Java Jobs in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 17 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,973 635 819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.39% 13.41% 14.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.11% 30.83% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 278 366 383
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,239 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,188 £53,970 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,931 £97,328 £81,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,786 2,060 2,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.39% 43.49% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,162 1,553
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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 +6 1,763 £60,000 -4.00% 35
Edinburgh -7 158 £70,576 +0.82% 29
Aberdeen -1 14 £38,500 -18.95% 1
Dundee -1 12 £46,250 -15.91% 2
Fife -6 9 £50,000 - 3
Scottish Borders +5 5 - -
Midlothian -3 3 - - 5
Renfrewshire -2 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -17 1 - - 4
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
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
1 481 (24.38%) Apache Spark
2 122 (6.18%) Apache
3 103 (5.22%) FileNet
4 31 (1.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.06%) GemFire
6 20 (1.01%) Camunda
7 16 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.66%) IIS
9 12 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 11 (0.56%) CICS
11 10 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.46%) Confluence
13 7 (0.35%) Captiva
13 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.20%) JBoss
14 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
15 1 (0.051%) SAS
15 1 (0.051%) Tuxedo
15 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 940 (47.64%) AWS
2 168 (8.51%) Azure
3 147 (7.45%) GCP
4 126 (6.39%) Amazon S3
5 85 (4.31%) Serverless
6 77 (3.90%) Datadog
7 75 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
9 62 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (3.09%) GitHub
11 55 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
11 55 (2.79%) SaaS
12 54 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
14 47 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
15 23 (1.17%) Google Docs
15 23 (1.17%) Lucidchart
15 23 (1.17%) Miro
15 23 (1.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.91%) DSL
2 17 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 14 (0.71%) Modbus
4 13 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.66%) WAN
5 9 (0.46%) Network Security
6 2 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.051%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.051%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 543 (27.52%) NoSQL
2 398 (20.17%) Big Data
3 245 (12.42%) Hadoop
4 166 (8.41%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (7.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 118 (5.98%) MongoDB
7 117 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 85 (4.31%) Apache Hive
9 73 (3.70%) HBase
10 60 (3.04%) Data Lake
11 51 (2.58%) Electronic Patient Records
12 38 (1.93%) CockroachDB
13 37 (1.88%) Qlik Sense
14 36 (1.82%) MySQL
15 34 (1.72%) SQL Server
16 30 (1.52%) DB2
16 30 (1.52%) Redis
17 23 (1.17%) Scylla
18 21 (1.06%) Hazelcast
19 20 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 220 (11.15%) JUnit
2 206 (10.44%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.83%) Git
4 104 (5.27%) Jasmine
5 90 (4.56%) Cypress.io
6 75 (3.80%) Maven
7 73 (3.70%) Selenium
8 64 (3.24%) WebDriver
9 60 (3.04%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.04%) Protractor
10 56 (2.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 50 (2.53%) Mockito
12 44 (2.23%) JIRA
13 42 (2.13%) GitLab
14 31 (1.57%) CircleCI
14 31 (1.57%) Cucumber
14 31 (1.57%) Gradle
15 28 (1.42%) JMeter
16 21 (1.06%) Jaeger
16 21 (1.06%) Travis CI
General
1 1,712 (86.77%) Finance
2 1,694 (85.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,634 (82.82%) Law
4 754 (38.22%) Marketing
5 504 (25.54%) Legal
6 373 (18.91%) Banking
7 247 (12.52%) Investment Banking
8 189 (9.58%) Social Skills
9 178 (9.02%) Influencing Skills
10 141 (7.15%) Financial Institution
11 75 (3.80%) Private Banking
12 37 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.12%) Prime Brokerage
14 17 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.76%) Publishing
16 13 (0.66%) Public Sector
17 10 (0.51%) Games
18 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
19 5 (0.25%) Telecoms
20 4 (0.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,563 (79.22%) Software Engineer
2 819 (41.51%) Java Engineer
3 812 (41.16%) Java Software Engineer
4 516 (26.15%) Lead
5 487 (24.68%) Lead Software Engineer
6 300 (15.21%) Full Stack Engineer
7 298 (15.10%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 274 (13.89%) Lead Java Engineer
9 255 (12.92%) Big Data Engineer
9 255 (12.92%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 240 (12.16%) Senior
11 228 (11.56%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (11.56%) Scala Software Engineer
12 183 (9.28%) Senior Software Engineer
13 172 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
13 172 (8.72%) AWS Software Engineer
14 169 (8.57%) Developer
15 138 (6.99%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 130 (6.59%) Engineering Manager
16 130 (6.59%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 737 (37.35%) Spring
2 454 (23.01%) React
3 405 (20.53%) AngularJS
4 382 (19.36%) Spring Boot
5 357 (18.09%) Kafka
6 260 (13.18%) J2EE
7 241 (12.21%) HTML
8 210 (10.64%) CSS
8 210 (10.64%) Hibernate
9 195 (9.88%) Node.js
10 170 (8.62%) JMS
11 164 (8.31%) JSON
12 162 (8.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 150 (7.60%) GraphQL
14 149 (7.55%) REST
15 138 (6.99%) jQuery
16 127 (6.44%) RESTful
17 101 (5.12%) Spring Integration
18 86 (4.36%) Web Services
19 83 (4.21%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 585 (29.65%) Cloud Native
2 573 (29.04%) Algorithms
3 243 (12.32%) Public Cloud
4 136 (6.89%) Data Structures
5 119 (6.03%) Onboarding
6 64 (3.24%) Distributed Applications
7 63 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 63 (3.19%) Reference Data
8 60 (3.04%) Management Information System
9 43 (2.18%) Legacy Code
10 42 (2.13%) Credit Risk
11 40 (2.03%) Private Cloud
12 27 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.32%) Market Risk
14 23 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (1.06%) Replication
16 16 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
18 13 (0.66%) Clustering
18 13 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 139 (7.05%) Linux
2 121 (6.13%) Unix
3 16 (0.81%) Windows
4 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.20%) AIX
6 2 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.051%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.051%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,799 (91.18%) Software Engineering
2 1,661 (84.19%) Agile
3 1,450 (73.49%) SDLC
4 1,395 (70.70%) CI/CD
5 1,283 (65.03%) Operational Stability
6 1,050 (53.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,045 (52.97%) Machine Learning
8 829 (42.02%) Community of Practice
9 579 (29.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 572 (28.99%) Visualisation
11 525 (26.61%) Risk Management
12 478 (24.23%) Microservices
13 453 (22.96%) Decision-Making
14 357 (18.09%) Full Stack Development
15 343 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
16 322 (16.32%) Continuous Delivery
17 280 (14.19%) Architectural Design
18 258 (13.08%) Information Architecture
19 243 (12.32%) Performance Tuning
20 239 (12.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 993 (50.33%) SQL
2 610 (30.92%) Python
3 333 (16.88%) Scala
4 256 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 175 (8.87%) TypeScript
6 131 (6.64%) PL/SQL
7 94 (4.76%) C#
8 63 (3.19%) Go
9 58 (2.94%) C++
10 48 (2.43%) C
11 42 (2.13%) Groovy
12 34 (1.72%) Bash
12 34 (1.72%) Ruby
12 34 (1.72%) T-SQL
13 25 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.12%) Rust
15 11 (0.56%) COBOL
15 11 (0.56%) JCL
16 9 (0.46%) PHP
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (4.51%) Degree
2 48 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.23%) Master's Degree
4 27 (1.37%) Security Cleared
5 19 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.76%) PhD
7 14 (0.71%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.20%) ISEB
8 4 (0.20%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.15%) OCP
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.051%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.23%) SLA
2 36 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.32%) QA
4 17 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.41%) SEPA
6 7 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.051%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 104 (5.27%) Docker
2 72 (3.65%) HDFS
3 13 (0.66%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.051%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 348 (17.64%) Kubernetes
2 230 (11.66%) Terraform
3 137 (6.94%) Grafana
4 39 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.06%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.06%) Kibana
6 21 (1.06%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.35%) Graphite
8 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.051%) Ansible
10 1 (0.051%) Rancher
Vendors
1 394 (19.97%) Oracle
2 149 (7.55%) Splunk
3 146 (7.40%) Databricks
4 127 (6.44%) Dynatrace
5 72 (3.65%) Cloudera
6 71 (3.60%) Google
7 56 (2.84%) Informatica
8 55 (2.79%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.37%) Pega
10 24 (1.22%) Dell
11 23 (1.17%) Sybase
12 22 (1.12%) Microsoft
13 18 (0.91%) Cognos
13 18 (0.91%) IBM
13 18 (0.91%) SaltStack
14 14 (0.71%) VMware
15 11 (0.56%) SAP
15 11 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.46%) Twitter