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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 328 1,525 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.02% 23.48% 11.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.70% 47.51% 29.85%
Number of salaries quoted 88 241 279
10th Percentile £43,375 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.38% +12.72%
75th Percentile £81,625 £69,750 £80,625
90th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,805 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.77% -4.77% +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 1,003 3,210 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.63% 49.43% 39.43%
Number of salaries quoted 569 1,105 972
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £36,275
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 £66,250 £67,500 £71,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,840 £83,655
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 6 July 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 6 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 +3 182 £74,500 +35.45% 157
Edinburgh -6 68 £57,500 -4.17% 95
Lanarkshire +8 26 £80,000 - 13
Fife -2 11 £50,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 - 1
Renfrewshire -9 4 - - 1
Moray - 4 £49,050 -
East Ayrshire - 4 £58,000 -
Aberdeen +25 3 £50,000 +29.87% 18
Stirling - 3 - - 1
South Ayrshire - 3 £49,050 -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Dundee 0 1 - - 9
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 2
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 142 (43.29%) AWS
2 94 (28.66%) Azure
3 78 (23.78%) GCP
4 15 (4.57%) Amazon S3
5 10 (3.05%) GitHub
6 9 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (2.74%) Serverless
7 8 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (2.44%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.13%) npm
8 7 (2.13%) Yarn
9 5 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.22%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 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 61 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.15%) MongoDB
2 30 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.88%) Big Data
6 13 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (3.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 12 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.05%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.74%) MySQL
10 8 (2.44%) DB2
10 8 (2.44%) KDB
10 8 (2.44%) Kdb+
11 7 (2.13%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.52%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.52%) HBase
Development Applications
1 69 (21.04%) Maven
2 56 (17.07%) GitLab
3 55 (16.77%) JIRA
4 53 (16.16%) Selenium
4 53 (16.16%) SonarQube
5 51 (15.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 49 (14.94%) Bitbucket
6 49 (14.94%) Cucumber
7 27 (8.23%) Jenkins
8 26 (7.93%) JUnit
9 25 (7.62%) Git
10 16 (4.88%) Visual Studio
11 11 (3.35%) Cypress.io
12 9 (2.74%) webpack
13 8 (2.44%) Gradle
14 7 (2.13%) Eclipse
14 7 (2.13%) Vite
15 5 (1.52%) Eclipse RCP
16 4 (1.22%) Subversion
17 2 (0.61%) Checkstyle
General
1 216 (65.85%) Finance
2 202 (61.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (42.07%) Law
4 135 (41.16%) Banking
5 63 (19.21%) Marketing
6 49 (14.94%) Social Skills
7 37 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (5.49%) Legal
9 13 (3.96%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.83%) Games
10 6 (1.83%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.22%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Local Government
13 2 (0.61%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.30%) Advertising
14 1 (0.30%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Electronics
14 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (67.38%) Software Engineer
2 105 (32.01%) Java Engineer
3 100 (30.49%) Java Software Engineer
4 70 (21.34%) Developer
5 60 (18.29%) Senior
6 56 (17.07%) Java Developer
7 42 (12.80%) Lead
8 38 (11.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 37 (11.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 32 (9.76%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (7.32%) Lead Java Engineer
12 19 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (5.79%) AWS Software Engineer
13 17 (5.18%) Senior Developer
13 17 (5.18%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (4.88%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 13 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.96%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (51.52%) Spring
2 127 (38.72%) Spring Boot
3 126 (38.41%) React
4 124 (37.80%) Kafka
5 82 (25.00%) HTML
6 79 (24.09%) CSS
7 66 (20.12%) Hibernate
8 61 (18.60%) JPA
9 52 (15.85%) Redux
10 46 (14.02%) REST
11 36 (10.98%) AngularJS
12 30 (9.15%) RESTful
13 13 (3.96%) .NET
13 13 (3.96%) Web Services
14 11 (3.35%) OAuth
14 11 (3.35%) OAuth2
15 10 (3.05%) J2EE
15 10 (3.05%) OpenID
16 9 (2.74%) JDBC
16 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 15 (4.57%) 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%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.93%) Linux
2 23 (7.01%) Windows
3 12 (3.66%) 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
1 251 (76.52%) Agile
2 250 (76.22%) Software Engineering
3 195 (59.45%) CI/CD
4 193 (58.84%) SDLC
5 116 (35.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 116 (35.37%) Operational Stability
6 106 (32.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (28.35%) Microservices
8 92 (28.05%) Test Automation
9 90 (27.44%) Artificial Intelligence
10 89 (27.13%) DevOps
11 82 (25.00%) Machine Learning
12 80 (24.39%) Community of Practice
12 80 (24.39%) TDD
13 71 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (20.43%) Containerisation
15 65 (19.82%) Visualisation
16 64 (19.51%) Clean Code
17 62 (18.90%) Front End Development
18 50 (15.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 138 (42.07%) SQL
2 96 (29.27%) JavaScript
3 70 (21.34%) Python
4 37 (11.28%) TypeScript
5 32 (9.76%) C++
6 29 (8.84%) C#
7 14 (4.27%) C
7 14 (4.27%) Rust
8 8 (2.44%) Go
9 6 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.83%) Scala
10 5 (1.52%) Ada
10 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.22%) VBA
12 2 (0.61%) ABAP
12 2 (0.61%) Groovy
12 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (7.93%) Degree
2 12 (3.66%) 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 57 (17.38%) QA
2 3 (0.91%) GDPR
3 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.30%) ECSS
3 1 (0.30%) GRC
3 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (25.30%) 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
1 115 (35.06%) 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 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 45 (13.72%) Oracle
3 26 (7.93%) Splunk
4 21 (6.40%) Dynatrace
5 14 (4.27%) Microsoft
6 13 (3.96%) Databricks
7 11 (3.35%) Google
8 8 (2.44%) IBM
8 8 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.83%) Facebook
10 5 (1.52%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.52%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.52%) Sybase
11 4 (1.22%) Blue Prism
11 4 (1.22%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.22%) UiPath
12 2 (0.61%) Curam
12 2 (0.61%) SAP
13 1 (0.30%) VMware