Java Job Trends in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 180 619 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.23% 32.02% 11.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.78% 56.74% 27.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15 63 81
10th Percentile £51,500 £26,400 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £84,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £84,000 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.49% +4.56%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 317 1,091 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.66% 56.44% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 88 222 256
10th Percentile £36,600 £30,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £82,938 £67,500 £65,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.32%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
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 14 (7.78%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.44%) Camunda
2 8 (4.44%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (2.78%) Apache
4 4 (2.22%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 75 (41.67%) AWS
2 24 (13.33%) Azure
3 15 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 13 (7.22%) GCP
5 11 (6.11%) GitHub
6 10 (5.56%) Serverless
7 9 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.89%) npm
9 7 (3.89%) Yarn
10 5 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.78%) SaaS
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (2.22%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 27 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 18 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.78%) Apache Cassandra
3 14 (7.78%) Big Data
4 13 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.44%) KDB
7 8 (4.44%) Kdb+
7 8 (4.44%) MySQL
8 7 (3.89%) Oracle Database
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.78%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.78%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.78%) HBase
10 5 (2.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 23 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.22%) JUnit
3 19 (10.56%) Maven
4 17 (9.44%) Git
5 8 (4.44%) Gradle
5 8 (4.44%) webpack
6 7 (3.89%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.89%) Vite
7 6 (3.33%) JIRA
8 5 (2.78%) GitLab
9 4 (2.22%) Subversion
10 3 (1.67%) Selenium
11 2 (1.11%) Mockito
12 1 (0.56%) Ant
12 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.56%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.56%) TestNG
12 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 147 (81.67%) Finance
2 142 (78.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (76.67%) Law
4 69 (38.33%) Banking
5 63 (35.00%) Marketing
6 24 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 22 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (10.56%) Legal
9 13 (7.22%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.22%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.11%) Back Office
11 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Games
11 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 138 (76.67%) Software Engineer
2 102 (56.67%) Java Engineer
3 100 (55.56%) Java Software Engineer
4 44 (24.44%) Developer
5 41 (22.78%) Java Developer
6 39 (21.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 37 (20.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 34 (18.89%) Lead
9 32 (17.78%) Lead Software Engineer
10 24 (13.33%) Lead Java Engineer
11 19 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (10.56%) AWS Software Engineer
12 18 (10.00%) Senior
13 14 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (7.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (7.22%) Java Software Developer
14 13 (7.22%) Software Developer
15 12 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 12 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (59.44%) Spring
2 69 (38.33%) React
3 68 (37.78%) Kafka
4 61 (33.89%) Spring Boot
5 33 (18.33%) AngularJS
5 33 (18.33%) REST
6 29 (16.11%) RESTful
7 16 (8.89%) CSS
7 16 (8.89%) Hibernate
7 16 (8.89%) HTML
8 13 (7.22%) JPA
9 10 (5.56%) Web Services
10 9 (5.00%) JDBC
10 9 (5.00%) OAuth
10 9 (5.00%) OAuth2
11 8 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (4.44%) OpenAPI
11 8 (4.44%) OpenID
11 8 (4.44%) Swagger
11 8 (4.44%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 62 (34.44%) Algorithms
2 39 (21.67%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.11%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.11%) Reference Data
4 5 (2.78%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.22%) Derivative
5 4 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.22%) Equities
5 4 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.11%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.11%) NHS
7 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Linux
1 6 (3.33%) Unix
2 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.22%) Ubuntu
2 4 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (88.33%) Agile
2 149 (82.78%) Software Engineering
3 130 (72.22%) SDLC
4 123 (68.33%) CI/CD
5 116 (64.44%) Operational Stability
6 84 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 82 (45.56%) Machine Learning
8 80 (44.44%) Community of Practice
9 64 (35.56%) Visualisation
10 61 (33.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (28.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (21.11%) Decision-Making
14 26 (14.44%) Microservices
15 23 (12.78%) Architectural Design
16 22 (12.22%) Information Architecture
16 22 (12.22%) TDD
17 20 (11.11%) Risk Management
18 18 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
19 17 (9.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.00%) SQL
2 30 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 30 (16.67%) Python
3 28 (15.56%) TypeScript
4 14 (7.78%) C#
5 6 (3.33%) Go
6 5 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.22%) Scala
7 4 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.67%) C
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (5.00%) Degree
2 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (10.56%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.78%) Terraform
3 18 (10.00%) Grafana
4 5 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (2.22%) Netcool
5 4 (2.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (2.22%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.11%) Ansible
6 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (22.78%) Oracle
2 25 (13.89%) Splunk
3 20 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 10 (5.56%) Databricks
5 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.33%) Facebook
7 6 (3.33%) Google
7 6 (3.33%) IBM
8 5 (2.78%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.22%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.11%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.11%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.11%) Sybase
11 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.56%) Solace