J2EE Job Trends in Scotland

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring J2EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 86 125
Rank change year-on-year -55 +39 +85
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 6 130 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.24% 2.95% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 11.07% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 28
10th Percentile - - £65,604
25th Percentile £76,250 £46,306 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £47,557 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.96% -32.06% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £84,000 £79,165
UK median annual salary £45,000 £72,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -38.14% +3.93% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 373 1,174 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.87% 26.62% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 97 444 573
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,075 £39,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,220 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Scotland

J2EE
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing J2EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing J2EE

J2EE
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -16 6 £77,500 +3.33% 2
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (66.67%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (16.67%) Protractor
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (83.33%) Law
1 5 (83.33%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Java Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 4 (66.67%) Lead Java Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) JMS
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Architectural Design
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Community of Practice
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Operational Stability
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 4 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Distributed Cache
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Information Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) KYC
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle