Java Developer Contracts in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer daily rate in Scotland is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 65 62
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 95 116 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.30% 4.06% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 4.27% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 89 73
10th Percentile £373 £415 £366
25th Percentile £403 £446 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £499 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.78% +6.19%
75th Percentile £547 £713 £525
90th Percentile £750 £750 £574
UK median daily rate £575 £652 £600
% change year-on-year -11.81% +8.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £49.46 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.05 £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.37 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +19.93% +17.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £48.00
90th Percentile - £63.27 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +6.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
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 Java Developer 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
Glasgow +5 67 £475 -36.67% 11
West Lothian +10 13 £520 +6.12%
Edinburgh +22 10 £435 -10.17% 2
Midlothian - 1 £428 -
Fife - 1 £428 -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Scotland region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (58.95%) Spring
3 51 (53.68%) Agile
4 45 (47.37%) Spring Boot
5 40 (42.11%) Microservices
6 38 (40.00%) AWS
7 36 (37.89%) REST
8 33 (34.74%) SQL
9 27 (28.42%) Kafka
10 26 (27.37%) Software Engineering
10 26 (27.37%) CI/CD
11 25 (26.32%) Jenkins
12 23 (24.21%) Scala
13 21 (22.11%) Docker
14 20 (21.05%) Git
14 20 (21.05%) JIRA
15 19 (20.00%) Linux
15 19 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
16 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
16 18 (18.95%) SDLC
16 18 (18.95%) JUnit
17 17 (17.89%) Full Stack Development
18 16 (16.84%) RESTful
18 16 (16.84%) TDD
18 16 (16.84%) Finance
19 15 (15.79%) Unix
19 15 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
20 14 (14.74%) Confluence
20 14 (14.74%) Cucumber
20 14 (14.74%) JavaScript

Java Developer Skill Set
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 14 (14.74%) Confluence
2 6 (6.32%) Apache
2 6 (6.32%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.11%) JBoss
3 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.11%) WildFly
4 1 (1.05%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.00%) AWS
2 11 (11.58%) Azure
3 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.32%) GCP
5 5 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.21%) Serverless
7 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.11%) npm
8 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (5.26%) HTTP
1 5 (5.26%) NetScaler
1 5 (5.26%) SSL
1 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.16%) 5G
3 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.05%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.32%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.16%) DB2
4 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Big Data
5 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.11%) Power BI
6 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.05%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.05%) Git
2 20 (21.05%) JIRA
3 18 (18.95%) JUnit
4 14 (14.74%) Cucumber
5 11 (11.58%) Postman
6 5 (5.26%) IntelliJ
6 5 (5.26%) Maven
7 4 (4.21%) Subversion
8 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.11%) Mockito
9 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Finance
3 11 (11.58%) Banking
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.42%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (58.95%) Spring
2 45 (47.37%) Spring Boot
3 36 (37.89%) REST
4 27 (28.42%) Kafka
5 16 (16.84%) RESTful
6 13 (13.68%) AngularJS
7 12 (12.63%) Apache Camel
8 11 (11.58%) React
9 10 (10.53%) J2EE
10 9 (9.47%) CSS
11 7 (7.37%) HTML
12 6 (6.32%) Hibernate
12 6 (6.32%) Spring Security
12 6 (6.32%) XML
13 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (5.26%) JPA
13 5 (5.26%) OpenTracing
14 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
14 4 (4.21%) OAuth
14 4 (4.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
1 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Linux
2 15 (15.79%) Unix
3 1 (1.05%) AIX
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.68%) Agile
2 40 (42.11%) Microservices
3 26 (27.37%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.37%) Software Engineering
4 19 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 18 (18.95%) SDLC
6 17 (17.89%) Full Stack Development
7 16 (16.84%) TDD
8 15 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (13.68%) DevOps
10 12 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.63%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.47%) Scrum
12 8 (8.42%) Coaching
12 8 (8.42%) Data Protection
12 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (7.37%) Continuous Delivery
14 6 (6.32%) Component Testing
14 6 (6.32%) Machine Learning
14 6 (6.32%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (34.74%) SQL
3 23 (24.21%) Scala
4 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.63%) Python
6 9 (9.47%) Kotlin
7 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.32%) Perl
9 5 (5.26%) Bash
9 5 (5.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.05%) C
10 1 (1.05%) PHP
10 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Kibana
3 5 (5.26%) Grafana
3 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (13.68%) Oracle
2 5 (5.26%) F5
3 2 (2.11%) Databricks
3 2 (2.11%) IBM
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.05%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.05%) Sybase
4 1 (1.05%) VMware