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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,966 597 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.28% 13.06% 14.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.57% 30.46% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 260 322 386
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,228 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,732 £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 3,740 1,960 2,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.70% 42.89% 44.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 1,081 1,551
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £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 18 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 18 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 +9 1,769 £55,000 -15.38% 48
Edinburgh -6 143 £66,500 -5.00% 30
Aberdeen -3 14 £38,500 -18.95% 2
Dundee -2 11 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Fife -2 9 £50,000 - 5
Scottish Borders +5 5 - -
Midlothian -1 3 - - 11
Renfrewshire -2 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -15 1 - - 23
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
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
1 480 (24.42%) Apache Spark
2 121 (6.15%) Apache
3 104 (5.29%) FileNet
4 32 (1.63%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.07%) GemFire
6 20 (1.02%) Camunda
7 16 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.56%) CICS
8 11 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.51%) IIS
9 10 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.31%) Captiva
11 6 (0.31%) Confluence
12 2 (0.10%) JBoss
12 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.051%) SAS
13 1 (0.051%) Tuxedo
13 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 947 (48.17%) AWS
2 168 (8.55%) Azure
3 152 (7.73%) GCP
4 128 (6.51%) Amazon S3
5 82 (4.17%) Serverless
6 78 (3.97%) Datadog
7 75 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
9 62 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (3.10%) GitHub
11 54 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 54 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (2.59%) SaaS
13 48 (2.44%) BlazeMeter
14 23 (1.17%) Google Docs
14 23 (1.17%) Lucidchart
14 23 (1.17%) Miro
14 23 (1.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.92%) DSL
2 17 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 13 (0.66%) Modbus
4 12 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.51%) Network Security
5 10 (0.51%) WAN
6 2 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.051%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.051%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 539 (27.42%) NoSQL
2 391 (19.89%) Big Data
3 244 (12.41%) Hadoop
4 171 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
5 153 (7.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 120 (6.10%) MongoDB
7 117 (5.95%) Relational Database
8 85 (4.32%) Apache Hive
9 72 (3.66%) HBase
10 62 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 51 (2.59%) Electronic Patient Records
12 39 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (1.93%) CockroachDB
14 34 (1.73%) MySQL
15 30 (1.53%) Redis
15 30 (1.53%) SQL Server
16 29 (1.48%) DB2
17 23 (1.17%) Scylla
18 21 (1.07%) Hazelcast
19 20 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 220 (11.19%) JUnit
2 199 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.49%) Git
4 105 (5.34%) Jasmine
5 89 (4.53%) Cypress.io
6 78 (3.97%) Maven
7 77 (3.92%) Selenium
8 64 (3.26%) WebDriver
9 60 (3.05%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.05%) Protractor
10 56 (2.85%) Bitbucket Server
11 50 (2.54%) Mockito
12 39 (1.98%) GitLab
13 38 (1.93%) JIRA
14 31 (1.58%) CircleCI
14 31 (1.58%) Gradle
15 29 (1.48%) Cucumber
15 29 (1.48%) JMeter
16 21 (1.07%) Jaeger
17 20 (1.02%) Travis CI
General
1 1,712 (87.08%) Finance
2 1,705 (86.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,648 (83.83%) Law
4 760 (38.66%) Marketing
5 501 (25.48%) Legal
6 360 (18.31%) Banking
7 249 (12.67%) Investment Banking
8 194 (9.87%) Social Skills
9 178 (9.05%) Influencing Skills
10 142 (7.22%) Financial Institution
11 76 (3.87%) Private Banking
12 36 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.12%) Prime Brokerage
14 17 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.76%) Publishing
16 10 (0.51%) Games
16 10 (0.51%) Public Sector
17 6 (0.31%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.25%) Telecoms
19 4 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,559 (79.30%) Software Engineer
2 827 (42.07%) Java Engineer
3 819 (41.66%) Java Software Engineer
4 521 (26.50%) Lead
5 492 (25.03%) Lead Software Engineer
6 305 (15.51%) Full Stack Engineer
7 303 (15.41%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 278 (14.14%) Lead Java Engineer
9 255 (12.97%) Big Data Engineer
