Java Developer Contracts in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer daily rate in Scotland is £441, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 43 61
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 133 96 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.18% 4.33% 4.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.70% 4.57% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 63 89
10th Percentile £330 £374 £415
25th Percentile £400 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £450 £499
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.73% +10.78%
75th Percentile £496 £544 £713
90th Percentile £550 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £669
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.05% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.46
25th Percentile - £51.25 £52.05
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £56.37
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% +19.93%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £60.68
90th Percentile - - £63.27
UK median hourly rate £69.11 £52.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +31.64% -27.59% +20.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
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 Developer 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 +11 119 £450 -1.10% 14
Edinburgh +7 12 £413 -5.17% 7
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (64.66%) Spring
3 66 (49.62%) Linux
4 64 (48.12%) SQL
5 53 (39.85%) Agile
6 46 (34.59%) Multithreading
7 45 (33.83%) Finance
7 45 (33.83%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (33.08%) Spring Boot
9 42 (31.58%) Relational Database
10 39 (29.32%) Software Engineering
10 39 (29.32%) Data Structures
11 38 (28.57%) Kafka
12 37 (27.82%) JUnit
13 35 (26.32%) SDLC
14 34 (25.56%) DB2
15 33 (24.81%) MongoDB
16 31 (23.31%) Python
16 31 (23.31%) Sybase
17 30 (22.56%) Front Office
18 29 (21.80%) Banking
19 27 (20.30%) Shell Script
19 27 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
19 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
20 25 (18.80%) CI/CD
21 24 (18.05%) Open Source
22 22 (16.54%) JMS
23 21 (15.79%) AWS
24 20 (15.04%) Unix
24 20 (15.04%) Equities

Java Developer Skill Set
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 3 (2.26%) OpenROAD
2 2 (1.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.79%) AWS
2 7 (5.26%) Azure
3 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.01%) Azure AKS
4 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.26%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.50%) GCP
5 2 (1.50%) GitHub
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 34 (25.56%) DB2
3 33 (24.81%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.27%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (27.82%) JUnit
2 5 (3.76%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) Git
4 2 (1.50%) Mercurial
4 2 (1.50%) Subversion
5 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) Mockito
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 45 (33.83%) Finance
2 30 (22.56%) Front Office
3 29 (21.80%) Banking
4 27 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
5 15 (11.28%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.02%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.50%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (64.66%) Spring
2 44 (33.08%) Spring Boot
3 38 (28.57%) Kafka
4 22 (16.54%) JMS
5 12 (9.02%) REST
6 10 (7.52%) React
7 8 (6.02%) SOAP
8 5 (3.76%) Middleware
8 5 (3.76%) RESTful
9 4 (3.01%) J2EE
9 4 (3.01%) Node.js
9 4 (3.01%) Web Services
10 3 (2.26%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.26%) CSS
10 3 (2.26%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.26%) Java SE
11 2 (1.50%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.50%) JDBC
11 2 (1.50%) JSON
11 2 (1.50%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Data Structures
2 20 (15.04%) Equities
3 17 (12.78%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.51%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.26%) Derivative
7 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (49.62%) Linux
2 20 (15.04%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Android
3 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) Agile
2 46 (34.59%) Multithreading
3 45 (33.83%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (29.32%) Software Engineering
5 35 (26.32%) SDLC
6 25 (18.80%) CI/CD
7 24 (18.05%) Open Source
8 20 (15.04%) Concurrent Programming
8 20 (15.04%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (13.53%) Database Tuning
10 17 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (10.53%) Process Improvement
12 13 (9.77%) Design Patterns
12 13 (9.77%) Microservices
12 13 (9.77%) Project Delivery
13 9 (6.77%) Computer Science
14 8 (6.02%) Code Quality
14 8 (6.02%) DevOps
14 8 (6.02%) Event-Driven
14 8 (6.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (48.12%) SQL
3 31 (23.31%) Python
4 27 (20.30%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.53%) Terraform
2 6 (4.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (23.31%) Sybase
2 7 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.26%) DocuSign
3 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.26%) IBM
3 3 (2.26%) Splunk
4 2 (1.50%) Google
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft