Java Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Java Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £428, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 11 25 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.25% 2.11% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 2.21% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 43
10th Percentile - £418 £413
25th Percentile £380 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £487 £485
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +0.36% +8.99%
75th Percentile £442 £613 £554
90th Percentile £463 £688 £600
Scotland median daily rate £438 £491 £450
% change year-on-year -10.85% +9.06% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 836 1,133 1,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 95.53% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 789 1,248
10th Percentile £178 £225 £239
25th Percentile £340 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 11 13
10th Percentile £15.69 £13.16 -
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.71 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.52% -11.40% -65.22%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.47 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
% change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
3 6 (54.55%) REST
3 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
4 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
4 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (36.36%) Linux
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
6 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
6 3 (27.27%) Docker
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle
6 3 (27.27%) SOAP
6 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
6 3 (27.27%) Maven
7 2 (18.18%) Java EE
7 2 (18.18%) JSTL
7 2 (18.18%) JIRA
7 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
7 2 (18.18%) JPA
7 2 (18.18%) OAuth

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) JBoss
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 2 (18.18%) WildFly
2 1 (9.09%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) GIS
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) REST
3 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
3 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
4 3 (27.27%) SOAP
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
5 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 2 (18.18%) Java EE
5 2 (18.18%) JPA
5 2 (18.18%) JSP
5 2 (18.18%) JSTL
5 2 (18.18%) Node.js
5 2 (18.18%) OAuth
5 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
5 2 (18.18%) React
5 2 (18.18%) Servlets
5 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
5 2 (18.18%) STL
5 2 (18.18%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Case Management
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 2 (18.18%) UML
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
5 1 (9.09%) Community of Practice
5 1 (9.09%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) VMware