The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 24 37 30
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 232 162 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 7.270% 4.629% 5.791%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.680% 4.897% 6.121%
Number of salaries quoted 157 144 160
Average salary £41,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.41% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3021 3308 3235
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.67% 94.51% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1807 2408 2435
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow +7 141 £45,000 +20.00%
Edinburgh +19 66 £38,000 -0.65%
Fife +3 10 £36,500 +1.38%
Aberdeen +2 5 £37,500 -
Moray - 4 £40,000 -
Stirling 0 1 £47,500 +5.55%
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title.

1 400 (100.00%) Java
2 193 (48.25%) Spring
3 170 (42.50%) SQL
4 155 (38.75%) Hibernate
5 147 (36.75%) XML
6 125 (31.25%) J2EE
7 119 (29.75%) Finance
7 119 (29.75%) Agile Software Development
8 115 (28.75%) JavaScript
9 103 (25.75%) Oracle
10 100 (25.00%) HTML
11 93 (23.25%) Linux
12 86 (21.50%) OO
13 82 (20.50%) CSS
14 81 (20.25%) Degree
15 79 (19.75%) TDD
16 77 (19.25%) Web Services
16 77 (19.25%) UNIX
17 75 (18.75%) JSP
18 73 (18.25%) JMS
19 72 (18.00%) Eclipse
20 71 (17.75%) Banking
21 67 (16.75%) XSLT
22 65 (16.25%) Servlets
23 62 (15.50%) RDBMS
24 60 (15.00%) Tomcat
24 60 (15.00%) Subversion
25 58 (14.50%) JBoss
26 54 (13.50%) Apache
27 52 (13.00%) SOAP

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 193 (48.25%) Spring
2 155 (38.75%) Hibernate
3 147 (36.75%) XML
4 125 (31.25%) J2EE
5 100 (25.00%) HTML
6 82 (20.50%) CSS
7 77 (19.25%) Web Services
8 75 (18.75%) JSP
9 73 (18.25%) JMS
10 67 (16.75%) XSLT
11 65 (16.25%) Servlets
12 52 (13.00%) SOAP
13 50 (12.50%) Ajax
13 50 (12.50%) jQuery
14 44 (11.00%) JSF
15 43 (10.75%) .NET
16 38 (9.500%) Java EE
17 30 (7.500%) Struts
17 30 (7.500%) WebSphere
18 25 (6.250%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 60 (15.00%) Tomcat
2 54 (13.50%) Apache
3 28 (7.000%) WebLogic
4 13 (3.250%) ESB
5 10 (2.500%) Drupal
6 8 (2.000%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.750%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (1.250%) WebSphere Portal
9 4 (1.000%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (0.750%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.750%) CMS
11 2 (0.500%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.500%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.250%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (0.250%) Adobe CQ
12 1 (0.250%) GlassFish
12 1 (0.250%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 1 (0.250%) Documentum
12 1 (0.250%) WebSphere MQ
12 1 (0.250%) FileNet
Applications
1 2 (0.500%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.250%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.750%) assyst
2 2 (0.500%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (0.250%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.250%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.000%) HTTP
2 11 (2.750%) Internet
3 2 (0.500%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.50%) RDBMS
2 50 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 44 (11.00%) MySQL
4 31 (7.750%) DB2
5 15 (3.750%) Oracle 8/8i
6 13 (3.250%) Oracle 11g
7 11 (2.750%) Oracle 10g
8 10 (2.500%) Sybase ASE
9 8 (2.000%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.000%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.750%) MarkLogic
10 7 (1.750%) QlikView
11 4 (1.000%) SQL Server 2005
11 4 (1.000%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.750%) SQLite
12 3 (0.750%) Sybase IQ
13 2 (0.500%) InterSystems Cache
13 2 (0.500%) DB2 UDB
13 2 (0.500%) OLAP
13 2 (0.500%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 72 (18.00%) Eclipse
2 60 (15.00%) Subversion
3 50 (12.50%) JUnit
4 48 (12.00%) Maven
5 31 (7.750%) Ant
6 23 (5.750%) CruiseControl
7 14 (3.500%) Selenium
8 10 (2.500%) JIRA
9 9 (2.250%) MagicDraw
10 8 (2.000%) Hudson
11 7 (1.750%) ClearCase
12 6 (1.500%) JMeter
12 6 (1.500%) Eclipse RCP
13 4 (1.000%) XMLSpy
13 4 (1.000%) Fiddler
13 4 (1.000%) EasyMock
13 4 (1.000%) Canoo WebTest
14 3 (0.750%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.750%) PVCS
14 3 (0.750%) Xcode
General
1 119 (29.75%) Finance
2 71 (17.75%) Banking
3 32 (8.000%) Investment Banking
4 15 (3.750%) Financial Institution
5 14 (3.500%) Front Office
6 13 (3.250%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.250%) Games
7 12 (3.000%) Private Banking
8 4 (1.000%) Retail
9 3 (0.750%) Marketing
9 3 (0.750%) Advertising
9 3 (0.750%) Publishing
10 2 (0.500%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.250%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.500%) Computer Science
2 30 (7.500%) Open Source
3 26 (6.500%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.750%) Derivative
5 18 (4.500%) Fixed Income
6 16 (4.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (3.750%) N-Tier
8 13 (3.250%) Clustering
9 12 (3.000%) Mathematics
10 11 (2.750%) Equities
11 10 (2.500%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.250%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (2.000%) Credit Derivative
13 8 (2.000%) Grid Computing
13 8 (2.000%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 6 (1.500%) Client/Server
14 6 (1.500%) Market Risk
15 4 (1.000%) Physics
15 4 (1.000%) IPTV
15 4 (1.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 93 (23.25%) Linux
2 77 (19.25%) UNIX
3 25 (6.250%) Windows
4 20 (5.000%) Android
5 11 (2.750%) Solaris
6 8 (2.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.000%) Windows Mobile
8 3 (0.750%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.75%) Agile Software Development
2 86 (21.50%) OO
3 79 (19.75%) TDD
4 48 (12.00%) SOA
5 46 (11.50%) UML
6 44 (11.00%) Multithreading
7 39 (9.750%) Scrum
8 38 (9.500%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (9.000%) Extreme Programming
10 32 (8.000%) Data Modelling
11 31 (7.750%) OOD
12 28 (7.000%) Software Engineering
13 27 (6.750%) Web Development
14 25 (6.250%) Unit Testing
15 22 (5.500%) MVC
16 16 (4.000%) BPMN
16 16 (4.000%) Product Management
17 15 (3.750%) Workflow
18 14 (3.500%) User Acceptance Testing
19 13 (3.250%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 400 (100.00%) Java
2 170 (42.50%) SQL
3 115 (28.75%) JavaScript
4 46 (11.50%) PL/SQL
5 44 (11.00%) C#
6 34 (8.500%) Python
7 31 (7.750%) Perl
8 20 (5.000%) C++
9 19 (4.750%) PHP
10 17 (4.250%) Ruby
11 16 (4.000%) Korn
11 16 (4.000%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.000%) Scala
12 8 (2.000%) Bash shell
13 7 (1.750%) XQuery
14 5 (1.250%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.250%) Objective-C
15 4 (1.000%) C
15 4 (1.000%) Groovy
16 3 (0.750%) Jython
Qualifications
1 81 (20.25%) Degree
2 23 (5.750%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.750%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.250%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.250%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.250%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.000%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.250%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 103 (25.75%) Oracle
2 58 (14.50%) JBoss
3 50 (12.50%) Sybase
4 7 (1.750%) Business Objects
4 7 (1.750%) Cognos
5 4 (1.000%) Altova
5 4 (1.000%) Adobe
5 4 (1.000%) IBM
5 4 (1.000%) Sun
5 4 (1.000%) Pega
5 4 (1.000%) Canoo
5 4 (1.000%) Razor Risk
6 3 (0.750%) Wall Street Systems
6 3 (0.750%) Alterian
7 2 (0.500%) Google
7 2 (0.500%) Reuters
7 2 (0.500%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.500%) Informatica
7 2 (0.500%) Murex
7 2 (0.500%) HP
Aberdeen, Scotland
Be part of a leading development team based in Aberdeen, required to deliver a product, on time, as specified by the Product Manager. My client is one of...
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
My client, who have one of the top safety products used across oilrigs in the North Sea, are introducing their new product on the market and are looking...
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This leading Investment Bank is looking for a highly skilled core Java Developer, to join a specialist group responsible for the greenfield design and build of next generation...
DCM Select
Salary: From £50,000 to £85,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits and Bonus schem
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
My client is a leading Investment Bank and is looking for a highly skilled core Java Developer, to join a specialist group responsible for the greenfield design and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Position: Software Developer / Java... The key responsibilities of this position will include: * The development of significant features and components of the assyst product site * All aspects of the...
Reed Technology
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Working in a super agile team, in a pair programming environment, you will be responsible for the development of new web applications for a Global Provider of Software...
TEKsystems
Salary: £25000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
This is a small development team within an enormous global company, that utilises pair-programming, extreme programming and TDD... This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled java...
TEKsystems
Salary: £20000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Extensive knowledge and proven experience in the following technologies is critical to the success: Java (Web development) JavaScript / AJAX/ JQuery. JBOSS / Apache / Linux. XML/XSLT. HTML/CSS. Oracle...
Sanderson
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have skills in cross-platform Java, JavaScript / AJAX, HTML5, XHTML and CSS. You will have an excellent understanding of agile methodology. The ideal candidate will also...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Candidates must meet the following requirements:- Excellent communication and customer facing ability Strong Java/J2EE experience Familiar with Application Frameworks, Spring, JBoss, JCA, SOAP, XML/XSLT Relational Databases,...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
As a result, you will have already gained the following experience: *A degree in Software Engineering, Computing or equivalent *Java development experience *Experience in HTML/CSS *Experience of...
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
As a result, you will have already gained the following experience: *A degree in Software Engineering, Computing or equivalent *Java development experience *Experience in HTML/CSS *Experience of...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The roleAn opportunity has arisen for a skilled Java Developer to join my market leading client in central Edinburgh... They have recently won a number of exciting projects...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
THE ROLE This role requires excellent Core Java knowledge... Strong Java Development candidates will be able to demonstrate their abilities through participating in at least three major projects...
FPSG Connect
Salary: £28000 - £57000 per annum + Bonus, Pension & Healthcare
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will be part of an experienced Java team working on a country wide project.Experience & QualificationsTechnical Skills From: - Java EE - SOA and integration via an ESB - XML/...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Experience & Qualifications Technical Skills From: - Java EE - SOA and integration via an ESB - XML/XSLT - AJAX - JSF/JSP/Servlets - XML/XSLT - Spring/Hibernate - Javascript - Drupal - Knowledge of implementing...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
They must be familiar with financial products related to Equity Derivatives. Essential technical skills include: - Strong RDMS skills, preferably Sybase or Sybase IQ - UNIX shell scripting and the...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Previous usage of Sybase ASE 15 will be a significant advantage, as will working in Unix/Linux environments. Desirable technological skills include Spring, iBatis, XML/XSLT, FpML, FIX,...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Java Developer - Java/J2EE/JBoss/Redhat/Linux - Edinburgh to £40k... Technical Skills From: - Java EE - SOA and integration via an ESB - XML/XSLT - AJAX - JSF/JSP/Servlets - XML/...
JM
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Strong technical background, Object Oriented design and development experience -Desktop and web development with .NET (C#).-Web development with Java, relational database skills, SPRING/HIBERNATE Framework.-JAVA, JSP/...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 16 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Strong technical background, Object Oriented design and development experience -Desktop and web development with .NET (C#). -Web development with Java, relational database skills, SPRING/HIBERNATE Framework. -JAVA, JSP/...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Inverkeithing, Fife
The applicant will have commercial experience of: - Java - JSP/Servlet/JSF - HTML/CSS/JavaScript - Enterprise Java Beans 3 - Persistence frameworks, ideally Hibernate - Oracle (particularly server side programming, PL/...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This multi-team Agile project makes extensive use of open source technologies and methods including Behaviour Driven Development, Gherkins, Selenium, Jenkins, Jira and kanban... Restful web service integration...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
10+ years professional IT experience- 10+ years professional Java experience - 7+ years professional C# experience- Strong design fundamentals (OO, patterns, etc)- Strong XML knowledge- Strong verbal and written...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
10+ years professional IT experience - 10+ years professional Java experience - 7+ years professional C# experience - Strong design fundamentals (OO, patterns, etc) - Strong XML knowledge - Strong verbal and written...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Key Skills Experience in Web development (Back-End) Java and JEE development utilising Websphere Application Server 8.0... REST and SOAP Webservice Integration. * Spring Knowledge (Web, Core, Integration)...
Experis Engineering
Salary: £38000 - £48000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This computation is extremely compute-intensive, so optimisation and parallel computation are a significant focus, and in this role you would find yourself constantly learning and pushing the...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus guaranteed, 28 days hol
Posted: 17 May 2013