9 255 (12.97%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 233 (11.85%) Senior
11 228 (11.60%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (11.60%) Scala Software Engineer
12 179 (9.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 172 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
13 172 (8.75%) AWS Software Engineer
14 166 (8.44%) Developer
15 138 (7.02%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 132 (6.71%) Engineering Manager
16 132 (6.71%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 733 (37.28%) Spring
2 447 (22.74%) React
3 400 (20.35%) AngularJS
4 374 (19.02%) Spring Boot
5 353 (17.96%) Kafka
6 260 (13.22%) J2EE
7 238 (12.11%) HTML
8 208 (10.58%) CSS
9 207 (10.53%) Hibernate
10 193 (9.82%) Node.js
11 171 (8.70%) JMS
12 163 (8.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 160 (8.14%) JSON
14 152 (7.73%) GraphQL
15 143 (7.27%) REST
16 139 (7.07%) jQuery
17 123 (6.26%) RESTful
18 104 (5.29%) Spring Integration
19 83 (4.22%) Web Services
20 80 (4.07%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 591 (30.06%) Cloud Native
2 577 (29.35%) Algorithms
3 242 (12.31%) Public Cloud
4 136 (6.92%) Data Structures
5 121 (6.15%) Onboarding
6 65 (3.31%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (3.26%) Reference Data
8 62 (3.15%) Product Ownership
9 60 (3.05%) Management Information System
10 44 (2.24%) Credit Risk
11 43 (2.19%) Legacy Code
12 40 (2.03%) Private Cloud
13 27 (1.37%) Market Risk
14 24 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (1.07%) Replication
17 16 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
19 12 (0.61%) IoT
20 11 (0.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 136 (6.92%) Linux
2 120 (6.10%) Unix
3 15 (0.76%) Windows
4 4 (0.20%) AIX
4 4 (0.20%) Android
4 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.051%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,801 (91.61%) Software Engineering
2 1,658 (84.33%) Agile
3 1,452 (73.86%) SDLC
4 1,400 (71.21%) CI/CD
5 1,293 (65.77%) Operational Stability
6 1,060 (53.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,052 (53.51%) Machine Learning
8 834 (42.42%) Community of Practice
9 587 (29.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 576 (29.30%) Visualisation
11 530 (26.96%) Risk Management
12 471 (23.96%) Microservices
13 459 (23.35%) Decision-Making
14 358 (18.21%) Full Stack Development
15 338 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
16 319 (16.23%) Continuous Delivery
17 281 (14.29%) Architectural Design
18 259 (13.17%) Information Architecture
19 244 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
20 240 (12.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 989 (50.31%) SQL
2 609 (30.98%) Python
3 332 (16.89%) Scala
4 251 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 174 (8.85%) TypeScript
6 132 (6.71%) PL/SQL
7 89 (4.53%) C#
8 63 (3.20%) Go
9 53 (2.70%) C++
10 46 (2.34%) C
11 42 (2.14%) Groovy
12 33 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 32 (1.63%) Ruby
14 31 (1.58%) Bash
15 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 21 (1.07%) Rust
17 11 (0.56%) COBOL
17 11 (0.56%) JCL
18 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (4.58%) Degree
2 47 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.24%) Master's Degree
4 22 (1.12%) Security Cleared
5 20 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.76%) PhD
7 12 (0.61%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.20%) ISEB
8 4 (0.20%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.10%) ACCA
9 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.051%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.051%) OCP
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.24%) SLA
2 36 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 32 (1.63%) QA
4 17 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.31%) GDPR
6 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (4.68%) Docker
2 72 (3.66%) HDFS
3 11 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
4 10 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 341 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 230 (11.70%) Terraform
3 138 (7.02%) Grafana
4 40 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.07%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.07%) Kibana
6 21 (1.07%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.36%) Graphite
8 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Ansible
9 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 399 (20.30%) Oracle
2 150 (7.63%) Splunk
3 146 (7.43%) Databricks
4 130 (6.61%) Dynatrace
5 72 (3.66%) Cloudera
5 72 (3.66%) Google
6 57 (2.90%) Alteryx
7 56 (2.85%) Informatica
8 26 (1.32%) Pega
9 23 (1.17%) Dell
9 23 (1.17%) Sybase
10 19 (0.97%) Microsoft
11 18 (0.92%) Cognos
11 18 (0.92%) SaltStack
12 16 (0.81%) IBM
13 11 (0.56%) VMware
14 10 (0.51%) SAP
14 10 (0.51%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
15 9 (0.46%) Twitter