Java Jobs in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,885 517 879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.54% 11.89% 14.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.22% 29.08% 32.03%
Number of salaries quoted 258 303 400
10th Percentile £34,625 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £53,970 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,792 £97,328 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,680 1,778 2,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 53.76% 40.90% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,011 1,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in Scotland

Java
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +6 1,703 £55,000 -15.38% 44
Edinburgh -6 127 £61,000 -18.67% 25
Dundee -1 14 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Aberdeen -3 14 £38,500 -18.95% 1
Fife -2 9 £50,000 - 2
Scottish Borders +4 4 - -
Midlothian - 3 - - 8
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -13 1 - - 28
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
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
1 449 (23.82%) Apache Spark
2 116 (6.15%) Apache
3 102 (5.41%) FileNet
4 32 (1.70%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.11%) GemFire
6 18 (0.95%) Camunda
7 14 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.58%) CICS
9 10 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.48%) IIS
10 9 (0.48%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.21%) Captiva
13 3 (0.16%) WildFly
14 2 (0.11%) Confluence
15 1 (0.053%) SAS
15 1 (0.053%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.21%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 897 (47.59%) AWS
2 158 (8.38%) Azure
3 131 (6.95%) GCP
4 120 (6.37%) Amazon S3
5 77 (4.08%) Datadog
6 74 (3.93%) Serverless
7 68 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
9 64 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
10 61 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (3.08%) GitHub
12 53 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 53 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
13 49 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
14 46 (2.44%) BlazeMeter
15 39 (2.07%) SaaS
16 15 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.74%) Google Docs
17 14 (0.74%) Lucidchart
17 14 (0.74%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.90%) Kerberos
2 16 (0.85%) DSL
3 13 (0.69%) Modbus
4 12 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.58%) Network Security
6 9 (0.48%) WAN
7 2 (0.11%) Internet
8 1 (0.053%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.053%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 523 (27.75%) NoSQL
2 357 (18.94%) Big Data
3 225 (11.94%) Hadoop
4 158 (8.38%) Elasticsearch
5 153 (8.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 112 (5.94%) MongoDB
7 106 (5.62%) Relational Database
8 79 (4.19%) Apache Hive
9 68 (3.61%) HBase
10 60 (3.18%) Data Lake
11 49 (2.60%) Electronic Patient Records
12 39 (2.07%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (2.02%) CockroachDB
14 34 (1.80%) MySQL
15 28 (1.49%) SQL Server
16 27 (1.43%) DB2
17 21 (1.11%) Hazelcast
18 20 (1.06%) Redis
19 17 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
19 17 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 217 (11.51%) JUnit
2 187 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 105 (5.57%) Jasmine
4 95 (5.04%) Git
5 88 (4.67%) Cypress.io
6 77 (4.08%) Selenium
7 74 (3.93%) Maven
8 64 (3.40%) WebDriver
9 60 (3.18%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.18%) Protractor
10 54 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 50 (2.65%) Mockito
12 38 (2.02%) GitLab
13 32 (1.70%) JIRA
14 30 (1.59%) Gradle
15 29 (1.54%) CircleCI
15 29 (1.54%) Cucumber
15 29 (1.54%) JMeter
16 21 (1.11%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.95%) Travis CI
General
1 1,638 (86.90%) Finance
2 1,629 (86.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,584 (84.03%) Law
4 719 (38.14%) Marketing
5 488 (25.89%) Legal
6 336 (17.82%) Banking
7 243 (12.89%) Investment Banking
8 184 (9.76%) Social Skills
9 170 (9.02%) Influencing Skills
10 134 (7.11%) Financial Institution
11 68 (3.61%) Private Banking
12 34 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.17%) Prime Brokerage
14 15 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.80%) Publishing
15 10 (0.53%) Games
16 7 (0.37%) Public Sector
17 6 (0.32%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.27%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,480 (78.51%) Software Engineer
2 807 (42.81%) Java Engineer
3 796 (42.23%) Java Software Engineer
4 501 (26.58%) Lead
5 470 (24.93%) Lead Software Engineer
6 290 (15.38%) Full Stack Engineer
7 288 (15.28%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 270 (14.32%) Lead Java Engineer
9 242 (12.84%) Big Data Engineer
9 242 (12.84%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 220 (11.67%) Scala Engineer
