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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 28 7
Rank change year-on-year +18 -21 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 93 55 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 11.76% 6.16% 18.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.73% 18.77% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 65
10th Percentile £41,900 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,625 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% +11.82%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +29.17% -9.77% +2.31%

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 199 293 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.16% 32.81% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 71 137 211
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,400 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,500 £71,250
Scotland median annual salary £55,249 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -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 3 December 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 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.30%) Camunda
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.15%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 36 (38.71%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Azure
3 8 (8.60%) GitHub
4 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.45%) Serverless
6 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.38%) SaaS
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.23%) GCP
8 3 (3.23%) npm
8 3 (3.23%) Yarn
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.15%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.15%) Boomi
9 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.90%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.75%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.53%) Big Data
5 6 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.30%) KDB
7 4 (4.30%) Kdb+
7 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.23%) Apache Hive
8 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.23%) HBase
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.15%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (2.15%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.68%) JUnit
2 9 (9.68%) Maven
3 8 (8.60%) Git
4 4 (4.30%) JIRA
4 4 (4.30%) webpack
5 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.23%) Gradle
5 3 (3.23%) Vite
6 2 (2.15%) Selenium
6 2 (2.15%) Subversion
7 1 (1.08%) Ant
7 1 (1.08%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.08%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.08%) Protractor
7 1 (1.08%) TestNG
7 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (79.57%) Finance
2 69 (74.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (74.19%) Law
3 35 (37.63%) Banking
4 33 (35.48%) Marketing
5 14 (15.05%) Social Skills
6 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (10.75%) Legal
8 7 (7.53%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.15%) Back Office
11 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (74.19%) Software Engineer
2 54 (58.06%) Java Engineer
3 53 (56.99%) Java Software Engineer
4 24 (25.81%) Developer
5 22 (23.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (21.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 20 (21.51%) Java Developer
7 16 (17.20%) Lead
7 16 (17.20%) Lead Software Engineer
8 12 (12.90%) Lead Java Engineer
9 9 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (9.68%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (8.60%) Kafka Developer
11 7 (7.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (7.53%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (7.53%) Software Developer
12 6 (6.45%) Core Java Developer
12 6 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (56.99%) Spring
2 32 (34.41%) Kafka
3 31 (33.33%) React
4 28 (30.11%) Spring Boot
5 19 (20.43%) REST
6 16 (17.20%) AngularJS
6 16 (17.20%) RESTful
7 8 (8.60%) Hibernate
8 7 (7.53%) HTML
8 7 (7.53%) Web Services
9 6 (6.45%) CSS
10 5 (5.38%) JPA
11 4 (4.30%) .NET
11 4 (4.30%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (4.30%) J2EE
11 4 (4.30%) JDBC
11 4 (4.30%) OpenAPI
11 4 (4.30%) SOAP
11 4 (4.30%) Swagger
11 4 (4.30%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Algorithms
2 20 (21.51%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.38%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.15%) Derivative
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.15%) Equities
5 2 (2.15%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.15%) NHS
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.23%) Unix
2 2 (2.15%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (86.02%) Agile
2 74 (79.57%) Software Engineering
3 63 (67.74%) SDLC
4 60 (64.52%) CI/CD
5 56 (60.22%) Operational Stability
6 42 (45.16%) AI
7 41 (44.09%) Machine Learning
8 38 (40.86%) Community of Practice
9 30 (32.26%) Visualisation
10 28 (30.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (20.43%) Decision-Making
14 12 (12.90%) Architectural Design
14 12 (12.90%) TDD
15 11 (11.83%) Computer Science
15 11 (11.83%) Information Architecture
15 11 (11.83%) Risk Management
16 10 (10.75%) Multithreading
16 10 (10.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.48%) SQL
2 15 (16.13%) Python
3 13 (13.98%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.83%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.60%) C#
6 3 (3.23%) Go
6 3 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.23%) Scala
6 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.15%) C
7 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.08%) Groovy
8 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (8.60%) Degree
2 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.08%) GRC
2 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (20.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.75%) Terraform
3 7 (7.53%) Grafana
4 2 (2.15%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.15%) Netcool
4 2 (2.15%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Oracle
2 11 (11.83%) Splunk
3 9 (9.68%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.38%) Databricks
6 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.23%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.23%) Facebook
7 3 (3.23%) Google
7 3 (3.23%) IBM
8 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.08%) Talend