Java Software Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Java Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 58 76
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 101 35 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 12.82% 3.11% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.70% 3.18% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £104,357 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.32% +119.70% -
75th Percentile £73,750 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £82,500 £50,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +65.00% -33.82% +43.91%

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 737 1,101 712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 97.95% 97.53%
Number of salaries quoted 308 577 558
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% -4.55%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, Java Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 101 (100.00%) Java
1 101 (100.00%) Finance
1 101 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 100 (99.01%) Agile
2 100 (99.01%) Law
2 100 (99.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (95.05%) SDLC
4 81 (80.20%) Operational Stability
5 80 (79.21%) Spring
6 78 (77.23%) CI/CD
7 61 (60.40%) AI
7 61 (60.40%) Machine Learning
8 50 (49.50%) Banking
8 50 (49.50%) Community of Practice
9 48 (47.52%) AWS
10 44 (43.56%) React
11 43 (42.57%) Marketing
12 41 (40.59%) Kafka
13 40 (39.60%) Spring Boot
13 40 (39.60%) SQL
14 39 (38.61%) Full-Stack Development
15 38 (37.62%) Algorithms
15 38 (37.62%) Visualisation
15 38 (37.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (33.66%) Cloud Native
17 32 (31.68%) Decision-Making
18 26 (25.74%) AngularJS
19 25 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
20 24 (23.76%) Kubernetes
20 24 (23.76%) Oracle

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.91%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.96%) Camunda
2 4 (3.96%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (3.96%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 48 (47.52%) AWS
2 10 (9.90%) Azure
3 9 (8.91%) Amazon S3
3 9 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (8.91%) Serverless
4 8 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (5.94%) GCP
6 5 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (3.96%) GitHub
7 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.99%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.88%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.91%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (8.91%) Big Data
4 8 (7.92%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (7.92%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.92%) KDB
4 8 (7.92%) Kdb+
4 8 (7.92%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.95%) Apache Hive
6 5 (4.95%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.95%) HBase
7 4 (3.96%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (3.96%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (13.86%) Maven
2 13 (12.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.91%) Git
4 5 (4.95%) Gradle
4 5 (4.95%) JUnit
5 4 (3.96%) Subversion
6 1 (0.99%) Ant
6 1 (0.99%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.99%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.99%) JIRA
6 1 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.99%) Protractor
6 1 (0.99%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 101 (100.00%) Finance
2 100 (99.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 100 (99.01%) Law
3 50 (49.50%) Banking
4 43 (42.57%) Marketing
5 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
6 16 (15.84%) Legal
7 8 (7.92%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.96%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (79.21%) Spring
2 44 (43.56%) React
3 41 (40.59%) Kafka
4 40 (39.60%) Spring Boot
5 26 (25.74%) AngularJS
6 20 (19.80%) RESTful
7 17 (16.83%) REST
8 9 (8.91%) Hibernate
8 9 (8.91%) JPA
8 9 (8.91%) Web Services
9 8 (7.92%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth2
10 6 (5.94%) OpenID
10 6 (5.94%) SAML
11 5 (4.95%) HTML
11 5 (4.95%) J2EE
11 5 (4.95%) jQuery
12 4 (3.96%) JDBC
12 4 (3.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (37.62%) Algorithms
2 34 (33.66%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.92%) Reference Data
4 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.96%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.96%) Derivative
6 4 (3.96%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.96%) Equities
6 4 (3.96%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 100 (99.01%) Agile
3 96 (95.05%) SDLC
4 81 (80.20%) Operational Stability
5 78 (77.23%) CI/CD
6 61 (60.40%) AI
6 61 (60.40%) Machine Learning
7 50 (49.50%) Community of Practice
8 39 (38.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (37.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (37.62%) Visualisation
10 32 (31.68%) Decision-Making
11 25 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (17.82%) Architectural Design
12 18 (17.82%) Information Architecture
13 16 (15.84%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (15.84%) Risk Management
14 15 (14.85%) TDD
15 12 (11.88%) Computer Science
15 12 (11.88%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (39.60%) SQL
3 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
4 11 (10.89%) Python
5 10 (9.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.92%) C#
7 6 (5.94%) Go
8 5 (4.95%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.96%) Scala
9 4 (3.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.96%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) HDFS
2 4 (3.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (23.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.92%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Grafana
4 4 (3.96%) Netcool
4 4 (3.96%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (3.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (23.76%) Oracle
2 9 (8.91%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.91%) Splunk
3 6 (5.94%) Facebook
3 6 (5.94%) Google
4 5 (4.95%) Cloudera
4 5 (4.95%) Databricks
5 4 (3.96%) IBM
5 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow