Java Developer Contracts in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer daily rate in Scotland is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 75 68
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 91 92 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.23% 3.40% 3.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.48% 3.57% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 75 74
10th Percentile £373 £415 £390
25th Percentile £400 £446 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £499 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +10.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £513 £688 £510
90th Percentile £750 £750 £573
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.99% +1.55% +17.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +10.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,032 2,578 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.38% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,820 2,318
10th Percentile £200 £231 £218
25th Percentile £356 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 43 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.83 £15.61
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.38 £18.23
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -27.32% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.79 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.50 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Scotland

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 Java Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Glasgow +21 68 £450 -33.33% 9
Edinburgh +17 9 £430 -12.07% 3
West Lothian - 9 £488 -
Fife - 1 £428 -
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 Scotland region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (67.03%) Spring
3 50 (54.95%) Agile
4 47 (51.65%) Spring Boot
5 46 (50.55%) AWS
6 45 (49.45%) Microservices
7 31 (34.07%) Kafka
8 30 (32.97%) SQL
9 28 (30.77%) Software Engineering
10 27 (29.67%) REST
11 25 (27.47%) Scala
11 25 (27.47%) CI/CD
12 23 (25.27%) Docker
13 21 (23.08%) SDLC
13 21 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
14 20 (21.98%) RESTful
14 20 (21.98%) JIRA
15 17 (18.68%) Azure
15 17 (18.68%) Finance
15 17 (18.68%) Full Stack Development
16 16 (17.58%) Jenkins
17 15 (16.48%) JUnit
17 15 (16.48%) Kubernetes
18 14 (15.38%) Data Structures
18 14 (15.38%) Linux
18 14 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
19 13 (14.29%) Test Automation
19 13 (14.29%) TDD
19 13 (14.29%) React
20 12 (13.19%) Kotlin

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.99%) Confluence
2 9 (9.89%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.59%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (2.20%) JBoss
4 2 (2.20%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.20%) WildFly
5 1 (1.10%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) AWS
2 17 (18.68%) Azure
3 12 (13.19%) GCP
4 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.49%) Serverless
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.30%) npm
9 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) NetScaler
1 1 (1.10%) SSL
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.30%) Big Data
4 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.10%) DB2
6 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.10%) GIS
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) JIRA
2 16 (17.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (16.48%) JUnit
4 12 (13.19%) Git
5 10 (10.99%) Cucumber
6 7 (7.69%) Postman
7 5 (5.49%) Maven
8 4 (4.40%) IntelliJ
8 4 (4.40%) Subversion
9 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.30%) Mockito
10 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.10%) GitLab
General
1 17 (18.68%) Finance
2 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Banking
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.79%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Law
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (67.03%) Spring
2 47 (51.65%) Spring Boot
3 31 (34.07%) Kafka
4 27 (29.67%) REST
5 20 (21.98%) RESTful
6 13 (14.29%) React
7 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
8 9 (9.89%) CSS
9 8 (8.79%) Apache Camel
9 8 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (8.79%) OpenTracing
10 7 (7.69%) J2EE
11 6 (6.59%) HTML
11 6 (6.59%) Spring Security
12 5 (5.49%) JPA
13 4 (4.40%) AWS CDK
13 4 (4.40%) Hibernate
13 4 (4.40%) OAuth
13 4 (4.40%) OAuth2
13 4 (4.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 11 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.59%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.59%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) Agile
2 45 (49.45%) Microservices
3 28 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 25 (27.47%) CI/CD
5 21 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 21 (23.08%) SDLC
6 17 (18.68%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (14.29%) TDD
8 13 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 12 (13.19%) Scrum
10 11 (12.09%) DevOps
11 10 (10.99%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (9.89%) Backlog Refinement
12 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (9.89%) Design Patterns
12 9 (9.89%) Release Management
12 9 (9.89%) Unit Testing
13 7 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
13 7 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (32.97%) SQL
3 25 (27.47%) Scala
4 12 (13.19%) Kotlin
5 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.59%) Python
6 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.30%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.20%) Degree
2 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.79%) Grafana
2 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
2 8 (8.79%) Zipkin
3 6 (6.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.30%) Splunk
3 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 1 (1.10%) Databricks
4 1 (1.10%) F5
4 1 (1.10%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.10%) Sybase
4 1 (1.10%) VMware