Java Developer Contracts in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer daily rate in Scotland is £447 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 63 69
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 97 120 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.37% 4.21% 3.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.62% 4.42% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 92 75
10th Percentile £373 £415 £372
25th Percentile £400 £449 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £504 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +12.00% +6.51%
75th Percentile £533 £746 £525
90th Percentile £750 £750 £572
UK median daily rate £575 £670 £600
% change year-on-year -14.12% +11.58% +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% +7.62%

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 2,101 2,715 3,400
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.16% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,945 2,410
10th Percentile £200 £250 £212
25th Percentile £375 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £545
90th Percentile £667 £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 46 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £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 £60.17 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 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 24 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 +9 66 £435 -42.00% 10
Edinburgh +15 13 £440 -9.14% 2
West Lothian +5 13 £520 +3.48%
Fife - 1 £428 -
Midlothian - 1 £428 -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 97 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (56.70%) Spring
3 54 (55.67%) Agile
4 44 (45.36%) Spring Boot
5 40 (41.24%) AWS
6 38 (39.18%) Microservices
7 37 (38.14%) REST
8 35 (36.08%) SQL
9 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
10 25 (25.77%) Kafka
10 25 (25.77%) Jenkins
11 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
12 22 (22.68%) Scala
13 20 (20.62%) Git
13 20 (20.62%) Docker
14 19 (19.59%) Full Stack Development
14 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
14 19 (19.59%) Linux
15 18 (18.56%) JUnit
15 18 (18.56%) JIRA
15 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
16 17 (17.53%) End-to-End Testing
16 17 (17.53%) RESTful
17 16 (16.49%) Cucumber
17 16 (16.49%) TDD
17 16 (16.49%) Finance
17 16 (16.49%) Oracle
18 15 (15.46%) Unix
18 15 (15.46%) Python
18 15 (15.46%) AngularJS

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 (14.43%) Confluence
2 6 (6.19%) Apache
3 5 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.06%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (2.06%) JBoss
4 2 (2.06%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.06%) WildFly
5 1 (1.03%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.24%) AWS
2 10 (10.31%) Azure
3 7 (7.22%) OpenShift
4 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.15%) GCP
5 4 (4.12%) Serverless
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.03%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (5.15%) HTTP
1 5 (5.15%) NetScaler
1 5 (5.15%) SSL
1 5 (5.15%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.09%) 5G
3 1 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.03%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.19%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.09%) DB2
4 3 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.06%) Power BI
5 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.03%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (20.62%) Git
3 18 (18.56%) JIRA
3 18 (18.56%) JUnit
4 16 (16.49%) Cucumber
5 11 (11.34%) Postman
6 5 (5.15%) IntelliJ
6 5 (5.15%) Maven
7 4 (4.12%) Subversion
8 2 (2.06%) Mockito
8 2 (2.06%) Selenium
9 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Banking
4 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.25%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Law
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (56.70%) Spring
2 44 (45.36%) Spring Boot
3 37 (38.14%) REST
4 25 (25.77%) Kafka
5 17 (17.53%) RESTful
6 15 (15.46%) AngularJS
7 13 (13.40%) React
8 12 (12.37%) Apache Camel
9 10 (10.31%) J2EE
10 9 (9.28%) CSS
10 9 (9.28%) Hibernate
11 7 (7.22%) HTML
11 7 (7.22%) JPA
12 6 (6.19%) JSON
12 6 (6.19%) Node.js
12 6 (6.19%) Spring Security
12 6 (6.19%) XML
13 4 (4.12%) Java EE
13 4 (4.12%) OAuth
13 4 (4.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.22%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (7.22%) Data Structures
1 7 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.15%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.59%) Linux
2 15 (15.46%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) AIX
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.67%) Agile
2 38 (39.18%) Microservices
3 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
4 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
5 19 (19.59%) Full Stack Development
6 17 (17.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 16 (16.49%) TDD
8 15 (15.46%) SDLC
9 14 (14.43%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (13.40%) DevOps
11 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.31%) Test Automation
13 9 (9.28%) Data Protection
13 9 (9.28%) Scrum
14 8 (8.25%) Coaching
14 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 7 (7.22%) Continuous Delivery
15 7 (7.22%) MVC
16 6 (6.19%) OO
16 6 (6.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (36.08%) SQL
3 22 (22.68%) Scala
4 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.46%) Python
6 8 (8.25%) Kotlin
6 8 (8.25%) PL/SQL
7 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.19%) Perl
9 5 (5.15%) Bash
10 1 (1.03%) C
10 1 (1.03%) PHP
10 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (20.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Kibana
1 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Grafana
3 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Oracle
2 5 (5.15%) F5
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.06%) Databricks
4 2 (2.06%) IBM
5 1 (1.03%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.03%) Sybase
5 1 (1.03%) VMware