Java EE Contracts in Scotland

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Java EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java EE over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 154 162
Rank change year-on-year +31 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing Java EE 5 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 1.30% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile £425 £434 £325
25th Percentile £439 £458 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £479 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +9.49% -12.50%
75th Percentile £514 £499 £531
90th Percentile £528 £542 £686
UK median daily rate £638 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +27.50% -9.09% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Java EE 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 469 691 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.13% 24.14% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 527 486
10th Percentile £330 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +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% +15.24%
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%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in Scotland

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java EE in Scotland

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in Scotland

Java EE
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 EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Edinburgh +39 4 £478 -0.31%
West Lothian - 1 - -
Java EE
UK

Java EE
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 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) JSP
1 2 (40.00%) JSTL
1 2 (40.00%) Servlets
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) STL
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) OpenJDK
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Case Management
2 2 (40.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Data Design
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) UML
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) VMware