Java Engineer Jobs 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 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 31 154
Rank change year-on-year -47 +123 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 105 648 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.21% 9.98% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% 10.28% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3 36 10
10th Percentile £59,000 £24,000 £58,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £45,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £74,027
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -32.46% -1.30%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £86,775
90th Percentile - £65,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £107,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +19.44% - +16.13%

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 2,728 6,301 3,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.30% 97.03% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 2,865 2,104
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £40,396
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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 +4 102 - - 22
Edinburgh -5 3 £70,000 +40.00% 9
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (97.14%) Agile
3 101 (96.19%) Software Engineering
3 101 (96.19%) Finance
3 101 (96.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (95.24%) Law
5 97 (92.38%) SDLC
6 81 (77.14%) Operational Stability
6 81 (77.14%) Spring
7 80 (76.19%) CI/CD
8 61 (58.10%) Machine Learning
8 61 (58.10%) Artificial Intelligence
9 50 (47.62%) Community of Practice
10 49 (46.67%) AWS
10 49 (46.67%) Banking
11 43 (40.95%) Marketing
11 43 (40.95%) React
12 42 (40.00%) SQL
13 41 (39.05%) Kafka
14 40 (38.10%) Spring Boot
15 39 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 38 (36.19%) Algorithms
16 38 (36.19%) Visualisation
17 34 (32.38%) Cloud Native
18 32 (30.48%) Decision-Making
19 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
19 27 (25.71%) Kubernetes
20 25 (23.81%) AngularJS
21 24 (22.86%) 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 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.81%) Camunda
2 4 (3.81%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (3.81%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 49 (46.67%) AWS
2 10 (9.52%) Azure
3 9 (8.57%) Amazon S3
3 9 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (8.57%) Serverless
4 8 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (5.71%) GCP
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (3.81%) GitHub
7 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.95%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.38%) NoSQL
1 13 (12.38%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (8.57%) Big Data
3 8 (7.62%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (7.62%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.62%) KDB
3 8 (7.62%) Kdb+
3 8 (7.62%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.76%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 5 (4.76%) HBase
4 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.81%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.81%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (3.81%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.95%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) Maven
2 13 (12.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.52%) Git
4 6 (5.71%) JUnit
5 5 (4.76%) Gradle
6 4 (3.81%) Subversion
7 2 (1.90%) Selenium
8 1 (0.95%) Ant
8 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.95%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.95%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.95%) JIRA
8 1 (0.95%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.95%) Protractor
8 1 (0.95%) TestNG
8 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 101 (96.19%) Finance
1 101 (96.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 100 (95.24%) Law
3 49 (46.67%) Banking
4 43 (40.95%) Marketing
5 17 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
6 16 (15.24%) Legal
7 8 (7.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.81%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (77.14%) Spring
2 43 (40.95%) React
3 41 (39.05%) Kafka
4 40 (38.10%) Spring Boot
5 25 (23.81%) AngularJS
6 20 (19.05%) RESTful
7 17 (16.19%) REST
8 9 (8.57%) Hibernate
8 9 (8.57%) JPA
8 9 (8.57%) Web Services
9 8 (7.62%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (5.71%) OAuth
10 6 (5.71%) OAuth2
10 6 (5.71%) OpenID
10 6 (5.71%) SAML
11 5 (4.76%) HTML
11 5 (4.76%) J2EE
11 5 (4.76%) jQuery
12 4 (3.81%) Django
12 4 (3.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (36.19%) Algorithms
2 34 (32.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.62%) Reference Data
4 7 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.81%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.81%) Derivative
6 4 (3.81%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.81%) Equities
6 4 (3.81%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.76%) Unix
2 3 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (97.14%) Agile
2 101 (96.19%) Software Engineering
3 97 (92.38%) SDLC
4 81 (77.14%) Operational Stability
5 80 (76.19%) CI/CD
6 61 (58.10%) Artificial Intelligence
6 61 (58.10%) Machine Learning
7 50 (47.62%) Community of Practice
8 39 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (36.19%) Visualisation
10 32 (30.48%) Decision-Making
11 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (17.14%) Architectural Design
12 18 (17.14%) Information Architecture
13 16 (15.24%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (15.24%) Risk Management
14 15 (14.29%) TDD
15 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
16 12 (11.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (40.00%) SQL
3 14 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 11 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.48%) Python
5 8 (7.62%) C#
6 6 (5.71%) Go
7 5 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 5 (4.76%) Scala
8 4 (3.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.81%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.62%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) Grafana
4 4 (3.81%) Netcool
4 4 (3.81%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (3.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Oracle
2 9 (8.57%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.57%) Splunk
3 6 (5.71%) Facebook
3 6 (5.71%) Google
4 5 (4.76%) Cloudera
4 5 (4.76%) Databricks
5 4 (3.81%) IBM
5 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Sybase