J2EE Contracts in West Lothian

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Scotland > West Lothian

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing J2EE 10 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 20.00% 3.51% 15.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 38.46% 33.33% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £447 - £410
25th Percentile £460 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £469
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +33.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £538 - £500
90th Percentile £569 - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +16.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Lothian

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 26 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 52.00% 10.53% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile £465 £459 £372
25th Percentile £518 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £495 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +8.79% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £500
90th Percentile £590 £603 £521
Scotland median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
% change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Lothian.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in West Lothian

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in West Lothian.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in West Lothian

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 26 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
Livingston +8 10 £520 -16.80%
J2EE
Scotland

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 8 (80.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) 5G
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (90.00%) JUnit
2 8 (80.00%) Git
2 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) Postman
3 4 (40.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Kafka
1 10 (100.00%) REST
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
2 9 (90.00%) Apache Camel
3 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Coaching
2 7 (70.00%) Component Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (60.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) CRM
4 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kibana
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle