Java Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Software 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 30 159 230
Rank change year-on-year +129 +71 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 557 51 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.78% 1.34% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.07% 1.46% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24 4 12
10th Percentile - £64,250 £57,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £74,027 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.46% -7.47% +77.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,542 £85,000
90th Percentile £67,575 - -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £88,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +7.04% +1.43% +34.62%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in Scotland

Java Software 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 Software 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 +78 530 £104,357 +54.60% 1
Edinburgh +41 27 £50,000 -33.82% 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 557 (100.00%) Java
1 557 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 539 (96.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 534 (95.87%) Finance
4 529 (94.97%) Law
5 517 (92.82%) Agile
6 475 (85.28%) SDLC
7 452 (81.15%) CI/CD
8 446 (80.07%) Operational Stability
9 407 (73.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 407 (73.07%) Machine Learning
10 304 (54.58%) SQL
11 301 (54.04%) Community of Practice
12 297 (53.32%) Spring
13 206 (36.98%) React
14 203 (36.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 201 (36.09%) Visualisation
16 195 (35.01%) Cloud Native
17 193 (34.65%) Marketing
18 190 (34.11%) Risk Management
19 186 (33.39%) Algorithms
20 177 (31.78%) AWS
21 176 (31.60%) Kafka
22 166 (29.80%) Legal
23 163 (29.26%) NoSQL
23 163 (29.26%) Full Stack Development
24 158 (28.37%) AngularJS
24 158 (28.37%) Banking
25 149 (26.75%) Investment Banking
26 145 (26.03%) J2EE

Java Software 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 (14.90%) Apache Spark
2 42 (7.54%) FileNet
3 32 (5.75%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (3.77%) GemFire
5 1 (0.18%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 177 (31.78%) AWS
2 42 (7.54%) Amazon S3
3 33 (5.92%) BlazeMeter
4 25 (4.49%) GitHub
5 22 (3.95%) GCP
6 21 (3.77%) Azure
7 3 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.18%) Datadog
8 1 (0.18%) SaaS
8 1 (0.18%) Serverless
8 1 (0.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.05%) Kerberos
2 13 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (29.26%) NoSQL
2 83 (14.90%) Big Data
3 79 (14.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 66 (11.85%) Elasticsearch
5 42 (7.54%) MongoDB
6 38 (6.82%) CockroachDB
7 22 (3.95%) Hadoop
8 21 (3.77%) Hazelcast
9 20 (3.59%) Relational Database
10 17 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.97%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.26%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 115 (20.65%) JUnit
2 84 (15.08%) Cypress.io
3 81 (14.54%) Jasmine
4 60 (10.77%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (10.77%) Protractor
4 60 (10.77%) Selenium
4 60 (10.77%) WebDriver
5 32 (5.75%) Jenkins
6 27 (4.85%) JMeter
7 24 (4.31%) Cucumber
8 21 (3.77%) Jaeger
8 21 (3.77%) Mockito
9 20 (3.59%) Maven
10 11 (1.97%) Gradle
11 9 (1.62%) Git
11 9 (1.62%) JIRA
12 4 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.18%) GitLab
13 1 (0.18%) Spock
General
1 539 (96.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 534 (95.87%) Finance
3 529 (94.97%) Law
4 193 (34.65%) Marketing
5 166 (29.80%) Legal
6 158 (28.37%) Banking
7 149 (26.75%) Investment Banking
8 61 (10.95%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (7.54%) Social Skills
10 22 (3.95%) Prime Brokerage
11 9 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (1.62%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.54%) Games
13 2 (0.36%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (53.32%) Spring
2 206 (36.98%) React
3 176 (31.60%) Kafka
4 158 (28.37%) AngularJS
5 145 (26.03%) J2EE
6 121 (21.72%) Spring Boot
7 119 (21.36%) HTML
8 116 (20.83%) Hibernate
9 111 (19.93%) JMS
10 104 (18.67%) Node.js
10 104 (18.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 96 (17.24%) CSS
12 84 (15.08%) JSON
13 81 (14.54%) jQuery
14 60 (10.77%) Jest
15 59 (10.59%) GraphQL
16 44 (7.90%) Spring Integration
17 41 (7.36%) REST
17 41 (7.36%) Web Services
18 33 (5.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (35.01%) Cloud Native
2 186 (33.39%) Algorithms
3 61 (10.95%) Data Structures
4 53 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 36 (6.46%) Public Cloud
6 27 (4.85%) Market Risk
7 25 (4.49%) Reference Data
8 21 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.77%) Legacy Code
8 21 (3.77%) Replication
9 17 (3.05%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.51%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.18%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.18%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.13%) Unix
2 12 (2.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 517 (92.82%) Agile
3 475 (85.28%) SDLC
4 452 (81.15%) CI/CD
5 446 (80.07%) Operational Stability
6 407 (73.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 407 (73.07%) Machine Learning
7 301 (54.04%) Community of Practice
8 203 (36.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 201 (36.09%) Visualisation
10 190 (34.11%) Risk Management
11 163 (29.26%) Full Stack Development
12 135 (24.24%) Decision-Making
13 121 (21.72%) Microservices
14 105 (18.85%) TDD
15 99 (17.77%) Architectural Design
16 90 (16.16%) BDD
17 89 (15.98%) Information Architecture
18 74 (13.29%) Performance Tuning
19 69 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 557 (100.00%) Java
2 304 (54.58%) SQL
3 105 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 81 (14.54%) Scala
4 81 (14.54%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.64%) Python
6 22 (3.95%) Groovy
7 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (0.90%) Degree
1 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.62%) QA
2 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (3.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 79 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.28%) Grafana
3 34 (6.10%) Terraform
4 22 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.77%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.77%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.77%) Kibana
5 21 (3.77%) Zipkin
6 7 (1.26%) Graphite
Vendors
1 125 (22.44%) Oracle
2 38 (6.82%) Databricks
2 38 (6.82%) Splunk
3 34 (6.10%) Dynatrace
4 19 (3.41%) Google
5 10 (1.80%) SaltStack
6 9 (1.62%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.36%) IBM