Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 179 195
Rank change year-on-year +153 +16 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 819 43 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.20% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.59% 1.01% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 22 13 25
10th Percentile - £56,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +43.59%
75th Percentile £69,188 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £92,038 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% +16.00%

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 6,504 4,273 5,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.86% 90.24% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,331 2,950
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,569 £28,247
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 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +94 792 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Edinburgh +45 25 £50,000 -37.73% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 819 (100.00%) Java
2 812 (99.15%) Software Engineering
3 797 (97.31%) Finance
4 796 (97.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 787 (96.09%) Law
6 779 (95.12%) Agile
7 698 (85.23%) SDLC
8 675 (82.42%) Operational Stability
9 662 (80.83%) CI/CD
10 582 (71.06%) Artificial Intelligence
11 578 (70.57%) Machine Learning
12 465 (56.78%) SQL
13 445 (54.33%) Spring
14 410 (50.06%) Community of Practice
15 334 (40.78%) AWS
16 300 (36.63%) Marketing
17 292 (35.65%) Visualisation
17 292 (35.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 284 (34.68%) Risk Management
19 280 (34.19%) React
20 268 (32.72%) Algorithms
21 263 (32.11%) Cloud Native
22 262 (31.99%) AngularJS
23 258 (31.50%) Legal
24 253 (30.89%) Full Stack Development
25 240 (29.30%) NoSQL
26 230 (28.08%) Banking
27 212 (25.89%) Decision-Making
28 201 (24.54%) Microservices
29 199 (24.30%) Kafka

Java Engineer 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
1 192 (23.44%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.88%) FileNet
3 31 (3.79%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.81%) Apache
5 21 (2.56%) GemFire
6 16 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.49%) JBoss
7 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 334 (40.78%) AWS
2 47 (5.74%) Azure
2 47 (5.74%) GCP
3 41 (5.01%) BlazeMeter
4 40 (4.88%) Amazon S3
5 30 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (3.17%) GitHub
7 22 (2.69%) Serverless
8 15 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (1.34%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (0.49%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (0.49%) SaaS
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.12%) Datadog
12 1 (0.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.08%) Kerberos
2 9 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (29.30%) NoSQL
2 176 (21.49%) Big Data
3 94 (11.48%) Apache Cassandra
4 88 (10.74%) MongoDB
5 83 (10.13%) Hadoop
6 80 (9.77%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 38 (4.64%) CockroachDB
9 29 (3.54%) Apache Hive
10 21 (2.56%) Hazelcast
11 17 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (1.95%) HBase
13 14 (1.71%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
17 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
18 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (15.02%) JUnit
2 84 (10.26%) Cypress.io
3 80 (9.77%) Jasmine
4 64 (7.81%) Selenium
5 60 (7.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (7.33%) Protractor
5 60 (7.33%) WebDriver
6 48 (5.86%) Jenkins
7 26 (3.17%) JMeter
8 24 (2.93%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.69%) Git
10 21 (2.56%) Jaeger
10 21 (2.56%) Maven
10 21 (2.56%) Mockito
11 10 (1.22%) Gradle
12 9 (1.10%) JIRA
13 4 (0.49%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
15 1 (0.12%) Spock
General
1 797 (97.31%) Finance
2 796 (97.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 787 (96.09%) Law
4 300 (36.63%) Marketing
5 258 (31.50%) Legal
6 230 (28.08%) Banking
7 170 (20.76%) Investment Banking
8 96 (11.72%) Influencing Skills
9 58 (7.08%) Social Skills
10 56 (6.84%) Private Banking
11 22 (2.69%) Prime Brokerage
12 16 (1.95%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (0.73%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.37%) Games
16 1 (0.12%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (54.33%) Spring
2 280 (34.19%) React
3 262 (31.99%) AngularJS
4 199 (24.30%) Kafka
5 197 (24.05%) Spring Boot
6 176 (21.49%) J2EE
7 138 (16.85%) HTML
8 123 (15.02%) Hibernate
9 119 (14.53%) JMS
10 111 (13.55%) Node.js
10 111 (13.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 107 (13.06%) CSS
12 93 (11.36%) JSON
13 84 (10.26%) REST
14 80 (9.77%) jQuery
15 63 (7.69%) Web Services
16 62 (7.57%) RESTful
17 61 (7.45%) GraphQL
18 60 (7.33%) Jest
19 59 (7.20%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 268 (32.72%) Algorithms
2 263 (32.11%) Cloud Native
3 100 (12.21%) Public Cloud
4 73 (8.91%) Data Structures
5 70 (8.55%) Onboarding
6 47 (5.74%) Reference Data
7 43 (5.25%) Legacy Code
8 29 (3.54%) Private Cloud
9 26 (3.17%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.56%) Replication
11 12 (1.47%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.12%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.12%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.76%) Unix
2 9 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (99.15%) Software Engineering
2 779 (95.12%) Agile
3 698 (85.23%) SDLC
4 675 (82.42%) Operational Stability
5 662 (80.83%) CI/CD
6 582 (71.06%) Artificial Intelligence
7 578 (70.57%) Machine Learning
8 410 (50.06%) Community of Practice
9 292 (35.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 292 (35.65%) Visualisation
10 284 (34.68%) Risk Management
11 253 (30.89%) Full Stack Development
12 212 (25.89%) Decision-Making
13 201 (24.54%) Microservices
14 134 (16.36%) Architectural Design
15 118 (14.41%) Performance Tuning
16 116 (14.16%) Information Architecture
17 114 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
18 110 (13.43%) TDD
19 96 (11.72%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 819 (100.00%) Java
2 465 (56.78%) SQL
3 139 (16.97%) Scala
4 105 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 94 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 77 (9.40%) Python
7 22 (2.69%) Groovy
8 5 (0.61%) C#
8 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.61%) Ruby
9 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (2.81%) Degree
2 7 (0.85%) SC Cleared
2 7 (0.85%) Security Cleared
3 6 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.17%) SLA
2 14 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 22 (2.69%) Docker
2 16 (1.95%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 84 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.69%) Terraform
3 44 (5.37%) Grafana
4 22 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.56%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.56%) Kibana
5 21 (2.56%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.85%) Graphite
Vendors
1 159 (19.41%) Oracle
2 54 (6.59%) Databricks
3 47 (5.74%) Splunk
4 41 (5.01%) Dynatrace
5 26 (3.17%) Google
6 18 (2.20%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.95%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.10%) TOWER Software
9 5 (0.61%) IBM
10 4 (0.49%) Confluent