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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -32 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 238 361 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.55% 12.53% 15.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.57% 33.36% 33.62%
Number of salaries quoted 102 216 452
10th Percentile £33,875 £33,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £65,351 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.37% +4.56% +20.19%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,346 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £87,450
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,735
% change year-on-year +6.67% +6.03% +3.26%

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 1,216 1,082 2,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.25% 37.54% 47.51%
Number of salaries quoted 608 767 1,592
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +14.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,375 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,879 £65,000 £62,833
% change year-on-year -3.26% +3.45% +4.72%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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
Edinburgh -10 98 £50,000 -28.57% 12
Glasgow -11 63 £56,500 -8.13% 15
West Lothian -18 36 - - 1
Dundee +5 9 £45,000 -40.00%
Fife -26 3 - -
Renfrewshire - 3 - -
Moray -27 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 - -
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 10 (4.20%) WildFly
2 4 (1.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (27.73%) AWS
2 37 (15.55%) Azure
3 24 (10.08%) GCP
4 10 (4.20%) GitHub
5 8 (3.36%) OpenShift
5 8 (3.36%) SaaS
6 5 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.26%) Kong
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.42%) Firebase
9 1 (0.42%) Serverless
9 1 (0.42%) Stripe
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.81%) Broadband
2 4 (1.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.84%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.84%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) RS-232
3 2 (0.84%) RS-485
4 1 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.62%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.52%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.68%) MySQL
7 4 (1.68%) SQLite
8 3 (1.26%) DB2
8 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.42%) Informix
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (17.65%) JIRA
2 19 (7.98%) Selenium
3 12 (5.04%) Git
3 12 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.20%) Maven
5 5 (2.10%) GitLab
6 4 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.26%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.42%) Gradle
9 1 (0.42%) JMeter
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
General
1 46 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.24%) Finance
4 20 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.14%) Banking
6 9 (3.78%) Games
7 6 (2.52%) Advertising
7 6 (2.52%) Legal
7 6 (2.52%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.10%) Electronics
8 5 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Aviation
10 2 (0.84%) Front Office
10 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (47.90%) Developer
2 71 (29.83%) Senior
3 55 (23.11%) Senior Developer
4 52 (21.85%) Software Engineer
5 41 (17.23%) Java Developer
6 26 (10.92%) Java Engineer
7 20 (8.40%) Lead
8 15 (6.30%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (6.30%) Software Developer
9 14 (5.88%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.94%) Junior
12 7 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (2.10%) Lead Developer
13 5 (2.10%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (2.10%) Senior Test Engineer
13 5 (2.10%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.45%) Spring
2 76 (31.93%) Spring Boot
3 43 (18.07%) React
4 19 (7.98%) CSS
4 19 (7.98%) HTML
5 18 (7.56%) AngularJS
5 18 (7.56%) REST
6 14 (5.88%) Playwright
6 14 (5.88%) SOAP
7 12 (5.04%) Kafka
8 11 (4.62%) Node.js
8 11 (4.62%) RESTful
9 8 (3.36%) Java EE
9 8 (3.36%) OpenJDK
10 6 (2.52%) Web Services
11 5 (2.10%) Beautiful Soup
11 5 (2.10%) NumPy
11 5 (2.10%) Pandas
11 5 (2.10%) Scrapy
11 5 (2.10%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.62%) IoT
2 8 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.52%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.10%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.26%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.26%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) PMI
9 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.24%) Linux
2 16 (6.72%) Android
3 11 (4.62%) Unix
4 7 (2.94%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.10%) Windows
6 2 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.84%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (47.90%) Agile
2 99 (41.60%) Software Engineering
3 74 (31.09%) DevOps
4 71 (29.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (25.63%) Scrum
7 49 (20.59%) CI/CD
8 48 (20.17%) Test Automation
9 44 (18.49%) Roadmaps
10 40 (16.81%) Technology Roadmap
11 39 (16.39%) Kanban
11 39 (16.39%) Microservices
12 38 (15.97%) Analytical Thinking
12 38 (15.97%) Process Improvement
13 31 (13.03%) Mentoring
14 28 (11.76%) Software Testing
15 23 (9.66%) TDD
16 21 (8.82%) SDLC
17 18 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
17 18 (7.56%) OO
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.75%) Python
2 43 (18.07%) JavaScript
3 41 (17.23%) SQL
4 23 (9.66%) C++
5 21 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.14%) Kotlin
7 12 (5.04%) C
8 11 (4.62%) C#
8 11 (4.62%) Rust
9 7 (2.94%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.10%) VB
11 4 (1.68%) Groovy
12 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.26%) VBScript
13 2 (0.84%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.84%) Elixir
13 2 (0.84%) Perl
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (9.24%) Degree
2 6 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.68%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.84%) ACCA
4 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.40%) QA
2 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.42%) SEPA
3 1 (0.42%) TARGET2
System Software
1 32 (13.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.84%) Firmware
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.84%) Consul
4 2 (0.84%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Netcool
Vendors
1 21 (8.82%) Oracle
2 7 (2.94%) Google
3 4 (1.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.68%) Sybase
4 2 (0.84%) CyberTech
4 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
4 2 (0.84%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.42%) Planview