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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 20 10
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,294 447 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.71% 11.78% 14.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.56% 31.37% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 204 270 454
10th Percentile £36,450 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £67,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +12.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,313 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.69%

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 2,721 1,425 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.75% 37.56% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,114 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +5 1,147 £58,500 -10.00% 29
Edinburgh 0 108 £60,000 -20.00% 12
Dundee +7 14 £45,000 -14.29%
Fife -3 6 £50,000 +30.72% 1
Aberdeen -8 3 £38,500 -6.67%
Midlothian - 3 - - 7
Scottish Borders +2 2 - -
Lanarkshire -12 1 - - 23
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
1 218 (16.85%) Apache Spark
2 98 (7.57%) FileNet
3 65 (5.02%) Apache
4 32 (2.47%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.62%) GemFire
6 11 (0.85%) CICS
7 9 (0.70%) WildFly
8 7 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.15%) Confluence
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.077%) SAS
11 1 (0.077%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.31%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 582 (44.98%) AWS
2 113 (8.73%) Azure
3 107 (8.27%) Amazon S3
4 82 (6.34%) GCP
5 77 (5.95%) Datadog
6 53 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 52 (4.02%) GitHub
8 48 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
9 42 (3.25%) Serverless
10 36 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (2.55%) BlazeMeter
13 32 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (2.24%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (1.31%) SaaS
16 7 (0.54%) Amazon MSK
17 5 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (0.39%) OpenShift
18 4 (0.31%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.31%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.00%) Network Security
3 2 (0.15%) Modbus
3 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.15%) WAN
4 1 (0.077%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (28.28%) NoSQL
2 178 (13.76%) Big Data
3 137 (10.59%) Apache Cassandra
4 126 (9.74%) Elasticsearch
5 115 (8.89%) Hadoop
6 80 (6.18%) Relational Database
7 59 (4.56%) MongoDB
8 40 (3.09%) Data Lake
9 38 (2.94%) CockroachDB
10 35 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
11 30 (2.32%) Apache Hive
11 30 (2.32%) HBase
12 29 (2.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 26 (2.01%) MySQL
14 21 (1.62%) Hazelcast
15 17 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (1.16%) SQL Server
17 14 (1.08%) RDBMS
18 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 196 (15.15%) JUnit
2 120 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 105 (8.11%) Jasmine
4 84 (6.49%) Cypress.io
5 79 (6.11%) Selenium
6 61 (4.71%) WebDriver
7 60 (4.64%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (4.64%) Protractor
8 55 (4.25%) Git
9 50 (3.86%) Maven
10 47 (3.63%) Mockito
11 30 (2.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 30 (2.32%) Cucumber
12 28 (2.16%) JMeter
13 25 (1.93%) GitLab
14 21 (1.62%) Jaeger
14 21 (1.62%) JIRA
15 12 (0.93%) Gradle
16 11 (0.85%) ChangeMan
17 7 (0.54%) CircleCI
General
1 1,071 (82.77%) Finance
1 1,071 (82.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,039 (80.29%) Law
3 419 (32.38%) Marketing
4 341 (26.35%) Legal
5 220 (17.00%) Banking
6 198 (15.30%) Investment Banking
7 153 (11.82%) Social Skills
8 93 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
9 66 (5.10%) Financial Institution
10 22 (1.70%) Prime Brokerage
11 18 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (1.16%) Publishing
13 9 (0.70%) Games
13 9 (0.70%) Private Banking
14 7 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.46%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.46%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.39%) Advertising
17 3 (0.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 983 (75.97%) Software Engineer
2 572 (44.20%) Java Engineer
3 557 (43.04%) Java Software Engineer
4 343 (26.51%) Lead
5 315 (24.34%) Lead Software Engineer
6 197 (15.22%) Full Stack Engineer
7 196 (15.15%) Lead Java Engineer
8 195 (15.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 146 (11.28%) Senior
10 137 (10.59%) Big Data Engineer
10 137 (10.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 135 (10.43%) Scala Engineer
11 135 (10.43%) Scala Software Engineer
12 123 (9.51%) Developer
13 103 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
13 103 (7.96%) AWS Software Engineer
14 100 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 80 (6.18%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 79 (6.11%) Engineering Manager
16 79 (6.11%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (38.72%) Spring
2 333 (25.73%) React
3 265 (20.48%) AngularJS
4 263 (20.32%) Kafka
5 228 (17.62%) J2EE
6 225 (17.39%) Spring Boot
7 196 (15.15%) Hibernate
8 189 (14.61%) HTML
9 174 (13.45%) Node.js
10 167 (12.91%) CSS
11 162 (12.52%) JMS
12 155 (11.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 143 (11.05%) JSON
14 132 (10.20%) jQuery
15 121 (9.35%) GraphQL
16 102 (7.88%) Spring Integration
17 76 (5.87%) OpenTelemetry
18 75 (5.80%) REST
19 65 (5.02%) RESTful
20 60 (4.64%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 416 (32.15%) Cloud Native
2 359 (27.74%) Algorithms
3 110 (8.50%) Public Cloud
4 100 (7.73%) Data Structures
5 96 (7.42%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.63%) Distributed Applications
6 47 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 42 (3.25%) Credit Risk
8 41 (3.17%) Reference Data
9 34 (2.63%) Management Information System
10 27 (2.09%) Market Risk
11 21 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.62%) Legacy Code
11 21 (1.62%) Replication
12 17 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.16%) IoT
14 11 (0.85%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.85%) VSAM
15 6 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 91 (7.03%) Linux
2 73 (5.64%) Unix
3 8 (0.62%) Android
4 4 (0.31%) AIX
4 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.23%) Windows
6 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (88.49%) Software Engineering
2 1,048 (80.99%) Agile
3 929 (71.79%) SDLC
4 912 (70.48%) CI/CD
5 788 (60.90%) Operational Stability
6 686 (53.01%) Artificial Intelligence
7 678 (52.40%) Machine Learning
8 538 (41.58%) Community of Practice
9 381 (29.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 364 (28.13%) Risk Management
11 361 (27.90%) Visualisation
12 289 (22.33%) Microservices
13 278 (21.48%) Decision-Making
14 252 (19.47%) Full Stack Development
15 205 (15.84%) Continuous Delivery
16 200 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
17 186 (14.37%) Architectural Design
18 179 (13.83%) Computer Science
19 172 (13.29%) Information Architecture
20 166 (12.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 621 (47.99%) SQL
2 317 (24.50%) Python
3 215 (16.62%) JavaScript
4 176 (13.60%) Scala
5 144 (11.13%) TypeScript
6 73 (5.64%) PL/SQL
7 39 (3.01%) Groovy
8 36 (2.78%) C#
9 31 (2.40%) C
10 30 (2.32%) C++
11 27 (2.09%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.39%) Go
13 16 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.85%) COBOL
14 11 (0.85%) JCL
14 11 (0.85%) Rust
15 7 (0.54%) VB
16 6 (0.46%) Bash
16 6 (0.46%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 60 (4.64%) Degree
2 45 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.54%) PhD
5 4 (0.31%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.15%) ACCA
6 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.15%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.077%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.077%) ISEB
7 1 (0.077%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.077%) OCP
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.077%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.32%) QA
2 12 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.077%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (5.72%) Docker
2 30 (2.32%) HDFS
3 11 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 243 (18.78%) Kubernetes
2 154 (11.90%) Terraform
3 110 (8.50%) Grafana
4 39 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 26 (2.01%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.62%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.62%) Kibana
6 21 (1.62%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.54%) Graphite
8 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.23%) Ansible
10 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.077%) Puppet
Vendors
1 282 (21.79%) Oracle
2 124 (9.58%) Splunk
3 104 (8.04%) Dynatrace
4 73 (5.64%) Databricks
5 46 (3.55%) Google
6 35 (2.70%) Alteryx
7 30 (2.32%) Cloudera
7 30 (2.32%) Informatica
8 10 (0.77%) SaltStack
9 9 (0.70%) Sybase
9 9 (0.70%) TOWER Software
10 6 (0.46%) Twitter
11 5 (0.39%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.39%) CA
12 4 (0.31%) Dell
12 4 (0.31%) Microsoft
12 4 (0.31%) Okta
12 4 (0.31%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.31%) SAP
12 4 (0.31%) ServiceNow