Java Contracts in Edinburgh

Java
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 24 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 43 51 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.88% 6.26% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.39% 25.63% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 124
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £406 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +0.10% -8.76%
75th Percentile £510 £569 £538
90th Percentile £546 £658 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £479 £499
% change year-on-year -6.05% -3.91% -0.30%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

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 1 May 2025.

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 (11.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.65%) Camunda
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) GeoServer
2 2 (4.65%) OpenROAD
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) IIS
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
3 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (16.28%) Serverless
5 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.63%) OCI
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle CX
6 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
7 4 (9.30%) GCP
7 4 (9.30%) PowerApps
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.98%) IaaS
8 3 (6.98%) PaaS
8 3 (6.98%) SaaS
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.65%) Apigee
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.98%) GIS
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.65%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.65%) Power Query
4 2 (4.65%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.33%) DB2
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) Cypress.io
2 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.95%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) Postman
4 4 (9.30%) Selenium
5 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.98%) GitLab
5 3 (6.98%) Subversion
5 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.98%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.33%) HP UFT
7 1 (2.33%) JUnit
7 1 (2.33%) MSTest
7 1 (2.33%) NUnit
7 1 (2.33%) Ranorex
7 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
General
1 17 (39.53%) Public Sector
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Games
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.30%) QA Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 4 (9.30%) Senior
3 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (4.65%) OpenROAD Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) Spring Boot
2 14 (32.56%) Spring
3 11 (25.58%) React
4 7 (16.28%) AWS CDK
4 7 (16.28%) Node.js
4 7 (16.28%) REST
4 7 (16.28%) RESTful
5 6 (13.95%) .NET
5 6 (13.95%) Middleware
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (6.98%) JSON
7 3 (6.98%) Next.js
7 3 (6.98%) PostGIS
7 3 (6.98%) SOAP
7 3 (6.98%) YAML
8 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
8 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.65%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (4.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.98%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.65%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) AIX
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Agile
2 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (34.88%) DevOps
4 12 (27.91%) Microservices
5 10 (23.26%) Kanban
5 10 (23.26%) TDD
5 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
6 8 (18.60%) Scrum
6 8 (18.60%) SOA
7 7 (16.28%) Analytics
7 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
8 6 (13.95%) API Development
8 6 (13.95%) Design Patterns
8 6 (13.95%) Human-Centred Design
8 6 (13.95%) Inclusive Design
8 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (11.63%) Human Resource Management
9 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) JavaScript
2 10 (23.26%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) Python
4 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.30%) C#
7 3 (6.98%) Bash
7 3 (6.98%) C++
7 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.98%) VBA
7 3 (6.98%) VBScript
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
8 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.33%) Swift
9 1 (2.33%) VB
9 1 (2.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) ISEB
2 3 (6.98%) ISTQB
2 3 (6.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Grafana
2 3 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) ForgeRock
2 3 (6.98%) Google
2 3 (6.98%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.33%) Confluent
3 1 (2.33%) IBM
3 1 (2.33%) Informatica
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Okta
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.33%) VMware