Java Software Developer Jobs in Scotland

Java Software Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Software Developer salary in Scotland is £82,680 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 218 240
Rank change year-on-year -46 +22 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 19 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.29% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,625 £40,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £39,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,680 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +74.06% -17.39% +19.79%
75th Percentile £137,913 £57,188 £67,500
90th Percentile - £67,875 £85,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -25.29% -5.56% +44.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,411 4,330 5,456
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.40% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,601 2,357 2,938
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,569 £28,209
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,853 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Java Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Developer in Scotland

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Software Developer in Scotland

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Developer in Scotland

Java Software Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -89 16 £42,500 +41.67%
Edinburgh - 3 £120,360 -
Java Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Java Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (94.74%) Agile
3 16 (84.21%) Banking
3 16 (84.21%) Finance
3 16 (84.21%) AngularJS
3 16 (84.21%) Full Stack Development
4 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
4 15 (78.95%) Spring
4 15 (78.95%) SDLC
5 13 (68.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (68.42%) Design Patterns
5 13 (68.42%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
5 13 (68.42%) Private Banking
5 13 (68.42%) Degree
5 13 (68.42%) Computer Science
5 13 (68.42%) Wealth Management
5 13 (68.42%) Investment Management
5 13 (68.42%) Visualisation
5 13 (68.42%) AWS
5 13 (68.42%) Law
5 13 (68.42%) Asset Management
5 13 (68.42%) Community of Practice
5 13 (68.42%) Operational Stability
5 13 (68.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (68.42%) Machine Learning
5 13 (68.42%) Big Data
5 13 (68.42%) Apache Hive
5 13 (68.42%) Apache Spark
5 13 (68.42%) Data Structures

Java Software Developer 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 13 (68.42%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) Apache Hive
1 13 (68.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
1 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) Maven
1 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (84.21%) Banking
1 16 (84.21%) Finance
2 13 (68.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (68.42%) Law
2 13 (68.42%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (84.21%) AngularJS
2 15 (78.95%) Spring
3 3 (15.79%) Express.js
3 3 (15.79%) Jest
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) React
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Algorithms
1 13 (68.42%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 16 (84.21%) Full Stack Development
3 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 15 (78.95%) SDLC
4 13 (68.42%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (68.42%) Asset Management
4 13 (68.42%) Community of Practice
4 13 (68.42%) Computer Science
4 13 (68.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (68.42%) Design Patterns
4 13 (68.42%) Investment Management
4 13 (68.42%) Machine Learning
4 13 (68.42%) Operational Stability
4 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
4 13 (68.42%) Visualisation
4 13 (68.42%) Wealth Management
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
6 3 (15.79%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) OCP
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform