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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 58 175 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.92% 22.15% 11.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.57% 55.03% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 46
10th Percentile £50,738 £53,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £72,000 £61,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +24.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £99,500 £78,125
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +40.00% -24.24%

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 203 318 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.71% 40.25% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 124 91 185
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +22.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,500 £84,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.34%

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 8 October 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 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) GitHub
3 9 (15.52%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.17%) Datadog
6 3 (5.17%) dbt
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Google Play
8 1 (1.72%) SaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.34%) MySQL
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Parquet
5 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.72%) Big Data
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) Maven
4 3 (5.17%) GitLab
4 3 (5.17%) IntelliJ
5 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Mockito
5 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 23 (39.66%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Financial Institution
4 7 (12.07%) Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (12.07%) Law
5 6 (10.34%) Marketing
6 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Front Office
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Aviation
9 1 (1.72%) Games
9 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Developer
1 20 (34.48%) Software Engineer
2 18 (31.03%) Java Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Lead
4 13 (22.41%) Java Engineer
4 13 (22.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Technical Leader
7 6 (10.34%) Senior
8 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Principal Java Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Applications Manager
10 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Software Manager
10 2 (3.45%) Software Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Spring
2 13 (22.41%) Spring Boot
3 11 (18.97%) Kafka
3 11 (18.97%) React
4 9 (15.52%) Jakarta EE
4 9 (15.52%) JSP
5 8 (13.79%) Next.js
5 8 (13.79%) REST
6 7 (12.07%) Hibernate
6 7 (12.07%) JPA
7 4 (6.90%) .NET
7 4 (6.90%) Terraform
8 3 (5.17%) PySpark
8 3 (5.17%) RESTful
9 2 (3.45%) CSS
9 2 (3.45%) HTML
9 2 (3.45%) HTML5
9 2 (3.45%) JSF
9 2 (3.45%) JSON
9 2 (3.45%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) Software Engineering
2 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 20 (34.48%) Agile
4 17 (29.31%) Mentoring
5 16 (27.59%) SDLC
6 15 (25.86%) Code Quality
6 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (24.14%) DevOps
7 14 (24.14%) Microservices
8 13 (22.41%) Analytics
8 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (17.24%) Machine Learning
10 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.52%) Technical Architecture
11 8 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.34%) Customer Experience
12 6 (10.34%) Data Analytics
12 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
13 5 (8.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.69%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.90%) SQL
5 2 (3.45%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (5.17%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.41%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) Grafana
3 3 (5.17%) Ansible
3 3 (5.17%) Argo
3 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (6.90%) Dynatrace
1 4 (6.90%) Splunk
2 3 (5.17%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle