Java EE Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Java EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 107 115
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing Java EE 1 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.047% 0.62% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 2.65% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £269 £425
25th Percentile £305 £273 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £280 £478
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -41.41% +0.53%
75th Percentile £315 £300 £514
90th Percentile - £301 £528
UK median daily rate £575 £300 £538
% change year-on-year +91.67% -44.19% +11.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Java 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 394 378 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.64% 23.32% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 249 282
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £388 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £539
90th Percentile £656 £600 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £35.50 - £36.10
25th Percentile £36.25 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £64.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% - +15.23%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Java EE job vacancy trend in Scotland

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Java EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Java 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 Java EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 June 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 -8 1 £310 +3.33% 1
Java EE
UK

Java 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) SAX
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA