Java Contracts in West Lothian

Java
Scotland > West Lothian

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 18 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 35.29% 29.09% 26.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 69.23% 94.12% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 8
10th Percentile £451 £477 £411
25th Percentile £486 £491 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +17.37% +25.00%
75th Percentile £585 £623 £500
90th Percentile £624 £655 -
Scotland median daily rate £464 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -6.50% -0.75% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +284.62% -
75th Percentile - £80.00 £21.75
90th Percentile - £83.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 £52.02
% change year-on-year -11.06% +13.48% +30.05%

All Programming Languages
West Lothian

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 West Lothian with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 17 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 50.98% 30.91% 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £440 £480 £322
25th Percentile £499 £493 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +14.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £500
90th Percentile £590 £650 -
Scotland median daily rate £480 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -2.04% +3.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +284.62% -
75th Percentile - £80.00 £21.75
90th Percentile - £83.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £62.46 £46.62
% change year-on-year -3.94% +33.98% +3.60%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in West Lothian

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Daily rate trend for Java in West Lothian

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West Lothian

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in West Lothian over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in West Lothian

Java
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 18 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
Livingston +1 18 £525 -5.83% 1
Java
Scotland

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 11 (61.11%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 12 (66.67%) JUnit
2 11 (61.11%) Git
2 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (61.11%) JIRA
2 11 (61.11%) Postman
3 4 (22.22%) IntelliJ
3 4 (22.22%) Maven
4 1 (5.56%) Capybara
4 1 (5.56%) Gradle
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 13 (72.22%) Java Developer
3 8 (44.44%) Senior
4 7 (38.89%) Senior Developer
5 6 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) REST
2 15 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 13 (72.22%) Kafka
3 13 (72.22%) Spring
4 12 (66.67%) Apache Camel
5 10 (55.56%) J2EE
6 4 (22.22%) React
7 3 (16.67%) Spring Batch
7 3 (16.67%) Web Services
8 1 (5.56%) Java EE
8 1 (5.56%) JSON
8 1 (5.56%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Coaching
4 7 (38.89%) Component Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 6 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) CRM
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
7 3 (16.67%) MVC
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
9 1 (5.56%) Customer Experience
9 1 (5.56%) Data Design
9 1 (5.56%) Design Patterns
9 1 (5.56%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kibana
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle