Java Contracts in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 213 368 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.65% 12.89% 9.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.79% 37.06% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 271 223
10th Percentile £400 £415 £401
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -0.30% +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £575
90th Percentile £703 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £51.14 £34.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £56.25 £47.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +8.31% +36.25%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £56.63
90th Percentile - £77.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Java is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Scotland

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Scotland

Java
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 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 -2 129 £483 -24.53% 35
Edinburgh -9 53 £480 +0.21% 29
West Lothian +4 18 £525 -12.50%
Fife 0 1 £428 - 3
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 5
Java
UK

Java
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 17 (7.98%) Confluence
2 12 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.76%) Apache
3 8 (3.76%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.29%) SAS
5 3 (1.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.41%) CMS
5 3 (1.41%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.41%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.94%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.94%) JBoss
6 2 (0.94%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.94%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.94%) WildFly
7 1 (0.47%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 109 (51.17%) AWS
2 35 (16.43%) Azure
3 23 (10.80%) Amazon S3
4 22 (10.33%) OpenShift
5 21 (9.86%) Serverless
6 19 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.63%) Snowflake
9 11 (5.16%) GCP
10 7 (3.29%) IaaS
11 6 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.82%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (2.82%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.35%) SaaS
13 4 (1.88%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.88%) Rekognition
13 4 (1.88%) Textract
14 3 (1.41%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.16%) HTTP
2 10 (4.69%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.23%) SSL
4 8 (3.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (3.29%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (3.29%) iSCSI
5 7 (3.29%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.35%) SAN
7 3 (1.41%) 5G
8 2 (0.94%) Broadband
9 1 (0.47%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.47%) DNS
9 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.47%) Internet
9 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.39%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (8.45%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.69%) DB2
5 9 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.82%) MariaDB
6 6 (2.82%) MySQL
6 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.88%) Big Data
7 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.88%) GIS
7 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.94%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (22.07%) Jenkins
2 35 (16.43%) Git
3 28 (13.15%) JIRA
4 24 (11.27%) Cucumber
5 23 (10.80%) JUnit
6 12 (5.63%) Postman
7 11 (5.16%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.69%) Maven
9 7 (3.29%) GitLab
9 7 (3.29%) Selenium
10 6 (2.82%) Subversion
11 5 (2.35%) Gradle
11 5 (2.35%) IntelliJ
11 5 (2.35%) Mockito
11 5 (2.35%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.41%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.94%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 52 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.13%) Public Sector
3 38 (17.84%) Finance
4 23 (10.80%) Banking
5 13 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.76%) Back Office
6 8 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.76%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.94%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (63.85%) Developer
2 95 (44.60%) Java Developer
3 28 (13.15%) Senior
4 19 (8.92%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (8.92%) Senior Developer
5 18 (8.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (7.51%) Java Engineer
7 15 (7.04%) Linux Developer
8 14 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Architect
9 13 (6.10%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 13 (6.10%) Java Scala Developer
9 13 (6.10%) Scala Developer
10 12 (5.63%) Full Stack Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Lead
13 7 (3.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (40.85%) Spring
2 70 (32.86%) Spring Boot
3 68 (31.92%) REST
4 37 (17.37%) Kafka
5 36 (16.90%) React
6 33 (15.49%) CSS
7 30 (14.08%) HTML
8 28 (13.15%) AngularJS
9 23 (10.80%) RESTful
10 21 (9.86%) AWS CDK
11 13 (6.10%) Apache Camel
11 13 (6.10%) J2EE
11 13 (6.10%) JPA
12 12 (5.63%) Node.js
12 12 (5.63%) Spring Security
13 9 (4.23%) JSON
13 9 (4.23%) OAuth
13 9 (4.23%) OAuth2
14 8 (3.76%) Spring MVC
14 8 (3.76%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.51%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.69%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.29%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.82%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.35%) NVMe
9 4 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.47%) PKI
11 1 (0.47%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.19%) Linux
2 28 (13.15%) Unix
3 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.82%) Windows
4 6 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.88%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.94%) Android
6 2 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (51.17%) Agile
2 76 (35.68%) CI/CD
3 71 (33.33%) Microservices
4 48 (22.54%) DevOps
5 38 (17.84%) Full Stack Development
5 38 (17.84%) Software Engineering
6 36 (16.90%) Test Automation
7 34 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (15.96%) SDLC
8 29 (13.62%) TDD
9 23 (10.80%) Data Protection
9 23 (10.80%) Migration
10 21 (9.86%) End-to-End Testing
11 20 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (9.39%) Scrum
12 19 (8.92%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (8.92%) Human-Centred Design
12 19 (8.92%) Inclusive Design
13 18 (8.45%) Code Quality
13 18 (8.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.39%) SQL
2 56 (26.29%) Python
3 50 (23.47%) JavaScript
4 38 (17.84%) TypeScript
5 34 (15.96%) Scala
6 18 (8.45%) Perl
7 17 (7.98%) Bash
8 11 (5.16%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.69%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.29%) C#
11 6 (2.82%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.88%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.41%) C++
13 3 (1.41%) Groovy
13 3 (1.41%) Ruby
14 2 (0.94%) Go
14 2 (0.94%) PHP
14 2 (0.94%) VBA
14 2 (0.94%) VBScript
15 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (2.35%) Degree
2 4 (1.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.94%) ISEB
4 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.33%) Accessibility
2 16 (7.51%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.88%) NIST
4 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.94%) GDPR
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.94%) QA
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (23.94%) Docker
2 7 (3.29%) NFS
3 4 (1.88%) GPFS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.86%) Terraform
3 17 (7.98%) Grafana
4 7 (3.29%) Kibana
5 6 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.35%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.94%) Ansible
8 2 (0.94%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.47%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.47%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.47%) Icinga
9 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (16.43%) Oracle
2 12 (5.63%) Databricks
3 11 (5.16%) IBM
4 8 (3.76%) F5
5 5 (2.35%) Google
5 5 (2.35%) Sybase
6 4 (1.88%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.88%) Brocade
6 4 (1.88%) EMC
6 4 (1.88%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.88%) NetApp
6 4 (1.88%) Veritas
7 3 (1.41%) Pega
8 2 (0.94%) Confluent
8 2 (0.94%) Greenplum
8 2 (0.94%) Splunk
9 1 (0.47%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) Solace
9 1 (0.47%) StreamSets