Java Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Developer salary in Glasgow is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 168 64
Rank change year-on-year +132 -104 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 15 59 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.05% 1.48% 4.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.42% 1.51% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7 40 55
10th Percentile - £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £70,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -10.45% +7.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 439 3,900 1,359
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.41% 98.04% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 258 844 691
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £75,360 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £78,525 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Glasgow

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (86.67%) MongoDB
3 12 (80.00%) Agile
4 9 (60.00%) Spring
4 9 (60.00%) React
5 8 (53.33%) Kafka
6 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
6 7 (46.67%) AWS
6 7 (46.67%) Unit Testing
6 7 (46.67%) JUnit
6 7 (46.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (46.67%) Docker
6 7 (46.67%) Microservices
6 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
7 6 (40.00%) Spring Boot
7 6 (40.00%) SDLC
7 6 (40.00%) Front End Development
7 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (40.00%) Finance
7 6 (40.00%) SQL
7 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 5 (33.33%) Oracle
8 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
8 5 (33.33%) DevOps
8 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
9 4 (26.67%) Operational Stability
9 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (26.67%) Algorithms

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (26.67%) DB2
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (20.00%) MySQL
4 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.67%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Gradle
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) Mockito
4 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) React
1 9 (60.00%) Spring
2 8 (53.33%) Kafka
3 6 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (20.00%) CSS
6 3 (20.00%) JPA
6 3 (20.00%) RESTful
7 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (13.33%) REST
7 2 (13.33%) Spring MVC
8 1 (6.67%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (6.67%) JWT
8 1 (6.67%) OAuth
8 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
8 1 (6.67%) SOAP
8 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (6.67%) Web Services
8 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Microservices
2 7 (46.67%) Unit Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Investment Management
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Operational Stability
5 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) TypeScript
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Sybase
3 1 (6.67%) Curam
3 1 (6.67%) IBM