Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 175 206
Rank change year-on-year +149 +31 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 784 45 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.31% 1.04% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.66% 1.16% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31 8 27
10th Percentile £24,000 £58,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £60,625 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +47.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £69,750 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%

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 6,722 3,872 5,931
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.57% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 2,116 3,083
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,528 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Scotland

Java 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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 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 +88 753 £24,000 -64.44% 5
Edinburgh +47 29 £50,000 -37.73% 9
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, Java 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 784 (100.00%) Java
2 772 (98.47%) Software Engineering
3 758 (96.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 756 (96.43%) Finance
5 747 (95.28%) Law
6 732 (93.37%) Agile
7 658 (83.93%) SDLC
8 637 (81.25%) Operational Stability
9 629 (80.23%) CI/CD
10 556 (70.92%) Artificial Intelligence
11 552 (70.41%) Machine Learning
12 435 (55.48%) SQL
13 413 (52.68%) Spring
14 395 (50.38%) Community of Practice
15 298 (38.01%) AWS
16 282 (35.97%) Marketing
17 280 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 278 (35.46%) Visualisation
19 272 (34.69%) Risk Management
20 265 (33.80%) React
21 254 (32.40%) Algorithms
21 254 (32.40%) Cloud Native
22 245 (31.25%) Legal
23 238 (30.36%) AngularJS
24 235 (29.97%) Full Stack Development
25 233 (29.72%) NoSQL
26 214 (27.30%) Banking
27 198 (25.26%) Decision-Making
28 196 (25.00%) Kafka
29 189 (24.11%) Microservices

Java 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
1 176 (22.45%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.36%) FileNet
3 32 (4.08%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (2.68%) GemFire
5 19 (2.42%) Apache
6 12 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 298 (38.01%) AWS
2 42 (5.36%) Amazon S3
2 42 (5.36%) BlazeMeter
3 37 (4.72%) Azure
3 37 (4.72%) GCP
4 26 (3.32%) GitHub
5 24 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (2.17%) Serverless
7 13 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.13%) Datadog
10 1 (0.13%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (0.13%) SaaS
10 1 (0.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.17%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (29.72%) NoSQL
2 164 (20.92%) Big Data
3 96 (12.24%) Apache Cassandra
4 81 (10.33%) MongoDB
5 80 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
6 71 (9.06%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.85%) CockroachDB
8 32 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.68%) Apache Hive
9 21 (2.68%) Hazelcast
10 17 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (1.53%) HBase
12 11 (1.40%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (0.89%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
16 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
17 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 125 (15.94%) JUnit
2 85 (10.84%) Cypress.io
3 81 (10.33%) Jasmine
4 62 (7.91%) Selenium
5 60 (7.65%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (7.65%) Protractor
5 60 (7.65%) WebDriver
6 42 (5.36%) Jenkins
7 27 (3.44%) JMeter
8 26 (3.32%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.81%) Mockito
10 21 (2.68%) Jaeger
10 21 (2.68%) Maven
11 17 (2.17%) Git
12 11 (1.40%) Gradle
13 9 (1.15%) JIRA
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
15 1 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 758 (96.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 756 (96.43%) Finance
3 747 (95.28%) Law
4 282 (35.97%) Marketing
5 245 (31.25%) Legal
6 214 (27.30%) Banking
7 164 (20.92%) Investment Banking
8 96 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (7.27%) Social Skills
10 49 (6.25%) Private Banking
11 22 (2.81%) Prime Brokerage
12 12 (1.53%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Games
15 2 (0.26%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.13%) Advertising
16 1 (0.13%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (52.68%) Spring
2 265 (33.80%) React
3 238 (30.36%) AngularJS
4 196 (25.00%) Kafka
5 181 (23.09%) Spring Boot
6 169 (21.56%) J2EE
7 136 (17.35%) HTML
8 118 (15.05%) Hibernate
9 117 (14.92%) JMS
10 112 (14.29%) Node.js
10 112 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 105 (13.39%) CSS
12 87 (11.10%) JSON
13 81 (10.33%) jQuery
14 71 (9.06%) REST
15 63 (8.04%) GraphQL
16 60 (7.65%) Jest
17 50 (6.38%) Web Services
18 48 (6.12%) RESTful
18 48 (6.12%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 254 (32.40%) Algorithms
1 254 (32.40%) Cloud Native
2 88 (11.22%) Public Cloud
3 69 (8.80%) Data Structures
4 67 (8.55%) Onboarding
5 41 (5.23%) Reference Data
6 39 (4.97%) Legacy Code
7 27 (3.44%) Market Risk
8 26 (3.32%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.68%) Replication
10 14 (1.79%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.26%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.13%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.13%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.46%) Unix
2 12 (1.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (98.47%) Software Engineering
2 732 (93.37%) Agile
3 658 (83.93%) SDLC
4 637 (81.25%) Operational Stability
5 629 (80.23%) CI/CD
6 556 (70.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 552 (70.41%) Machine Learning
8 395 (50.38%) Community of Practice
9 280 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 278 (35.46%) Visualisation
11 272 (34.69%) Risk Management
12 235 (29.97%) Full Stack Development
13 198 (25.26%) Decision-Making
14 189 (24.11%) Microservices
15 124 (15.82%) Architectural Design
16 117 (14.92%) Performance Tuning
17 110 (14.03%) TDD
18 106 (13.52%) Information Architecture
18 106 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
19 95 (12.12%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 784 (100.00%) Java
2 435 (55.48%) SQL
3 135 (17.22%) Scala
4 107 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 91 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 68 (8.67%) Python
7 22 (2.81%) Groovy
8 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.26%) C#
9 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (2.04%) Degree
2 6 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (0.77%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.81%) SLA
2 10 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 18 (2.30%) Docker
2 12 (1.53%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 83 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.53%) Terraform
3 44 (5.61%) Grafana
4 22 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.68%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.68%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.68%) Kibana
5 21 (2.68%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.89%) Graphite
Vendors
1 154 (19.64%) Oracle
2 50 (6.38%) Databricks
3 47 (5.99%) Splunk
4 43 (5.48%) Dynatrace
5 23 (2.93%) Google
6 18 (2.30%) SaltStack
7 12 (1.53%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.15%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.51%) Confluent
10 3 (0.38%) IBM