Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £80,000 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 137 26 179
Rank change year-on-year -111 +153 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 8 830 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 12.32% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 12.72% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 13
10th Percentile £55,625 - £56,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £45,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £126,758 £68,063 £89,852
90th Percentile £140,677 £91,934 £92,038
UK median annual salary £105,000 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +20.00%

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 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 1 May 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 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 0 6 £80,000 +60.00% 10
Glasgow -26 2 - - 15
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Docker
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Spring
5 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) JUnit

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Java EE
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (25.00%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase