (15.38%) Servlets
7 2 (15.38%) Spring Security
7 2 (15.38%) STL
7 2 (15.38%) XML
7 2 (15.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) AIX
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (30.77%) API Development
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Case Management
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) UML
6 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Value Proposition
7 1 (7.69%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (7.69%) Community of Practice
7 1 (7.69%) Human-Centred Design
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) VMware