Java Contracts in Edinburgh

Java
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 44 130 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.09% 11.05% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.92% 31.94% 37.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 105 160
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £415 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £485 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -7.18% +16.11%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £581
90th Percentile £675 £613 £750
Scotland median daily rate £453 £488 £506
% change year-on-year -7.22% -3.56% +17.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £58.27 £54.50
% change year-on-year -9.89% +6.91% +36.25%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 407 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.20% 34.58% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 314 419
10th Percentile £369 £410 £406
25th Percentile £415 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -0.51% +15.29%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £550
90th Percentile £603 £589 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £493 £488
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £33.20 £40.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £42.06 £19.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% +56.78% -38.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.56 £49.86
90th Percentile - £52.48 £55.03
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
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 3 (6.82%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) GeoServer
2 2 (4.55%) JBoss
2 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.55%) WildFly
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Amazon S3
3 11 (25.00%) Serverless
4 8 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (13.64%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (13.64%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 6 (13.64%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (13.64%) IaaS
6 6 (13.64%) OpenShift
7 5 (11.36%) Azure
7 5 (11.36%) SaaS
8 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.55%) PaaS
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.27%) GitHub
10 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (6.82%) GIS
5 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Maven
2 4 (9.09%) Subversion
3 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.82%) JUnit
3 3 (6.82%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.55%) Gradle
4 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.55%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.27%) Appium
5 1 (2.27%) Capybara
5 1 (2.27%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) NUnit
5 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (52.27%) Public Sector
2 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (18.18%) Back Office
5 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.55%) Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (56.82%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Architect
4 7 (15.91%) AWS Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (9.09%) Senior
8 3 (6.82%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.55%) Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Functional Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Functional Test Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Test Analyst
10 1 (2.27%) Automation Test Analyst
10 1 (2.27%) Java Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) Spring
2 16 (36.36%) REST
3 14 (31.82%) Spring Boot
4 13 (29.55%) React
5 9 (20.45%) AWS CDK
5 9 (20.45%) SOAP
6 8 (18.18%) Node.js
7 7 (15.91%) CSS
7 7 (15.91%) HTML
8 4 (9.09%) Java EE
8 4 (9.09%) OAuth
8 4 (9.09%) OAuth2
8 4 (9.09%) Spring Batch
8 4 (9.09%) Spring Security
9 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.82%) Kafka
9 3 (6.82%) PostGIS
9 3 (6.82%) Spring MVC
9 3 (6.82%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (6.82%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (11.36%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.82%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) AIX
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
2 18 (40.91%) Agile
3 15 (34.09%) DevOps
3 15 (34.09%) Migration
4 12 (27.27%) Microservices
4 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (18.18%) API Management
7 8 (18.18%) Service Management
7 8 (18.18%) Storage Management
8 7 (15.91%) Scrum
8 7 (15.91%) TDD
8 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 6 (13.64%) Data Protection
9 6 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (11.36%) Pair Programming
10 5 (11.36%) Security Architecture
10 5 (11.36%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 11 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 10 (22.73%) Python
4 7 (15.91%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.64%) SQL
6 5 (11.36%) Bash
7 3 (6.82%) C++
8 2 (4.55%) C#
8 2 (4.55%) Perl
8 2 (4.55%) VBA
8 2 (4.55%) VBScript
9 1 (2.27%) Groovy
9 1 (2.27%) Ruby
9 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
1 2 (4.55%) ISEB
1 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
1 2 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Terraform
2 3 (6.82%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Kibana
3 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Oracle
2 2 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (2.27%) Confluent
3 1 (2.27%) Informatica
3 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.27%) Solace
3 1 (2.27%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.27%) VMware