Java Contracts in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 188 330 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.74% 12.21% 10.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.18% 35.52% 37.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 239 243
10th Percentile £400 £414 £413
25th Percentile £415 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £566
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £50.29 £31.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.12 £47.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.27 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +6.91% +36.25%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.52 £57.06
90th Percentile - £77.21 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.38% +3.16% +29.74%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 623 929 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.96% 34.37% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 665 660
10th Percentile £360 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £656 £638
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Scotland

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Scotland

Java
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 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 -2 121 £460 -22.00% 49
Edinburgh -17 43 £484 +0.94% 25
West Lothian +4 14 £553 -10.71%
Fife +1 1 £428 - 5
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 8
Java
UK

Java
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 13 (6.91%) Confluence
2 12 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.85%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.26%) Apache
5 5 (2.66%) SAS
6 3 (1.60%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.60%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.60%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (1.06%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.06%) JBoss
7 2 (1.06%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.06%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (1.06%) WildFly
8 1 (0.53%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 106 (56.38%) AWS
2 37 (19.68%) Azure
3 22 (11.70%) Amazon S3
4 18 (9.57%) Serverless
5 17 (9.04%) OpenShift
6 16 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.45%) GCP
8 13 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.85%) Snowflake
10 9 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.19%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (3.19%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (3.19%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (3.19%) IaaS
12 5 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.66%) SaaS
13 4 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.13%) npm
13 4 (2.13%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (2.66%) iSCSI
1 5 (2.66%) SAN
2 3 (1.60%) HTTP
3 2 (1.06%) Broadband
3 2 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.53%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.53%) Network Security
4 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.64%) Oracle Database
1 20 (10.64%) Relational Database
2 17 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.79%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.26%) MariaDB
5 8 (4.26%) MySQL
6 6 (3.19%) DB2
7 4 (2.13%) Big Data
7 4 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.13%) GIS
7 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 30 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.30%) JIRA
3 22 (11.70%) Git
4 21 (11.17%) Cucumber
5 20 (10.64%) JUnit
6 10 (5.32%) Maven
7 8 (4.26%) Postman
7 8 (4.26%) Selenium
8 6 (3.19%) Mockito
8 6 (3.19%) Subversion
9 5 (2.66%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.66%) Gradle
9 5 (2.66%) WebDriver
10 4 (2.13%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.60%) GitLab
11 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.06%) Capybara
12 2 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (20.74%) Public Sector
2 38 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.55%) Finance
4 20 (10.64%) Banking
5 13 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.26%) Back Office
6 8 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.06%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (63.30%) Developer
2 91 (48.40%) Java Developer
3 25 (13.30%) Senior
4 17 (9.04%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.45%) Java Engineer
7 13 (6.91%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (6.91%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 13 (6.91%) Java Scala Developer
7 13 (6.91%) Linux Developer
7 13 (6.91%) Scala Developer
8 12 (6.38%) Full Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Architect
10 9 (4.79%) Backend Developer
10 9 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.79%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.72%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.72%) Lead
12 6 (3.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (45.74%) Spring
2 68 (36.17%) Spring Boot
3 51 (27.13%) REST
4 39 (20.74%) Kafka
5 31 (16.49%) React
6 28 (14.89%) CSS
7 26 (13.83%) RESTful
8 23 (12.23%) AngularJS
8 23 (12.23%) HTML
9 17 (9.04%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.91%) JPA
11 12 (6.38%) Node.js
12 10 (5.32%) J2EE
13 9 (4.79%) Apache Camel
14 8 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (4.26%) OpenTracing
14 8 (4.26%) SOAP
14 8 (4.26%) Spring Security
15 7 (3.72%) Web Services
16 6 (3.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 15 (7.98%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (5.32%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.26%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.19%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.66%) NVMe
9 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.53%) PKI
12 1 (0.53%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.55%) Linux
2 19 (10.11%) Unix
3 6 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (2.13%) Windows
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.06%) Android
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.53%) AIX
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (48.40%) Agile
2 69 (36.70%) Microservices
3 65 (34.57%) CI/CD
4 40 (21.28%) Software Engineering
5 36 (19.15%) DevOps
6 34 (18.09%) SDLC
7 31 (16.49%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (15.43%) Test Automation
9 23 (12.23%) End-to-End Testing
9 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (12.23%) Scrum
10 22 (11.70%) TDD
11 20 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (10.11%) Machine Learning
13 18 (9.57%) Computer Science
13 18 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (9.04%) Unit Testing
15 16 (8.51%) Migration
16 15 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (7.98%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.38%) SQL
2 38 (20.21%) Python
3 36 (19.15%) Scala
4 33 (17.55%) JavaScript
5 31 (16.49%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.91%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.32%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.79%) Bash
8 9 (4.79%) Perl
9 7 (3.72%) C#
10 4 (2.13%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.60%) C++
11 3 (1.60%) Ruby
12 2 (1.06%) Go
12 2 (1.06%) Groovy
12 2 (1.06%) PHP
12 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.06%) VBA
12 2 (1.06%) VBScript
13 1 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (2.66%) Degree
2 4 (2.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.06%) ISEB
4 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.45%) Accessibility
1 14 (7.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.06%) GDPR
2 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.53%) NCSC
3 1 (0.53%) QA
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (26.60%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) NFS
3 4 (2.13%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 40 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.17%) Terraform
3 16 (8.51%) Grafana
4 9 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.26%) Zipkin
6 6 (3.19%) Kibana
7 4 (2.13%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (1.06%) Ansible
8 2 (1.06%) Istio
9 1 (0.53%) Argo
9 1 (0.53%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.53%) Icinga
9 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (17.55%) Oracle
2 11 (5.85%) Databricks
2 11 (5.85%) IBM
3 6 (3.19%) Google
4 5 (2.66%) Sybase
5 4 (2.13%) AVEVA
5 4 (2.13%) Brocade
5 4 (2.13%) EMC
5 4 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.13%) NetApp
5 4 (2.13%) Splunk
5 4 (2.13%) Veritas
6 2 (1.06%) Confluent
6 2 (1.06%) F5
6 2 (1.06%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.53%) CA
7 1 (0.53%) Informatica
7 1 (0.53%) Teradata
7 1 (0.53%) VMware