Java EE Jobs in Scotland

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java EE over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 263 185
Rank change year-on-year +124 -78 +49
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 6 14 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.21% 0.21% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 0.61% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 15
10th Percentile - £37,500 £61,180
25th Percentile £75,000 £41,250 £73,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £42,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +88.24% -50.00% +54.55%
75th Percentile £89,389 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £92,022 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +53.85% -25.71% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Java EE 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 393 2,300 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.95% 34.14% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 293 646 771
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,706
Median % change year-on-year - -4.32% +14.01%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,137 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in Scotland

Java EE
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java EE in Scotland

Java EE
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 EE 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 +23 4 £80,000 - 2
Glasgow +168 2 - - 2
Java EE
UK

Java EE
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 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Principal Java Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Code Coverage
3 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Curam