Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 180 205
Rank change year-on-year +154 +25 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 827 42 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.33% 0.92% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.72% 1.02% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 26 9 25
10th Percentile - £58,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +47.37%
75th Percentile £66,250 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,934 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,500 4,102 5,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.88% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,220 3,006
10th Percentile £27,975 £31,363 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,234 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +96 799 £44,500 -34.07% 5
Edinburgh +54 26 £50,000 -37.73% 7
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 827 (100.00%) Java
2 819 (99.03%) Software Engineering
3 808 (97.70%) Finance
4 806 (97.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 796 (96.25%) Law
6 785 (94.92%) Agile
7 706 (85.37%) SDLC
8 682 (82.47%) Operational Stability
9 667 (80.65%) CI/CD
10 587 (70.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 583 (70.50%) Machine Learning
12 471 (56.95%) SQL
13 448 (54.17%) Spring
14 412 (49.82%) Community of Practice
15 336 (40.63%) AWS
16 304 (36.76%) Marketing
17 296 (35.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 294 (35.55%) Visualisation
19 287 (34.70%) Risk Management
20 281 (33.98%) React
21 270 (32.65%) Algorithms
22 267 (32.29%) Cloud Native
23 263 (31.80%) AngularJS
24 260 (31.44%) Legal
25 258 (31.20%) Full Stack Development
26 242 (29.26%) NoSQL
27 233 (28.17%) Banking
28 217 (26.24%) Decision-Making
29 205 (24.79%) Kafka
30 204 (24.67%) Microservices

Java Engineer Skill Set
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
1 192 (23.22%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.08%) FileNet
3 32 (3.87%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.78%) Apache
5 21 (2.54%) GemFire
6 16 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.24%) JBoss
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 336 (40.63%) AWS
2 48 (5.80%) GCP
3 47 (5.68%) Azure
4 42 (5.08%) Amazon S3
4 42 (5.08%) BlazeMeter
5 30 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (3.51%) GitHub
7 19 (2.30%) Serverless
8 15 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (0.48%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (0.48%) SaaS
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.12%) Datadog
12 1 (0.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.06%) Kerberos
2 10 (1.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (29.26%) NoSQL
2 176 (21.28%) Big Data
3 96 (11.61%) Apache Cassandra
4 90 (10.88%) MongoDB
5 85 (10.28%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (10.04%) Hadoop
7 39 (4.72%) Relational Database
8 38 (4.59%) CockroachDB
9 29 (3.51%) Apache Hive
10 21 (2.54%) Hazelcast
11 17 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (1.93%) HBase
13 14 (1.69%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
17 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
18 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 125 (15.11%) JUnit
2 85 (10.28%) Cypress.io
3 81 (9.79%) Jasmine
4 64 (7.74%) Selenium
5 60 (7.26%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (7.26%) Protractor
5 60 (7.26%) WebDriver
6 49 (5.93%) Jenkins
7 27 (3.26%) JMeter
8 25 (3.02%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.78%) Maven
10 22 (2.66%) Mockito
11 21 (2.54%) Jaeger
12 19 (2.30%) Git
13 10 (1.21%) Gradle
14 9 (1.09%) JIRA
15 4 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
16 2 (0.24%) IntelliJ
17 1 (0.12%) Spock
General
1 808 (97.70%) Finance
2 806 (97.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 796 (96.25%) Law
4 304 (36.76%) Marketing
5 260 (31.44%) Legal
6 233 (28.17%) Banking
7 172 (20.80%) Investment Banking
8 96 (11.61%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (7.13%) Social Skills
10 57 (6.89%) Private Banking
11 22 (2.66%) Prime Brokerage
12 16 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.36%) Games
16 1 (0.12%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (54.17%) Spring
2 281 (33.98%) React
3 263 (31.80%) AngularJS
4 205 (24.79%) Kafka
5 202 (24.43%) Spring Boot
6 177 (21.40%) J2EE
7 140 (16.93%) HTML
8 123 (14.87%) Hibernate
9 120 (14.51%) JMS
10 112 (13.54%) Node.js
10 112 (13.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 109 (13.18%) CSS
12 92 (11.12%) JSON
13 82 (9.92%) REST
14 81 (9.79%) jQuery
15 63 (7.62%) GraphQL
16 61 (7.38%) Web Services
17 60 (7.26%) Jest
17 60 (7.26%) RESTful
18 57 (6.89%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 270 (32.65%) Algorithms
2 267 (32.29%) Cloud Native
3 104 (12.58%) Public Cloud
4 73 (8.83%) Data Structures
5 70 (8.46%) Onboarding
6 48 (5.80%) Reference Data
7 43 (5.20%) Legacy Code
8 30 (3.63%) Private Cloud
9 27 (3.26%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.54%) Replication
11 14 (1.69%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.12%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.12%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.72%) Unix
2 10 (1.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (99.03%) Software Engineering
2 785 (94.92%) Agile
3 706 (85.37%) SDLC
4 682 (82.47%) Operational Stability
5 667 (80.65%) CI/CD
6 587 (70.98%) Artificial Intelligence
7 583 (70.50%) Machine Learning
8 412 (49.82%) Community of Practice
9 296 (35.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 294 (35.55%) Visualisation
11 287 (34.70%) Risk Management
12 258 (31.20%) Full Stack Development
13 217 (26.24%) Decision-Making
14 204 (24.67%) Microservices
15 134 (16.20%) Architectural Design
16 119 (14.39%) Performance Tuning
17 116 (14.03%) Information Architecture
18 113 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
18 113 (13.66%) TDD
19 98 (11.85%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 827 (100.00%) Java
2 471 (56.95%) SQL
3 139 (16.81%) Scala
4 107 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 95 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 76 (9.19%) Python
7 22 (2.66%) Groovy
8 7 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.24%) C#
9 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.24%) Ruby
9 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (2.78%) Degree
2 6 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
3 5 (0.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (0.60%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.14%) SLA
2 14 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 23 (2.78%) Docker
2 16 (1.93%) HDFS
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 89 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.62%) Terraform
3 44 (5.32%) Grafana
4 22 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.54%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.54%) Kibana
5 21 (2.54%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.85%) Graphite
Vendors
1 166 (20.07%) Oracle
2 54 (6.53%) Databricks
3 47 (5.68%) Splunk
4 43 (5.20%) Dynatrace
5 26 (3.14%) Google
6 18 (2.18%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.93%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.09%) TOWER Software
9 6 (0.73%) IBM
10 4 (0.48%) Confluent