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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,910 523 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.89% 11.96% 14.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.54% 29.17% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 257 305 399
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £53,970 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,889 £97,328 £80,000
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 3,706 1,793 2,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 54.12% 40.99% 44.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 1,014 1,581
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +15.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,375 £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 31 May 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 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 +6 1,727 £55,000 -15.38% 43
Edinburgh -5 128 £61,000 -18.67% 30
Dundee -1 14 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Aberdeen -2 14 £38,500 -18.95% 1
Fife -2 9 £50,000 - 4
Scottish Borders +4 4 - -
Midlothian - 3 - - 7
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -12 1 - - 27
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
1 458 (23.98%) Apache Spark
2 117 (6.13%) Apache
3 102 (5.34%) FileNet
4 32 (1.68%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.10%) GemFire
6 19 (0.99%) Camunda
7 14 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.58%) CICS
9 10 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.47%) IIS
10 9 (0.47%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.21%) Captiva
13 3 (0.16%) WildFly
14 2 (0.10%) Confluence
15 1 (0.052%) SAS
15 1 (0.052%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.21%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 913 (47.80%) AWS
2 160 (8.38%) Azure
3 133 (6.96%) GCP
4 120 (6.28%) Amazon S3
5 77 (4.03%) Datadog
5 77 (4.03%) Serverless
6 69 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
9 62 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (3.04%) GitHub
11 54 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
12 53 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (2.62%) Amazon EMR
14 46 (2.41%) BlazeMeter
15 39 (2.04%) SaaS
16 15 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.73%) Google Docs
17 14 (0.73%) Lucidchart
17 14 (0.73%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.89%) DSL
1 17 (0.89%) Kerberos
2 13 (0.68%) Modbus
3 12 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.58%) Network Security
5 9 (0.47%) WAN
6 2 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.052%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.052%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 530 (27.75%) NoSQL
2 366 (19.16%) Big Data
3 228 (11.94%) Hadoop
4 159 (8.32%) Elasticsearch
5 153 (8.01%) Apache Cassandra
6 115 (6.02%) MongoDB
7 110 (5.76%) Relational Database
8 81 (4.24%) Apache Hive
9 69 (3.61%) HBase
10 61 (3.19%) Data Lake
11 50 (2.62%) Electronic Patient Records
12 39 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (1.99%) CockroachDB
14 34 (1.78%) MySQL
15 28 (1.47%) DB2
15 28 (1.47%) SQL Server
16 21 (1.10%) Hazelcast
17 20 (1.05%) Redis
18 17 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
18 17 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 217 (11.36%) JUnit
2 190 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 105 (5.50%) Jasmine
4 98 (5.13%) Git
5 88 (4.61%) Cypress.io
6 77 (4.03%) Selenium
7 75 (3.93%) Maven
8 64 (3.35%) WebDriver
9 60 (3.14%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.14%) Protractor
10 55 (2.88%) Bitbucket Server
11 50 (2.62%) Mockito
12 38 (1.99%) GitLab
13 32 (1.68%) JIRA
14 31 (1.62%) Gradle
15 30 (1.57%) CircleCI
16 29 (1.52%) Cucumber
16 29 (1.52%) JMeter
17 21 (1.10%) Jaeger
18 19 (0.99%) Travis CI
General
1 1,662 (87.02%) Finance
2 1,653 (86.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,608 (84.19%) Law
4 735 (38.48%) Marketing
5 492 (25.76%) Legal
6 341 (17.85%) Banking
7 246 (12.88%) Investment Banking
8 184 (9.63%) Social Skills
9 173 (9.06%) Influencing Skills
10 137 (7.17%) Financial Institution
11 70 (3.66%) Private Banking
12 35 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.15%) Prime Brokerage
14 15 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.79%) Publishing
15 10 (0.52%) Games
16 7 (0.37%) Public Sector
17 6 (0.31%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.26%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,504 (78.74%) Software Engineer
2 816 (42.72%) Java Engineer
3 806 (42.20%) Java Software Engineer
4 509 (26.65%) Lead
5 478 (25.03%) Lead Software Engineer
6 298 (15.60%) Full Stack Engineer
7 296 (15.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 273 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
9 247 (12.93%) Big Data Engineer
9 247 (12.93%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 223 (11.68%) Scala Engineer
10 223 (11.68%) Scala Software Engineer
11 222 (11.62%) Senior
12 170 (8.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 167 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
13 167 (8.74%) AWS Software Engineer
13 167 (8.74%) Developer
14 138 (7.23%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 129 (6.75%) Engineering Manager
15 129 (6.75%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (37.28%) Spring
2 436 (22.83%) React
3 390 (20.42%) AngularJS
4 362 (18.95%) Spring Boot
5 336 (17.59%) Kafka
6 257 (13.46%) J2EE
7 235 (12.30%) HTML
8 205 (10.73%) CSS
9 203 (10.63%) Hibernate
10 188 (9.84%) Node.js
11 171 (8.95%) JMS
12 163 (8.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 154 (8.06%) JSON
14 142 (7.43%) GraphQL
15 138 (7.23%) jQuery
16 134 (7.02%) REST
17 115 (6.02%) RESTful
18 104 (5.45%) Spring Integration
19 78 (4.08%) Web Services
20 76 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 578 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 558 (29.21%) Algorithms
3 230 (12.04%) Public Cloud
4 126 (6.60%) Data Structures
5 121 (6.34%) Onboarding
6 65 (3.40%) Distributed Applications
7 62 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 62 (3.25%) Reference Data
8 58 (3.04%) Management Information System
9 44 (2.30%) Credit Risk
10 42 (2.20%) Legacy Code
11 36 (1.88%) Private Cloud
12 27 (1.41%) Market Risk
13 23 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.10%) Replication
15 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.68%) IoT
17 11 (0.58%) Mainframe
17 11 (0.58%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.96%) Linux
2 117 (6.13%) Unix
3 15 (0.79%) Windows
4 5 (0.26%) Android
5 4 (0.21%) AIX
6 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.052%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,743 (91.26%) Software Engineering
2 1,606 (84.08%) Agile
3 1,415 (74.08%) SDLC
4 1,372 (71.83%) CI/CD
5 1,258 (65.86%) Operational Stability
6 1,037 (54.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,026 (53.72%) Machine Learning
8 819 (42.88%) Community of Practice
9 577 (30.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 565 (29.58%) Visualisation
11 522 (27.33%) Risk Management
12 453 (23.72%) Microservices
13 444 (23.25%) Decision-Making
14 354 (18.53%) Full Stack Development
15 315 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
16 308 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
17 275 (14.40%) Architectural Design
18 253 (13.25%) Information Architecture
19 239 (12.51%) Performance Tuning
20 238 (12.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 958 (50.16%) SQL
2 577 (30.21%) Python
3 314 (16.44%) Scala
4 244 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 171 (8.95%) TypeScript
6 128 (6.70%) PL/SQL
7 83 (4.35%) C#
8 49 (2.57%) C++
9 46 (2.41%) Go
10 44 (2.30%) C
11 42 (2.20%) Groovy
12 33 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 28 (1.47%) Ruby
14 23 (1.20%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.05%) Rust
16 18 (0.94%) Bash
17 11 (0.58%) COBOL
17 11 (0.58%) JCL
18 10 (0.52%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (4.55%) Degree
2 48 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (2.36%) Master's Degree
4 19 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 16 (0.84%) Security Cleared
6 14 (0.73%) PhD
7 7 (0.37%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.21%) ISEB
8 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.10%) ACCA
9 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.052%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.052%) OCP
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.20%) SLA
2 35 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 29 (1.52%) QA
4 16 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.21%) GDPR
6 2 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 87 (4.55%) Docker
2 69 (3.61%) HDFS
3 11 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
4 9 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 324 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 224 (11.73%) Terraform
3 135 (7.07%) Grafana
4 39 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.10%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.10%) Kibana
6 21 (1.10%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.37%) Graphite
8 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.16%) Ansible
9 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 385 (20.16%) Oracle
2 148 (7.75%) Splunk
3 140 (7.33%) Databricks
4 128 (6.70%) Dynatrace
5 69 (3.61%) Cloudera
6 60 (3.14%) Google
7 56 (2.93%) Alteryx
8 55 (2.88%) Informatica
9 23 (1.20%) Pega
9 23 (1.20%) Sybase
10 18 (0.94%) SaltStack
11 17 (0.89%) Cognos
11 17 (0.89%) Microsoft
12 14 (0.73%) Dell
13 10 (0.52%) IBM
13 10 (0.52%) VMware
14 9 (0.47%) TOWER Software
14 9 (0.47%) Twitter
15 8 (0.42%) SAP
15 8 (0.42%) ServiceNow