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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 132 61 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 16.10% 6.31% 11.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.36% 19.74% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9 31 67
10th Percentile £41,950 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £45,625 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -4.88% +11.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £76,250 £58,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +31.47% -11.25% +4.56%

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 257 309 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 31.34% 31.99% 41.82%
Number of salaries quoted 81 152 221
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -4.67% +1.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 23 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 10 (7.58%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.55%) Camunda
2 6 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (2.27%) Apache
3 3 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.64%) AWS
2 13 (9.85%) Azure
3 10 (7.58%) Amazon S3
3 10 (7.58%) GitHub
4 8 (6.06%) Serverless
5 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (4.55%) npm
6 6 (4.55%) Yarn
7 5 (3.79%) GCP
7 5 (3.79%) SaaS
8 4 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.27%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 14 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 13 (9.85%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.58%) Big Data
5 9 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (5.30%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.55%) KDB
8 6 (4.55%) Kdb+
8 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.79%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.03%) Apache Hive
10 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.03%) HBase
10 4 (3.03%) MySQL
11 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.27%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.09%) JUnit
2 12 (9.09%) Maven
3 11 (8.33%) Git
4 7 (5.30%) webpack
5 6 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.55%) Vite
6 5 (3.79%) JIRA
7 4 (3.03%) Gradle
8 3 (2.27%) Subversion
9 2 (1.52%) Selenium
10 1 (0.76%) Ant
10 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.76%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.76%) Protractor
10 1 (0.76%) TestNG
10 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 111 (84.09%) Finance
2 104 (78.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 104 (78.79%) Law
3 52 (39.39%) Banking
4 49 (37.12%) Marketing
5 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
6 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (10.61%) Legal
8 10 (7.58%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.03%) Private Banking
10 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.52%) Back Office
11 2 (1.52%) Games
12 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 104 (78.79%) Software Engineer
2 79 (59.85%) Java Engineer
3 78 (59.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 31 (23.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 30 (22.73%) Developer
6 29 (21.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 26 (19.70%) Java Developer
8 24 (18.18%) Lead
8 24 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (13.64%) Lead Java Engineer
10 14 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (10.61%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (7.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 10 (7.58%) Java Software Developer
11 10 (7.58%) Kafka Developer
11 10 (7.58%) Software Developer
12 9 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (6.82%) Python Engineer
12 9 (6.82%) Senior
12 9 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (58.33%) Spring
2 47 (35.61%) React
3 45 (34.09%) Kafka
4 43 (32.58%) Spring Boot
5 25 (18.94%) REST
6 23 (17.42%) AngularJS
7 21 (15.91%) RESTful
8 11 (8.33%) HTML
9 10 (7.58%) Hibernate
10 9 (6.82%) CSS
10 9 (6.82%) Web Services
11 7 (5.30%) JPA
12 6 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (4.55%) JDBC
12 6 (4.55%) Jest
12 6 (4.55%) OpenAPI
12 6 (4.55%) Swagger
12 6 (4.55%) WSDL
13 5 (3.79%) SAML
13 5 (3.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 30 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.06%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.27%) Derivative
5 3 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.27%) Equities
5 3 (2.27%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.52%) NHS
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.03%) Unix
2 3 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.27%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (87.12%) Agile
2 110 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 95 (71.97%) SDLC
4 88 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 85 (64.39%) Operational Stability
6 62 (46.97%) AI
7 60 (45.45%) Machine Learning
8 58 (43.94%) Community of Practice
9 46 (34.85%) Visualisation
10 42 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (28.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (21.21%) Decision-Making
14 18 (13.64%) Architectural Design
15 17 (12.88%) Information Architecture
16 16 (12.12%) TDD
17 15 (11.36%) Risk Management
18 14 (10.61%) Computer Science
19 13 (9.85%) Mentoring
20 12 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.09%) SQL
2 21 (15.91%) Python
3 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 10 (7.58%) C#
6 5 (3.79%) Go
7 4 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.03%) Scala
7 4 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.52%) C
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (6.82%) Degree
2 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.52%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.76%) GRC
2 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Docker
2 4 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.36%) Terraform
3 10 (7.58%) Grafana
4 3 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.27%) Netcool
4 3 (2.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 27 (20.45%) Oracle
2 16 (12.12%) Splunk
3 13 (9.85%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.30%) Databricks
4 7 (5.30%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.79%) Facebook
6 5 (3.79%) Google
7 4 (3.03%) Cloudera
7 4 (3.03%) IBM
8 3 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.76%) Talend