IntelliJ Contract Job Trends in Scotland

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring IntelliJ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +40
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 10 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.65% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.40% 2.68% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £475 £354 -
25th Percentile £503 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £356 £585
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% -39.15% +7.63%
75th Percentile £575 £358 £600
90th Percentile - £371 -
UK median daily rate £500 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +6.95% +3.89% -22.40%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

IntelliJ falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 294 261 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.14% 15.50% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 167 271
10th Percentile £358 £350 £381
25th Percentile £409 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +7.18%
75th Percentile £545 £514 £588
90th Percentile £611 £550 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £44.00
25th Percentile £53.75 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.44%
75th Percentile £61.25 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £69.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IntelliJ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

IntelliJ job vacancy trend in Scotland

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing IntelliJ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing IntelliJ

IntelliJ
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IntelliJ within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Glasgow -3 10 £550 +54.49%
IntelliJ
UK

IntelliJ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (90.00%) PyCharm
2 9 (90.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
1 6 (60.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) SDLC
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Issue Tracking
4 6 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (40.00%) Build Automation
6 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
6 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (30.00%) Investment Management
7 3 (30.00%) Wealth Management
8 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (20.00%) Software Distribution
8 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
9 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
9 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform