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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 48 180 729
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.66% 24.79% 34.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.88% 56.96% 59.66%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 64
10th Percentile £50,738 £45,875 £27,600
25th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +20.42% -6.61%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% +7.48% -18.13%

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 201 316 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.32% 43.53% 58.27%
Number of salaries quoted 126 88 226
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,275 £31,125
25th Percentile £42,563 £45,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +15.45% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -4.35%

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 10 September 2026.

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 4 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) AWS
2 11 (22.92%) GitHub
3 10 (20.83%) Azure
4 9 (18.75%) GCP
5 6 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.25%) Datadog
7 3 (6.25%) dbt
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.08%) Google Play
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.50%) MySQL
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (2.08%) Big Data
6 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Parquet
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.58%) Git
3 4 (8.33%) Maven
4 3 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) IntelliJ
5 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (4.17%) JUnit
5 2 (4.17%) Mockito
5 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Banking
4 7 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (14.58%) Law
5 6 (12.50%) Marketing
6 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.25%) Front Office
7 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Aviation
8 1 (2.08%) Games
8 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 14 (29.17%) Lead
3 14 (29.17%) Software Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Technical Leader
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Java Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Senior
6 6 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Principal Java Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Applications Manager
10 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Release Manager
10 2 (4.17%) Software Manager
10 2 (4.17%) Software Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Spring
2 13 (27.08%) Spring Boot
3 11 (22.92%) Kafka
3 11 (22.92%) React
4 9 (18.75%) Jakarta EE
4 9 (18.75%) JSP
5 8 (16.67%) Next.js
5 8 (16.67%) REST
6 7 (14.58%) Hibernate
6 7 (14.58%) JPA
7 4 (8.33%) .NET
7 4 (8.33%) Terraform
8 3 (6.25%) RESTful
9 2 (4.17%) CSS
9 2 (4.17%) HTML
9 2 (4.17%) HTML5
9 2 (4.17%) JSF
9 2 (4.17%) Spring Batch
9 2 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.17%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Software Engineering
2 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
3 19 (39.58%) Agile
4 16 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 16 (33.33%) SDLC
5 15 (31.25%) Code Quality
6 13 (27.08%) DevOps
6 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (27.08%) Microservices
7 12 (25.00%) Analytics
7 12 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (20.83%) Machine Learning
9 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (18.75%) Technical Architecture
10 8 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
12 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 5 (10.42%) Technical Debt
13 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.08%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Grafana
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Argo
3 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 4 (8.33%) Splunk
2 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle