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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 167 66 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 20.98% 6.74% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.05% 20.43% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 34 61
10th Percentile £55,400 £24,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £63,875 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £56,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -8.13% +6.96%
75th Percentile £80,125 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,225 £77,500 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £53,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +41.51% -18.90% +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 309 323 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.82% 32.99% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 84 161 221
10th Percentile £35,900 £24,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,500 £71,250
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Java job vacancy trend 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 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
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 14 (8.38%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.79%) Camunda
2 8 (4.79%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (2.99%) Apache
4 4 (2.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.72%) AWS
2 19 (11.38%) Azure
3 14 (8.38%) Amazon S3
4 11 (6.59%) GitHub
5 10 (5.99%) Serverless
6 9 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.39%) GCP
7 8 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.19%) npm
8 7 (4.19%) Yarn
9 5 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.99%) SaaS
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.40%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.98%) NoSQL
2 17 (10.18%) MongoDB
2 17 (10.18%) Relational Database
3 14 (8.38%) Big Data
4 13 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (6.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (5.39%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.79%) KDB
8 8 (4.79%) Kdb+
8 8 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (4.19%) Oracle Database
9 7 (4.19%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.99%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.99%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.99%) HBase
10 5 (2.99%) MySQL
10 5 (2.99%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (11.38%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.58%) JUnit
2 16 (9.58%) Maven
3 14 (8.38%) Git
4 8 (4.79%) webpack
5 7 (4.19%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.19%) JIRA
5 7 (4.19%) Vite
6 5 (2.99%) Gradle
7 4 (2.40%) Subversion
8 3 (1.80%) Selenium
9 2 (1.20%) GitLab
10 1 (0.60%) Ant
10 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.60%) TestNG
10 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 145 (86.83%) Finance
2 139 (83.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (82.63%) Law
4 69 (41.32%) Banking
5 63 (37.72%) Marketing
6 22 (13.17%) Social Skills
7 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (11.38%) Legal
9 13 (7.78%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.40%) Private Banking
11 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Back Office
12 2 (1.20%) Games
12 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 138 (82.63%) Software Engineer
2 103 (61.68%) Java Engineer
3 101 (60.48%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (23.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 38 (22.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 33 (19.76%) Developer
6 33 (19.76%) Lead
7 32 (19.16%) Lead Software Engineer
8 30 (17.96%) Java Developer
9 24 (14.37%) Lead Java Engineer
10 19 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (11.38%) AWS Software Engineer
11 13 (7.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 13 (7.78%) Java Software Developer
11 13 (7.78%) Senior
11 13 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (7.78%) Software Developer
12 12 (7.19%) Kafka Developer
12 12 (7.19%) Python Engineer
12 12 (7.19%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (60.48%) Spring
2 61 (36.53%) Kafka
3 59 (35.33%) React
4 58 (34.73%) Spring Boot
5 30 (17.96%) AngularJS
5 30 (17.96%) REST
6 26 (15.57%) RESTful
7 14 (8.38%) HTML
8 13 (7.78%) Hibernate
9 11 (6.59%) CSS
10 10 (5.99%) JPA
10 10 (5.99%) Web Services
11 9 (5.39%) JDBC
12 8 (4.79%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (4.79%) OpenAPI
12 8 (4.79%) Swagger
12 8 (4.79%) WSDL
13 7 (4.19%) Jest
13 7 (4.19%) OAuth
13 7 (4.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 59 (35.33%) Algorithms
2 39 (23.35%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.59%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.59%) Reference Data
4 5 (2.99%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.40%) Derivative
5 4 (2.40%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.40%) Equities
5 4 (2.40%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.20%) NHS
6 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Linux
1 5 (2.99%) Unix
2 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
2 4 (2.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (89.82%) Agile
2 145 (86.83%) Software Engineering
3 126 (75.45%) SDLC
4 116 (69.46%) CI/CD
5 113 (67.66%) Operational Stability
6 81 (48.50%) AI
7 79 (47.31%) Machine Learning
8 78 (46.71%) Community of Practice
9 62 (37.13%) Visualisation
10 57 (34.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (29.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (21.56%) Decision-Making
14 23 (13.77%) Architectural Design
15 22 (13.17%) Information Architecture
15 22 (13.17%) TDD
16 20 (11.98%) Risk Management
17 17 (10.18%) Computer Science
18 16 (9.58%) Mentoring
18 16 (9.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.33%) SQL
2 29 (17.37%) Python
3 25 (14.97%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.57%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.19%) C#
6 6 (3.59%) Go
7 5 (2.99%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.99%) Scala
7 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.80%) C
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (5.99%) Degree
2 9 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.20%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.20%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (6.59%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (23.35%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.17%) Terraform
3 15 (8.98%) Grafana
4 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.40%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (2.40%) Netcool
5 4 (2.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (2.40%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.60%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (22.16%) Oracle
2 22 (13.17%) Splunk
3 17 (10.18%) Dynatrace
4 10 (5.99%) Databricks
5 8 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.59%) Facebook
7 6 (3.59%) Google
8 5 (2.99%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.99%) IBM
9 4 (2.40%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.60%) Solace
10 1 (0.60%) Sybase