Java Developer Jobs in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 103 104
Rank change year-on-year -106 +1 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 76 122 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.13% 2.57% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.85% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55 104 93
10th Percentile £36,700 £41,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +7.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £81,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,531 4,281 5,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 90.28% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,624 2,334 2,972
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -107 59 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Edinburgh +6 15 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Dundee - 2 £45,000 -
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Java Developer 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 permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (68.42%) Spring
3 48 (63.16%) Agile
4 40 (52.63%) Finance
5 32 (42.11%) CI/CD
6 29 (38.16%) AngularJS
7 27 (35.53%) Jenkins
7 27 (35.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (32.89%) Banking
9 24 (31.58%) Law
9 24 (31.58%) AWS
10 23 (30.26%) Full Stack Development
11 21 (27.63%) SDLC
12 20 (26.32%) Spring Boot
12 20 (26.32%) TDD
13 19 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 18 (23.68%) Docker
14 18 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (22.37%) Software Engineering
16 16 (21.05%) Machine Learning
16 16 (21.05%) REST
16 16 (21.05%) React
17 15 (19.74%) Design Patterns
17 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (19.74%) Degree
17 15 (19.74%) Computer Science
17 15 (19.74%) JavaScript
17 15 (19.74%) SQL
18 14 (18.42%) Microservices
19 13 (17.11%) Apache Spark

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 13 (17.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) AWS
2 6 (7.89%) Azure
3 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (1.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) Apache Hive
1 13 (17.11%) Big Data
2 10 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) DB2
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (35.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (15.79%) GitLab
3 11 (14.47%) CircleCI
4 10 (13.16%) Maven
5 8 (10.53%) Git
6 4 (5.26%) JIRA
6 4 (5.26%) JUnit
7 3 (3.95%) Mockito
8 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.32%) JHipster
9 1 (1.32%) Postman
9 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.32%) Travis CI
General
1 40 (52.63%) Finance
2 27 (35.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (32.89%) Banking
4 24 (31.58%) Law
5 13 (17.11%) Private Banking
6 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.95%) Advertising
8 3 (3.95%) Front Office
9 2 (2.63%) Police
9 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (68.42%) Spring
2 29 (38.16%) AngularJS
3 20 (26.32%) Spring Boot
4 16 (21.05%) React
4 16 (21.05%) REST
5 13 (17.11%) JSON
6 10 (13.16%) Kafka
7 8 (10.53%) CSS
7 8 (10.53%) HTML
8 7 (9.21%) Web Services
9 6 (7.89%) XML
10 5 (6.58%) OAuth
10 5 (6.58%) SOAP
11 4 (5.26%) Java EE
11 4 (5.26%) JSP
11 4 (5.26%) OpenID
11 4 (5.26%) Struts
12 3 (3.95%) Hibernate
12 3 (3.95%) JSF
12 3 (3.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Algorithms
1 13 (17.11%) Data Structures
2 8 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (3.95%) IoT
5 3 (3.95%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Kindle
7 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Unix
2 2 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (63.16%) Agile
2 32 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 23 (30.26%) Full Stack Development
4 21 (27.63%) SDLC
5 20 (26.32%) TDD
6 19 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 18 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (22.37%) Software Engineering
9 16 (21.05%) Machine Learning
10 15 (19.74%) Computer Science
10 15 (19.74%) Design Patterns
10 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (18.42%) Microservices
12 13 (17.11%) Asset Management
12 13 (17.11%) Community of Practice
12 13 (17.11%) Investment Management
12 13 (17.11%) OOP
12 13 (17.11%) Scrum
12 13 (17.11%) Visualisation
12 13 (17.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (19.74%) JavaScript
2 15 (19.74%) SQL
3 11 (14.47%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.58%) Python
5 4 (5.26%) Groovy
6 3 (3.95%) C++
7 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.32%) OCP
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 18 (23.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Grafana
2 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Oracle
2 5 (6.58%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.32%) Apple
3 1 (1.32%) Atlassian