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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 17 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,980 613 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.40% 13.02% 14.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.15% 30.15% 31.32%
Number of salaries quoted 271 352 389
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,915 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,328 £81,250
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 3,797 2,033 2,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.38% 43.18% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 1,140 1,565
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 4 May 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 4 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 +7 1,774 £59,500 -8.46% 41
Edinburgh -5 153 £68,474 -2.18% 26
Aberdeen -2 14 £38,500 -18.95% 2
Dundee -2 12 £46,250 -15.91% 4
Fife -6 9 £50,000 - 4
Scottish Borders +5 5 - -
Midlothian -1 3 - - 6
Renfrewshire -2 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -16 1 - - 7
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
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
1 481 (24.29%) Apache Spark
2 122 (6.16%) Apache
3 105 (5.30%) FileNet
4 32 (1.62%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.06%) GemFire
6 20 (1.01%) Camunda
7 16 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.66%) IIS
9 12 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 11 (0.56%) CICS
11 10 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.40%) Confluence
13 7 (0.35%) Captiva
13 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.20%) JBoss
14 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
15 1 (0.051%) SAS
15 1 (0.051%) Tuxedo
15 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 948 (47.88%) AWS
2 170 (8.59%) Azure
3 152 (7.68%) GCP
4 128 (6.46%) Amazon S3
5 85 (4.29%) Serverless
6 78 (3.94%) Datadog
7 75 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
9 62 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (3.13%) GitHub
10 54 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (2.68%) SaaS
12 51 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
13 48 (2.42%) BlazeMeter
14 23 (1.16%) Google Docs
14 23 (1.16%) Lucidchart
14 23 (1.16%) Miro
14 23 (1.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.91%) DSL
2 17 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 14 (0.71%) Modbus
4 13 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.66%) WAN
5 10 (0.51%) Network Security
6 2 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.051%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.051%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 545 (27.53%) NoSQL
2 395 (19.95%) Big Data
3 245 (12.37%) Hadoop
4 171 (8.64%) Elasticsearch
5 154 (7.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 120 (6.06%) MongoDB
7 117 (5.91%) Relational Database
8 85 (4.29%) Apache Hive
9 73 (3.69%) HBase
10 62 (3.13%) Data Lake
11 51 (2.58%) Electronic Patient Records
12 39 (1.97%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (1.92%) CockroachDB
14 35 (1.77%) MySQL
15 34 (1.72%) SQL Server
16 30 (1.52%) DB2
16 30 (1.52%) Redis
17 23 (1.16%) Scylla
18 21 (1.06%) Hazelcast
19 20 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 222 (11.21%) JUnit
2 204 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.71%) Git
4 105 (5.30%) Jasmine
5 90 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 75 (3.79%) Maven
6 75 (3.79%) Selenium
7 64 (3.23%) WebDriver
8 60 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (3.03%) Protractor
9 56 (2.83%) Bitbucket Server
10 51 (2.58%) Mockito
11 43 (2.17%) JIRA
12 42 (2.12%) GitLab
13 31 (1.57%) CircleCI
13 31 (1.57%) Cucumber
13 31 (1.57%) Gradle
14 29 (1.46%) JMeter
15 21 (1.06%) Jaeger
15 21 (1.06%) Travis CI
General
1 1,717 (86.72%) Finance
2 1,710 (86.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,648 (83.23%) Law
4 760 (38.38%) Marketing
5 504 (25.45%) Legal
6 368 (18.59%) Banking
7 249 (12.58%) Investment Banking
8 192 (9.70%) Social Skills
9 178 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
10 142 (7.17%) Financial Institution
11 76 (3.84%) Private Banking
12 37 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.11%) Prime Brokerage
14 17 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.76%) Publishing
16 13 (0.66%) Public Sector
17 10 (0.51%) Games
18 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
19 5 (0.25%) Telecoms
20 4 (0.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,573 (79.44%) Software Engineer
2 830 (41.92%) Java Engineer
3 823 (41.57%) Java Software Engineer
4 521 (26.31%) Lead
5 492 (24.85%) Lead Software Engineer
6 305 (15.40%) Full Stack Engineer
7 303 (15.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 278 (14.04%) Lead Java Engineer
9 255 (12.88%) Big Data Engineer
