Java Developer Jobs in Scotland

Java Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Developer salary in Scotland is £50,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 116 107
Rank change year-on-year -97 -9 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 69 105 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.01% 2.45% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 2.73% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 56 93 112
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,813 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,250
UK median annual salary £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Scotland

Java Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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 -107 47 £47,500 -28.03% 11
Edinburgh +6 12 £61,000 -12.86% 1
Dundee - 7 £45,000 -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (57.97%) Spring
3 37 (53.62%) Agile
4 30 (43.48%) Finance
5 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
6 19 (27.54%) AWS
6 19 (27.54%) AngularJS
6 19 (27.54%) Jenkins
7 18 (26.09%) Spring Boot
7 18 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (23.19%) Law
8 16 (23.19%) TDD
9 15 (21.74%) SDLC
9 15 (21.74%) Docker
9 15 (21.74%) Full Stack Development
10 14 (20.29%) Microservices
10 14 (20.29%) Banking
10 14 (20.29%) OOP
11 13 (18.84%) Unix
11 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
11 13 (18.84%) REST
12 12 (17.39%) React
13 11 (15.94%) GitLab
13 11 (15.94%) SOLID
13 11 (15.94%) CircleCI
13 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
13 11 (15.94%) SQL
13 11 (15.94%) Shell Script
13 11 (15.94%) Scrum

Java Developer 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 5 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.35%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) AWS
2 7 (10.14%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.80%) Serverless
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.25%) Apache Hive
2 5 (7.25%) Big Data
3 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.94%) CircleCI
2 11 (15.94%) GitLab
3 9 (13.04%) Maven
4 4 (5.80%) Git
5 2 (2.90%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.90%) JUnit
5 2 (2.90%) Mockito
6 1 (1.45%) JHipster
General
1 30 (43.48%) Finance
2 18 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (23.19%) Law
4 14 (20.29%) Banking
5 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
6 5 (7.25%) Private Banking
7 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.35%) Advertising
9 2 (2.90%) Front Office
10 1 (1.45%) Games
10 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (57.97%) Spring
2 19 (27.54%) AngularJS
3 18 (26.09%) Spring Boot
4 13 (18.84%) REST
5 12 (17.39%) React
6 10 (14.49%) JSON
7 8 (11.59%) CSS
7 8 (11.59%) HTML
8 7 (10.14%) Web Services
9 6 (8.70%) Kafka
9 6 (8.70%) SOAP
10 5 (7.25%) Java EE
10 5 (7.25%) OAuth
11 4 (5.80%) OpenID
11 4 (5.80%) XML
12 3 (4.35%) JSP
12 3 (4.35%) Struts
13 2 (2.90%) Hibernate
13 2 (2.90%) HTML5
13 2 (2.90%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.35%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (4.35%) IoT
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Unix
2 4 (5.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (53.62%) Agile
2 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
3 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (23.19%) TDD
5 15 (21.74%) Full Stack Development
5 15 (21.74%) SDLC
6 14 (20.29%) Microservices
6 14 (20.29%) OOP
7 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
8 11 (15.94%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (15.94%) Scrum
8 11 (15.94%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.94%) SOLID
9 8 (11.59%) Computer Science
9 8 (11.59%) DevOps
9 8 (11.59%) Machine Learning
10 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.14%) Fintech
11 6 (8.70%) Design Patterns
11 6 (8.70%) OO
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
2 11 (15.94%) Shell Script
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 4 (5.80%) Groovy
4 3 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 15 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle
2 5 (7.25%) ForgeRock
3 2 (2.90%) Sybase
4 1 (1.45%) Apple