Java Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £435 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 154 156
Rank change year-on-year +39 +2 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 16 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.40% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile £362 £308 £398
25th Percentile £406 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -15.40% +25.00%
75th Percentile £476 £675 £572
90th Percentile £500 £697 £638
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

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 2,720 3,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.14% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,951 2,390
10th Percentile £204 £238 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £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 44 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.91 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.20
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +10 15 £435 -35.14% 3
West Lothian - 1 - -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 10 (62.50%) AWS
4 9 (56.25%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 8 (50.00%) Spring
6 7 (43.75%) SQL
6 7 (43.75%) REST
6 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
6 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
6 7 (43.75%) SDLC
7 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
7 6 (37.50%) Operational Stability
7 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
7 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (37.50%) Microservices
7 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
7 6 (37.50%) JPA
7 6 (37.50%) HTML
7 6 (37.50%) CSS
7 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (31.25%) Finance
9 4 (25.00%) JUnit
9 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
9 4 (25.00%) Docker
10 3 (18.75%) DevOps
10 3 (18.75%) Mockito
10 3 (18.75%) Kafka

Java Engineer 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (25.00%) JUnit
2 3 (18.75%) Mockito
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Spring
2 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
2 7 (43.75%) REST
2 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
3 6 (37.50%) CSS
3 6 (37.50%) HTML
3 6 (37.50%) JPA
4 3 (18.75%) Kafka
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Camel
5 1 (6.25%) J2EE
5 1 (6.25%) Twisted
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (43.75%) SDLC
5 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 6 (37.50%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Operational Stability
6 3 (18.75%) Community of Practice
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (12.50%) DataOps
7 2 (12.50%) GitOps
7 2 (12.50%) MLOps
7 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle