Java Contracts in Edinburgh

Java
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 54 76 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.20% 7.72% 10.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.00% 28.15% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 58 136
10th Percentile £380 £400 £413
25th Percentile £400 £423 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -4.62% +4.84%
75th Percentile £483 £542 £545
90th Percentile £549 £608 £572
Scotland median daily rate £440 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.37% -5.00% +6.38%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 200 270 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 26.67% 27.44% 35.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 187 450
10th Percentile £380 £383 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £537
90th Percentile £613 £575 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £495 £479
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.34% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £44.99 £14.43
25th Percentile - £50.59 £19.16
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.85 £33.84
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% +67.98% -
75th Percentile - £61.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - £62.20 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.59 £59.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.08% +32.26% -25.00%

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 October 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 2 (3.70%) GeoServer
1 2 (3.70%) JBoss
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
1 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) AWS
2 15 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 14 (25.93%) Amazon S3
3 14 (25.93%) Serverless
4 11 (20.37%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.26%) Azure
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) IaaS
7 2 (3.70%) OCI
7 2 (3.70%) PaaS
7 2 (3.70%) SaaS
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (20.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.70%) GIS
4 2 (3.70%) Informix
4 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.85%) Big Data
5 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.81%) Git
3 7 (12.96%) Cypress.io
4 5 (9.26%) Cucumber
4 5 (9.26%) Selenium
5 4 (7.41%) JIRA
5 4 (7.41%) JUnit
6 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.56%) Maven
6 3 (5.56%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.70%) Subversion
7 2 (3.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.85%) Gradle
8 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 23 (42.59%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.67%) Banking
3 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
5 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Developer
2 12 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.52%) Senior
4 8 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Tester
6 5 (9.26%) Automation Tester
7 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (53.70%) Spring
2 28 (51.85%) Spring Boot
3 23 (42.59%) REST
4 16 (29.63%) React
5 11 (20.37%) SOAP
6 10 (18.52%) AngularJS
6 10 (18.52%) AWS CDK
7 8 (14.81%) CSS
7 8 (14.81%) HTML
8 7 (12.96%) OAuth
9 6 (11.11%) OAuth2
10 5 (9.26%) Spring Security
11 4 (7.41%) .NET
11 4 (7.41%) PostGIS
12 3 (5.56%) Guice
12 3 (5.56%) Node.js
12 3 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (5.56%) RESTful
12 3 (5.56%) Spring Batch
12 3 (5.56%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Agile
1 27 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (40.74%) DevOps
2 22 (40.74%) Microservices
2 22 (40.74%) Test Automation
3 16 (29.63%) Unit Testing
4 14 (25.93%) Inclusive Design
4 14 (25.93%) TDD
5 13 (24.07%) Code Quality
5 13 (24.07%) Human-Centred Design
6 11 (20.37%) Analytics
6 11 (20.37%) Pair Programming
7 10 (18.52%) Data Modelling
7 10 (18.52%) Migration
8 8 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 8 (14.81%) Scrum
9 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.11%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) JavaScript
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 8 (14.81%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) Perl
6 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.70%) VBA
6 2 (3.70%) VBScript
7 1 (1.85%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
1 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) ISEB
2 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Grafana
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) Kibana
4 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) EnterpriseDB
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat