Java Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Java Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Java Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 131 133
Rank change year-on-year +44 +2 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 26 16 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.75% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 0.84% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 24 3 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £70,735 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £80,294 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.73% +14.71% +51.35%
75th Percentile £64,313 £89,852 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 - -
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% - +47.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,421 1,916 2,442
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 94.90% 98.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,131 1,536
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,733 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Edinburgh

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Edinburgh

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 Edinburgh region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (80.77%) Software Engineering
3 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
4 16 (61.54%) Spring
5 15 (57.69%) Spring Boot
6 14 (53.85%) Microservices
7 12 (46.15%) Agile
7 12 (46.15%) Finance
8 11 (42.31%) AWS
8 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (42.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (38.46%) Network Security
9 10 (38.46%) Linux
10 9 (34.62%) SQL
10 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
10 9 (34.62%) REST
11 8 (30.77%) BDD
11 8 (30.77%) Kafka
11 8 (30.77%) GitHub
11 8 (30.77%) TDD
12 7 (26.92%) DevOps
13 6 (23.08%) Azure
13 6 (23.08%) Docker
13 6 (23.08%) RESTful
13 6 (23.08%) GCP
13 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
14 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
14 5 (19.23%) Serverless
14 5 (19.23%) Git
14 5 (19.23%) JSON

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
4 5 (19.23%) Serverless
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (15.38%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Maven
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (15.38%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.85%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 11 (42.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Games
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) Spring
2 15 (57.69%) Spring Boot
3 9 (34.62%) REST
4 8 (30.77%) Kafka
5 6 (23.08%) RESTful
6 5 (19.23%) JSON
6 5 (19.23%) Web Services
7 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
7 4 (15.38%) J2EE
7 4 (15.38%) Oracle ADF
7 4 (15.38%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (15.38%) Spring Integration
7 4 (15.38%) Spring Security
7 4 (15.38%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.85%) JPA
8 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
8 1 (3.85%) React
8 1 (3.85%) SOAP
8 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Software Engineering
2 14 (53.85%) Microservices
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
4 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
6 8 (30.77%) BDD
6 8 (30.77%) TDD
7 7 (26.92%) DevOps
8 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
9 4 (15.38%) Fintech
9 4 (15.38%) Functional Programming
9 4 (15.38%) Generative AI
9 4 (15.38%) High Availability
9 4 (15.38%) Low Latency
9 4 (15.38%) SDLC
9 4 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Confluent
1 4 (15.38%) Dynatrace
1 4 (15.38%) Google
1 4 (15.38%) IBM
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle