Senior Java Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Senior Java Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Java Developer salary in Glasgow is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 219 113
Rank change year-on-year +171 -106 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 3 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.61% 0.20% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.21% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £47,750 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £74,688
90th Percentile - - £78,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -15.38% -8.77% +29.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 439 3,900 1,359
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.41% 98.04% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 258 844 691
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £75,360 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £78,525 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Senior Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Glasgow

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in Glasgow

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Gradle
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Mockito
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) QA

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Gradle
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Mockito
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase