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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,970 603 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.47% 12.95% 13.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.56% 30.33% 31.08%
Number of salaries quoted 264 337 387
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,700 £39,510
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,970 £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 £96,539 £97,328 £80,500
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 3,748 1,988 2,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.07% 42.68% 44.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,106 1,550
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 £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,250 £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 13 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 13 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 +7 1,768 £55,000 -15.38% 49
Edinburgh -6 148 £66,500 -5.00% 27
Aberdeen -4 14 £38,500 -18.95% 2
Dundee -2 11 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Fife -4 9 £50,000 - 5
Scottish Borders +5 5 - -
Midlothian -2 3 - - 4
Renfrewshire -2 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -15 1 - - 21
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
1 481 (24.42%) Apache Spark
2 121 (6.14%) Apache
3 105 (5.33%) FileNet
4 32 (1.62%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.07%) GemFire
6 20 (1.02%) Camunda
7 16 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.61%) WebSphere
9 11 (0.56%) CICS
9 11 (0.56%) IIS
10 10 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.36%) Captiva
11 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.30%) Confluence
13 2 (0.10%) JBoss
13 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.051%) SAS
14 1 (0.051%) Tuxedo
14 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 949 (48.17%) AWS
2 170 (8.63%) Azure
3 154 (7.82%) GCP
4 128 (6.50%) Amazon S3
5 82 (4.16%) Serverless
6 78 (3.96%) Datadog
7 75 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
9 62 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (3.15%) GitHub
10 54 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
11 52 (2.64%) SaaS
12 51 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
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 (0.91%) DSL
2 17 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 14 (0.71%) Modbus
4 13 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.56%) WAN
6 10 (0.51%) Network Security
7 2 (0.10%) Internet
8 1 (0.051%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.051%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 541 (27.46%) NoSQL
2 393 (19.95%) Big Data
3 245 (12.44%) Hadoop
4 171 (8.68%) Elasticsearch
5 154 (7.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 120 (6.09%) MongoDB
7 117 (5.94%) Relational Database
8 85 (4.31%) Apache Hive
9 73 (3.71%) 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 31 (1.57%) SQL Server
16 30 (1.52%) Redis
17 29 (1.47%) DB2
18 23 (1.17%) Scylla
19 21 (1.07%) Hazelcast
20 20 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 221 (11.22%) JUnit
2 199 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.48%) Git
4 105 (5.33%) Jasmine
5 89 (4.52%) Cypress.io
6 77 (3.91%) Selenium
7 76 (3.86%) Maven
8 64 (3.25%) WebDriver
9 60 (3.05%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.05%) Protractor
10 56 (2.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 50 (2.54%) Mockito
12 40 (2.03%) GitLab
12 40 (2.03%) JIRA
13 31 (1.57%) CircleCI
13 31 (1.57%) Gradle
14 29 (1.47%) Cucumber
14 29 (1.47%) JMeter
15 21 (1.07%) Jaeger
16 20 (1.02%) Travis CI
General
1 1,714 (87.01%) Finance
2 1,706 (86.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,648 (83.65%) Law
4 760 (38.58%) Marketing
5 502 (25.48%) Legal
6 363 (18.43%) Banking
7 249 (12.64%) Investment Banking
8 193 (9.80%) Social Skills
9 178 (9.04%) Influencing Skills
10 142 (7.21%) Financial Institution
11 76 (3.86%) Private Banking
12 37 (1.88%) 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 (0.30%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.25%) Telecoms
19 4 (0.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,564 (79.39%) Software Engineer
2 826 (41.93%) Java Engineer
3 819 (41.57%) Java Software Engineer
4 521 (26.45%) Lead
5 492 (24.97%) Lead Software Engineer
6 305 (15.48%) Full Stack Engineer
7 303 (15.38%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 278 (14.11%) Lead Java Engineer
