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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 50 101 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.49% 7.95% 11.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.83% 20.70% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29 65 110
10th Percentile £48,750 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,550 £100,000 £95,154
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.49% +4.56%

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 240 488 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 31.13% 38.43% 43.34%
Number of salaries quoted 111 291 394
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,376
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £70,625 £73,886 £75,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Edinburgh

Java
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 7 (14.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) AWS
3 18 (36.00%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (32.00%) GitHub
5 15 (30.00%) OCI
6 10 (20.00%) GCP
7 8 (16.00%) Entra ID
8 7 (14.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 2 (4.00%) Apigee
10 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Power BI
1 7 (14.00%) Tableau
2 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (34.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (30.00%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (24.00%) Git
4 9 (18.00%) Visual Studio
5 7 (14.00%) JIRA
6 3 (6.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.00%) GitLab
7 2 (4.00%) JUnit
7 2 (4.00%) Maven
7 2 (4.00%) Postman
7 2 (4.00%) SoapUI
7 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (14.00%) Tech for Good
5 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Games
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (46.00%) Senior
2 15 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Developer
4 13 (26.00%) Java Developer
5 12 (24.00%) Software Engineer
6 9 (18.00%) Senior Developer
6 9 (18.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (16.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 6 (12.00%) C++ Developer
8 6 (12.00%) C++/Java Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Senior C++ Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (10.00%) Lead
10 2 (4.00%) Performance Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Performance Test Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Software Development Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Test Development Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) RESTful
2 10 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 9 (18.00%) JSON
3 9 (18.00%) XML
4 8 (16.00%) SOAP
5 7 (14.00%) Kafka
5 7 (14.00%) OAuth
5 7 (14.00%) OAuth2
5 7 (14.00%) React
5 7 (14.00%) SAML
5 7 (14.00%) Spring
6 6 (12.00%) MFC
7 4 (8.00%) Middleware
7 4 (8.00%) REST
7 4 (8.00%) WebSockets
8 3 (6.00%) Playwright
9 2 (4.00%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.00%) CSS
10 1 (2.00%) HTML
10 1 (2.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 15 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (66.00%) DevOps
2 30 (60.00%) Agile
3 25 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 18 (36.00%) Coaching
5 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 15 (30.00%) API Integration
6 15 (30.00%) Asset Management
6 15 (30.00%) ERP
7 14 (28.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (24.00%) Microservices
9 10 (20.00%) Observability
9 10 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
10 9 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (18.00%) Event-Driven
11 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
11 8 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (16.00%) Migration
11 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 18 (36.00%) SQL
3 16 (32.00%) Shell Script
4 15 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 14 (28.00%) C++
6 12 (24.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.00%) C
8 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.00%) Go
10 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) ECSS
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Terraform
2 15 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.00%) Istio
5 1 (2.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Oracle
2 8 (16.00%) Okta
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Workday