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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 24 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 78 105 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.60% 10.08% 13.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.99% 23.49% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 63 113
10th Percentile £40,750 £40,000 £50,686
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,958 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +6.27% +1.62%
75th Percentile £88,125 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £72,539 £70,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +3.63% +14.75% -9.63%

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 459 447 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.83% 42.90% 46.36%
Number of salaries quoted 195 252 432
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,300 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,031 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,126 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -7.60%

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 25 February 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 15 (19.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.28%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.28%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.28%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 33 (42.31%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) Azure
2 34 (43.59%) GitHub
3 33 (42.31%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (42.31%) OCI
4 27 (34.62%) AWS
5 18 (23.08%) Entra ID
6 15 (19.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 15 (19.23%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.41%) GCP
8 4 (5.13%) dbt
9 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.28%) Datadog
10 1 (1.28%) PaaS
10 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) Power BI
1 15 (19.23%) Tableau
2 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.28%) GIS
3 1 (1.28%) MySQL
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (42.31%) Jenkins
1 33 (42.31%) Oracle Forms
2 17 (21.79%) Git
3 15 (19.23%) JIRA
4 2 (2.56%) JUnit
5 1 (1.28%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.28%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.28%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.28%) JMeter
5 1 (1.28%) jMock
5 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.28%) Locust
5 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 49 (62.82%) Finance
2 9 (11.54%) Games
3 6 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 4 (5.13%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (48.72%) Applications Engineer
2 33 (42.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (41.03%) Senior
4 18 (23.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 17 (21.79%) Software Engineer
6 11 (14.10%) Lead
7 6 (7.69%) Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Applications Support
7 6 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Applications Support
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Support Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Software Engineering Manager
8 5 (6.41%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (47.44%) RESTful
2 18 (23.08%) JSON
2 18 (23.08%) SOAP
2 18 (23.08%) XML
3 15 (19.23%) OAuth
3 15 (19.23%) OAuth2
3 15 (19.23%) SAML
4 7 (8.97%) React
5 6 (7.69%) .NET
6 5 (6.41%) Kafka
6 5 (6.41%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.56%) CSS
7 2 (2.56%) HTML
7 2 (2.56%) Swing
7 2 (2.56%) Web Services
8 1 (1.28%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.28%) Java EE
8 1 (1.28%) Java SE
8 1 (1.28%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 33 (42.31%) Cloud Native
1 33 (42.31%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.56%) SCADA
4 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (57.69%) Agile
2 38 (48.72%) Coaching
3 37 (47.44%) CI/CD
4 36 (46.15%) API Integration
4 36 (46.15%) DevOps
4 36 (46.15%) Test Automation
5 33 (42.31%) Asset Management
5 33 (42.31%) ERP
6 32 (41.03%) Mentoring
7 26 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 19 (24.36%) Observability
8 19 (24.36%) Root Cause Analysis
9 18 (23.08%) Analytics
9 18 (23.08%) Business Strategy
9 18 (23.08%) Data Governance
9 18 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (23.08%) Migration
9 18 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
10 17 (21.79%) Microservices
11 15 (19.23%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.85%) SQL
2 37 (47.44%) Python
3 33 (42.31%) PL/SQL
3 33 (42.31%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.56%) Scala
5 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.28%) C
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) Magik
6 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (1.28%) Degree
1 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
1 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) NCSC
1 3 (3.85%) NIST
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (43.59%) Terraform
2 33 (42.31%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (53.85%) Oracle
2 18 (23.08%) Okta
3 15 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.28%) ESRI
5 1 (1.28%) Siemens