Java Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 170 227
Rank change year-on-year +143 +57 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 796 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.64% 0.87% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.00% 0.98% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 18
10th Percentile - £61,750 £51,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £73,250 £88,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in Scotland

Java Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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 +88 772 £104,357 +54.60% 3
Edinburgh +43 22 £50,000 - 5
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 796 (100.00%) Java
1 796 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 782 (98.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 777 (97.61%) Finance
4 771 (96.86%) Law
5 750 (94.22%) Agile
6 682 (85.68%) SDLC
7 660 (82.91%) Operational Stability
8 648 (81.41%) CI/CD
9 567 (71.23%) Machine Learning
9 567 (71.23%) Artificial Intelligence
10 451 (56.66%) SQL
11 423 (53.14%) Spring
12 403 (50.63%) Community of Practice
13 313 (39.32%) AWS
14 291 (36.56%) Marketing
15 289 (36.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 287 (36.06%) Visualisation
17 282 (35.43%) Risk Management
18 269 (33.79%) React
19 263 (33.04%) Algorithms
20 258 (32.41%) Cloud Native
21 255 (32.04%) Legal
22 247 (31.03%) AngularJS
23 243 (30.53%) Full Stack Development
24 238 (29.90%) NoSQL
25 223 (28.02%) Banking
26 208 (26.13%) Decision-Making
27 196 (24.62%) Kafka
28 192 (24.12%) Microservices

Java Software Engineer 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
1 186 (23.37%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.28%) FileNet
3 32 (4.02%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.89%) Apache
5 21 (2.64%) GemFire
6 14 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 313 (39.32%) AWS
2 42 (5.28%) Amazon S3
2 42 (5.28%) BlazeMeter
2 42 (5.28%) GCP
3 41 (5.15%) Azure
4 28 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (3.39%) GitHub
6 14 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (1.76%) Serverless
7 11 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (1.38%) Amazon EMR
7 11 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.25%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (0.25%) SaaS
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.13%) Datadog
9 1 (0.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.14%) Kerberos
2 11 (1.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (29.90%) NoSQL
2 172 (21.61%) Big Data
3 96 (12.06%) Apache Cassandra
4 84 (10.55%) MongoDB
5 81 (10.18%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (9.92%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.77%) CockroachDB
8 35 (4.40%) Relational Database
9 25 (3.14%) Apache Hive
10 21 (2.64%) Hazelcast
11 17 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.76%) HBase
13 12 (1.51%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (0.88%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 124 (15.58%) JUnit
2 84 (10.55%) Cypress.io
3 81 (10.18%) Jasmine
4 62 (7.79%) Selenium
5 60 (7.54%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (7.54%) Protractor
5 60 (7.54%) WebDriver
6 45 (5.65%) Jenkins
7 27 (3.39%) JMeter
8 24 (3.02%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.76%) Maven
10 21 (2.64%) Jaeger
10 21 (2.64%) Mockito
11 16 (2.01%) Git
12 11 (1.38%) Gradle
13 9 (1.13%) JIRA
14 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
15 1 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 782 (98.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 777 (97.61%) Finance
3 771 (96.86%) Law
4 291 (36.56%) Marketing
5 255 (32.04%) Legal
6 223 (28.02%) Banking
7 168 (21.11%) Investment Banking
8 96 (12.06%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (6.66%) Private Banking
9 53 (6.66%) Social Skills
10 22 (2.76%) Prime Brokerage
11 14 (1.76%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Games
14 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.13%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (53.14%) Spring
2 269 (33.79%) React
3 247 (31.03%) AngularJS
4 196 (24.62%) Kafka
5 185 (23.24%) Spring Boot
6 173 (21.73%) J2EE
7 138 (17.34%) HTML
8 119 (14.95%) Hibernate
8 119 (14.95%) JMS
9 112 (14.07%) Node.js
9 112 (14.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 107 (13.44%) CSS
11 88 (11.06%) JSON
12 81 (10.18%) jQuery
13 71 (8.92%) REST
14 60 (7.54%) Jest
15 59 (7.41%) GraphQL
16 54 (6.78%) Web Services
17 51 (6.41%) JPA
17 51 (6.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 263 (33.04%) Algorithms
2 258 (32.41%) Cloud Native
3 96 (12.06%) Public Cloud
4 71 (8.92%) Data Structures
5 69 (8.67%) Onboarding
6 44 (5.53%) Reference Data
7 41 (5.15%) Legacy Code
8 28 (3.52%) Private Cloud
9 27 (3.39%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.64%) Replication
11 14 (1.76%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.13%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.13%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.65%) Unix
2 12 (1.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 750 (94.22%) Agile
3 682 (85.68%) SDLC
4 660 (82.91%) Operational Stability
5 648 (81.41%) CI/CD
6 567 (71.23%) Artificial Intelligence
6 567 (71.23%) Machine Learning
7 403 (50.63%) Community of Practice
8 289 (36.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 287 (36.06%) Visualisation
10 282 (35.43%) Risk Management
11 243 (30.53%) Full Stack Development
12 208 (26.13%) Decision-Making
13 192 (24.12%) Microservices
14 128 (16.08%) Architectural Design
15 119 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
16 110 (13.82%) Information Architecture
16 110 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
17 107 (13.44%) TDD
18 92 (11.56%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 796 (100.00%) Java
2 451 (56.66%) SQL
3 139 (17.46%) Scala
4 105 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 92 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 71 (8.92%) Python
7 22 (2.76%) Groovy
8 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.25%) C#
9 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (2.39%) Degree
2 6 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.02%) SLA
2 11 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.13%) QA
System Software
1 20 (2.51%) Docker
2 14 (1.76%) HDFS
3 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 85 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.66%) Terraform
3 44 (5.53%) Grafana
4 22 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.64%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.64%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.64%) Kibana
5 21 (2.64%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.88%) Graphite
Vendors
1 159 (19.97%) Oracle
2 52 (6.53%) Databricks
3 47 (5.90%) Splunk
4 43 (5.40%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.02%) Google
6 18 (2.26%) SaltStack
7 14 (1.76%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.13%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.50%) IBM