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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 28 15
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 165 57 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 19.53% 5.97% 10.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.92% 18.87% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8 29 62
10th Percentile £55,400 £24,000 £33,825
25th Percentile £64,063 £37,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year +29.31% -4.53% +10.45%
75th Percentile £77,813 £70,000 £67,438
90th Percentile £81,375 £80,000 £79,875
Scotland median annual salary £76,250 £57,500 £65,675
% change year-on-year +32.61% -12.45% +5.08%

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 306 302 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.21% 31.62% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 84 147 213
10th Percentile £35,900 £24,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,500 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%

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 13 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 14 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.85%) Camunda
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (3.03%) Apache
4 4 (2.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (41.21%) AWS
2 18 (10.91%) Azure
3 14 (8.48%) Amazon S3
4 11 (6.67%) GitHub
5 10 (6.06%) Serverless
6 9 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.85%) GCP
8 7 (4.24%) npm
8 7 (4.24%) Yarn
9 5 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (3.03%) SaaS
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.42%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 17 (10.30%) MongoDB
3 16 (9.70%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.48%) Big Data
5 13 (7.88%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (5.45%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.85%) KDB
9 8 (4.85%) Kdb+
9 8 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (4.24%) Oracle Database
11 6 (3.64%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.03%) Apache Hive
12 5 (3.03%) Hadoop
12 5 (3.03%) HBase
12 5 (3.03%) MySQL
12 5 (3.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (11.52%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.70%) JUnit
3 15 (9.09%) Maven
4 14 (8.48%) Git
5 8 (4.85%) webpack
6 7 (4.24%) Cypress.io
6 7 (4.24%) Vite
7 6 (3.64%) JIRA
8 5 (3.03%) Gradle
9 4 (2.42%) Subversion
10 2 (1.21%) Selenium
11 1 (0.61%) Ant
11 1 (0.61%) GitLab
11 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.61%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.61%) Protractor
11 1 (0.61%) TestNG
11 1 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 145 (87.88%) Finance
2 138 (83.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 138 (83.64%) Law
3 69 (41.82%) Banking
4 63 (38.18%) Marketing
5 22 (13.33%) Social Skills
6 21 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (11.52%) Legal
8 13 (7.88%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.03%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.21%) Back Office
11 2 (1.21%) Games
11 2 (1.21%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 136 (82.42%) Software Engineer
2 102 (61.82%) Java Engineer
3 101 (61.21%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (24.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 38 (23.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 33 (20.00%) Lead
7 32 (19.39%) Developer
7 32 (19.39%) Lead Software Engineer
8 29 (17.58%) Java Developer
9 24 (14.55%) Lead Java Engineer
10 19 (11.52%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (11.52%) AWS Software Engineer
11 13 (7.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 13 (7.88%) Java Software Developer
11 13 (7.88%) Software Developer
12 12 (7.27%) Kafka Developer
12 12 (7.27%) Python Engineer
12 12 (7.27%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (7.27%) Senior
12 12 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (60.00%) Spring
2 60 (36.36%) Kafka
3 59 (35.76%) React
4 56 (33.94%) Spring Boot
5 30 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 30 (18.18%) REST
6 26 (15.76%) RESTful
7 13 (7.88%) HTML
8 12 (7.27%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.06%) CSS
9 10 (6.06%) Web Services
10 9 (5.45%) JPA
11 8 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (4.85%) JDBC
11 8 (4.85%) OpenAPI
11 8 (4.85%) Swagger
11 8 (4.85%) WSDL
12 7 (4.24%) Jest
13 6 (3.64%) .NET
13 6 (3.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (35.76%) Algorithms
2 39 (23.64%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.67%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.03%) Credit Risk
4 5 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.42%) Derivative
5 4 (2.42%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.42%) Equities
5 4 (2.42%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.21%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Unix
2 4 (2.42%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Ubuntu
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (89.70%) Agile
2 143 (86.67%) Software Engineering
3 125 (75.76%) SDLC
4 115 (69.70%) CI/CD
5 113 (68.48%) Operational Stability
6 81 (49.09%) AI
7 79 (47.88%) Machine Learning
8 78 (47.27%) Community of Practice
9 62 (37.58%) Visualisation
10 56 (33.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (28.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (21.82%) Decision-Making
14 23 (13.94%) Architectural Design
15 22 (13.33%) Information Architecture
16 21 (12.73%) TDD
17 20 (12.12%) Risk Management
18 17 (10.30%) Computer Science
19 16 (9.70%) Continuous Delivery
19 16 (9.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.55%) SQL
2 29 (17.58%) Python
3 23 (13.94%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.27%) C#
6 6 (3.64%) Go
7 5 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.03%) Scala
7 5 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.82%) C
10 1 (0.61%) C++
10 1 (0.61%) Groovy
10 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (6.06%) Degree
2 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.21%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.61%) GRC
2 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.06%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (23.03%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.33%) Terraform
3 15 (9.09%) Grafana
4 5 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (2.42%) Netcool
5 4 (2.42%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (2.42%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.61%) Ansible
6 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (22.42%) Oracle
2 22 (13.33%) Splunk
3 17 (10.30%) Dynatrace
4 10 (6.06%) Databricks
5 8 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.24%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.64%) Facebook
7 6 (3.64%) Google
8 5 (3.03%) Cloudera
8 5 (3.03%) IBM
9 4 (2.42%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.61%) Sybase