Java Jobs in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 328 1,716 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.63% 24.81% 11.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.69% 48.71% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 90 263 291
10th Percentile £43,625 £34,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £53,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -22.24% +15.75%
75th Percentile £84,250 £71,250 £83,149
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £97,328
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +10.71%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,035 3,523 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.53% 50.94% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 604 1,184 971
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java in Scotland

Java
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Scotland

Java
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 June 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 +4 179 £74,500 +35.45% 330
Edinburgh -8 70 £57,500 -4.17% 250
Lanarkshire +9 27 £80,000 - 7
Fife 0 10 £49,050 -1.90% 17
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 - 1
Aberdeen +26 4 £50,000 +29.87% 84
Renfrewshire -7 4 - - 28
Moray - 4 £49,050 -
East Ayrshire - 4 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £49,050 -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 16
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 1
Dundee +2 1 - - 23
Inverclyde -8 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 9
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
Java
UK

Java
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 49 (14.94%) Confluence
2 15 (4.57%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.05%) Apache
4 8 (2.44%) Camunda
4 8 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.22%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.61%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.30%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 140 (42.68%) AWS
2 93 (28.35%) Azure
3 80 (24.39%) GCP
4 15 (4.57%) Amazon S3
5 11 (3.35%) GitHub
6 9 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (2.74%) Serverless
7 8 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.13%) npm
8 7 (2.13%) Yarn
9 6 (1.83%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.22%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) SSL
2 5 (1.52%) SSH
3 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) DHCP
4 1 (0.30%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) Firewall
4 1 (0.30%) HTTP
4 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) OSPF
4 1 (0.30%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.29%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 28 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.79%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.88%) Big Data
7 13 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (3.96%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.05%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.74%) MySQL
11 8 (2.44%) DB2
11 8 (2.44%) KDB
11 8 (2.44%) Kdb+
12 7 (2.13%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.52%) HBase
14 5 (1.52%) NonStop SQL
14 5 (1.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (21.04%) Maven
2 56 (17.07%) GitLab
3 55 (16.77%) JIRA
4 54 (16.46%) Selenium
5 53 (16.16%) SonarQube
6 51 (15.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 49 (14.94%) Bitbucket
7 49 (14.94%) Cucumber
8 31 (9.45%) Jenkins
9 27 (8.23%) JUnit
10 25 (7.62%) Git
11 17 (5.18%) Visual Studio
12 11 (3.35%) Cypress.io
13 9 (2.74%) webpack
14 8 (2.44%) Gradle
15 7 (2.13%) Eclipse
15 7 (2.13%) Vite
16 5 (1.52%) Eclipse RCP
17 4 (1.22%) Subversion
18 2 (0.61%) TestNG
General
1 220 (67.07%) Finance
2 203 (61.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (42.38%) Banking
4 138 (42.07%) Law
5 63 (19.21%) Marketing
6 48 (14.63%) Social Skills
7 38 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (5.49%) Legal
9 13 (3.96%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.83%) Games
11 4 (1.22%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Local Government
13 2 (0.61%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.61%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.30%) Advertising
14 1 (0.30%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.30%) Electronics
14 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.30%) Front Office
14 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 225 (68.60%) Software Engineer
2 104 (31.71%) Java Engineer
3 100 (30.49%) Java Software Engineer
4 67 (20.43%) Developer
5 63 (19.21%) Senior
6 54 (16.46%) Java Developer
7 43 (13.11%) Lead
8 38 (11.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 37 (11.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 34 (10.37%) Lead Software Engineer
11 33 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (7.32%) Lead Java Engineer
13 19 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (5.79%) AWS Software Engineer
14 17 (5.18%) Senior Developer
14 17 (5.18%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (4.88%) Software Developer
16 13 (3.96%) Architect
16 13 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (3.96%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (52.44%) Spring
2 128 (39.02%) Spring Boot
3 126 (38.41%) React
4 120 (36.59%) Kafka
5 84 (25.61%) HTML
6 81 (24.70%) CSS
7 66 (20.12%) Hibernate
8 61 (18.60%) JPA
9 52 (15.85%) Redux
10 48 (14.63%) REST
11 36 (10.98%) AngularJS
12 30 (9.15%) RESTful
13 15 (4.57%) .NET
14 13 (3.96%) Web Services
15 11 (3.35%) OAuth
15 11 (3.35%) OAuth2
16 10 (3.05%) J2EE
16 10 (3.05%) OpenID
17 9 (2.74%) JDBC
17 9 (2.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.73%) Algorithms
2 55 (16.77%) Enterprise Software
3 51 (15.55%) Product Ownership
4 40 (12.20%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.79%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.96%) Reference Data
7 12 (3.66%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.52%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.52%) Tandem
12 4 (1.22%) Derivative
12 4 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.22%) Equities
12 4 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.54%) Linux
2 23 (7.01%) Windows
3 13 (3.96%) Unix
4 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.30%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (77.44%) Software Engineering
2 251 (76.52%) Agile
3 197 (60.06%) CI/CD
4 196 (59.76%) SDLC
5 116 (35.37%) Operational Stability
6 115 (35.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 107 (32.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (29.57%) Microservices
9 91 (27.74%) Artificial Intelligence
9 91 (27.74%) Test Automation
10 86 (26.22%) DevOps
11 82 (25.00%) Machine Learning
12 81 (24.70%) TDD
13 80 (24.39%) Community of Practice
14 70 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (20.12%) Containerisation
16 65 (19.82%) Visualisation
17 63 (19.21%) Clean Code
18 61 (18.60%) Front End Development
19 50 (15.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 141 (42.99%) SQL
2 98 (29.88%) JavaScript
3 71 (21.65%) Python
4 36 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 33 (10.06%) C++
6 30 (9.15%) C#
7 14 (4.27%) C
7 14 (4.27%) Rust
8 8 (2.44%) Go
9 7 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.52%) Ada
10 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.52%) Scala
10 5 (1.52%) VBA
11 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.61%) ABAP
13 2 (0.61%) Groovy
13 2 (0.61%) JCL
13 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (7.62%) Degree
2 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.30%) HND
5 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.68%) QA
2 3 (0.91%) GDPR
3 1 (0.30%) ECSS
3 1 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 81 (24.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) NDS
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (35.37%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.84%) Terraform
3 19 (5.79%) Grafana
4 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.22%) Netcool
5 4 (1.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (1.22%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.61%) Ansible
6 2 (0.61%) Istio
6 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.30%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.30%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (14.94%) Solace
2 46 (14.02%) Oracle
3 26 (7.93%) Splunk
4 21 (6.40%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.96%) Databricks
5 13 (3.96%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.35%) Google
7 8 (2.44%) IBM
7 8 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.83%) Facebook
9 5 (1.52%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.52%) Ping Identity
9 5 (1.52%) Sybase
10 4 (1.22%) Blue Prism
10 4 (1.22%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.22%) UiPath
11 2 (0.61%) Curam
11 2 (0.61%) SAP
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco