J2EE Contracts in Scotland

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 144 129
Rank change year-on-year +32 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing J2EE 19 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 0.70% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.09% 2.89% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 25
10th Percentile £410 £438 £380
25th Percentile £439 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +13.51%
75th Percentile £529 £634 £545
90th Percentile £590 £688 £613
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 464 691 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.21% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 527 488
10th Percentile £325 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Lothian +9 10 £520 -16.80%
Glasgow +4 5 £440 -12.00% 1
Edinburgh +32 4 £675 +17.39% 1
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (47.37%) Confluence
2 5 (26.32%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
2 5 (26.32%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (26.32%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (15.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) IaaS
1 3 (15.79%) iPaaS
1 3 (15.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) HTTP
2 3 (15.79%) 5G
2 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 3 (15.79%) WAN
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Cucumber
1 10 (52.63%) JUnit
2 9 (47.37%) Git
2 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 9 (47.37%) Postman
3 5 (26.32%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (26.32%) IntelliJ
General
1 17 (89.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Middleware Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) Kafka
1 11 (57.89%) REST
1 11 (57.89%) Spring
2 10 (52.63%) Apache Camel
3 9 (47.37%) Spring Boot
4 5 (26.32%) Middleware
5 3 (15.79%) .NET
5 3 (15.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Client/Server
1 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (15.79%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (57.89%) End-to-End Testing
3 7 (36.84%) Coaching
3 7 (36.84%) Component Testing
3 7 (36.84%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (31.58%) TDD
5 5 (26.32%) ITIL
6 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Problem Management
6 4 (21.05%) Service Management
7 3 (15.79%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.79%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kibana
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) VMware