Java Contracts in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 219 372 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.79% 13.00% 9.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.16% 37.20% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 273 220
10th Percentile £400 £416 £400
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -0.30% +17.65%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £575
90th Percentile £701 £712 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £51.14 £34.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £56.25 £47.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +8.31% +36.25%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £56.63
90th Percentile - £77.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +21.05%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 681 1,000 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.46% 34.94% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 725 644
10th Percentile £363 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £586 £556 £549
90th Percentile £656 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Scotland

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Scotland

Java
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 Java within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 -1 132 £470 -26.67% 33
Edinburgh -11 56 £479 - 28
West Lothian +2 18 £525 -5.83%
Fife 0 1 £428 - 3
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 3
Java
UK

Java
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 17 (7.76%) Confluence
2 12 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.65%) Apache
4 7 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.20%) SAS
5 3 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.37%) CMS
5 3 (1.37%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.37%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.37%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.91%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.91%) JBoss
6 2 (0.91%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.91%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.91%) WildFly
7 1 (0.46%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 113 (51.60%) AWS
2 34 (15.53%) Azure
3 22 (10.05%) Amazon S3
3 22 (10.05%) OpenShift
4 21 (9.59%) Serverless
5 19 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (5.48%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.57%) GCP
9 8 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.20%) IaaS
11 6 (2.74%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (2.74%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.28%) SaaS
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.83%) Rekognition
13 4 (1.83%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.02%) HTTP
2 10 (4.57%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.11%) SSL
4 8 (3.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (3.20%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (3.20%) iSCSI
5 7 (3.20%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.28%) SAN
7 3 (1.37%) 5G
8 2 (0.91%) Broadband
8 2 (0.91%) DNS
9 1 (0.46%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.46%) Internet
9 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.59%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.13%) Oracle Database
4 18 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (4.57%) DB2
6 9 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.74%) MariaDB
7 6 (2.74%) MySQL
7 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.83%) GIS
8 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.37%) Big Data
9 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.91%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (21.46%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.98%) Git
3 27 (12.33%) Cucumber
4 26 (11.87%) JIRA
5 23 (10.50%) JUnit
6 12 (5.48%) Postman
7 11 (5.02%) Maven
8 10 (4.57%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.57%) Selenium
9 7 (3.20%) GitLab
10 6 (2.74%) Subversion
11 5 (2.28%) Gradle
11 5 (2.28%) IntelliJ
11 5 (2.28%) Mockito
11 5 (2.28%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.37%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.37%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.91%) Capybara
13 2 (0.91%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
General
1 52 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.55%) Public Sector
3 38 (17.35%) Finance
4 24 (10.96%) Banking
5 13 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.65%) Back Office
7 8 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.65%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.91%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (63.01%) Developer
2 97 (44.29%) Java Developer
3 28 (12.79%) Senior
4 21 (9.59%) Full Stack Developer
5 19 (8.68%) Senior Developer
6 18 (8.22%) Java Engineer
6 18 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (6.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 15 (6.85%) Linux Developer
8 14 (6.39%) Architect
8 14 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Java Scala Developer
9 13 (5.94%) Scala Developer
10 12 (5.48%) Full Stack Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.65%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (40.18%) Spring
2 71 (32.42%) REST
3 69 (31.51%) Spring Boot
4 38 (17.35%) React
5 37 (16.89%) Kafka
6 33 (15.07%) CSS
7 30 (13.70%) AngularJS
7 30 (13.70%) HTML
8 25 (11.42%) RESTful
9 21 (9.59%) AWS CDK
10 16 (7.31%) JPA
11 15 (6.85%) Node.js
12 13 (5.94%) Apache Camel
12 13 (5.94%) J2EE
13 12 (5.48%) JSON
13 12 (5.48%) Spring Security
13 12 (5.48%) Web Services
14 11 (5.02%) Hibernate
15 9 (4.11%) OAuth
15 9 (4.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.31%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (6.85%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.57%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.11%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.20%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.74%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.28%) NVMe
10 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.46%) PKI
13 1 (0.46%) Taxonomies
13 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.09%) Linux
2 28 (12.79%) Unix
3 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.74%) Windows
4 6 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.83%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.91%) Android
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.46%) AIX
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (51.60%) Agile
2 77 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 71 (32.42%) Microservices
4 49 (22.37%) DevOps
5 40 (18.26%) Full Stack Development
6 36 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 34 (15.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (15.53%) Test Automation
8 31 (14.16%) SDLC
9 29 (13.24%) TDD
10 26 (11.87%) Data Protection
11 23 (10.50%) Migration
12 21 (9.59%) Scrum
13 19 (8.68%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (8.68%) End-to-End Testing
13 19 (8.68%) Human-Centred Design
13 19 (8.68%) Inclusive Design
14 18 (8.22%) Code Quality
14 18 (8.22%) Computer Science
14 18 (8.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.88%) SQL
2 59 (26.94%) Python
3 56 (25.57%) JavaScript
4 38 (17.35%) TypeScript
5 33 (15.07%) Scala
6 18 (8.22%) Perl
7 17 (7.76%) Bash
8 12 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.57%) PL/SQL
10 9 (4.11%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.20%) C#
12 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.37%) C++
13 3 (1.37%) Groovy
13 3 (1.37%) Ruby
14 2 (0.91%) Go
14 2 (0.91%) PHP
14 2 (0.91%) VBA
14 2 (0.91%) VBScript
15 1 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (2.28%) Degree
2 4 (1.83%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.91%) ISEB
4 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.05%) Accessibility
2 16 (7.31%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.83%) NIST
4 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) QA
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (22.83%) Docker
2 7 (3.20%) NFS
3 4 (1.83%) GPFS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.59%) Terraform
3 17 (7.76%) Grafana
4 7 (3.20%) Kibana
5 5 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.83%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 4 (1.83%) Zipkin
7 2 (0.91%) Ansible
7 2 (0.91%) Istio
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
8 1 (0.46%) FreeIPA
8 1 (0.46%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.46%) Icinga
8 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (18.26%) Oracle
2 12 (5.48%) Databricks
3 11 (5.02%) IBM
4 8 (3.65%) F5
5 5 (2.28%) Google
5 5 (2.28%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.28%) Sybase
6 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.83%) Brocade
6 4 (1.83%) EMC
6 4 (1.83%) NetApp
6 4 (1.83%) Veritas
7 3 (1.37%) Pega
8 2 (0.91%) Confluent
8 2 (0.91%) Greenplum
8 2 (0.91%) Splunk
9 1 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.46%) Solace
9 1 (0.46%) StreamSets