Java Developer Jobs in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer salary in Scotland is £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 119 101
Rank change year-on-year -74 -18 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 59 95 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.04% 2.50% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 2.72% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 45 88 114
10th Percentile £40,050 £43,750 £40,375
25th Percentile £42,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +3.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -86 40 £65,000 -2.26% 6
Edinburgh +8 8 £61,000 -12.86% 1
Dundee - 7 £45,000 -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 Scotland region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (49.15%) Agile
3 28 (47.46%) Spring
4 19 (32.20%) Finance
5 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.81%) Spring Boot
7 14 (23.73%) AngularJS
8 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
8 13 (22.03%) Docker
8 13 (22.03%) AWS
8 13 (22.03%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (20.34%) Microservices
9 12 (20.34%) OOP
9 12 (20.34%) Oracle
10 11 (18.64%) Unix
10 11 (18.64%) Banking
10 11 (18.64%) Jenkins
10 11 (18.64%) SDLC
10 11 (18.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (16.95%) CI/CD
11 10 (16.95%) REST
11 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
11 10 (16.95%) TDD
11 10 (16.95%) SQL
12 9 (15.25%) Scrum
13 8 (13.56%) Maven
13 8 (13.56%) React
13 8 (13.56%) Product Ownership
14 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
14 7 (11.86%) GitLab

Java Developer Skill Set
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 5 (8.47%) WildFly
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) AWS
2 6 (10.17%) Azure
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.69%) GCP
3 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.56%) Maven
3 7 (11.86%) CircleCI
3 7 (11.86%) GitLab
4 2 (3.39%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.39%) Git
5 1 (1.69%) JUnit
5 1 (1.69%) Mockito
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Banking
2 11 (18.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (11.86%) Law
3 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Advertising
5 3 (5.08%) Front Office
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Games
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (47.46%) Spring
2 17 (28.81%) Spring Boot
3 14 (23.73%) AngularJS
4 10 (16.95%) REST
5 8 (13.56%) React
6 7 (11.86%) Java EE
6 7 (11.86%) SOAP
7 5 (8.47%) JSON
8 4 (6.78%) CSS
8 4 (6.78%) HTML
8 4 (6.78%) OpenJDK
9 3 (5.08%) JSP
9 3 (5.08%) Kafka
9 3 (5.08%) Struts
9 3 (5.08%) Web Services
10 2 (3.39%) HTML5
10 2 (3.39%) J2EE
10 2 (3.39%) JSF
10 2 (3.39%) OAuth
10 2 (3.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.69%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.69%) IoT
3 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Unix
2 7 (11.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Agile
2 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.03%) Full Stack Development
3 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
4 12 (20.34%) Microservices
4 12 (20.34%) OOP
5 11 (18.64%) SDLC
6 10 (16.95%) CI/CD
6 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
6 10 (16.95%) TDD
7 9 (15.25%) Scrum
8 7 (11.86%) Fintech
8 7 (11.86%) SOLID
9 6 (10.17%) OO
10 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
10 5 (8.47%) DevOps
11 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (6.78%) Code Quality
11 4 (6.78%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (16.95%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.78%) Python
5 1 (1.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) Sybase
3 2 (3.39%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.69%) CyberTech