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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 98 59 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 12.33% 6.42% 15.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.89% 19.54% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 67
10th Percentile £41,925 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £56,438 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £59,250 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% -3.66% +11.82%
75th Percentile £77,813 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,375 £77,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +29.17% -9.77% +6.40%

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 209 302 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.29% 32.86% 44.97%
Number of salaries quoted 73 142 219
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,475 £34,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,875 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -3.04% +1.90%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,750 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,500 £70,250
Scotland median annual salary £55,249 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -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 30 November 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 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.08%) Camunda
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.78%) AWS
2 10 (10.20%) Azure
3 8 (8.16%) GitHub
4 7 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.12%) Serverless
6 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.10%) SaaS
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.08%) GCP
7 4 (4.08%) npm
7 4 (4.08%) Yarn
8 3 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.04%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.04%) Boomi
9 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) MongoDB
1 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.18%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.14%) Big Data
4 6 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.10%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.08%) KDB
6 4 (4.08%) Kdb+
6 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.06%) Apache Hive
7 3 (3.06%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.06%) HBase
7 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.04%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (2.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.20%) Maven
3 9 (9.18%) Git
3 9 (9.18%) JUnit
4 5 (5.10%) webpack
5 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.08%) JIRA
5 4 (4.08%) Vite
6 3 (3.06%) Gradle
6 3 (3.06%) Subversion
7 2 (2.04%) Selenium
8 1 (1.02%) Ant
8 1 (1.02%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.02%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.02%) Protractor
8 1 (1.02%) TestNG
8 1 (1.02%) WebDriver
General
1 79 (80.61%) Finance
2 73 (74.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 73 (74.49%) Law
3 38 (38.78%) Banking
4 34 (34.69%) Marketing
5 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
6 12 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (10.20%) Legal
8 7 (7.14%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.06%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Back Office
10 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (74.49%) Software Engineer
2 57 (58.16%) Java Engineer
3 56 (57.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 25 (25.51%) Developer
5 22 (22.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 21 (21.43%) Java Developer
7 20 (20.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 16 (16.33%) Lead
8 16 (16.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (12.24%) Lead Java Engineer
10 10 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (10.20%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (8.16%) Kafka Developer
12 7 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
12 7 (7.14%) Software Developer
13 6 (6.12%) Core Java Developer
13 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (57.14%) Spring
2 34 (34.69%) React
3 33 (33.67%) Kafka
4 30 (30.61%) Spring Boot
5 19 (19.39%) REST
6 17 (17.35%) AngularJS
7 16 (16.33%) RESTful
8 9 (9.18%) Hibernate
9 8 (8.16%) HTML
10 7 (7.14%) CSS
10 7 (7.14%) Web Services
11 6 (6.12%) JPA
12 4 (4.08%) .NET
12 4 (4.08%) J2EE
12 4 (4.08%) JDBC
12 4 (4.08%) OAuth
12 4 (4.08%) OAuth2
12 4 (4.08%) OpenID
12 4 (4.08%) SOAP
12 4 (4.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (31.63%) Algorithms
2 21 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.10%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.10%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.06%) Equities
4 3 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.04%) Derivative
5 2 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.04%) NHS
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Unix
2 2 (2.04%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (85.71%) Agile
2 78 (79.59%) Software Engineering
3 67 (68.37%) SDLC
4 63 (64.29%) CI/CD
5 58 (59.18%) Operational Stability
6 42 (42.86%) AI
7 41 (41.84%) Community of Practice
7 41 (41.84%) Machine Learning
8 32 (32.65%) Visualisation
9 30 (30.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (19.39%) Decision-Making
13 13 (13.27%) Architectural Design
14 12 (12.24%) Information Architecture
14 12 (12.24%) TDD
15 11 (11.22%) Computer Science
15 11 (11.22%) Risk Management
16 10 (10.20%) Multithreading
16 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.69%) SQL
2 15 (15.31%) Python
3 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.27%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.16%) C#
6 4 (4.08%) Go
7 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.06%) Scala
7 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.04%) C
8 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.02%) Groovy
9 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (8.16%) Degree
2 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) GRC
2 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.20%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.04%) Netcool
4 2 (2.04%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (19.39%) Oracle
2 11 (11.22%) Splunk
3 9 (9.18%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.10%) Databricks
6 4 (4.08%) Facebook
6 4 (4.08%) Google
6 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.06%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.06%) IBM
8 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.02%) Talend