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

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills 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 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 of the Programming Languages category 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
Rank 6 19 10
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 395 142 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 16.20% 5.338% 9.844%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.65% 22.19% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 62 144
Average daily rate £375 £314 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.52% -10.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £235 £304
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 1
Average hourly rate £43.25 £32.25 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.10% -14.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1049 640 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.01% 24.06% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 290 405
Average daily rate £363 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
UK

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Scotland Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Scotland Java Hourly Rate Histogram

Java
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java 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 +7 250 £353 +10.50%
Edinburgh +20 56 £400 +14.28%
Stirling +1 20 £462 +84.90%
Dundee +2 6 - -
West Lothian +3 5 £375 -
Renfrewshire - 5 £500 -
Fife - 3 - -
Angus 0 1 £250 +6.38%
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Tayside - 1 £250 -
Java
UK

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Java also 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 that cited Java.

1 206 (31.69%) Spring
2 204 (31.38%) SQL
3 193 (29.69%) XML
4 191 (29.38%) Oracle
5 150 (23.08%) UNIX
6 148 (22.77%) Finance
7 126 (19.38%) JavaScript
8 118 (18.15%) Sybase
9 117 (18.00%) Agile Software Development
10 112 (17.23%) Hibernate
11 111 (17.08%) J2EE
12 108 (16.62%) Perl
13 105 (16.15%) C#
14 103 (15.85%) Banking
15 99 (15.23%) Linux
16 91 (14.00%) C++
17 90 (13.85%) OO
18 87 (13.38%) Tomcat
19 85 (13.08%) CSS
20 78 (12.00%) Multithreading
21 75 (11.54%) HTML
22 74 (11.38%) Web Services
23 68 (10.46%) JSP
23 68 (10.46%) HTML5
24 64 (9.846%) JMS
24 64 (9.846%) RDBMS
24 64 (9.846%) Scrum
25 62 (9.538%) WebSphere
26 60 (9.231%) JUnit
27 58 (8.923%) SOAP

