Java Jobs in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 183 1,348 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.64% 38.42% 12.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.04% 61.00% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 105 109
10th Percentile £49,125 £31,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.45% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,250 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £67,567
% change year-on-year +10.58% -23.04% +12.61%

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 345 2,210 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.57% 62.98% 42.64%
Number of salaries quoted 112 338 316
10th Percentile £39,250 £32,500 £37,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,017 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 9 July 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 (7.65%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.37%) Camunda
2 8 (4.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (2.73%) Apache
4 4 (2.19%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.98%) AWS
2 27 (14.75%) Azure
3 15 (8.20%) Amazon S3
3 15 (8.20%) GCP
4 9 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (4.92%) Serverless
5 8 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (3.83%) GitHub
6 7 (3.83%) npm
6 7 (3.83%) Yarn
7 5 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.19%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.19%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.19%) SaaS
9 3 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) BGP
1 1 (0.55%) DHCP
1 1 (0.55%) DNS
1 1 (0.55%) Firewall
1 1 (0.55%) HTTP
1 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.55%) Internet
1 1 (0.55%) OSPF
1 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.75%) NoSQL
2 25 (13.66%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.38%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.65%) Big Data
5 13 (7.10%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (7.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 12 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (6.01%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.46%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.37%) DB2
9 8 (4.37%) KDB
9 8 (4.37%) Kdb+
9 8 (4.37%) MySQL
10 7 (3.83%) Oracle Database
11 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.73%) Apache Hive
12 5 (2.73%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.73%) HBase
Development Applications
1 23 (12.57%) Jenkins
1 23 (12.57%) JUnit
2 19 (10.38%) Maven
3 17 (9.29%) Git
4 8 (4.37%) Gradle
4 8 (4.37%) webpack
5 7 (3.83%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.83%) JIRA
5 7 (3.83%) Vite
6 5 (2.73%) GitLab
7 4 (2.19%) Selenium
7 4 (2.19%) Subversion
8 2 (1.09%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.09%) Mockito
9 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.55%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 151 (82.51%) Finance
2 142 (77.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (75.41%) Law
4 71 (38.80%) Banking
5 63 (34.43%) Marketing
6 25 (13.66%) Social Skills
7 24 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.29%) Legal
9 13 (7.10%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.19%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.09%) Back Office
11 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Games
11 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 137 (74.86%) Software Engineer
2 102 (55.74%) Java Engineer
3 100 (54.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 42 (22.95%) Developer
5 39 (21.31%) Java Developer
6 38 (20.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 37 (20.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 34 (18.58%) Lead
9 32 (17.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 24 (13.11%) Lead Java Engineer
11 19 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (10.38%) AWS Software Engineer
11 19 (10.38%) Senior
12 14 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (7.65%) Software Developer
13 13 (7.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 13 (7.10%) Java Software Developer
14 12 (6.56%) Python Engineer
14 12 (6.56%) Python Software Engineer
15 10 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (60.11%) Spring
2 67 (36.61%) Kafka
2 67 (36.61%) React
3 64 (34.97%) Spring Boot
4 35 (19.13%) REST
5 32 (17.49%) AngularJS
6 26 (14.21%) RESTful
7 18 (9.84%) CSS
7 18 (9.84%) HTML
8 16 (8.74%) Hibernate
9 13 (7.10%) JPA
10 11 (6.01%) Web Services
11 9 (4.92%) JDBC
11 9 (4.92%) OAuth
11 9 (4.92%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.37%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (4.37%) J2EE
12 8 (4.37%) OpenAPI
12 8 (4.37%) OpenID
12 8 (4.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 64 (34.97%) Algorithms
2 40 (21.86%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.01%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.01%) Reference Data
4 6 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.73%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.19%) Derivative
6 4 (2.19%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.19%) Equities
6 4 (2.19%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.09%) NHS
7 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.37%) Linux
2 6 (3.28%) Unix
3 5 (2.73%) Windows
4 4 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (84.70%) Agile
2 150 (81.97%) Software Engineering
3 132 (72.13%) SDLC
4 120 (65.57%) CI/CD
5 116 (63.39%) Operational Stability
6 84 (45.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 81 (44.26%) Machine Learning
8 80 (43.72%) Community of Practice
9 64 (34.97%) Visualisation
10 62 (33.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (26.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 39 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (20.77%) Decision-Making
14 27 (14.75%) Microservices
15 24 (13.11%) TDD
16 23 (12.57%) Architectural Design
17 22 (12.02%) Information Architecture
18 18 (9.84%) Continuous Delivery
19 17 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
19 17 (9.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.43%) SQL
2 31 (16.94%) Python
3 30 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 29 (15.85%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.65%) C#
6 6 (3.28%) Go
7 5 (2.73%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.73%) Scala
8 4 (2.19%) C
8 4 (2.19%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.09%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (3.28%) Degree
2 4 (2.19%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) GDPR
2 2 (1.09%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (10.38%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) HDFS
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (26.23%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.57%) Terraform
3 18 (9.84%) Grafana
4 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.19%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (2.19%) Netcool
5 4 (2.19%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (2.19%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.09%) Ansible
6 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (23.50%) Oracle
2 25 (13.66%) Splunk
3 20 (10.93%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.56%) Databricks
5 8 (4.37%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.28%) Facebook
6 6 (3.28%) Google
6 6 (3.28%) IBM
7 5 (2.73%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.73%) Sybase
8 4 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.09%) Curam
9 2 (1.09%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.09%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.55%) Cisco
10 1 (0.55%) Solace
10 1 (0.55%) VMware