Senior Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £66,500 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 198 203 231
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 84 19 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.25% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.44% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile - £59,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.57% +34.62%
75th Percentile £69,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £75,750 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +2.86% +34.62%

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%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in Scotland

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior 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 -31 78 - -
Edinburgh +38 4 £66,500 -
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

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

1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (98.81%) Software Engineering
3 82 (97.62%) Agile
4 81 (96.43%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (89.29%) Tech Ops
5 75 (89.29%) Operational Stability
5 75 (89.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (89.29%) SDLC
5 75 (89.29%) Finance
5 75 (89.29%) Law
6 74 (88.10%) Marketing
7 63 (75.00%) SQL
8 57 (67.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 57 (67.86%) Machine Learning
9 45 (53.57%) Big Data
9 45 (53.57%) Performance Tuning
9 45 (53.57%) Apache Spark
9 45 (53.57%) Scala
9 45 (53.57%) NoSQL
9 45 (53.57%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (38.10%) AWS
11 31 (36.90%) Azure
11 31 (36.90%) GCP
12 30 (35.71%) Decision-Making
13 29 (34.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (34.52%) Terraform
13 29 (34.52%) Public Cloud
14 25 (29.76%) Spring
15 21 (25.00%) REST
16 19 (22.62%) Kubernetes

Senior 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 45 (53.57%) Apache Spark
2 17 (20.24%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (4.76%) JBoss
3 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) AWS
2 31 (36.90%) Azure
2 31 (36.90%) GCP
3 2 (2.38%) Serverless
4 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (53.57%) Big Data
1 45 (53.57%) NoSQL
2 17 (20.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (20.24%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) IntelliJ
2 2 (2.38%) Git
General
1 75 (89.29%) Finance
1 75 (89.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 75 (89.29%) Law
2 74 (88.10%) Marketing
3 45 (53.57%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.38%) Games
6 1 (1.19%) Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) Spring
2 21 (25.00%) REST
3 17 (20.24%) GraphQL
3 17 (20.24%) Kafka
3 17 (20.24%) OAuth
4 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 6 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 6 (7.14%) Java EE
4 6 (7.14%) JPA
4 6 (7.14%) RESTful
4 6 (7.14%) Web Services
4 6 (7.14%) XML
5 4 (4.76%) JSON
5 4 (4.76%) SOAP
5 4 (4.76%) XSD
6 3 (3.57%) React
7 2 (2.38%) J2EE
7 2 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (34.52%) Public Cloud
2 17 (20.24%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (98.81%) Software Engineering
2 82 (97.62%) Agile
3 81 (96.43%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (89.29%) Operational Stability
4 75 (89.29%) SDLC
4 75 (89.29%) Tech Ops
5 57 (67.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 57 (67.86%) Machine Learning
6 45 (53.57%) Performance Tuning
7 30 (35.71%) Decision-Making
8 29 (34.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (20.24%) Computer Science
9 17 (20.24%) Mathematics
10 12 (14.29%) API Development
10 12 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (7.14%) Mentoring
12 4 (4.76%) Microservices
12 4 (4.76%) User Experience
12 4 (4.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (75.00%) SQL
3 45 (53.57%) Scala
4 3 (3.57%) Python
5 2 (2.38%) C#
5 2 (2.38%) Ruby
6 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (34.52%) Terraform
2 19 (22.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) Google