Java Developer Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 14 47 34
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 204 67 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 8.364% 2.519% 3.474%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.011% 2.685% 3.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 30 68
Average daily rate £375 £308 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% -12.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £249 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £427
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
Average hourly rate £43.25 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.07% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.53%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2264 2495 2599
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.82% 93.80% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1098 1214 1273
Average daily rate £355 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.41% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £453 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 110 100
Average hourly rate £14.50 £21.50 £15.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.55% +39.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow +22 138 £350 +16.66%
Edinburgh +13 24 £394 +12.50%
Stirling -4 11 £413 +65.10%
West Lothian - 3 £400 -
Dundee 0 1 - -
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title.

1 321 (100.00%) Java
2 171 (53.27%) Spring
3 131 (40.81%) XML
4 112 (34.89%) SQL
5 96 (29.91%) Oracle
5 96 (29.91%) Hibernate
6 85 (26.48%) UNIX
7 80 (24.92%) Finance
8 71 (22.12%) Agile Software Development
9 68 (21.18%) J2EE
9 68 (21.18%) Sybase
10 65 (20.25%) JavaScript
11 63 (19.63%) Banking
12 59 (18.38%) Multithreading
13 58 (18.07%) OO
14 55 (17.13%) JMS
14 55 (17.13%) Perl
15 54 (16.82%) Tomcat
16 52 (16.20%) JUnit
17 49 (15.26%) HTML
18 48 (14.95%) Web Services
18 48 (14.95%) Linux
19 47 (14.64%) JSP
20 46 (14.33%) Maven
21 45 (14.02%) C#
21 45 (14.02%) RDBMS
22 41 (12.77%) CSS
23 39 (12.15%) Eclipse
23 39 (12.15%) JSF
24 37 (11.53%) HTML5

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 171 (53.27%) Spring
2 131 (40.81%) XML
3 96 (29.91%) Hibernate
4 68 (21.18%) J2EE
5 55 (17.13%) JMS
6 49 (15.26%) HTML
7 48 (14.95%) Web Services
8 47 (14.64%) JSP
9 41 (12.77%) CSS
10 39 (12.15%) JSF
11 37 (11.53%) HTML5
12 32 (9.969%) JDBC
12 32 (9.969%) Struts
13 31 (9.657%) Apache Flex
14 29 (9.034%) Servlets
15 26 (8.100%) Spring MVC
15 26 (8.100%) SOAP
16 25 (7.788%) RESTful
17 24 (7.477%) J2SE
18 22 (6.854%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 54 (16.82%) Tomcat
2 22 (6.854%) Apache
3 7 (2.181%) Mule
4 5 (1.558%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (1.246%) GlassFish
5 4 (1.246%) ESB
6 3 (0.935%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.623%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (0.623%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.312%) GemFire
8 1 (0.312%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.312%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.312%) SAS
8 1 (0.312%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.623%) Fireworks
1 2 (0.623%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.312%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.312%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.312%) SMS
1 1 (0.312%) FTP
1 1 (0.312%) HTTP
1 1 (0.312%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.02%) RDBMS
2 22 (6.854%) DB2
3 20 (6.231%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.804%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.869%) MySQL
6 5 (1.558%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.558%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (0.935%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (0.623%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (0.623%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.623%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (0.312%) KDB
9 1 (0.312%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.312%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.312%) TOAD
9 1 (0.312%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.312%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (16.20%) JUnit
2 46 (14.33%) Maven
3 39 (12.15%) Eclipse
4 26 (8.100%) Subversion
5 22 (6.854%) Selenium
6 18 (5.607%) Ant
7 15 (4.673%) Jenkins
8 14 (4.361%) CruiseControl
9 12 (3.738%) JDeveloper
10 9 (2.804%) JIRA
11 8 (2.492%) Git (software)
12 6 (1.869%) FitNesse
13 5 (1.558%) Hudson
13 5 (1.558%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.558%) Eclipse RCP
13 5 (1.558%) ClearCase
14 3 (0.935%) PVCS
15 2 (0.623%) Oracle Forms
15 2 (0.623%) TortoiseSVN
15 2 (0.623%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 80 (24.92%) Finance
2 63 (19.63%) Banking
3 16 (4.984%) Investment Banking
4 11 (3.427%) Front Office
5 5 (1.558%) Retail
5 5 (1.558%) Telecoms
6 3 (0.935%) Retail Banking
6 3 (0.935%) Games
7 1 (0.312%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.28%) Fixed Income
2 29 (9.034%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (6.231%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.738%) N-Tier
5 10 (3.115%) Equity Derivative
6 8 (2.492%) Derivative
7 6 (1.869%) Equities
8 4 (1.246%) Clustering
8 4 (1.246%) Open Source
9 3 (0.935%) Mathematics
9 3 (0.935%) Computer Science
9 3 (0.935%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.623%) W3C
11 1 (0.312%) RIA
11 1 (0.312%) Ergonomics
11 1 (0.312%) iPhone
11 1 (0.312%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.312%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 85 (26.48%) UNIX
2 48 (14.95%) Linux
3 10 (3.115%) Windows
4 5 (1.558%) Android
5 3 (0.935%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.312%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (22.12%) Agile Software Development
2 59 (18.38%) Multithreading
3 58 (18.07%) OO
4 36 (11.21%) MVC
5 34 (10.59%) Scrum
6 32 (9.969%) Unit Testing
7 31 (9.657%) TDD
8 23 (7.165%) UML
9 21 (6.542%) OOP
10 19 (5.919%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (5.296%) SOA
12 16 (4.984%) Electronic Trading
13 14 (4.361%) Extreme Programming
13 14 (4.361%) Data Modelling
14 13 (4.050%) Web Application Development
15 11 (3.427%) Kanban
16 10 (3.115%) Pair Programming
16 10 (3.115%) Software Engineering
17 7 (2.181%) Test Automation
18 6 (1.869%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 321 (100.00%) Java
2 112 (34.89%) SQL
3 65 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 55 (17.13%) Perl
5 45 (14.02%) C#
6 34 (10.59%) PL/SQL
7 31 (9.657%) C++
8 19 (5.919%) Scala
9 16 (4.984%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.804%) Python
11 8 (2.492%) VB
12 5 (1.558%) Ruby
13 4 (1.246%) Groovy
13 4 (1.246%) Korn
13 4 (1.246%) XPath
13 4 (1.246%) Bash shell
14 3 (0.935%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.935%) PHP
14 3 (0.935%) Jython
15 2 (0.623%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (6.854%) Degree
2 10 (3.115%) Sun Certification
3 6 (1.869%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.869%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.623%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.623%) QA
1 2 (0.623%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.623%) MetaFrame
2 1 (0.312%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.312%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.312%) Control-M
Vendors
1 96 (29.91%) Oracle
2 68 (21.18%) Sybase
3 26 (8.100%) TIBCO
4 23 (7.165%) Adobe
5 18 (5.607%) Sencha
6 12 (3.738%) JBoss
7 11 (3.427%) Sun
8 8 (2.492%) Informatica
9 4 (1.246%) Perforce
10 3 (0.935%) IBM
10 3 (0.935%) Microsoft
11 2 (0.623%) Citrix
12 1 (0.312%) Alterian
12 1 (0.312%) Murex
12 1 (0.312%) HP
12 1 (0.312%) Intel
12 1 (0.312%) MKS
12 1 (0.312%) VMware
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