10 220 (11.67%) Scala Software Engineer
10 220 (11.67%) Senior
11 168 (8.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 165 (8.75%) Developer
13 164 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
13 164 (8.70%) AWS Software Engineer
14 138 (7.32%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 128 (6.79%) Engineering Manager
15 128 (6.79%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 704 (37.35%) Spring
2 431 (22.86%) React
3 384 (20.37%) AngularJS
4 355 (18.83%) Spring Boot
5 332 (17.61%) Kafka
6 255 (13.53%) J2EE
7 234 (12.41%) HTML
8 204 (10.82%) CSS
9 202 (10.72%) Hibernate
10 186 (9.87%) Node.js
11 170 (9.02%) JMS
12 163 (8.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 154 (8.17%) JSON
14 141 (7.48%) GraphQL
15 138 (7.32%) jQuery
16 133 (7.06%) REST
17 113 (5.99%) RESTful
18 104 (5.52%) Spring Integration
19 76 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
19 76 (4.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 571 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 551 (29.23%) Algorithms
3 224 (11.88%) Public Cloud
4 125 (6.63%) Data Structures
5 120 (6.37%) Onboarding
6 65 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
7 61 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 60 (3.18%) Reference Data
9 56 (2.97%) Management Information System
10 44 (2.33%) Credit Risk
11 41 (2.18%) Legacy Code
12 35 (1.86%) Private Cloud
13 27 (1.43%) Market Risk
14 23 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (1.11%) Replication
16 16 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.69%) IoT
18 11 (0.58%) Mainframe
18 11 (0.58%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.95%) Linux
2 116 (6.15%) Unix
3 15 (0.80%) Windows
4 5 (0.27%) Android
5 4 (0.21%) AIX
6 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.053%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,717 (91.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,582 (83.93%) Agile
3 1,393 (73.90%) SDLC
4 1,353 (71.78%) CI/CD
5 1,237 (65.62%) Operational Stability
6 1,023 (54.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,012 (53.69%) Machine Learning
8 807 (42.81%) Community of Practice
9 570 (30.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 558 (29.60%) Visualisation
11 517 (27.43%) Risk Management
12 447 (23.71%) Microservices
13 437 (23.18%) Decision-Making
14 346 (18.36%) Full Stack Development
15 311 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
16 303 (16.07%) Continuous Delivery
17 269 (14.27%) Architectural Design
18 247 (13.10%) Information Architecture
19 237 (12.57%) Computer Science
20 234 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 942 (49.97%) SQL
2 566 (30.03%) Python
3 308 (16.34%) Scala
4 242 (12.84%) JavaScript
5 170 (9.02%) TypeScript
6 124 (6.58%) PL/SQL
7 83 (4.40%) C#
8 49 (2.60%) C++
9 44 (2.33%) C
9 44 (2.33%) Go
10 42 (2.23%) Groovy
11 33 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 25 (1.33%) Ruby
13 22 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 20 (1.06%) Rust
15 16 (0.85%) Bash
16 11 (0.58%) COBOL
16 11 (0.58%) JCL
17 10 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (4.56%) Degree
2 48 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (2.39%) Master's Degree
4 18 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 16 (0.85%) Security Cleared
6 14 (0.74%) PhD
7 7 (0.37%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.21%) ISEB
8 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.11%) ACCA
9 2 (0.11%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.053%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.053%) OCP
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (2.12%) SLA
2 34 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.43%) QA
4 15 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.21%) GDPR
6 2 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 86 (4.56%) Docker
2 68 (3.61%) HDFS
3 11 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
4 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 319 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 222 (11.78%) Terraform
3 135 (7.16%) Grafana
4 39 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.11%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.11%) Kibana
6 21 (1.11%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.37%) Graphite
8 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.16%) Ansible
9 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 377 (20.00%) Oracle
2 148 (7.85%) Splunk
3 137 (7.27%) Databricks
4 128 (6.79%) Dynatrace
5 68 (3.61%) Cloudera
6 60 (3.18%) Google
7 55 (2.92%) Alteryx
8 54 (2.86%) Informatica
9 22 (1.17%) Pega
9 22 (1.17%) Sybase
10 18 (0.95%) SaltStack
11 17 (0.90%) Microsoft
12 16 (0.85%) Cognos
13 14 (0.74%) Dell
14 10 (0.53%) IBM
14 10 (0.53%) VMware
15 9 (0.48%) TOWER Software
15 9 (0.48%) Twitter
16 8 (0.42%) SAP
16 8 (0.42%) ServiceNow