9 255 (12.94%) Big Data Engineer
9 255 (12.94%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 235 (11.93%) Senior
11 228 (11.57%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (11.57%) Scala Software Engineer
12 181 (9.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 172 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
13 172 (8.73%) AWS Software Engineer
14 165 (8.38%) Developer
15 138 (7.01%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 132 (6.70%) Engineering Manager
16 132 (6.70%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 733 (37.21%) Spring
2 447 (22.69%) React
3 400 (20.30%) AngularJS
4 376 (19.09%) Spring Boot
5 355 (18.02%) Kafka
6 260 (13.20%) J2EE
7 239 (12.13%) HTML
8 209 (10.61%) CSS
9 207 (10.51%) Hibernate
10 191 (9.70%) Node.js
11 171 (8.68%) JMS
12 163 (8.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 160 (8.12%) JSON
14 152 (7.72%) GraphQL
15 143 (7.26%) REST
16 139 (7.06%) jQuery
17 124 (6.29%) RESTful
18 104 (5.28%) Spring Integration
19 84 (4.26%) Web Services
20 80 (4.06%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 592 (30.05%) Cloud Native
2 577 (29.29%) Algorithms
3 243 (12.34%) Public Cloud
4 136 (6.90%) Data Structures
5 121 (6.14%) Onboarding
6 65 (3.30%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (3.25%) Reference Data
8 63 (3.20%) Product Ownership
9 60 (3.05%) Management Information System
10 44 (2.23%) Credit Risk
11 43 (2.18%) Legacy Code
12 41 (2.08%) Private Cloud
13 27 (1.37%) Market Risk
14 26 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (1.07%) Replication
17 14 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
18 12 (0.61%) IoT
19 11 (0.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 139 (7.06%) Linux
2 121 (6.14%) Unix
3 16 (0.81%) Windows
4 5 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.20%) AIX
5 4 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.051%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,806 (91.68%) Software Engineering
2 1,659 (84.21%) Agile
3 1,453 (73.76%) SDLC
4 1,400 (71.07%) CI/CD
5 1,293 (65.63%) Operational Stability
6 1,060 (53.81%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,053 (53.45%) Machine Learning
8 834 (42.34%) Community of Practice
9 587 (29.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 576 (29.24%) Visualisation
11 530 (26.90%) Risk Management
12 473 (24.01%) Microservices
13 459 (23.30%) Decision-Making
14 359 (18.22%) Full Stack Development
15 339 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
16 320 (16.24%) Continuous Delivery
17 281 (14.26%) Architectural Design
18 259 (13.15%) Information Architecture
19 244 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
20 240 (12.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 994 (50.46%) SQL
2 610 (30.96%) Python
3 333 (16.90%) Scala
4 251 (12.74%) JavaScript
5 174 (8.83%) TypeScript
6 132 (6.70%) PL/SQL
7 90 (4.57%) C#
8 64 (3.25%) Go
9 54 (2.74%) C++
10 46 (2.34%) C
11 42 (2.13%) Groovy
12 33 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 32 (1.62%) Bash
13 32 (1.62%) Ruby
14 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 21 (1.07%) Rust
16 11 (0.56%) COBOL
16 11 (0.56%) JCL
17 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 88 (4.47%) Degree
2 47 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.23%) Master's Degree
4 23 (1.17%) 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 1 (0.051%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.051%) OCP
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.23%) SLA
2 36 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 30 (1.52%) QA
4 17 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.36%) GDPR
6 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 94 (4.77%) Docker
2 72 (3.65%) HDFS
3 11 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
3 11 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 343 (17.41%) Kubernetes
2 230 (11.68%) Terraform
3 138 (7.01%) 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
10 1 (0.051%) Rancher
Vendors
1 401 (20.36%) Oracle
2 150 (7.61%) Splunk
3 146 (7.41%) Databricks
4 130 (6.60%) Dynatrace
5 73 (3.71%) Google
6 72 (3.65%) Cloudera
7 57 (2.89%) Alteryx
8 56 (2.84%) Informatica
9 27 (1.37%) Pega
10 24 (1.22%) Dell
11 23 (1.17%) Sybase
12 20 (1.02%) Microsoft
13 18 (0.91%) Cognos
13 18 (0.91%) IBM
13 18 (0.91%) SaltStack
14 12 (0.61%) VMware
15 11 (0.56%) SAP
15 11 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.46%) Twitter