J2EE Contracts in Scotland

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 142 142
Rank change year-on-year +36 0 -4
Contract jobs citing J2EE 9 22 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.82% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 3.42% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 22
10th Percentile £410 £438 £367
25th Percentile £418 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £445 £634 £544
90th Percentile £545 £688 £556
UK median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.84% -2.27% +11.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 643 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.02% 24.06% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 473 574
10th Percentile £325 £400 £394
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +15.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £654 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £36.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.38% +18.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £60.00
90th Percentile - £66.71 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
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 J2EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +20 6 £433 -13.50% 5
Edinburgh +18 3 £675 +17.39% 1
J2EE
UK

J2EE
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 5 (55.56%) IBM HTTP Server
1 5 (55.56%) WebSphere
1 5 (55.56%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (55.56%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) IaaS
1 3 (33.33%) iPaaS
1 3 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) HTTP
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Middleware Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Middleware
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
3 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Problem Management
3 4 (44.44%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) SOA
4 3 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware