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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 174 1,983 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.20% 29.42% 13.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.81% 52.17% 30.27%
Number of salaries quoted 126 273 362
10th Percentile £44,375 £35,000 £41,230
25th Percentile £49,338 £42,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -13.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,087 £97,328
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -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 925 3,801 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.98% 56.39% 43.36%
Number of salaries quoted 736 1,146 1,161
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,000
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 2 May 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 2 May 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
Edinburgh -3 104 £57,500 -17.87% 66
Glasgow -6 38 £68,750 +14.58% 68
Lanarkshire +11 11 £77,500 - 7
Aberdeen +21 6 £50,000 +29.87% 5
Fife -11 4 £49,050 -1.90% 1
Moray - 4 £49,050 -
East Ayrshire - 3 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £49,050 -
West Lothian +11 1 - -
Dundee +5 1 - - 6
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
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 5 (2.87%) Apache
2 4 (2.30%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (1.72%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) CICS
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.16%) Azure
2 42 (24.14%) AWS
3 37 (21.26%) GCP
4 10 (5.75%) GitHub
5 6 (3.45%) SaaS
6 5 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.87%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.30%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.30%) Serverless
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.72%) Apigee
8 3 (1.72%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (1.72%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Firewall
1 2 (1.15%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.15%) SSL
1 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) BGP
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) OSPF
2 1 (0.57%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 14 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.45%) DB2
7 4 (2.30%) MySQL
8 3 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.72%) Big Data
8 3 (1.72%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.15%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.57%) Power BI
10 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.49%) Visual Studio
3 19 (10.92%) Git
4 16 (9.20%) JUnit
5 9 (5.17%) Selenium
6 7 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 7 (4.02%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.45%) GitLab
8 5 (2.87%) Eclipse RCP
8 5 (2.87%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (2.87%) JIRA
8 5 (2.87%) Maven
8 5 (2.87%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.87%) TestNG
8 5 (2.87%) webpack
9 3 (1.72%) Gradle
9 3 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.15%) Mockito
10 2 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (36.21%) Finance
2 49 (28.16%) Banking
3 43 (24.71%) Social Skills
4 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.87%) Legal
7 4 (2.30%) Games
8 3 (1.72%) Local Government
9 2 (1.15%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.15%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (37.36%) Senior
2 58 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 52 (29.89%) Developer
4 32 (18.39%) Java Developer
5 29 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (10.92%) Architect
7 13 (7.47%) Lead
7 13 (7.47%) Senior Architect
7 13 (7.47%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (5.75%) Senior Software Architect
8 10 (5.75%) Senior Systems Architect
8 10 (5.75%) Software Architect
8 10 (5.75%) Systems Architect
9 8 (4.60%) C++ Developer
9 8 (4.60%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Junior
10 7 (4.02%) C++/Java Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.14%) Spring
2 39 (22.41%) Spring Boot
3 33 (18.97%) CSS
3 33 (18.97%) HTML
4 31 (17.82%) React
5 22 (12.64%) REST
6 19 (10.92%) .NET
6 19 (10.92%) Kafka
7 13 (7.47%) AngularJS
8 12 (6.90%) .NET Framework
9 10 (5.75%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.17%) Middleware
10 9 (5.17%) OAuth
10 9 (5.17%) OAuth2
10 9 (5.17%) Playwright
10 9 (5.17%) RESTful
11 7 (4.02%) JWT
11 7 (4.02%) MFC
11 7 (4.02%) Redux
12 6 (3.45%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.47%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.32%) Data Structures
4 10 (5.75%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.87%) Hackathon
5 5 (2.87%) Learning Management System
5 5 (2.87%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.87%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.72%) Wiki
8 2 (1.15%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.24%) Linux
2 20 (11.49%) Windows
3 12 (6.90%) Unix
4 3 (1.72%) Android
5 2 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.57%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (56.32%) Software Engineering
2 94 (54.02%) Agile
3 59 (33.91%) Microservices
4 58 (33.33%) DevOps
5 55 (31.61%) CI/CD
6 50 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (24.14%) Test Automation
8 37 (21.26%) SDLC
9 36 (20.69%) Mentoring
10 25 (14.37%) Containerisation
10 25 (14.37%) Unit Testing
11 24 (13.79%) Software Testing
12 21 (12.07%) Scrum
13 20 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (11.49%) OO
14 19 (10.92%) TDD
15 18 (10.34%) Computer Science
16 17 (9.77%) Customer Experience
16 17 (9.77%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.46%) Python
2 52 (29.89%) SQL
3 45 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 36 (20.69%) C#
5 35 (20.11%) C++
6 19 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.20%) C
8 14 (8.05%) Rust
9 9 (5.17%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.60%) Go
11 7 (4.02%) PowerShell
11 7 (4.02%) Shell Script
12 6 (3.45%) JCL
13 5 (2.87%) Ada
13 5 (2.87%) Bash
13 5 (2.87%) VBA
14 4 (2.30%) Scala
15 3 (1.72%) ABAP
16 2 (1.15%) Groovy
17 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (17.24%) Degree
2 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.87%) PhD
5 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.57%) HND
6 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) ECSS
3 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.57%) SEPA
3 1 (0.57%) TARGET2
System Software
1 37 (21.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) NDS
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (29.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.02%) Terraform
3 5 (2.87%) CA Endevor
4 4 (2.30%) Grafana
5 2 (1.15%) Istio
6 1 (0.57%) Ansible
6 1 (0.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.57%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) Oracle
3 11 (6.32%) Google
4 6 (3.45%) IBM
5 5 (2.87%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.30%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.30%) Splunk
6 4 (2.30%) Sybase
6 4 (2.30%) UiPath
7 3 (1.72%) Databricks
7 3 (1.72%) ForgeRock
7 3 (1.72%) SAP
8 2 (1.15%) Curam
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco
9 1 (0.57%) Epicor
9 1 (0.57%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.57%) Planview
9 1 (0.57%) VMware