Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 99 110
Rank change year-on-year -33 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 2 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.088% 1.12% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 4.65% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 7
10th Percentile £321 £268 £421
25th Percentile £344 £274 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.83% -29.41% -14.87%
75th Percentile £444 £379 £491
90th Percentile £470 £497 £598
UK median daily rate £563 £402 £546
% change year-on-year +39.93% -26.41% +6.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Jakarta EE 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 453 409 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.00% 24.13% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 259 289
10th Percentile £313 £310 £345
25th Percentile £390 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -3.65%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £563
90th Percentile £644 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile - - £33.58
25th Percentile - £52.50 £44.94
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +12.61%
75th Percentile £57.69 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in Scotland

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jakarta EE in Scotland

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
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 Jakarta EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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 -20 1 £310 +3.33% 1
Edinburgh - 1 £475 -
Jakarta EE
UK

Jakarta EE
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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) DOM
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) JSF
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Sass
1 1 (50.00%) SAX
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle