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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 34 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -25 +5
Permanent jobs citing Java 24 36 647
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.43% 5.33% 41.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.97% 16.90% 62.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 81
10th Percentile £41,875 £49,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,813 £55,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,688 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £78,000
Scotland median annual salary £83,750 £65,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year +28.85% +1.17% -1.15%

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 89 213 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.71% 31.51% 66.28%
Number of salaries quoted 57 85 246
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £31,625
25th Percentile £41,750 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £75,216 £76,875
Scotland median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -0.70%

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 January 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 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Boomi
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Private Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 13 (54.17%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 3 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Core Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) React Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) React
1 5 (20.83%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka
3 3 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) SOAP
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.17%) JMS
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) Vue
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 4 (16.67%) OO
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) ITSM
6 3 (12.50%) OOP
6 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 3 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (12.50%) Web Development
7 2 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Groovy
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.17%) Ruby
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Talend