Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £50,000 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 29 155 208
Rank change year-on-year +126 +53 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 572 56 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.04% 1.48% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.34% 1.60% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 34 9 25
10th Percentile £24,000 £58,250 £55,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,554 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% -5.56% +77.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £89,852 £90,000
90th Percentile £66,000 - £94,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year - +12.09% +14.71%

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 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

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Java Engineer 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 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 +77 540 £24,000 -63.08% 2
Edinburgh +43 32 £50,000 -37.73% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 572 (100.00%) Java
2 557 (97.38%) Software Engineering
3 539 (94.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 537 (93.88%) Finance
5 529 (92.48%) Law
6 525 (91.78%) Agile
7 475 (83.04%) SDLC
8 452 (79.02%) CI/CD
9 446 (77.97%) Operational Stability
10 410 (71.68%) Artificial Intelligence
11 408 (71.33%) Machine Learning
12 306 (53.50%) SQL
13 302 (52.80%) Spring
14 301 (52.62%) Community of Practice
15 209 (36.54%) React
16 203 (35.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 201 (35.14%) Visualisation
18 195 (34.09%) Cloud Native
19 193 (33.74%) Marketing
20 190 (33.22%) Risk Management
21 186 (32.52%) Algorithms
22 179 (31.29%) AWS
23 178 (31.12%) Kafka
24 167 (29.20%) Full Stack Development
25 166 (29.02%) Legal
26 163 (28.50%) NoSQL
27 162 (28.32%) AngularJS
28 158 (27.62%) Banking
29 149 (26.05%) Investment Banking
30 145 (25.35%) J2EE

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 83 (14.51%) Apache Spark
2 42 (7.34%) FileNet
3 32 (5.59%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (3.67%) GemFire
5 3 (0.52%) WildFly
6 1 (0.17%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 179 (31.29%) AWS
2 42 (7.34%) Amazon S3
3 33 (5.77%) BlazeMeter
4 25 (4.37%) GitHub
5 24 (4.20%) Azure
6 22 (3.85%) GCP
7 3 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (0.52%) Serverless
8 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.17%) Datadog
9 1 (0.17%) SaaS
9 1 (0.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.97%) Kerberos
2 13 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (28.50%) NoSQL
2 83 (14.51%) Big Data
3 79 (13.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 66 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
5 44 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 38 (6.64%) CockroachDB
7 22 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 21 (3.67%) Hazelcast
9 20 (3.50%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.92%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.22%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 115 (20.10%) JUnit
2 84 (14.69%) Cypress.io
3 81 (14.16%) Jasmine
4 63 (11.01%) Selenium
5 60 (10.49%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (10.49%) Protractor
5 60 (10.49%) WebDriver
6 32 (5.59%) Jenkins
7 27 (4.72%) Cucumber
7 27 (4.72%) JMeter
8 21 (3.67%) Jaeger
8 21 (3.67%) Mockito
9 20 (3.50%) Maven
10 12 (2.10%) Git
11 11 (1.92%) Gradle
12 9 (1.57%) JIRA
13 4 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.17%) GitLab
14 1 (0.17%) Spock
General
1 539 (94.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 537 (93.88%) Finance
3 529 (92.48%) Law
4 193 (33.74%) Marketing
5 166 (29.02%) Legal
6 158 (27.62%) Banking
7 149 (26.05%) Investment Banking
8 61 (10.66%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (7.69%) Social Skills
10 22 (3.85%) Prime Brokerage
11 9 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (1.57%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.52%) Games
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (52.80%) Spring
2 209 (36.54%) React
3 178 (31.12%) Kafka
4 162 (28.32%) AngularJS
5 145 (25.35%) J2EE
6 126 (22.03%) Spring Boot
7 119 (20.80%) HTML
8 116 (20.28%) Hibernate
9 111 (19.41%) JMS
10 104 (18.18%) Node.js
10 104 (18.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 96 (16.78%) CSS
12 84 (14.69%) JSON
13 81 (14.16%) jQuery
14 61 (10.66%) GraphQL
15 60 (10.49%) Jest
16 46 (8.04%) REST
16 46 (8.04%) Spring Integration
17 41 (7.17%) Web Services
18 33 (5.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (34.09%) Cloud Native
2 186 (32.52%) Algorithms
3 61 (10.66%) Data Structures
4 53 (9.27%) Onboarding
5 36 (6.29%) Public Cloud
6 27 (4.72%) Market Risk
7 25 (4.37%) Reference Data
8 21 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.67%) Legacy Code
8 21 (3.67%) Replication
9 17 (2.97%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.45%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.17%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.17%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.02%) Unix
2 12 (2.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (97.38%) Software Engineering
2 525 (91.78%) Agile
3 475 (83.04%) SDLC
4 452 (79.02%) CI/CD
5 446 (77.97%) Operational Stability
6 410 (71.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 408 (71.33%) Machine Learning
8 301 (52.62%) Community of Practice
9 203 (35.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (35.14%) Visualisation
11 190 (33.22%) Risk Management
12 167 (29.20%) Full Stack Development
13 135 (23.60%) Decision-Making
14 123 (21.50%) Microservices
15 107 (18.71%) TDD
16 99 (17.31%) Architectural Design
17 92 (16.08%) BDD
18 89 (15.56%) Information Architecture
19 74 (12.94%) Performance Tuning
20 69 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 572 (100.00%) Java
2 306 (53.50%) SQL
3 107 (18.71%) JavaScript
4 81 (14.16%) Scala
4 81 (14.16%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.47%) Python
6 22 (3.85%) Groovy
7 6 (1.05%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (0.87%) Degree
1 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.10%) QA
2 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 79 (13.81%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.12%) Grafana
3 34 (5.94%) Terraform
4 22 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.67%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.67%) Kibana
5 21 (3.67%) Zipkin
6 7 (1.22%) Graphite
Vendors
1 125 (21.85%) Oracle
2 38 (6.64%) Databricks
2 38 (6.64%) Splunk
3 34 (5.94%) Dynatrace
4 19 (3.32%) Google
5 10 (1.75%) SaltStack
6 9 (1.57%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.35%) Confluent
7 2 (0.35%) IBM