Java Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 31 151
Rank change year-on-year -27 +120 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 104 344 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.13% 7.78% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.05% 8.04% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 25 6
10th Percentile - - £53,750
25th Percentile - £24,000 £63,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -33.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £86,775
90th Percentile - £61,500 £89,852
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -

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 2,059 4,280 2,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.67% 96.75% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,901 2,017
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,367 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,943 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +2 102 - - 3
Edinburgh -11 2 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (98.08%) Agile
3 101 (97.12%) Software Engineering
4 100 (96.15%) Finance
4 100 (96.15%) Law
4 100 (96.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (92.31%) SDLC
6 81 (77.88%) Operational Stability
6 81 (77.88%) Spring
7 80 (76.92%) CI/CD
8 61 (58.65%) Machine Learning
8 61 (58.65%) Artificial Intelligence
9 50 (48.08%) AWS
9 50 (48.08%) Community of Practice
10 49 (47.12%) Banking
11 43 (41.35%) Marketing
11 43 (41.35%) React
12 42 (40.38%) SQL
13 41 (39.42%) Kafka
14 40 (38.46%) Spring Boot
14 40 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
15 38 (36.54%) Algorithms
15 38 (36.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (36.54%) Visualisation
16 34 (32.69%) Cloud Native
17 32 (30.77%) Decision-Making
18 28 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (24.04%) AngularJS
19 25 (24.04%) Kubernetes
20 24 (23.08%) Oracle

Java Engineer 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 9 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.85%) Camunda
2 4 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.08%) AWS
2 10 (9.62%) Azure
3 9 (8.65%) Amazon S3
3 9 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (8.65%) Serverless
4 8 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (5.77%) GCP
6 5 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.81%) GitHub
7 4 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.96%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 13 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (8.65%) Big Data
3 8 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.69%) KDB
3 8 (7.69%) Kdb+
3 8 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.81%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.81%) Hadoop
4 5 (4.81%) HBase
4 5 (4.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.85%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Maven
2 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.62%) Git
4 5 (4.81%) Gradle
4 5 (4.81%) JUnit
5 4 (3.85%) Subversion
6 1 (0.96%) Ant
6 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.96%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.96%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.96%) JIRA
6 1 (0.96%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.96%) Protractor
6 1 (0.96%) Selenium
6 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.96%) webpack
General
1 100 (96.15%) Finance
1 100 (96.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 100 (96.15%) Law
2 49 (47.12%) Banking
3 43 (41.35%) Marketing
4 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
5 17 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (15.38%) Legal
7 8 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.85%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.92%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (77.88%) Spring
2 43 (41.35%) React
3 41 (39.42%) Kafka
4 40 (38.46%) Spring Boot
5 25 (24.04%) AngularJS
6 21 (20.19%) RESTful
7 17 (16.35%) REST
8 10 (9.62%) Hibernate
9 9 (8.65%) JPA
9 9 (8.65%) Web Services
10 8 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (5.77%) OAuth
11 6 (5.77%) OAuth2
11 6 (5.77%) OpenID
11 6 (5.77%) SAML
12 5 (4.81%) HTML
12 5 (4.81%) J2EE
12 5 (4.81%) jQuery
13 4 (3.85%) Django
13 4 (3.85%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (36.54%) Algorithms
2 34 (32.69%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.69%) Reference Data
4 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.85%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.85%) Derivative
6 4 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.85%) Equities
6 4 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.81%) Unix
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (98.08%) Agile
2 101 (97.12%) Software Engineering
3 96 (92.31%) SDLC
4 81 (77.88%) Operational Stability
5 80 (76.92%) CI/CD
6 61 (58.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 61 (58.65%) Machine Learning
7 50 (48.08%) Community of Practice
8 40 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (36.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (36.54%) Visualisation
10 32 (30.77%) Decision-Making
11 28 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (17.31%) Architectural Design
12 18 (17.31%) Information Architecture
13 17 (16.35%) Risk Management
14 16 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (14.42%) TDD
16 13 (12.50%) Computer Science
17 12 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (40.38%) SQL
3 14 (13.46%) TypeScript
4 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.58%) Python
5 8 (7.69%) C#
6 6 (5.77%) Go
7 5 (4.81%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.85%) Scala
8 4 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (4.81%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Docker
1 5 (4.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (24.04%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.69%) Terraform
3 5 (4.81%) Grafana
4 4 (3.85%) Netcool
4 4 (3.85%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (3.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (23.08%) Oracle
2 9 (8.65%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.65%) Splunk
3 6 (5.77%) Facebook
3 6 (5.77%) Google
4 5 (4.81%) Cloudera
4 5 (4.81%) Databricks
5 4 (3.85%) IBM
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow