Java Jobs in Edinburgh

Java
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 99 150 318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.78% 10.00% 15.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.05% 25.38% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 78 112 187
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -5.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,778 £91,934 £89,852
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +0.87% -17.20% +15.75%

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 353 591 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.45% 39.40% 43.68%
Number of salaries quoted 242 462 570
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £39,821
25th Percentile £47,610 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.55%
75th Percentile £82,688 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%

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

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

Salary trend for Java in Edinburgh

Java
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 May 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 3 (3.03%) NetWeaver
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.02%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.01%) CICS
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.35%) Azure
2 30 (30.30%) GCP
3 26 (26.26%) AWS
4 7 (7.07%) GitHub
5 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (4.04%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.04%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.03%) Apigee
6 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.02%) SaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Serverless
7 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.01%) npm
8 1 (1.01%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.01%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.01%) SSL
2 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.03%) Big Data
3 3 (3.03%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.01%) MySQL
4 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Git
1 11 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.10%) Visual Studio
3 8 (8.08%) JUnit
4 6 (6.06%) Selenium
5 5 (5.05%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (5.05%) TestNG
6 4 (4.04%) webpack
7 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.03%) GitLab
7 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.02%) JIRA
8 2 (2.02%) Maven
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (2.02%) Postman
8 2 (2.02%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.01%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.01%) Mocha
General
1 41 (41.41%) Finance
2 40 (40.40%) Banking
3 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (16.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.04%) Games
6 4 (4.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.02%) Digital Health
7 2 (2.02%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.01%) Advertising
8 1 (1.01%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.01%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 34 (34.34%) Senior
3 27 (27.27%) Developer
4 17 (17.17%) Java Developer
4 17 (17.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (8.08%) C++ Developer
6 8 (8.08%) Lead
7 7 (7.07%) Architect
7 7 (7.07%) C++/Java Developer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior C++ Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Graduate
9 5 (5.05%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
11 3 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.28%) Spring
2 26 (26.26%) Spring Boot
3 15 (15.15%) React
4 14 (14.14%) REST
5 13 (13.13%) HTML
6 10 (10.10%) CSS
7 9 (9.09%) Kafka
8 7 (7.07%) MFC
8 7 (7.07%) OAuth
8 7 (7.07%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.06%) RESTful
10 5 (5.05%) JSON
10 5 (5.05%) JWT
10 5 (5.05%) Redux
11 4 (4.04%) Hibernate
11 4 (4.04%) Java EE
11 4 (4.04%) Middleware
11 4 (4.04%) Node.js
11 4 (4.04%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Public Cloud
2 11 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 7 (7.07%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.05%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.04%) Hackathon
5 4 (4.04%) Learning Management System
5 4 (4.04%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.03%) Wiki
7 2 (2.02%) Life Science
7 2 (2.02%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.02%) Replication
7 2 (2.02%) Smart City
7 2 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.21%) Linux
2 12 (12.12%) Windows
3 11 (11.11%) Unix
4 2 (2.02%) Android
4 2 (2.02%) VMS
5 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 46 (46.46%) Agile
3 45 (45.45%) DevOps
4 37 (37.37%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (31.31%) CI/CD
6 30 (30.30%) Microservices
7 29 (29.29%) Test Automation
8 21 (21.21%) SDLC
9 18 (18.18%) TDD
10 17 (17.17%) Containerisation
10 17 (17.17%) Mentoring
10 17 (17.17%) Scrum
11 12 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (12.12%) Customer Experience
11 12 (12.12%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.10%) Coaching
12 10 (10.10%) Computer Science
12 10 (10.10%) Fintech
13 8 (8.08%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 30 (30.30%) Python
3 20 (20.20%) SQL
4 19 (19.19%) C++
5 10 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.09%) C#
7 8 (8.08%) Kotlin
8 7 (7.07%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.06%) Go
9 6 (6.06%) JCL
9 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
10 5 (5.05%) Bash
10 5 (5.05%) C
10 5 (5.05%) VBA
11 3 (3.03%) ABAP
12 2 (2.02%) Groovy
13 1 (1.01%) Objective-C
13 1 (1.01%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (13.13%) Degree
2 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.05%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) ECSS
System Software
1 23 (23.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) NDS
Systems Management
1 36 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.05%) CA Endevor
3 4 (4.04%) Terraform
4 2 (2.02%) Istio
5 1 (1.01%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.01%) Grafana
5 1 (1.01%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.01%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) Google
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.05%) IBM
3 5 (5.05%) Oracle
4 4 (4.04%) Blue Prism
4 4 (4.04%) UiPath
5 3 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.02%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.01%) Adobe
7 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.01%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.01%) Okta
7 1 (1.01%) Planview
7 1 (1.01%) Splunk
7 1 (1.01%) Workday