Java Software Developer Contracts in Scotland

Java Software Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Software Developer daily rate in Scotland is £618 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 157 172
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £487 £458 -
25th Percentile £533 £461 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £469 £325
Median % change year-on-year +31.73% +44.23% -
75th Percentile £632 £473 £338
90th Percentile £635 £474 -
UK median daily rate £725 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +20.83% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,117 2,724 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.18% 96.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,950 2,398
10th Percentile £202 £243 £211
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £551 £549
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 46 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Java Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Developer in Scotland

Java Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Developer in Scotland

Java Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Developer in Scotland

Java Software 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 Software Developer 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 - 2 £621 -
Java Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Java Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience

Java Software 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 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) Flash
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) POSIX
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Coverage
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana