Java EE Jobs in Edinburgh

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java EE over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 113 127
Rank change year-on-year +22 +14 -
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 4 2 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.44% 0.13% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 0.46% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - £61,180
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £85,000
75th Percentile £89,389 - -
90th Percentile £92,022 - -
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £42,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +88.24% -50.00% +54.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 252 431 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 27.48% 28.23% 36.39%
Number of salaries quoted 181 301 455
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,934 £97,431
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in Edinburgh

Java EE
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Java EE in Edinburgh

Java EE
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 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle