Java Developer Contracts in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer daily rate in Scotland is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 88 70
Rank change year-on-year +50 -18 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 84 79 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.92% 2.96% 3.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 3.11% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 64 78
10th Percentile £373 £413 £393
25th Percentile £400 £436 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +9.06% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £538
90th Percentile £550 £735 £591
UK median daily rate £564 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -13.27% +7.44% +8.13%
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 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -22.41% +14.62% +10.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,029 2,543 3,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.17% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,767 2,315
10th Percentile £200 £230 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £632 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 50 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.71 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.73 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £66.78 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 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 +31 68 £440 -29.60% 12
Edinburgh +17 11 £428 -12.17% 1
Fife - 1 £428 -
Midlothian - 1 £428 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 84 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (66.67%) Spring
3 48 (57.14%) Agile
4 46 (54.76%) AWS
5 43 (51.19%) Microservices
6 39 (46.43%) Spring Boot
7 30 (35.71%) Software Engineering
8 25 (29.76%) SQL
9 24 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
9 24 (28.57%) CI/CD
10 23 (27.38%) Kafka
11 22 (26.19%) SDLC
12 21 (25.00%) Scala
13 20 (23.81%) RESTful
14 19 (22.62%) REST
14 19 (22.62%) Docker
15 16 (19.05%) AngularJS
15 16 (19.05%) Azure
16 14 (16.67%) Data Structures
16 14 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
16 14 (16.67%) React
17 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
17 13 (15.48%) Test Automation
17 13 (15.48%) JIRA
17 13 (15.48%) Finance
18 12 (14.29%) Linux
18 12 (14.29%) Kotlin
18 12 (14.29%) GCP
19 11 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
19 11 (13.10%) JavaScript

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 9 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.57%) Apache
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.38%) JBoss
3 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.38%) WildFly
4 1 (1.19%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.76%) AWS
2 16 (19.05%) Azure
3 12 (14.29%) GCP
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.95%) Serverless
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.76%) npm
8 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.76%) Big Data
3 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.19%) GIS
6 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) JIRA
2 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.33%) JUnit
3 5 (5.95%) Maven
4 4 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.76%) Git
4 4 (4.76%) Subversion
5 3 (3.57%) Mockito
6 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (15.48%) Finance
2 9 (10.71%) Banking
2 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.95%) Financial Institution
4 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (66.67%) Spring
2 39 (46.43%) Spring Boot
3 23 (27.38%) Kafka
4 20 (23.81%) RESTful
5 19 (22.62%) REST
6 16 (19.05%) AngularJS
7 14 (16.67%) React
8 9 (10.71%) CSS
9 8 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (9.52%) OpenTracing
10 6 (7.14%) HTML
11 5 (5.95%) JPA
11 5 (5.95%) Spring Security
12 4 (4.76%) AWS CDK
12 4 (4.76%) OAuth
12 4 (4.76%) OAuth2
12 4 (4.76%) XML
13 3 (3.57%) Node.js
13 3 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (3.57%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 11 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.95%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Linux
2 8 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (1.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.14%) Agile
2 43 (51.19%) Microservices
3 30 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 24 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 24 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
5 22 (26.19%) SDLC
6 14 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (15.48%) Test Automation
8 11 (13.10%) DevOps
8 11 (13.10%) Scrum
9 10 (11.90%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (10.71%) Backlog Refinement
10 9 (10.71%) Release Management
10 9 (10.71%) TDD
10 9 (10.71%) Unit Testing
11 8 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (9.52%) Design Patterns
11 8 (9.52%) Machine Learning
12 7 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (7.14%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (29.76%) SQL
3 21 (25.00%) Scala
4 12 (14.29%) Kotlin
5 11 (13.10%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.95%) Python
8 1 (1.19%) C
8 1 (1.19%) Perl
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (2.38%) Degree
2 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (22.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.52%) Grafana
2 8 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 8 (9.52%) Zipkin
3 3 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) Splunk
3 2 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (1.19%) Databricks
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Sybase
4 1 (1.19%) VMware