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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 196 338 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.04% 12.30% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.11% 35.73% 36.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 247 237
10th Percentile £400 £415 £413
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £698
UK median daily rate £564 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.04% +2.00% +12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £50.29 £31.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.12 £47.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.27 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +6.91% +36.25%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.52 £57.06
90th Percentile - £77.21 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +3.15% +33.68%

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 630 946 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.06% 34.44% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 679 658
10th Percentile £363 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £436 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £550
90th Percentile £650 £661 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 20
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £35.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +30.69% +1.67%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £53.89
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £55.93
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year -0.12% +23.43% +17.08%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -1 123 £460 -22.30% 50
Edinburgh -11 45 £482 +0.52% 17
West Lothian +6 18 £525 -15.15%
Fife 0 1 £428 - 5
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 4
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 (8.67%) Confluence
2 12 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.61%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.08%) Apache
5 5 (2.55%) SAS
6 3 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.53%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.53%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.53%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.02%) CMS
7 2 (1.02%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.02%) JBoss
7 2 (1.02%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.02%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (1.02%) WildFly
8 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 105 (53.57%) AWS
2 37 (18.88%) Azure
3 21 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 18 (9.18%) Serverless
5 17 (8.67%) OpenShift
6 16 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.14%) GCP
8 13 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.61%) Snowflake
10 8 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.06%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (3.06%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (3.06%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (3.06%) IaaS
12 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.55%) SaaS
13 4 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.04%) Rekognition
13 4 (2.04%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.55%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (2.55%) HTTP
1 5 (2.55%) iSCSI
1 5 (2.55%) SAN
2 4 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.53%) 5G
3 3 (1.53%) NetScaler
3 3 (1.53%) SSL
4 2 (1.02%) Broadband
5 1 (0.51%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
5 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 20 (10.20%) Oracle Database
3 17 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.08%) DB2
6 8 (4.08%) MariaDB
6 8 (4.08%) MySQL
7 5 (2.55%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.04%) Big Data
8 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.04%) GIS
8 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.53%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.02%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (18.88%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.31%) Git
2 30 (15.31%) JIRA
3 25 (12.76%) Cucumber
4 24 (12.24%) JUnit
5 12 (6.12%) Postman
6 10 (5.10%) Maven
7 8 (4.08%) Selenium
8 6 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.06%) Mockito
8 6 (3.06%) Subversion
9 5 (2.55%) GitLab
9 5 (2.55%) Gradle
9 5 (2.55%) IntelliJ
9 5 (2.55%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.02%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.02%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 34 (17.35%) Finance
4 22 (11.22%) Banking
5 13 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.08%) Back Office
6 8 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (63.78%) Developer
2 95 (48.47%) Java Developer
3 26 (13.27%) Senior
4 18 (9.18%) Senior Developer
5 17 (8.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Linux Developer
7 13 (6.63%) Java Scala Developer
7 13 (6.63%) Scala Developer
8 12 (6.12%) Full Stack Developer
8 12 (6.12%) Full Stack Engineer
8 12 (6.12%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 10 (5.10%) Architect
10 9 (4.59%) Backend Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.57%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.57%) Lead
12 6 (3.06%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (44.90%) Spring
2 72 (36.73%) Spring Boot
3 57 (29.08%) REST
4 43 (21.94%) Kafka
5 29 (14.80%) React
6 28 (14.29%) CSS
7 26 (13.27%) RESTful
8 24 (12.24%) AngularJS
8 24 (12.24%) HTML
9 17 (8.67%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.63%) Apache Camel
10 13 (6.63%) J2EE
10 13 (6.63%) JPA
11 12 (6.12%) Node.js
12 9 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (4.08%) OpenTracing
13 8 (4.08%) SOAP
13 8 (4.08%) Spring Security
14 7 (3.57%) Web Services
15 6 (3.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 15 (7.65%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.63%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.10%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.08%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.06%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.55%) NVMe
10 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.51%) PKI
13 1 (0.51%) Taxonomies
13 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.37%) Linux
2 21 (10.71%) Unix
3 6 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.04%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (2.04%) Windows
4 4 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.02%) Android
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.51%) AIX
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (48.98%) Agile
2 70 (35.71%) Microservices
3 66 (33.67%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.90%) Software Engineering
5 38 (19.39%) DevOps
6 32 (16.33%) SDLC
6 32 (16.33%) Test Automation
7 31 (15.82%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (13.27%) End-to-End Testing
9 25 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (12.24%) TDD
11 22 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (11.22%) Scrum
12 19 (9.69%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (9.69%) Migration
13 18 (9.18%) Computer Science
13 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.18%) Machine Learning
14 17 (8.67%) Coaching
14 17 (8.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (32.14%) SQL
2 41 (20.92%) Python
3 37 (18.88%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.37%) Scala
5 32 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.63%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.61%) Bash
7 11 (5.61%) Perl
7 11 (5.61%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.57%) C#
9 6 (3.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.53%) C++
10 3 (1.53%) Groovy
10 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.53%) Ruby
11 2 (1.02%) Go
11 2 (1.02%) PHP
11 2 (1.02%) VBA
11 2 (1.02%) VBScript
12 1 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (2.55%) Degree
2 4 (2.04%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.02%) ISEB
4 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.02%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 14 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) GDPR
3 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) NCSC
4 1 (0.51%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (27.04%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) NFS
3 4 (2.04%) GPFS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.71%) Terraform
3 16 (8.16%) Grafana
4 9 (4.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.08%) Zipkin
6 7 (3.57%) Kibana
7 4 (2.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (1.02%) Ansible
8 2 (1.02%) Istio
9 1 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.51%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.51%) Icinga
9 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (18.37%) Oracle
2 11 (5.61%) Databricks
2 11 (5.61%) IBM
3 6 (3.06%) Google
4 5 (2.55%) Splunk
4 5 (2.55%) Sybase
5 4 (2.04%) AVEVA
5 4 (2.04%) Brocade
5 4 (2.04%) EMC
5 4 (2.04%) F5
5 4 (2.04%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.04%) NetApp
5 4 (2.04%) Veritas
6 2 (1.02%) Confluent
6 2 (1.02%) Greenplum
6 2 (1.02%) Pega
7 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.51%) Solace
7 1 (0.51%) StreamSets