Java Contracts in Edinburgh

Java
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 53 145 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.55% 11.16% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.63% 29.90% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 124 118
10th Percentile £414 £413 £413
25th Percentile £438 £438 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -8.76% +17.98%
75th Percentile £597 £538 £617
90th Percentile £688 £588 £788
Scotland median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.71% -0.30% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -11.06% +8.31% +36.25%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 485 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.60% 37.34% 27.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 381 356
10th Percentile £400 £404 £399
25th Percentile £421 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £535 £550
90th Percentile £634 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £486 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £33.20 £42.68 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £48.19 £26.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £45.56
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +15.23% -5.08%
75th Percentile £60.75 £57.19 £53.75
90th Percentile - £63.38 £54.45
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £47.00
% change year-on-year -3.83% +27.21% +4.44%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (9.43%) Apache
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) CMS
3 2 (3.77%) GeoServer
3 2 (3.77%) JBoss
3 2 (3.77%) WildFly
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) Amazon S3
3 13 (24.53%) Serverless
4 10 (18.87%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (18.87%) OpenShift
5 9 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (15.09%) Azure
7 6 (11.32%) AWS CodeBuild
7 6 (11.32%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 6 (11.32%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (11.32%) IaaS
8 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.43%) SaaS
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.66%) GCP
11 2 (3.77%) PaaS
12 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.89%) Apigee
12 1 (1.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.89%) Broadband
1 1 (1.89%) DNS
1 1 (1.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (1.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (1.89%) Internet
1 1 (1.89%) Network Security
1 1 (1.89%) SAN
1 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Oracle Database
2 11 (20.75%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (13.21%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (13.21%) MongoDB
4 6 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.66%) GIS
6 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.89%) Big Data
7 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.89%) MySQL
7 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.21%) Cypress.io
3 6 (11.32%) Git
3 6 (11.32%) JIRA
4 5 (9.43%) Maven
5 4 (7.55%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.55%) Gradle
5 4 (7.55%) JUnit
5 4 (7.55%) Selenium
5 4 (7.55%) Subversion
6 3 (5.66%) GitLab
6 3 (5.66%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.77%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.89%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.89%) Appium
8 1 (1.89%) Capybara
8 1 (1.89%) gulp
8 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (54.72%) Public Sector
2 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Back Office
3 8 (15.09%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Finance
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (56.60%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Architect
3 10 (18.87%) Java Developer
4 7 (13.21%) AWS Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Solution Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Functional Test Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.96%) REST
2 17 (32.08%) React
2 17 (32.08%) Spring
3 14 (26.42%) Spring Boot
4 12 (22.64%) AWS CDK
5 10 (18.87%) CSS
5 10 (18.87%) HTML
6 8 (15.09%) Node.js
6 8 (15.09%) SOAP
7 6 (11.32%) Spring Security
8 5 (9.43%) Kafka
8 5 (9.43%) OAuth
8 5 (9.43%) OAuth2
8 5 (9.43%) Spring MVC
8 5 (9.43%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (7.55%) Java EE
9 4 (7.55%) JSP
9 4 (7.55%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (5.66%) .NET
10 3 (5.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (13.21%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.77%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.89%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Linux
1 5 (9.43%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Android
3 1 (1.89%) AIX
3 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) CI/CD
2 26 (49.06%) Agile
3 17 (32.08%) DevOps
3 17 (32.08%) Migration
4 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (24.53%) Microservices
5 13 (24.53%) Roadmaps
6 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
7 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
7 9 (16.98%) Data Protection
7 9 (16.98%) Human-Centred Design
7 9 (16.98%) Inclusive Design
7 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (15.09%) API Management
8 8 (15.09%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (15.09%) Pair Programming
8 8 (15.09%) Service Management
8 8 (15.09%) Storage Management
8 8 (15.09%) TDD
9 7 (13.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) JavaScript
2 15 (28.30%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) TypeScript
3 9 (16.98%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.32%) Bash
6 3 (5.66%) C#
6 3 (5.66%) C++
7 2 (3.77%) Go
7 2 (3.77%) Groovy
7 2 (3.77%) Perl
7 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.77%) Ruby
7 2 (3.77%) VBA
7 2 (3.77%) VBScript
8 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.89%) PHP
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) ISEB
2 2 (3.77%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (18.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) NCSC
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Grafana
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Kibana
4 1 (1.89%) Istio
4 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Oracle
2 3 (5.66%) IBM
3 2 (3.77%) Confluent
3 2 (3.77%) Pega
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe
4 1 (1.89%) CA
4 1 (1.89%) F5
4 1 (1.89%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Informatica
4 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.89%) Solace
4 1 (1.89%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.89%) Teradata
4 1 (1.89%) VMware