The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 28 50 49
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 70 41 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.536% 3.010% 3.569%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.803% 3.151% 3.743%
Number of salaries quoted 56 38 53
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £29,600
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1029 1301 1496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 96.08% 95.52% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 603 952 1084
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
Scotland

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title.

1 111 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (36.94%) XML
3 40 (36.04%) Hibernate
4 37 (33.33%) Spring
4 37 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 35 (31.53%) J2EE
5 35 (31.53%) Linux
6 32 (28.83%) TDD
7 31 (27.93%) SQL
8 28 (25.23%) JSP
8 28 (25.23%) Servlets
8 28 (25.23%) Oracle
9 27 (24.32%) HTML
10 26 (23.42%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (22.52%) Ajax
12 24 (21.62%) CSS
12 24 (21.62%) Web Services
13 23 (20.72%) XSLT
13 23 (20.72%) JBoss
13 23 (20.72%) Degree
14 22 (19.82%) Finance
14 22 (19.82%) Apache
15 21 (18.92%) Eclipse
15 21 (18.92%) JSF
16 20 (18.02%) jQuery
17 19 (17.12%) Agile Software Development
18 18 (16.22%) SOA
18 18 (16.22%) SQL Server
19 16 (14.41%) Perl
19 16 (14.41%) Java EE

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 41 (36.94%) XML
2 40 (36.04%) Hibernate
3 37 (33.33%) Spring
4 35 (31.53%) J2EE
5 28 (25.23%) JSP
5 28 (25.23%) Servlets
6 27 (24.32%) HTML
7 25 (22.52%) Ajax
8 24 (21.62%) CSS
8 24 (21.62%) Web Services
9 23 (20.72%) XSLT
10 21 (18.92%) JSF
11 20 (18.02%) jQuery
12 16 (14.41%) Java EE
13 11 (9.910%) .NET
13 11 (9.910%) SOAP
14 10 (9.009%) jBPM
14 10 (9.009%) Drools
14 10 (9.009%) Spring MVC
15 9 (8.108%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 22 (19.82%) Apache
2 14 (12.61%) Tomcat
3 11 (9.910%) ESB
4 10 (9.009%) Drupal
5 5 (4.505%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (3.604%) WebSphere Portal
7 3 (2.703%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.703%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (1.802%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.901%) GlassFish
9 1 (0.901%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.901%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 7 (6.306%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.505%) HTTP
2 3 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.51%) RDBMS
3 12 (10.81%) MySQL
4 7 (6.306%) DB2
5 4 (3.604%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (2.703%) SQLite
7 1 (0.901%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Eclipse
2 15 (13.51%) Subversion
3 13 (11.71%) Maven
4 10 (9.009%) Ant
5 9 (8.108%) JUnit
5 9 (8.108%) CruiseControl
6 4 (3.604%) Selenium
6 4 (3.604%) Fiddler
6 4 (3.604%) Canoo WebTest
7 3 (2.703%) Xcode
7 3 (2.703%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.901%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.901%) Hudson
8 1 (0.901%) JMeter
General
1 22 (19.82%) Finance
2 6 (5.405%) Games
3 4 (3.604%) Advertising
4 3 (2.703%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.703%) Publishing
4 3 (2.703%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.703%) Banking
5 1 (0.901%) Marketing
5 1 (0.901%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.207%) Open Source
2 6 (5.405%) Computer Science
3 5 (4.505%) Grid Computing
4 4 (3.604%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.703%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.802%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.901%) Physics
7 1 (0.901%) Visualisation
7 1 (0.901%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.901%) Derivative
7 1 (0.901%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 35 (31.53%) Linux
2 7 (6.306%) Android
3 6 (5.405%) Windows
4 4 (3.604%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.802%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.83%) TDD
2 26 (23.42%) Continuous Integration
3 19 (17.12%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (16.22%) SOA
5 16 (14.41%) BPMN
6 14 (12.61%) MVC
6 14 (12.61%) Workflow
7 12 (10.81%) OO
8 11 (9.910%) Pair Programming
9 10 (9.009%) Extreme Programming
10 9 (8.108%) Software Engineering
11 8 (7.207%) Web Development
12 7 (6.306%) Multithreading
12 7 (6.306%) UML
13 6 (5.405%) OOD
14 4 (3.604%) Unit Testing
15 3 (2.703%) Algorithmic Trading
15 3 (2.703%) Business Analysis
15 3 (2.703%) CRM
15 3 (2.703%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 111 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 31 (27.93%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) Perl
5 9 (8.108%) C#
6 7 (6.306%) C++
6 7 (6.306%) PHP
6 7 (6.306%) PL/SQL
6 7 (6.306%) Python
7 5 (4.505%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.703%) Scala
9 2 (1.802%) C
9 2 (1.802%) Jython
10 1 (0.901%) Groovy
10 1 (0.901%) XPath
10 1 (0.901%) Ruby
10 1 (0.901%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (20.72%) Degree
2 3 (2.703%) Sun Certification
3 1 (0.901%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (3.604%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) Oracle
2 23 (20.72%) JBoss
3 4 (3.604%) Canoo
4 3 (2.703%) Razor Risk
5 2 (1.802%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.901%) Google
6 1 (0.901%) Sybase
6 1 (0.901%) Sun
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Working in a super agile team, in a pair programming environment, you will be responsible for the development of new web applications for a Global Provider of Software...
TEKsystems
Salary: £25000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
This is a small development team within an enormous global company, that utilises pair-programming, extreme programming and TDD... This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled java...
TEKsystems
Salary: £20000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Extensive knowledge and proven experience in the following technologies is critical to the success: Java (Web development) JavaScript / AJAX/ JQuery. JBOSS / Apache / Linux. XML/XSLT. HTML/CSS. Oracle...
Sanderson
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Java web developers are needed to join a leading financial software house based in central Edinburgh. Due to recent success my client are currently looking to hire several...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £28000 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have skills in cross-platform Java, JavaScript / AJAX, HTML5, XHTML and CSS. You will have an excellent understanding of agile methodology. The ideal candidate will also...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
As a result, you will have already gained the following experience: *A degree in Software Engineering, Computing or equivalent *Java development experience *Experience in HTML/CSS *Experience of...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The roleAn opportunity has arisen for a skilled Java Developer to join my market leading client in central Edinburgh... They have recently won a number of exciting projects...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will be part of an experienced Java team working on a country wide project.Experience & QualificationsTechnical Skills From: - Java EE - SOA and integration via an ESB - XML/...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Experience & Qualifications Technical Skills From: - Java EE - SOA and integration via an ESB - XML/XSLT - AJAX - JSF/JSP/Servlets - XML/XSLT - Spring/Hibernate - Javascript - Drupal - Knowledge of implementing...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Java Developer / Senior Java Developer - Java, J2EE, EJB, Servlets - Ideally Grails or Groovy - Exciting new development team being created - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - £30 - 45K + bens An expanding organisation...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Java Developer - Java/J2EE/JBoss/Redhat/Linux - Edinburgh to £40k... Technical Skills From: - Java EE - SOA and integration via an ESB - XML/XSLT - AJAX - JSF/JSP/Servlets - XML/...
JM
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
This role would suit a Senior Software Developer with 10+ years object oriented design and coding experience in Java or C++... You will need strong communication skills and...
IT Connections
Salary: £50,000 to £55,000
Posted: 24 May 2013