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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 163 206
Rank change year-on-year +137 +43 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 807 45 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.80% 1.03% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.16% 1.16% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 29 8 28
10th Percentile £31,800 £58,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £60,625 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +47.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £74,187 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%

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 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +87 777 £24,000 -64.44% 4
Edinburgh +44 28 £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 1 June 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.

1 807 (100.00%) Java
2 796 (98.64%) Software Engineering
3 783 (97.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 782 (96.90%) Finance
5 772 (95.66%) Law
6 758 (93.93%) Agile
7 682 (84.51%) SDLC
8 660 (81.78%) Operational Stability
9 649 (80.42%) CI/CD
10 572 (70.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 568 (70.38%) Machine Learning
12 453 (56.13%) SQL
13 429 (53.16%) Spring
14 403 (49.94%) Community of Practice
15 318 (39.41%) AWS
16 291 (36.06%) Marketing
17 289 (35.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 287 (35.56%) Visualisation
19 282 (34.94%) Risk Management
20 272 (33.71%) React
21 263 (32.59%) Algorithms
22 259 (32.09%) Cloud Native
23 255 (31.60%) Legal
24 249 (30.86%) AngularJS
25 246 (30.48%) Full Stack Development
26 239 (29.62%) NoSQL
27 223 (27.63%) Banking
28 208 (25.77%) Decision-Making
29 200 (24.78%) Kafka
30 196 (24.29%) 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
1 186 (23.05%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.20%) FileNet
3 32 (3.97%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.85%) Apache
5 21 (2.60%) GemFire
6 14 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 318 (39.41%) AWS
2 42 (5.20%) Amazon S3
2 42 (5.20%) Azure
2 42 (5.20%) BlazeMeter
2 42 (5.20%) GCP
3 28 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
4 27 (3.35%) GitHub
5 19 (2.35%) Serverless
6 15 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.36%) Amazon EMR
8 11 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.25%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (0.25%) SaaS
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.12%) Datadog
10 1 (0.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.11%) Kerberos
2 11 (1.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (29.62%) NoSQL
2 172 (21.31%) Big Data
3 96 (11.90%) Apache Cassandra
4 85 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 82 (10.16%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (9.79%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.71%) CockroachDB
8 35 (4.34%) Relational Database
9 25 (3.10%) Apache Hive
10 21 (2.60%) Hazelcast
11 17 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.73%) HBase
13 12 (1.49%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
17 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
18 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 125 (15.49%) JUnit
2 85 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 81 (10.04%) Jasmine
4 63 (7.81%) Selenium
5 60 (7.43%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (7.43%) Protractor
5 60 (7.43%) WebDriver
6 45 (5.58%) Jenkins
7 27 (3.35%) JMeter
8 26 (3.22%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.73%) Maven
9 22 (2.73%) Mockito
10 21 (2.60%) Jaeger
11 18 (2.23%) Git
12 11 (1.36%) Gradle
13 9 (1.12%) JIRA
14 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
15 1 (0.12%) Spock
General
1 783 (97.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 782 (96.90%) Finance
3 772 (95.66%) Law
4 291 (36.06%) Marketing
5 255 (31.60%) Legal
6 223 (27.63%) Banking
7 168 (20.82%) Investment Banking
8 96 (11.90%) Influencing Skills
9 58 (7.19%) Social Skills
10 53 (6.57%) Private Banking
11 22 (2.73%) Prime Brokerage
12 14 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Games
15 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.12%) Advertising
16 1 (0.12%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (53.16%) Spring
2 272 (33.71%) React
3 249 (30.86%) AngularJS
4 200 (24.78%) Kafka
5 191 (23.67%) Spring Boot
6 173 (21.44%) J2EE
7 138 (17.10%) HTML
8 119 (14.75%) Hibernate
8 119 (14.75%) JMS
9 112 (13.88%) Node.js
9 112 (13.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 107 (13.26%) CSS
11 88 (10.90%) JSON
12 81 (10.04%) jQuery
13 76 (9.42%) REST
14 63 (7.81%) GraphQL
15 60 (7.43%) Jest
16 54 (6.69%) Web Services
17 52 (6.44%) RESTful
18 51 (6.32%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 263 (32.59%) Algorithms
2 259 (32.09%) Cloud Native
3 96 (11.90%) Public Cloud
4 71 (8.80%) Data Structures
5 69 (8.55%) Onboarding
6 44 (5.45%) Reference Data
7 41 (5.08%) Legacy Code
8 28 (3.47%) Private Cloud
9 27 (3.35%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.60%) Replication
11 14 (1.73%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.12%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.12%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.58%) Unix
2 12 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (98.64%) Software Engineering
2 758 (93.93%) Agile
3 682 (84.51%) SDLC
4 660 (81.78%) Operational Stability
5 649 (80.42%) CI/CD
6 572 (70.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 568 (70.38%) Machine Learning
8 403 (49.94%) Community of Practice
9 289 (35.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 287 (35.56%) Visualisation
11 282 (34.94%) Risk Management
12 246 (30.48%) Full Stack Development
13 208 (25.77%) Decision-Making
14 196 (24.29%) Microservices
15 128 (15.86%) Architectural Design
16 119 (14.75%) Performance Tuning
17 111 (13.75%) TDD
18 110 (13.63%) Information Architecture
18 110 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
19 96 (11.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 807 (100.00%) Java
2 453 (56.13%) SQL
3 139 (17.22%) Scala
4 107 (13.26%) JavaScript
5 93 (11.52%) TypeScript
6 72 (8.92%) Python
7 22 (2.73%) Groovy
8 5 (0.62%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.25%) C#
9 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (2.35%) Degree
2 6 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.37%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.37%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.97%) SLA
2 12 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.24%) QA
System Software
1 20 (2.48%) Docker
2 14 (1.73%) HDFS
3 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 85 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.56%) Terraform
3 44 (5.45%) Grafana
4 22 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.60%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.60%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.60%) Kibana
5 21 (2.60%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.87%) Graphite
Vendors
1 159 (19.70%) Oracle
2 52 (6.44%) Databricks
3 47 (5.82%) Splunk
4 43 (5.33%) Dynatrace
5 24 (2.97%) Google
6 18 (2.23%) SaltStack
7 14 (1.73%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.12%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.50%) Confluent
9 4 (0.50%) IBM