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 9 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 21 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 169 202 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.00% 8.80% 10.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.63% 30.89% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 148 262
10th Percentile £350 £375 £413
25th Percentile £380 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £483 £538 £550
90th Percentile £538 £638 £686
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £49.60
25th Percentile - - £51.28
Median hourly rate - £59.03 £55.95
Median % change year-on-year - +5.51% -4.71%
75th Percentile - £66.39 £58.75
90th Percentile - £70.81 £59.31
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +3.52%

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 518 654 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.58% 28.48% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 427 791
10th Percentile £348 £375 £400
25th Percentile £381 £416 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +1.25% +6.44%
75th Percentile £520 £548 £538
90th Percentile £613 £643 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile £17.99 £42.13 £20.03
25th Percentile - £50.94 £22.59
Median hourly rate £19.59 £59.03 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.81% +38.08% -27.98%
75th Percentile £48.00 £68.36 £54.15
90th Percentile £64.20 £77.58 £60.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.56% +31.16%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +3 98 £420 -11.58% 12
Edinburgh 0 54 £445 -7.10% 19
West Lothian +1 4 £575 +10.58% 3
Perthshire - 3 £700 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
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 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.96%) Camunda
3 4 (2.37%) JBoss
4 3 (1.78%) SAS
4 3 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.18%) Apache
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.18%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.18%) IIS
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (1.18%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 92 (54.44%) AWS
2 27 (15.98%) Amazon S3
2 27 (15.98%) Azure
3 26 (15.38%) Serverless
4 24 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (13.02%) OpenShift
6 18 (10.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (7.10%) GCP
8 6 (3.55%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.78%) npm
10 3 (1.78%) SaaS
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.18%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) HTTP
2 5 (2.96%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (2.96%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.18%) SAN
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.65%) Relational Database
3 16 (9.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.33%) Big Data
5 9 (5.33%) MySQL
6 8 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.55%) DB2
7 6 (3.55%) GIS
7 6 (3.55%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.55%) MariaDB
8 5 (2.96%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.78%) Informix
10 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.18%) Oracle Discoverer
11 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.61%) Git
3 21 (12.43%) JIRA
4 13 (7.69%) JUnit
4 13 (7.69%) Maven
5 11 (6.51%) Cypress.io
5 11 (6.51%) TeamCity
6 10 (5.92%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.92%) Selenium
7 5 (2.96%) Ant
7 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.96%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.96%) IntelliJ
7 5 (2.96%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.37%) GitLab
9 3 (1.78%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (1.78%) Postman
9 3 (1.78%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.18%) Mockito
10 2 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 41 (24.26%) Public Sector
2 37 (21.89%) Finance
3 28 (16.57%) Social Skills
4 26 (15.38%) Banking
5 17 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.78%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Front Office
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (66.27%) Developer
2 75 (44.38%) Java Developer
3 21 (12.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (11.24%) Senior
5 15 (8.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (8.88%) Senior Developer
6 10 (5.92%) Architect
6 10 (5.92%) Tester
7 8 (4.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (4.14%) Automation Tester
8 7 (4.14%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.96%) AWS Developer
10 5 (2.96%) Java Engineer
10 5 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (2.37%) Backend Developer
11 4 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.37%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (2.37%) Linux Scripter
11 4 (2.37%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (53.85%) Spring
2 73 (43.20%) Spring Boot
3 46 (27.22%) REST
4 42 (24.85%) React
5 30 (17.75%) Kafka
6 26 (15.38%) AngularJS
7 24 (14.20%) CSS
8 22 (13.02%) HTML
9 16 (9.47%) RESTful
10 15 (8.88%) AWS CDK
10 15 (8.88%) Node.js
11 11 (6.51%) SOAP
12 10 (5.92%) .NET
13 9 (5.33%) CSS3
13 9 (5.33%) HTML5
13 9 (5.33%) Middleware
13 9 (5.33%) OAuth
14 8 (4.73%) OAuth2
14 8 (4.73%) Spring Security
15 7 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.47%) Data Structures
2 13 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.96%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.96%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.78%) Equities
7 3 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.78%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.78%) NVMe
7 3 (1.78%) SCADA
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.12%) Linux
2 23 (13.61%) Unix
3 12 (7.10%) Windows
4 5 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (45.56%) Agile
2 71 (42.01%) CI/CD
3 59 (34.91%) Microservices
4 46 (27.22%) DevOps
4 46 (27.22%) Test Automation
5 36 (21.30%) Unit Testing
6 31 (18.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (17.16%) Software Engineering
8 28 (16.57%) SDLC
9 27 (15.98%) Code Quality
10 22 (13.02%) Analytics
11 21 (12.43%) Inclusive Design
12 20 (11.83%) Human-Centred Design
12 20 (11.83%) TDD
13 18 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (10.65%) Scrum
14 17 (10.06%) Pair Programming
15 16 (9.47%) Migration
16 15 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (8.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.64%) SQL
2 47 (27.81%) JavaScript
3 42 (24.85%) Python
4 17 (10.06%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.47%) Perl
6 10 (5.92%) Scala
7 9 (5.33%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.73%) Bash
8 8 (4.73%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.96%) C#
10 3 (1.78%) C++
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
10 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.18%) VBA
11 2 (1.18%) VBScript
12 1 (0.59%) Go
12 1 (0.59%) PHP
12 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.59%) R
12 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.92%) Degree
3 5 (2.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.78%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.18%) MBA
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) ISEB
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.47%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.51%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.59%) QA
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) NFS
3 2 (1.18%) GPFS
4 1 (0.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.24%) Grafana
3 7 (4.14%) Prometheus
3 7 (4.14%) Terraform
3 7 (4.14%) Zipkin
4 4 (2.37%) Ansible
5 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.78%) Puppet
5 3 (1.78%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 2 (1.18%) Istio
6 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 2 (1.18%) Oozie
6 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) Oracle
2 6 (3.55%) Google
2 6 (3.55%) Sybase
3 5 (2.96%) IBM
3 5 (2.96%) TIBCO
4 4 (2.37%) EMC
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.37%) NetApp
5 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.78%) Siemens
5 3 (1.78%) Splunk
5 3 (1.78%) Veritas
6 2 (1.18%) Brocade
6 2 (1.18%) EnterpriseDB
6 2 (1.18%) ESRI
6 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.59%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.59%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.59%) Informatica