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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 24 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 63 117 153
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.18% 8.76% 15.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.16% 21.95% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 32 63 124
10th Percentile £45,750 £37,500 £45,375
25th Percentile £65,506 £45,500 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -14.98% +4.56%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,515 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £76,250 £58,000 £65,675
% change year-on-year +31.47% -11.69% +5.08%

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 347 533 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.52% 39.93% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 150 280 375
10th Percentile £25,975 £41,125 £43,224
25th Percentile £31,418 £46,713 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,697 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,249 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -4.35% +0.17%

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 24 November 2025.

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 12 (19.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.59%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 27 (42.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) Azure
2 28 (44.44%) AWS
2 28 (44.44%) GitHub
3 27 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (42.86%) OCI
4 15 (23.81%) Entra ID
5 12 (19.05%) GitHub Copilot
5 12 (19.05%) Power Platform
6 6 (9.52%) GCP
7 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.17%) dbt
9 1 (1.59%) Datadog
9 1 (1.59%) PaaS
9 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) Power BI
1 12 (19.05%) Tableau
2 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 27 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 27 (42.86%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (20.63%) Git
3 12 (19.05%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.59%) JMeter
4 1 (1.59%) Locust
General
1 38 (60.32%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Games
3 8 (12.70%) Tech for Good
4 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (50.79%) Applications Engineer
2 27 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (34.92%) Senior
4 20 (31.75%) Software Engineer
5 15 (23.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 10 (15.87%) Lead
7 7 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
11 2 (3.17%) Performance Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Performance Test Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (47.62%) RESTful
2 15 (23.81%) JSON
2 15 (23.81%) SOAP
2 15 (23.81%) XML
3 12 (19.05%) OAuth
3 12 (19.05%) OAuth2
3 12 (19.05%) SAML
4 11 (17.46%) React
5 10 (15.87%) Spring Boot
6 7 (11.11%) Kafka
7 3 (4.76%) Spring
8 2 (3.17%) CSS
8 2 (3.17%) HTML
9 1 (1.59%) Gherkin
9 1 (1.59%) Next.js
9 1 (1.59%) Playwright
9 1 (1.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 27 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 27 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (66.67%) Agile
2 34 (53.97%) DevOps
3 33 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 33 (52.38%) Test Automation
4 32 (50.79%) Coaching
5 30 (47.62%) API Integration
6 27 (42.86%) Asset Management
6 27 (42.86%) ERP
7 26 (41.27%) Software Engineering
8 22 (34.92%) Mentoring
9 17 (26.98%) Observability
10 16 (25.40%) Microservices
11 15 (23.81%) Business Strategy
11 15 (23.81%) Data Governance
11 15 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (23.81%) Migration
11 15 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (23.81%) Translating Business Requirements
12 13 (20.63%) Analytics
13 12 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (47.62%) Python
2 28 (44.44%) SQL
3 27 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 27 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) C++
6 1 (1.59%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (1.59%) Degree
1 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
1 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) NCSC
1 3 (4.76%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (44.44%) Terraform
2 27 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Oracle
2 15 (23.81%) Okta
3 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.59%) Databricks
4 1 (1.59%) ESRI