J2EE Contract Job Trends in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring J2EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 112 143
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +25
Contract jobs citing J2EE 6 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.38% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 1.11% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £271 - £336
25th Percentile £300 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -15.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £525 - £538
90th Percentile £585 - £550
UK median daily rate £384 £541 £534
% change year-on-year -29.05% +1.36% -2.91%

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 388 360 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.33% 19.51% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 243 432
10th Percentile £356 £360 £388
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -0.89% -4.15%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £24.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £47.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - £62.82
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing J2EE

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing J2EE

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 September 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 -12 6 £432 +1.65% 2
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 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Datadog
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Database Developer
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Ext JS
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) DocuSign
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase