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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,936 650 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.24% 13.57% 14.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.90% 31.39% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 281 370 385
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,227 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,970 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,328 £81,250
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 3,730 2,071 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.34% 43.24% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,178 1,539
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% +12.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,938 £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 19 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 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 +4 1,722 £59,500 -4.80% 56
Edinburgh -6 161 £70,576 +0.82% 26
Aberdeen +1 14 £38,500 -18.95% 1
Dundee -3 12 £46,250 -15.91%
Fife -5 9 £50,000 - 2
Scottish Borders +5 5 - -
Midlothian -3 3 - - 2
Renfrewshire 0 2 £52,500 -
West Lothian - 2 £53,750 - 1
Lanarkshire -17 1 - - 8
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
1 473 (24.43%) Apache Spark
2 120 (6.20%) Apache
3 100 (5.17%) FileNet
4 29 (1.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.08%) GemFire
6 20 (1.03%) Camunda
7 16 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.72%) IIS
9 12 (0.62%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.52%) CICS
10 10 (0.52%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.46%) Confluence
12 7 (0.36%) Captiva
12 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.21%) JBoss
13 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.052%) SAS
14 1 (0.052%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.21%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 923 (47.68%) AWS
2 167 (8.63%) Azure
3 143 (7.39%) GCP
4 122 (6.30%) Amazon S3
5 82 (4.24%) Serverless
6 74 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
7 73 (3.77%) Datadog
8 69 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (3.10%) GitHub
10 55 (2.84%) SaaS
11 53 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
12 52 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
14 44 (2.27%) BlazeMeter
15 23 (1.19%) Google Docs
15 23 (1.19%) Lucidchart
15 23 (1.19%) Miro
15 23 (1.19%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.93%) DSL
2 16 (0.83%) Kerberos
3 14 (0.72%) Modbus
3 14 (0.72%) WAN
4 13 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.46%) Network Security
6 2 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.052%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.052%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (27.58%) NoSQL
2 392 (20.25%) Big Data
3 240 (12.40%) Hadoop
4 162 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
5 149 (7.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 119 (6.15%) Relational Database
7 115 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 84 (4.34%) Apache Hive
9 72 (3.72%) HBase
10 59 (3.05%) Data Lake
11 50 (2.58%) Electronic Patient Records
12 37 (1.91%) CockroachDB
13 36 (1.86%) MySQL
13 36 (1.86%) Qlik Sense
14 34 (1.76%) SQL Server
15 30 (1.55%) Redis
16 29 (1.50%) DB2
17 23 (1.19%) Scylla
18 21 (1.08%) Hazelcast
18 21 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 219 (11.31%) JUnit
2 203 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.84%) Git
4 103 (5.32%) Jasmine
5 89 (4.60%) Cypress.io
6 74 (3.82%) Maven
6 74 (3.82%) Selenium
7 64 (3.31%) WebDriver
8 60 (3.10%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (3.10%) Protractor
9 55 (2.84%) Bitbucket Server
10 49 (2.53%) Mockito
11 45 (2.32%) JIRA
12 42 (2.17%) GitLab
13 31 (1.60%) CircleCI
14 30 (1.55%) Gradle
15 29 (1.50%) Cucumber
16 24 (1.24%) JMeter
17 21 (1.08%) Jaeger
17 21 (1.08%) Travis CI
General
1 1,674 (86.47%) Finance
2 1,656 (85.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,593 (82.28%) Law
4 735 (37.96%) Marketing
5 497 (25.67%) Legal
6 370 (19.11%) Banking
7 241 (12.45%) Investment Banking
8 183 (9.45%) Social Skills
9 175 (9.04%) Influencing Skills
10 137 (7.08%) Financial Institution
11 74 (3.82%) Private Banking
12 36 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
13 21 (1.08%) Prime Brokerage
14 17 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.77%) Publishing
16 13 (0.67%) Public Sector
17 9 (0.46%) Games
18 7 (0.36%) Aerospace
19 5 (0.26%) Telecoms
20 4 (0.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,527 (78.87%) Software Engineer
2 793 (40.96%) Java Engineer
3 787 (40.65%) Java Software Engineer
4 503 (25.98%) Lead
5 475 (24.54%) Lead Software Engineer
6 292 (15.08%) Full Stack Engineer
7 290 (14.98%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 265 (13.69%) Lead Java Engineer
9 250 (12.91%) Big Data Engineer
9 250 (12.91%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 236 (12.19%) Senior
11 222 (11.47%) Scala Engineer
11 222 (11.47%) Scala Software Engineer
12 179 (9.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 169 (8.73%) Developer
14 166 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
14 166 (8.57%) AWS Software Engineer
15 134 (6.92%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 127 (6.56%) Engineering Manager
16 127 (6.56%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 723 (37.35%) Spring
2 444 (22.93%) React
3 401 (20.71%) AngularJS
4 379 (19.58%) Spring Boot
5 348 (17.98%) Kafka
6 256 (13.22%) J2EE
7 239 (12.35%) HTML
8 209 (10.80%) CSS
9 208 (10.74%) Hibernate
10 192 (9.92%) Node.js
11 167 (8.63%) JMS
12 165 (8.52%) JSON
13 159 (8.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 150 (7.75%) REST
15 146 (7.54%) GraphQL
16 136 (7.02%) jQuery
17 122 (6.30%) RESTful
18 97 (5.01%) Spring Integration
19 86 (4.44%) Web Services
20 81 (4.18%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 569 (29.39%) Cloud Native
2 563 (29.08%) Algorithms
3 241 (12.45%) Public Cloud
4 136 (7.02%) Data Structures
5 116 (5.99%) Onboarding
6 61 (3.15%) Distributed Applications
6 61 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.15%) Reference Data
7 59 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.17%) Credit Risk
8 42 (2.17%) Legacy Code
9 39 (2.01%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 23 (1.19%) Market Risk
12 21 (1.08%) Replication
13 17 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (0.72%) Clustering
14 14 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.13%) Linux
2 120 (6.20%) Unix
3 16 (0.83%) Windows
4 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.21%) AIX
6 2 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,757 (90.75%) Software Engineering
2 1,622 (83.78%) Agile
3 1,416 (73.14%) SDLC
4 1,363 (70.40%) CI/CD
5 1,250 (64.57%) Operational Stability
6 1,024 (52.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,019 (52.63%) Machine Learning
8 810 (41.84%) Community of Practice
9 568 (29.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 562 (29.03%) Visualisation
11 513 (26.50%) Risk Management
12 469 (24.23%) Microservices
13 440 (22.73%) Decision-Making
14 347 (17.92%) Full Stack Development
15 338 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
16 316 (16.32%) Continuous Delivery
17 274 (14.15%) Architectural Design
18 252 (13.02%) Information Architecture
19 238 (12.29%) Performance Tuning
20 230 (11.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 977 (50.46%) SQL
2 601 (31.04%) Python
3 325 (16.79%) Scala
4 254 (13.12%) JavaScript
5 174 (8.99%) TypeScript
6 129 (6.66%) PL/SQL
7 96 (4.96%) C#
8 61 (3.15%) Go
9 59 (3.05%) C++
10 49 (2.53%) C
11 42 (2.17%) Groovy
12 34 (1.76%) Ruby
12 34 (1.76%) T-SQL
13 33 (1.70%) Bash
14 24 (1.24%) Shell Script
15 21 (1.08%) Rust
16 10 (0.52%) COBOL
16 10 (0.52%) JCL
17 9 (0.46%) PHP
18 7 (0.36%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 88 (4.55%) Degree
2 46 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 28 (1.45%) Security Cleared
5 19 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 16 (0.83%) PhD
7 14 (0.72%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.21%) ISEB
8 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.21%) OCP
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.052%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.27%) SLA
2 36 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.39%) QA
4 17 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.52%) SEPA
6 7 (0.36%) GDPR
7 2 (0.10%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.052%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 104 (5.37%) Docker
2 71 (3.67%) HDFS
3 14 (0.72%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 341 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 227 (11.73%) Terraform
3 133 (6.87%) Grafana
4 37 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.08%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.08%) Kibana
6 21 (1.08%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.36%) Graphite
8 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.052%) Ansible
10 1 (0.052%) Rancher
Vendors
1 388 (20.04%) Oracle
2 144 (7.44%) Splunk
3 142 (7.33%) Databricks
4 125 (6.46%) Dynatrace
5 71 (3.67%) Cloudera
6 70 (3.62%) Google
7 55 (2.84%) Informatica
8 54 (2.79%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.39%) Pega
10 24 (1.24%) Dell
10 24 (1.24%) Microsoft
11 23 (1.19%) Sybase
12 18 (0.93%) Cognos
12 18 (0.93%) SaltStack
13 17 (0.88%) IBM
14 14 (0.72%) VMware
15 11 (0.57%) SAP
15 11 (0.57%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.46%) Twitter
17 8 (0.41%) TOWER Software