Java Contracts in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 235 211 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 9.52% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 31.59% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 149 273
10th Percentile £300 £400 £416
25th Percentile £400 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £499
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -3.91% -0.30%
75th Percentile £510 £590 £625
90th Percentile £569 £704 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £51.14
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -11.06% +8.31%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 0 185 £450 -6.83% 68
Edinburgh -2 43 £466 -2.76% 60
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 11 (4.68%) Confluence
2 6 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.70%) OpenROAD
4 3 (1.28%) JBoss
5 2 (0.85%) Camunda
5 2 (0.85%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 63 (26.81%) AWS
2 30 (12.77%) Azure
3 16 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.96%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (5.53%) GitHub
6 11 (4.68%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.68%) Serverless
7 10 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.55%) OCI
9 6 (2.55%) Oracle CX
10 5 (2.13%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.13%) GCP
10 5 (2.13%) PaaS
10 5 (2.13%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.70%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Firewall
1 1 (0.43%) FTP
1 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (19.57%) Relational Database
2 41 (17.45%) MongoDB
3 38 (16.17%) DB2
4 18 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.53%) RDBMS
6 11 (4.68%) MySQL
6 11 (4.68%) Oracle Database
7 8 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.55%) MariaDB
9 5 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.28%) GIS
12 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.85%) Power Query
12 2 (0.85%) Redis
12 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.43%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 45 (19.15%) JUnit
2 24 (10.21%) JIRA
3 23 (9.79%) Git
4 15 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 14 (5.96%) Subversion
6 9 (3.83%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.83%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (3.83%) PVCS
7 8 (3.40%) Selenium
8 7 (2.98%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.55%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.55%) GitLab
9 6 (2.55%) Mockito
10 5 (2.13%) Maven
11 4 (1.70%) Postman
12 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.28%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.85%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.85%) Mercurial
General
1 75 (31.91%) Finance
2 49 (20.85%) Banking
2 49 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (14.04%) Front Office
5 28 (11.91%) Public Sector
6 26 (11.06%) Investment Banking
7 12 (5.11%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.70%) Games
9 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (71.91%) Developer
2 133 (56.60%) Java Developer
3 20 (8.51%) Linux Developer
4 16 (6.81%) SQL Developer
5 14 (5.96%) Senior
6 13 (5.53%) Lead
7 12 (5.11%) Linux Scripter
8 11 (4.68%) Core Java Developer
9 10 (4.26%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.83%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Java Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) JavaScript Engineer
12 7 (2.98%) Architect
12 7 (2.98%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.98%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (48.94%) Spring
2 72 (30.64%) Spring Boot
3 44 (18.72%) Kafka
4 26 (11.06%) JMS
5 21 (8.94%) React
6 18 (7.66%) REST
7 12 (5.11%) Middleware
7 12 (5.11%) RESTful
8 11 (4.68%) Java EE
9 9 (3.83%) Node.js
9 9 (3.83%) SOAP
10 8 (3.40%) AWS CDK
11 7 (2.98%) CSS
12 6 (2.55%) .NET
12 6 (2.55%) J2EE
12 6 (2.55%) JSON
12 6 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (2.13%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.13%) Hibernate
14 4 (1.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.87%) Data Structures
2 21 (8.94%) Equities
3 18 (7.66%) Algorithms
4 16 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.68%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.98%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.55%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.70%) Derivative
10 4 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.28%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 86 (36.60%) Linux
2 20 (8.51%) Unix
3 5 (2.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) AIX
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.87%) Agile
2 65 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (23.83%) Software Engineering
4 49 (20.85%) CI/CD
5 48 (20.43%) Multithreading
6 43 (18.30%) SDLC
7 38 (16.17%) Microservices
8 37 (15.74%) DevOps
9 30 (12.77%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.21%) Open Source
11 23 (9.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (9.36%) Concurrent Programming
13 21 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (8.94%) Performance Tuning
13 21 (8.94%) TDD
14 20 (8.51%) Process Improvement
15 19 (8.09%) Community of Practice
15 19 (8.09%) Mentoring
16 18 (7.66%) Database Tuning
16 18 (7.66%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 91 (38.72%) SQL
2 68 (28.94%) Python
3 45 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 44 (18.72%) Shell Script
5 37 (15.74%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.96%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.11%) C#
8 9 (3.83%) C
8 9 (3.83%) ProC
9 4 (1.70%) Bash
9 4 (1.70%) C++
10 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.28%) VBA
10 3 (1.28%) VBScript
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.85%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) Swift
12 1 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (2.13%) AWS Certification
1 5 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
1 5 (2.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.28%) Degree
2 3 (1.28%) ISEB
2 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
2 3 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (2.98%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Firmware
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (12.77%) Terraform
2 15 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.98%) Ansible
3 7 (2.98%) Grafana
4 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (14.04%) Sybase
2 26 (11.06%) Oracle
3 9 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.70%) Google
4 4 (1.70%) IBM
4 4 (1.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.70%) Splunk
5 3 (1.28%) DocuSign
5 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.28%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.28%) Ping Identity
6 2 (0.85%) Okta
7 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.43%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.43%) Confluent
7 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.43%) Talend
7 1 (0.43%) Workday