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 leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 173 240
Rank change year-on-year +142 +67 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 709 42 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.37% 0.98% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.69% 1.09% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 16
10th Percentile - £62,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £63,750 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +3.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,542 £85,000
90th Percentile £68,300 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +45.45%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +92 682 £104,357 +54.60% 3
Edinburgh +38 25 £50,000 -33.82% 4
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 709 (100.00%) Java
1 709 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 692 (97.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 685 (96.61%) Finance
4 681 (96.05%) Law
5 658 (92.81%) Agile
6 600 (84.63%) SDLC
7 577 (81.38%) Operational Stability
8 575 (81.10%) CI/CD
9 508 (71.65%) Machine Learning
9 508 (71.65%) Artificial Intelligence
10 389 (54.87%) SQL
11 372 (52.47%) Spring
11 372 (52.47%) Community of Practice
12 260 (36.67%) Marketing
13 258 (36.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 256 (36.11%) Visualisation
15 249 (35.12%) AWS
15 249 (35.12%) React
16 247 (34.84%) Risk Management
17 240 (33.85%) Cloud Native
18 235 (33.15%) Algorithms
19 221 (31.17%) Legal
20 215 (30.32%) AngularJS
21 208 (29.34%) Full Stack Development
21 208 (29.34%) NoSQL
22 191 (26.94%) Banking
23 183 (25.81%) Kafka
24 175 (24.68%) Decision-Making
25 167 (23.55%) 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
1 146 (20.59%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.92%) FileNet
3 32 (4.51%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (2.96%) GemFire
5 9 (1.27%) Apache
6 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 249 (35.12%) AWS
2 42 (5.92%) Amazon S3
3 39 (5.50%) BlazeMeter
4 27 (3.81%) GCP
5 26 (3.67%) Azure
6 25 (3.53%) GitHub
7 14 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (0.99%) Serverless
9 4 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.56%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.14%) Datadog
10 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.40%) Kerberos
2 14 (1.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (29.34%) NoSQL
2 139 (19.61%) Big Data
3 93 (13.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 76 (10.72%) Elasticsearch
5 69 (9.73%) MongoDB
6 51 (7.19%) Hadoop
7 38 (5.36%) CockroachDB
8 30 (4.23%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.96%) Hazelcast
10 17 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (1.69%) Apache Hive
12 11 (1.55%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.99%) HBase
13 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 121 (17.07%) JUnit
2 84 (11.85%) Cypress.io
3 81 (11.42%) Jasmine
4 60 (8.46%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (8.46%) Protractor
4 60 (8.46%) Selenium
4 60 (8.46%) WebDriver
5 36 (5.08%) Jenkins
6 27 (3.81%) JMeter
7 24 (3.39%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.96%) Jaeger
8 21 (2.96%) Mockito
9 20 (2.82%) Maven
10 14 (1.97%) Git
11 11 (1.55%) Gradle
12 9 (1.27%) JIRA
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.14%) Spock
General
1 692 (97.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 685 (96.61%) Finance
3 681 (96.05%) Law
4 260 (36.67%) Marketing
5 221 (31.17%) Legal
6 191 (26.94%) Banking
7 155 (21.86%) Investment Banking
8 90 (12.69%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (7.19%) Social Skills
10 36 (5.08%) Private Banking
11 22 (3.10%) Prime Brokerage
12 9 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.42%) Games
15 2 (0.28%) Aviation
15 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (52.47%) Spring
2 249 (35.12%) React
3 215 (30.32%) AngularJS
4 183 (25.81%) Kafka
5 161 (22.71%) J2EE
6 155 (21.86%) Spring Boot
7 132 (18.62%) HTML
8 118 (16.64%) Hibernate
9 112 (15.80%) JMS
9 112 (15.80%) Node.js
9 112 (15.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 101 (14.25%) CSS
11 86 (12.13%) JSON
12 81 (11.42%) jQuery
13 60 (8.46%) Jest
14 59 (8.32%) GraphQL
15 56 (7.90%) REST
16 44 (6.21%) Spring Integration
16 44 (6.21%) Web Services
17 41 (5.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 240 (33.85%) Cloud Native
2 235 (33.15%) Algorithms
3 70 (9.87%) Public Cloud
4 65 (9.17%) Data Structures
5 62 (8.74%) Onboarding
6 36 (5.08%) Reference Data
7 34 (4.80%) Legacy Code
8 27 (3.81%) Market Risk
9 21 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.96%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.96%) Replication
10 14 (1.97%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.14%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.14%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.23%) Unix
2 13 (1.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 658 (92.81%) Agile
3 600 (84.63%) SDLC
4 577 (81.38%) Operational Stability
5 575 (81.10%) CI/CD
6 508 (71.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 508 (71.65%) Machine Learning
7 372 (52.47%) Community of Practice
8 258 (36.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (36.11%) Visualisation
10 247 (34.84%) Risk Management
11 208 (29.34%) Full Stack Development
12 175 (24.68%) Decision-Making
13 167 (23.55%) Microservices
14 116 (16.36%) Architectural Design
15 106 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
16 105 (14.81%) TDD
17 98 (13.82%) Information Architecture
18 94 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
19 90 (12.69%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 709 (100.00%) Java
2 389 (54.87%) SQL
3 119 (16.78%) Scala
4 105 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 86 (12.13%) TypeScript
6 57 (8.04%) Python
7 22 (3.10%) Groovy
8 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.28%) C#
9 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (1.55%) Degree
2 6 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.40%) SLA
2 9 (1.27%) QA
3 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (2.40%) Docker
2 7 (0.99%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 82 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.33%) Terraform
3 41 (5.78%) Grafana
4 22 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.96%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.96%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.96%) Kibana
5 21 (2.96%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.99%) Graphite
Vendors
1 146 (20.59%) Oracle
2 45 (6.35%) Databricks
3 44 (6.21%) Splunk
4 40 (5.64%) Dynatrace
5 22 (3.10%) Google
6 18 (2.54%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.27%) TOWER Software
8 7 (0.99%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.28%) IBM