Senior Java Developer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Scotland is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 6 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.82% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.86% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile £378 £413 £485
25th Percentile - £415 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £435 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -30.40% +38.89%
75th Percentile £408 £538 £688
90th Percentile £538 £559 -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -23.33% +7.14% +15.70%

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 1,535 2,083 2,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 94.60% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 1,263 1,938
10th Percentile £260 £200 £231
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £555
90th Percentile £610 £662 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 115 44
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.33 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £15.93
Median hourly rate £20.94 £24.29 £22.13
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +9.79% -17.60%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £58.82
90th Percentile £42.22 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Scotland

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in Scotland

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Java Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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 -10 4 £408 -6.21% 4
Edinburgh +6 2 £400 -
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Spring
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Games
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) JUnit
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (33.33%) Kafka
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (16.67%) Terraform

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Games
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase