Java Job Trends in Edinburgh

Java
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 52 103 145
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.48% 11.37% 10.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.72% 28.77% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26 82 112
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -13.60%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 311 358 549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 26.81% 39.51% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 150 249 463
10th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,231 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Java job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Java
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) GitHub
3 15 (28.85%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) OCI
5 10 (19.23%) AWS
6 7 (13.46%) Entra ID
6 7 (13.46%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
7 6 (11.54%) dbt
8 4 (7.69%) SaaS
9 3 (5.77%) GCP
9 3 (5.77%) PaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Firebase
10 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.92%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Power BI
1 7 (13.46%) Tableau
2 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.92%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (17.31%) Git
4 7 (13.46%) JIRA
5 2 (3.85%) JUnit
6 1 (1.92%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.92%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.92%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.92%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.92%) fastlane
6 1 (1.92%) Gradle
6 1 (1.92%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.92%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.92%) jMock
6 1 (1.92%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 22 (42.31%) Finance
2 6 (11.54%) Financial Institution
3 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.92%) Aviation
4 1 (1.92%) Games
4 1 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Senior
2 14 (26.92%) Applications Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Engineering Manager
3 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering Manager
4 8 (15.38%) Software Manager
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Applications Support
6 6 (11.54%) Applications Support Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Lead
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Applications Support
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Support Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Support Analyst
7 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) RESTful
2 7 (13.46%) JSON
2 7 (13.46%) OAuth
2 7 (13.46%) OAuth2
2 7 (13.46%) SAML
2 7 (13.46%) SOAP
2 7 (13.46%) XML
3 6 (11.54%) .NET
4 3 (5.77%) Kafka
5 2 (3.85%) React
5 2 (3.85%) Swing
5 2 (3.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.92%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.92%) Java EE
6 1 (1.92%) Java SE
6 1 (1.92%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.92%) Quarkus
6 1 (1.92%) Retrofit
6 1 (1.92%) Spring
6 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Cloud Native
1 14 (26.92%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.85%) SCADA
4 1 (1.92%) Blog
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Android
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Agile
1 19 (36.54%) Test Automation
2 18 (34.62%) Mentoring
2 18 (34.62%) Software Engineering
3 17 (32.69%) Coaching
4 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 15 (28.85%) API Integration
5 15 (28.85%) DevOps
6 14 (26.92%) Asset Management
6 14 (26.92%) ERP
7 11 (21.15%) Analytics
8 8 (15.38%) AI
8 8 (15.38%) Clean Code
8 8 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (13.46%) Business Strategy
9 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven
9 7 (13.46%) Migration
9 7 (13.46%) RBAC
9 7 (13.46%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) SQL
2 21 (40.38%) Python
3 14 (26.92%) PL/SQL
3 14 (26.92%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.85%) C++
4 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) C
5 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.92%) Perl
5 1 (1.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) Degree
1 1 (1.92%) PhD
1 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Single Sign-On
1 14 (26.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Oracle
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Okta
3 3 (5.77%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Siemens