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Java also 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 that cited Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 206 (31.69%) Spring
2 193 (29.69%) XML
3 112 (17.23%) Hibernate
4 111 (17.08%) J2EE
5 85 (13.08%) CSS
6 75 (11.54%) HTML
7 74 (11.38%) Web Services
8 68 (10.46%) JSP
8 68 (10.46%) HTML5
9 64 (9.846%) JMS
10 62 (9.538%) WebSphere
11 58 (8.923%) SOAP
12 57 (8.769%) JSF
13 49 (7.538%) jQuery
14 44 (6.769%) Struts
15 42 (6.462%) Ajax
16 38 (5.846%) JDBC
17 37 (5.692%) Apache Flex
18 35 (5.385%) Servlets
18 35 (5.385%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 87 (13.38%) Tomcat
2 40 (6.154%) Apache
3 18 (2.769%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (1.846%) WebSphere Portal
5 9 (1.385%) Mule
6 7 (1.077%) GlassFish
6 7 (1.077%) Oracle Coherence
7 6 (0.923%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.769%) IIS
8 5 (0.769%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.769%) MQSeries
8 5 (0.769%) MS Exchange
8 5 (0.769%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.769%) ESB
8 5 (0.769%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 4 (0.615%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
9 4 (0.615%) LiveLink
9 4 (0.615%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (0.462%) CMS
10 3 (0.462%) Documentum
Applications
1 9 (1.385%) MS Excel
2 6 (0.923%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.615%) Gephi
4 3 (0.462%) Fireworks
5 2 (0.308%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.154%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.308%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (0.308%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.308%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.154%) Tridion
2 1 (0.154%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.154%) HTTP
2 9 (1.385%) Internet
3 7 (1.077%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.615%) Intranet
5 3 (0.462%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.308%) FTP
6 2 (0.308%) SSL
6 2 (0.308%) LDAP
7 1 (0.154%) X.509
7 1 (0.154%) SMS
7 1 (0.154%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.154%) SAN
7 1 (0.154%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (9.846%) RDBMS
2 53 (8.154%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.615%) DB2
4 16 (2.462%) MySQL
5 14 (2.154%) SQL Server 2005
6 13 (2.000%) Oracle 10g
7 11 (1.692%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.538%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.538%) SQL Server 2000
9 9 (1.385%) Oracle 11g
10 7 (1.077%) Sybase IQ
11 6 (0.923%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.923%) KDB
11 6 (0.923%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.923%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.769%) Oracle 8/8i
13 4 (0.615%) GIS
14 3 (0.462%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.462%) PowerCenter
14 3 (0.462%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 60 (9.231%) JUnit
2 58 (8.923%) Eclipse
2 58 (8.923%) Maven
3 35 (5.385%) Subversion
4 30 (4.615%) Selenium
5 26 (4.000%) Ant
6 22 (3.385%) Jenkins
7 21 (3.231%) Rational Application Developer
7 21 (3.231%) CruiseControl
8 17 (2.615%) JIRA
9 14 (2.154%) JDeveloper
10 11 (1.692%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.538%) Git (software)
12 9 (1.385%) ClearCase
12 9 (1.385%) Hudson
13 7 (1.077%) FitNesse
14 6 (0.923%) Eclipse RCP
15 5 (0.769%) Oracle Forms
15 5 (0.769%) QuickTest Pro
16 3 (0.462%) PVCS
General
1 148 (22.77%) Finance
2 103 (15.85%) Banking
3 35 (5.385%) Investment Banking
4 18 (2.769%) Front Office
5 12 (1.846%) Games
6 9 (1.385%) Telecoms
7 5 (0.769%) Retail
7 5 (0.769%) Interactive Media
8 4 (0.615%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.462%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.154%) Advertising
10 1 (0.154%) Legal
10 1 (0.154%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 459 (70.62%) Developer
2 321 (49.38%) Java Developer
3 49 (7.538%) Analyst
4 38 (5.846%) Senior Developer
5 35 (5.385%) C++ Developer
6 28 (4.308%) Senior Java Developer
7 27 (4.154%) Architect
8 23 (3.538%) Flex Developer
9 22 (3.385%) Programmer
10 20 (3.077%) Designer
10 20 (3.077%) C++/Java Developer
11 18 (2.769%) Java Programmer
11 18 (2.769%) Software Developer
11 18 (2.769%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (2.769%) Consultant
12 17 (2.615%) C# Developer
13 16 (2.462%) Analyst Programmer
14 15 (2.308%) Development Specialist
14 15 (2.308%) Java Analyst Programmer
15 14 (2.154%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.154%) Fixed Income
2 42 (6.462%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (6.000%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (3.231%) Derivative
4 21 (3.231%) Equity Derivative
5 16 (2.462%) N-Tier
6 11 (1.692%) Computer Science
7 10 (1.538%) Data Integration
8 9 (1.385%) Mathematics
9 8 (1.231%) Open Source
9 8 (1.231%) Equities
10 6 (0.923%) Mobile App
10 6 (0.923%) Clustering
11 5 (0.769%) Interactive TV
11 5 (0.769%) IPTV
11 5 (0.769%) Web 2.0
12 4 (0.615%) SaaS
12 4 (0.615%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.615%) Visualisation
12 4 (0.615%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 150 (23.08%) UNIX
2 99 (15.23%) Linux
3 46 (7.077%) Windows
4 19 (2.923%) Windows Server 2003
5 17 (2.615%) Windows Server 2008
6 16 (2.462%) Solaris
7 9 (1.385%) Android
8 6 (0.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.769%) Windows XP
10 4 (0.615%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.615%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.462%) AIX
11 3 (0.462%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.154%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (18.00%) Agile Software Development
2 90 (13.85%) OO
3 78 (12.00%) Multithreading
4 64 (9.846%) Scrum
5 58 (8.923%) Unit Testing
6 48 (7.385%) TDD
7 47 (7.231%) UML
8 45 (6.923%) SOA
9 44 (6.769%) Continuous Integration
10 43 (6.615%) MVC
11 27 (4.154%) OOP
12 25 (3.846%) Web Application Development
13 24 (3.692%) Data Modelling
13 24 (3.692%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (3.077%) Extreme Programming
15 18 (2.769%) Electronic Trading
15 18 (2.769%) CRM
16 17 (2.615%) Software Engineering
17 16 (2.462%) ETL
18 15 (2.308%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 204 (31.38%) SQL
2 126 (19.38%) JavaScript
3 108 (16.62%) Perl
4 105 (16.15%) C#
5 91 (14.00%) C++
6 48 (7.385%) PL/SQL
7 33 (5.077%) Shell Script
8 27 (4.154%) Python
9 22 (3.385%) Scala
10 19 (2.923%) PHP
10 19 (2.923%) Ruby
11 17 (2.615%) VB
12 12 (1.846%) C++/CLI
13 11 (1.692%) VBScript
13 11 (1.692%) ActionScript
13 11 (1.692%) C
13 11 (1.692%) Korn
14 8 (1.231%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.077%) VBA
16 6 (0.923%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 51 (7.846%) Degree
2 20 (3.077%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.154%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.538%) Sun Certification
5 5 (0.769%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.308%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.154%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.154%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.154%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.615%) QA
2 2 (0.308%) WCAG
3 1 (0.154%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.154%) SLA
3 1 (0.154%) WAI
3 1 (0.154%) Section 508
System Software
1 5 (0.769%) vSphere
2 3 (0.462%) MetaFrame
3 2 (0.308%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.154%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 5 (0.769%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 5 (0.769%) Control-M
1 5 (0.769%) McAfee ePO
2 4 (0.615%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 4 (0.615%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.462%) Puppet
4 2 (0.308%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.154%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.154%) MOM
5 1 (0.154%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.154%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.154%) HP UCMDB
5 1 (0.154%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 191 (29.38%) Oracle
2 118 (18.15%) Sybase
3 44 (6.769%) TIBCO
4 33 (5.077%) Adobe
5 27 (4.154%) JBoss
5 27 (4.154%) Sencha
6 17 (2.615%) Microsoft
6 17 (2.615%) Sun
7 15 (2.308%) IBM
8 13 (2.000%) Informatica
9 12 (1.846%) Citrix
10 10 (1.538%) Lumension
11 7 (1.077%) McAfee
12 6 (0.923%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.769%) HP
14 4 (0.615%) Perforce
14 4 (0.615%) Open Text
14 4 (0.615%) Kofax
15 3 (0.462%) Chordiant
15 3 (0.462%) Genesys
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