J2EE Contracts in Scotland

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE 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 107 110 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing J2EE 9 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.86% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% 4.07% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 18
10th Percentile £280 £410 £438
25th Percentile £342 £439 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £420 £529 £634
90th Percentile £434 £590 £688
UK median daily rate £750 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +42.86% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
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 J2EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 9 £404 -8.18% 3
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (22.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (22.22%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Developer
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Ext JS
4 1 (11.11%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 3 (33.33%) Workflow
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Content Management
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) OOD
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) DocuSign
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Adobe
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Avaloq
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) Temenos