J2EE Jobs in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 92 168
Rank change year-on-year -63 +76 +51
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 11 241 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 3.50% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 11.36% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 19
10th Percentile £76,298 £46,294 £66,084
25th Percentile £76,369 £46,306 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,376 £47,557 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% -32.06% -
75th Percentile £90,021 £80,000 £80,328
90th Percentile £92,275 £90,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £110,000 £96,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year +14.58% +26.87% -5.41%

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 480 2,122 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.68% 30.83% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 200 662 630
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,566 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £77,671
90th Percentile £98,875 £80,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -11.11% +4.65%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE in Scotland.

Salary trend for J2EE in Scotland

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 19 June 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 -4 8 £77,500 +40.91% 5
Edinburgh +22 3 £85,253 +79.26%
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (36.36%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (18.18%) DB2
2 2 (18.18%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (9.09%) Ant
3 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
3 1 (9.09%) Jasmine
3 1 (9.09%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (9.09%) Protractor
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
3 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (45.45%) Law
2 5 (45.45%) Marketing
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Lead
3 4 (36.36%) Lead Java Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) REST
2 7 (63.64%) Spring
3 6 (54.55%) Kafka
4 4 (36.36%) Java EE
5 3 (27.27%) Web Services
6 2 (18.18%) CSS
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 2 (18.18%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (18.18%) JSON
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) XML
7 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
7 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 1 (9.09%) HTML5
7 1 (9.09%) JMS
7 1 (9.09%) jQuery
7 1 (9.09%) Node.js
7 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) SDLC
2 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Architectural Design
4 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) Community of Practice
4 5 (45.45%) High Availability
4 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
4 5 (45.45%) Operational Stability
4 5 (45.45%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 4 (36.36%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (36.36%) Distributed Cache
5 4 (36.36%) Information Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) KYC
6 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Curam
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft