Java Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

As of 4 July 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Java Software Engineer salary in Scotland.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 32 162
Rank change year-on-year -51 +130 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 100 639 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.07% 9.75% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.69% 10.06% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 0 25 5
10th Percentile - - £62,250
25th Percentile - £45,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -31.03% +3.57%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £77,542
90th Percentile - £66,850 -
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +2.86% +8.98%

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 2,711 6,355 3,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.21% 96.98% 90.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 2,892 2,098
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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
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 4 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 +3 100 - - 48
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, 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.

1 100 (100.00%) Java
1 100 (100.00%) Finance
1 100 (100.00%) Law
1 100 (100.00%) Agile
1 100 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 100 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 96 (96.00%) SDLC
3 81 (81.00%) Operational Stability
4 79 (79.00%) Spring
5 78 (78.00%) CI/CD
6 61 (61.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 61 (61.00%) Machine Learning
7 50 (50.00%) Community of Practice
8 49 (49.00%) Banking
9 48 (48.00%) AWS
10 43 (43.00%) Marketing
10 43 (43.00%) React
11 41 (41.00%) Kafka
12 40 (40.00%) SQL
13 39 (39.00%) Spring Boot
14 38 (38.00%) Algorithms
14 38 (38.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 38 (38.00%) Visualisation
14 38 (38.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (34.00%) Cloud Native
16 32 (32.00%) Decision-Making
17 25 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (25.00%) AngularJS
18 24 (24.00%) Kubernetes
18 24 (24.00%) Oracle

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 9 (9.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.00%) Camunda
2 4 (4.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.00%) AWS
2 10 (10.00%) Azure
3 9 (9.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (9.00%) Serverless
4 8 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (6.00%) GCP
6 5 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (4.00%) GitHub
7 4 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (9.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (9.00%) Big Data
4 8 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (8.00%) KDB
4 8 (8.00%) Kdb+
4 8 (8.00%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 5 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.00%) HBase
5 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.00%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (4.00%) InterSystems Cache
6 4 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Maven
2 13 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.00%) Git
4 5 (5.00%) Gradle
4 5 (5.00%) JUnit
5 4 (4.00%) Subversion
6 1 (1.00%) Ant
6 1 (1.00%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.00%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.00%) JIRA
6 1 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.00%) Protractor
6 1 (1.00%) Selenium
6 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 100 (100.00%) Finance
1 100 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 100 (100.00%) Law
2 49 (49.00%) Banking
3 43 (43.00%) Marketing
4 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
5 16 (16.00%) Legal
6 8 (8.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.00%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (79.00%) Spring
2 43 (43.00%) React
3 41 (41.00%) Kafka
4 39 (39.00%) Spring Boot
5 25 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 20 (20.00%) RESTful
7 17 (17.00%) REST
8 9 (9.00%) Hibernate
8 9 (9.00%) JPA
8 9 (9.00%) Web Services
9 8 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (6.00%) OAuth
10 6 (6.00%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.00%) OpenID
10 6 (6.00%) SAML
11 5 (5.00%) HTML
11 5 (5.00%) J2EE
11 5 (5.00%) jQuery
12 4 (4.00%) Django
12 4 (4.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (38.00%) Algorithms
2 34 (34.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.00%) Reference Data
4 7 (7.00%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.00%) Credit Risk
6 4 (4.00%) Derivative
6 4 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.00%) Equities
6 4 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) Agile
1 100 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 96 (96.00%) SDLC
3 81 (81.00%) Operational Stability
4 78 (78.00%) CI/CD
5 61 (61.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 61 (61.00%) Machine Learning
6 50 (50.00%) Community of Practice
7 38 (38.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (38.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (38.00%) Visualisation
8 32 (32.00%) Decision-Making
9 25 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (18.00%) Architectural Design
10 18 (18.00%) Information Architecture
11 16 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (16.00%) Risk Management
12 15 (15.00%) TDD
13 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
13 12 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (40.00%) SQL
3 13 (13.00%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.00%) Python
5 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.00%) C#
7 6 (6.00%) Go
8 5 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.00%) Scala
9 4 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (5.00%) HDFS
2 4 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.00%) Terraform
3 5 (5.00%) Grafana
4 4 (4.00%) Netcool
4 4 (4.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (4.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (24.00%) Oracle
2 9 (9.00%) Dynatrace
2 9 (9.00%) Splunk
3 6 (6.00%) Facebook
3 6 (6.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 5 (5.00%) Databricks
5 4 (4.00%) IBM
5 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow