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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 40 1,776 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.11% 44.56% 12.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.78% 64.56% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 21 120 137
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -3.33% -13.60% +15.75%

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 144 2,751 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 29.21% 69.02% 47.44%
Number of salaries quoted 102 351 339
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% - +9.48%
75th Percentile £75,360 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%

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 3 May 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 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) BGP
1 1 (2.50%) DHCP
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.50%) OSPF
1 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) MongoDB
2 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
3 7 (17.50%) NoSQL
4 6 (15.00%) DB2
4 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (7.50%) MySQL
7 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (5.00%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JUnit
2 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.50%) Git
4 4 (10.00%) GitLab
4 4 (10.00%) Maven
5 3 (7.50%) Gradle
5 3 (7.50%) Selenium
6 2 (5.00%) Eclipse
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) Mockito
6 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Systems Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Software Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Systems Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) React
2 14 (35.00%) Spring
3 12 (30.00%) Kafka
4 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
5 9 (22.50%) CSS
6 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
6 7 (17.50%) Hibernate
6 7 (17.50%) REST
7 6 (15.00%) HTML
8 4 (10.00%) .NET
8 4 (10.00%) JPA
9 3 (7.50%) Compass CSS Framework
9 3 (7.50%) OAuth
9 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
9 3 (7.50%) RESTful
9 3 (7.50%) SOAP
10 2 (5.00%) CSS3
10 2 (5.00%) Playwright
10 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Educational Technology
3 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 17 (42.50%) Software Engineering
3 15 (37.50%) Microservices
4 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (25.00%) SDLC
6 9 (22.50%) DevOps
7 8 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
9 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
10 5 (12.50%) Multithreading
10 5 (12.50%) Operational Stability
11 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 4 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.00%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 4 (10.00%) Scala
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Sybase
3 3 (7.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.50%) Splunk
4 2 (5.00%) Curam
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.00%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Solace
5 1 (2.50%) VMware