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

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 25 7
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 61 55 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 8.06% 6.19% 18.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.36% 18.77% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 65
10th Percentile £41,875 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,813 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -2.44% +6.96%
75th Percentile £74,688 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £76,250 £60,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +27.08% -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 159 293 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.00% 33.00% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 70 137 211
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £76,500 £71,250
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 5 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 4 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.28%) Camunda
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.64%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) GitHub
3 6 (9.84%) Azure
4 5 (8.20%) SaaS
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.56%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.28%) Boomi
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.28%) GCP
7 2 (3.28%) npm
7 2 (3.28%) Yarn
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) HTTP
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) MongoDB
2 6 (9.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (6.56%) Big Data
3 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.28%) HBase
5 2 (3.28%) KDB
5 2 (3.28%) Kdb+
5 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.64%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
1 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
1 5 (8.20%) JUnit
1 5 (8.20%) Maven
2 3 (4.92%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) webpack
3 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.28%) Gradle
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
3 2 (3.28%) Vite
4 1 (1.64%) Ant
4 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.64%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.64%) Protractor
4 1 (1.64%) Subversion
4 1 (1.64%) TestNG
4 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (70.49%) Finance
2 38 (62.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 38 (62.30%) Law
3 20 (32.79%) Marketing
4 18 (29.51%) Banking
5 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
6 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.84%) Legal
7 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Back Office
8 2 (3.28%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (63.93%) Software Engineer
2 31 (50.82%) Java Engineer
3 30 (49.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 20 (32.79%) Developer
5 16 (26.23%) Java Developer
6 13 (21.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (18.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Lead
8 8 (13.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) Kafka Developer
10 6 (9.84%) Core Java Developer
10 6 (9.84%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (8.20%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (6.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 4 (6.56%) Java Software Developer
12 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
12 4 (6.56%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) Spring
2 19 (31.15%) Kafka
2 19 (31.15%) React
3 14 (22.95%) Spring Boot
4 12 (19.67%) REST
5 11 (18.03%) RESTful
6 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
7 6 (9.84%) Hibernate
8 5 (8.20%) Web Services
9 4 (6.56%) CSS
9 4 (6.56%) HTML
10 3 (4.92%) .NET
10 3 (4.92%) JPA
10 3 (4.92%) SOAP
10 3 (4.92%) XML
11 2 (3.28%) jQuery
11 2 (3.28%) OAuth
11 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
11 2 (3.28%) OpenID
11 2 (3.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Algorithms
2 11 (18.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) NHS
3 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Derivative
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Equities
4 1 (1.64%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (80.33%) Agile
2 43 (70.49%) Software Engineering
3 35 (57.38%) SDLC
4 34 (55.74%) CI/CD
5 30 (49.18%) Operational Stability
6 24 (39.34%) AI
7 23 (37.70%) Machine Learning
8 20 (32.79%) Community of Practice
9 16 (26.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (26.23%) Visualisation
10 15 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (18.03%) Decision-Making
13 9 (14.75%) Multithreading
14 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
15 7 (11.48%) Mentoring
15 7 (11.48%) Microservices
15 7 (11.48%) Risk Management
15 7 (11.48%) TDD
15 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) Python
3 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.84%) C#
6 2 (3.28%) C
6 2 (3.28%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Scala
6 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.64%) Groovy
7 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) ISO 9001
1 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) GRC
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Terraform
3 4 (6.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.64%) Netcool
4 1 (1.64%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Splunk
3 5 (8.20%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.92%) Databricks
6 2 (3.28%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.28%) Facebook
6 2 (3.28%) Google
6 2 (3.28%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.64%) Talend
14 Java jobs in Glasgow