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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 181 317 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.61% 11.82% 10.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.27% 35.62% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 225 258
10th Percentile £399 £413 £413
25th Percentile £414 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £567
90th Percentile £690 £695 £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 £65.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.76% +3.56% +15.00%

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 598 890 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.45% 33.18% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 625 685
10th Percentile £354 £406 £371
25th Percentile £413 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +2.91% +13.18%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £550
90th Percentile £634 £660 £638
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%

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 23 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 23 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 +2 120 £453 -22.89% 45
Edinburgh -16 42 £479 -0.21% 30
West Lothian +5 10 £615 -1.60%
Fife +1 1 £428 - 4
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 9
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 12 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (6.08%) Apache Spark
3 10 (5.52%) Confluence
4 6 (3.31%) Apache
5 5 (2.76%) SAS
6 3 (1.66%) GeoServer
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (1.10%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.10%) JBoss
7 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (1.10%) WildFly
8 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 108 (59.67%) AWS
2 36 (19.89%) Azure
3 24 (13.26%) Amazon S3
4 19 (10.50%) Serverless
5 17 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (9.39%) OpenShift
6 14 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.73%) GCP
7 11 (6.08%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.31%) AWS CodeBuild
9 6 (3.31%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 6 (3.31%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (3.31%) IaaS
10 5 (2.76%) SaaS
11 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.66%) npm
13 2 (1.10%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (2.76%) iSCSI
2 4 (2.21%) SAN
3 2 (1.10%) Broadband
3 2 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) Oracle Database
1 20 (11.05%) Relational Database
2 16 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.31%) DB2
6 6 (3.31%) MariaDB
6 6 (3.31%) MySQL
7 4 (2.21%) Big Data
7 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.21%) GIS
7 4 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.55%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (15.47%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.15%) JIRA
3 17 (9.39%) Cucumber
3 17 (9.39%) Git
4 16 (8.84%) JUnit
5 9 (4.97%) Maven
6 8 (4.42%) Selenium
7 6 (3.31%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.31%) Mockito
7 6 (3.31%) Subversion
8 5 (2.76%) Postman
8 5 (2.76%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.21%) Gradle
10 3 (1.66%) GitLab
10 3 (1.66%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.10%) Capybara
11 2 (1.10%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.10%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (20.99%) Public Sector
2 33 (18.23%) Finance
2 33 (18.23%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.50%) Banking
4 13 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.42%) Back Office
5 8 (4.42%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (63.54%) Developer
2 85 (46.96%) Java Developer
3 23 (12.71%) Senior
4 17 (9.39%) Full Stack Developer
5 15 (8.29%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.73%) Java Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 13 (7.18%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (6.63%) Full Stack Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Java Scala Developer
8 12 (6.63%) Scala Developer
9 11 (6.08%) Linux Developer
10 10 (5.52%) Architect
11 9 (4.97%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Snowflake Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) AWS Architect
13 7 (3.87%) Lead
13 7 (3.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (46.96%) Spring
2 67 (37.02%) Spring Boot
3 48 (26.52%) REST
4 35 (19.34%) Kafka
4 35 (19.34%) React
5 30 (16.57%) CSS
6 26 (14.36%) RESTful
7 25 (13.81%) HTML
8 23 (12.71%) AngularJS
9 17 (9.39%) AWS CDK
10 13 (7.18%) JPA
11 12 (6.63%) Node.js
12 9 (4.97%) Spring Security
13 8 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (4.42%) OpenTracing
13 8 (4.42%) SOAP
14 7 (3.87%) OAuth
14 7 (3.87%) OAuth2
15 6 (3.31%) J2EE
15 6 (3.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.71%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.84%) Data Structures
3 15 (8.29%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.63%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.52%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.87%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.31%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.76%) NVMe
9 4 (2.21%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.02%) Linux
2 17 (9.39%) Unix
3 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (2.21%) Windows
4 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.66%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) AIX
6 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (49.17%) Agile
2 71 (39.23%) Microservices
3 66 (36.46%) CI/CD
4 39 (21.55%) Software Engineering
5 38 (20.99%) DevOps
6 35 (19.34%) Full Stack Development
7 34 (18.78%) SDLC
8 31 (17.13%) Test Automation
9 23 (12.71%) TDD
10 22 (12.15%) Scrum
11 20 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (10.50%) End-to-End Testing
12 19 (10.50%) Unit Testing
13 18 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (9.39%) Computer Science
14 17 (9.39%) Machine Learning
15 16 (8.84%) Migration
15 16 (8.84%) Roadmaps
16 14 (7.73%) Decision-Making
16 14 (7.73%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.39%) SQL
2 36 (19.89%) JavaScript
3 35 (19.34%) Scala
4 34 (18.78%) Python
5 30 (16.57%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.73%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.52%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.42%) Perl
9 7 (3.87%) Bash
10 6 (3.31%) C#
11 3 (1.66%) C++
12 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.10%) Ruby
12 2 (1.10%) VBA
12 2 (1.10%) VBScript
13 1 (0.55%) C
13 1 (0.55%) Go
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
13 1 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (2.21%) Degree
1 4 (2.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.10%) ISEB
2 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.73%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.18%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
3 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.55%) NCSC
4 1 (0.55%) QA
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (26.52%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) NFS
3 4 (2.21%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 35 (19.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.50%) Terraform
3 15 (8.29%) Grafana
4 8 (4.42%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.42%) Zipkin
5 5 (2.76%) Kibana
6 4 (2.21%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 2 (1.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) Oracle
2 11 (6.08%) Databricks
2 11 (6.08%) IBM
3 6 (3.31%) Google
4 5 (2.76%) Sybase
5 4 (2.21%) AVEVA
5 4 (2.21%) Brocade
5 4 (2.21%) EMC
5 4 (2.21%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.21%) NetApp
5 4 (2.21%) Veritas
6 3 (1.66%) Splunk
7 2 (1.10%) Confluent
7 2 (1.10%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.55%) Solace
8 1 (0.55%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.55%) VMware