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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 51 52 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.81% 5.96% 11.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.02% 26.00% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 112
10th Percentile £400 £380 £394
25th Percentile £408 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.10% -7.84%
75th Percentile £510 £554 £538
90th Percentile £541 £663 £611
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +4.44% -6.25% -6.34%

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 196 200 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 30.02% 22.91% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 135 308
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £414 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% -1.54%
75th Percentile £525 £542 £538
90th Percentile £550 £630 £577
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.08% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £39.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £40.69
Median hourly rate £27.87 £60.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.93% +27.37% +118.39%
75th Percentile £61.25 £60.75 £55.94
90th Percentile £67.25 - £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £43.04 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.15% - +25.68%

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 3 July 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 (9.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.92%) Camunda
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) GeoServer
2 2 (3.92%) OpenROAD
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) Azure
3 11 (21.57%) GCP
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 8 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (15.69%) Serverless
6 7 (13.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.80%) OCI
7 5 (9.80%) Oracle CX
7 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.88%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.92%) PaaS
10 2 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.80%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.84%) GIS
3 4 (7.84%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.88%) Power Query
4 3 (5.88%) Redis
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.96%) DB2
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) Cypress.io
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) JIRA
4 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) Postman
4 3 (5.88%) Selenium
5 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.92%) Subversion
5 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.92%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.96%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.96%) JUnit
6 1 (1.96%) MSTest
6 1 (1.96%) NUnit
6 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 18 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Finance
4 7 (13.73%) Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Games
6 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Java Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Lead
3 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Java Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (5.88%) QA Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (3.92%) GCP Developer
6 2 (3.92%) IAM Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) OpenROAD Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Business Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) Spring Boot
2 17 (33.33%) Spring
3 13 (25.49%) React
4 10 (19.61%) RESTful
5 8 (15.69%) AWS CDK
5 8 (15.69%) Node.js
5 8 (15.69%) REST
6 6 (11.76%) Middleware
7 5 (9.80%) .NET
7 5 (9.80%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (7.84%) JSON
8 4 (7.84%) PostGIS
8 4 (7.84%) YAML
9 3 (5.88%) ARM Templates
9 3 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (5.88%) Next.js
9 3 (5.88%) SOAP
10 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.92%) HTML
10 2 (3.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (13.73%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.92%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) AIX
2 1 (1.96%) Android
2 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) Agile
2 21 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 21 (41.18%) DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) Microservices
4 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
4 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
5 10 (19.61%) Kanban
6 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (17.65%) TDD
7 8 (15.69%) Analytics
7 8 (15.69%) Data Protection
7 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.69%) Scrum
8 7 (13.73%) API Development
8 7 (13.73%) Design Patterns
8 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (13.73%) Human-Centred Design
8 7 (13.73%) Inclusive Design
8 7 (13.73%) Migration
8 7 (13.73%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
2 11 (21.57%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.80%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.84%) Bash
5 4 (7.84%) Perl
5 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.88%) Bicep
6 3 (5.88%) C#
6 3 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.92%) C++
7 2 (3.92%) Groovy
7 2 (3.92%) VBA
7 2 (3.92%) VBScript
8 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.96%) Swift
8 1 (1.96%) VB
8 1 (1.96%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) ISEB
2 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Grafana
2 4 (7.84%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.88%) Ansible
3 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Oracle
2 3 (5.88%) ForgeRock
2 3 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco
4 1 (1.96%) Confluent
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Informatica
4 1 (1.96%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) Splunk
4 1 (1.96%) StreamSets