9 255 (12.88%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 241 (12.17%) Senior
11 228 (11.52%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (11.52%) Scala Software Engineer
12 185 (9.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 172 (8.69%) AWS Engineer
13 172 (8.69%) AWS Software Engineer
14 165 (8.33%) Developer
15 138 (6.97%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 131 (6.62%) Engineering Manager
16 131 (6.62%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 740 (37.37%) Spring
2 453 (22.88%) React
3 405 (20.45%) AngularJS
4 380 (19.19%) Spring Boot
5 358 (18.08%) Kafka
6 262 (13.23%) J2EE
7 241 (12.17%) HTML
8 211 (10.66%) CSS
8 211 (10.66%) Hibernate
9 193 (9.75%) Node.js
10 171 (8.64%) JMS
11 164 (8.28%) JSON
12 163 (8.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 152 (7.68%) GraphQL
14 148 (7.47%) REST
15 139 (7.02%) jQuery
16 127 (6.41%) RESTful
17 104 (5.25%) Spring Integration
18 86 (4.34%) Web Services
19 83 (4.19%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 592 (29.90%) Cloud Native
2 577 (29.14%) Algorithms
3 245 (12.37%) Public Cloud
4 136 (6.87%) Data Structures
5 121 (6.11%) Onboarding
6 65 (3.28%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (3.23%) Reference Data
8 62 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 60 (3.03%) Management Information System
10 44 (2.22%) Credit Risk
11 43 (2.17%) Legacy Code
12 41 (2.07%) Private Cloud
13 28 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.36%) Market Risk
15 23 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (1.06%) Replication
17 15 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
18 14 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
19 13 (0.66%) Clustering
20 11 (0.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.07%) Linux
2 121 (6.11%) Unix
3 16 (0.81%) Windows
4 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.20%) AIX
6 2 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.051%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,812 (91.52%) Software Engineering
2 1,665 (84.09%) Agile
3 1,456 (73.54%) SDLC
4 1,403 (70.86%) CI/CD
5 1,293 (65.30%) Operational Stability
6 1,058 (53.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,053 (53.18%) Machine Learning
8 834 (42.12%) Community of Practice
9 586 (29.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 576 (29.09%) Visualisation
11 530 (26.77%) Risk Management
12 478 (24.14%) Microservices
13 459 (23.18%) Decision-Making
14 361 (18.23%) Full Stack Development
15 345 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
16 321 (16.21%) Continuous Delivery
17 281 (14.19%) Architectural Design
18 259 (13.08%) Information Architecture
19 244 (12.32%) Performance Tuning
20 241 (12.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 999 (50.45%) SQL
2 615 (31.06%) Python
3 333 (16.82%) Scala
4 254 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 175 (8.84%) TypeScript
6 132 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 95 (4.80%) C#
8 64 (3.23%) Go
9 58 (2.93%) C++
10 48 (2.42%) C
11 42 (2.12%) Groovy
12 35 (1.77%) Ruby
13 34 (1.72%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.67%) Bash
15 25 (1.26%) Shell Script
16 22 (1.11%) Rust
17 11 (0.56%) COBOL
17 11 (0.56%) JCL
18 9 (0.45%) PHP
19 7 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (4.44%) Degree
2 47 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 27 (1.36%) Security Cleared
5 20 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.76%) PhD
7 14 (0.71%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.20%) ISEB
8 4 (0.20%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.10%) OCP
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.051%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.22%) SLA
2 36 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 28 (1.41%) QA
4 17 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.35%) GDPR
6 5 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 97 (4.90%) Docker
2 72 (3.64%) HDFS
3 13 (0.66%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 346 (17.47%) Kubernetes
2 229 (11.57%) Terraform
3 138 (6.97%) Grafana
4 40 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.06%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.06%) Kibana
6 21 (1.06%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.35%) Graphite
8 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.051%) Ansible
10 1 (0.051%) Rancher
Vendors
1 400 (20.20%) Oracle
2 150 (7.58%) Splunk
3 146 (7.37%) Databricks
4 129 (6.52%) Dynatrace
5 72 (3.64%) Cloudera
5 72 (3.64%) Google
6 57 (2.88%) Alteryx
7 56 (2.83%) Informatica
8 27 (1.36%) Pega
9 24 (1.21%) Dell
10 23 (1.16%) Sybase
11 22 (1.11%) Microsoft
12 19 (0.96%) IBM
13 18 (0.91%) Cognos
13 18 (0.91%) SaltStack
14 14 (0.71%) VMware
15 11 (0.56%) SAP
15 11 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.45%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.45%) Twitter