Java Developer Jobs in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer salary in Scotland is £57,500 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 113 201 106
Rank change year-on-year +88 -95 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 32 77 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.14% 1.14% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.18% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22 56 104
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,125 £41,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -10.45% +7.20%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Edinburgh +22 17 £57,500 -4.96% 14
Glasgow +132 15 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 32 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (53.13%) Agile
4 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 14 (43.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (43.75%) C++
6 13 (40.63%) MongoDB
7 11 (34.38%) Docker
8 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (31.25%) React
8 10 (31.25%) Unit Testing
8 10 (31.25%) Windows
8 10 (31.25%) Visual Studio
8 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
9 9 (28.13%) Spring
9 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
10 8 (25.00%) SDLC
10 8 (25.00%) Algorithms
10 8 (25.00%) DevOps
10 8 (25.00%) REST
10 8 (25.00%) Kafka
10 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
11 7 (21.88%) MFC
11 7 (21.88%) Linux
11 7 (21.88%) JUnit
11 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
11 7 (21.88%) Azure
11 7 (21.88%) AWS
11 7 (21.88%) Microservices
11 7 (21.88%) TypeScript

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 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.38%) BlazeMeter
2 3 (9.38%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
3 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) MongoDB
2 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.50%) DB2
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.13%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Visual Studio
2 7 (21.88%) JUnit
3 3 (9.38%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) Gradle
3 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Maven
4 2 (6.25%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) Mockito
5 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.13%) ESLint
5 1 (3.13%) Mocha
5 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (43.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) React
2 9 (28.13%) Spring
3 8 (25.00%) Kafka
3 8 (25.00%) REST
4 7 (21.88%) MFC
5 6 (18.75%) AngularJS
5 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 5 (15.63%) Hibernate
7 4 (12.50%) CSS
7 4 (12.50%) Middleware
7 4 (12.50%) WebSockets
8 3 (9.38%) JPA
8 3 (9.38%) RESTful
8 3 (9.38%) SOAP
9 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
10 1 (3.13%) Jest
10 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
10 1 (3.13%) Redux
10 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) Unit Testing
4 8 (25.00%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) SDLC
5 7 (21.88%) Front End Development
5 7 (21.88%) Microservices
6 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (15.63%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Distributed Cache
8 4 (12.50%) Fintech
8 4 (12.50%) Investment Management
8 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 4 (12.50%) Operational Stability
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (9.38%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (43.75%) C++
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
5 6 (18.75%) SQL
6 5 (15.63%) Python
7 4 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
2 3 (9.38%) Splunk
2 3 (9.38%) Sybase
3 1 (3.13%) Curam
3 1 (3.13%) IBM