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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 23 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 71 106 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.95% 8.89% 16.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.47% 21.16% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 31 62 122
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £47,625
25th Percentile £68,045 £46,000 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +26.87% -5.07% +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +26.92% -0.54% +0.54%

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 431 501 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.17% 42.03% 47.75%
Number of salaries quoted 164 258 383
10th Percentile £26,075 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £32,639 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £77,607
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,302 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -

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 December 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 17 (23.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.41%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.41%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 37 (52.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) Azure
2 37 (52.11%) Azure DevOps
2 37 (52.11%) GitHub
2 37 (52.11%) OCI
3 30 (42.25%) AWS
4 20 (28.17%) Entra ID
5 17 (23.94%) GitHub Copilot
5 17 (23.94%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.04%) GCP
7 3 (4.23%) dbt
7 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.41%) Datadog
8 1 (1.41%) PaaS
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) Power BI
1 17 (23.94%) Tableau
2 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 37 (52.11%) Jenkins
1 37 (52.11%) Oracle Forms
2 19 (26.76%) Git
3 17 (23.94%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.41%) JMeter
4 1 (1.41%) jMock
4 1 (1.41%) JUnit
4 1 (1.41%) Locust
General
1 46 (64.79%) Finance
2 9 (12.68%) Games
3 7 (9.86%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (59.15%) Applications Engineer
2 37 (52.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (36.62%) Senior
4 20 (28.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 16 (22.54%) Software Engineer
6 11 (15.49%) Lead
7 7 (9.86%) Java Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Lead Software Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Lead Java Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Developer
11 2 (2.82%) Performance Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Performance Test Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Software Manager
11 2 (2.82%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (57.75%) RESTful
2 20 (28.17%) JSON
2 20 (28.17%) SOAP
2 20 (28.17%) XML
3 17 (23.94%) OAuth
3 17 (23.94%) OAuth2
3 17 (23.94%) SAML
4 8 (11.27%) React
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.63%) Kafka
7 2 (2.82%) CSS
7 2 (2.82%) HTML
8 1 (1.41%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.41%) Java EE
8 1 (1.41%) Java SE
8 1 (1.41%) Next.js
8 1 (1.41%) Playwright
8 1 (1.41%) React Native
8 1 (1.41%) Swing
8 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (52.11%) Cloud Native
1 37 (52.11%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (69.01%) Agile
2 42 (59.15%) CI/CD
2 42 (59.15%) DevOps
3 41 (57.75%) Coaching
3 41 (57.75%) Test Automation
4 40 (56.34%) API Integration
5 37 (52.11%) Asset Management
5 37 (52.11%) ERP
6 27 (38.03%) Mentoring
7 23 (32.39%) Software Engineering
8 22 (30.99%) Observability
9 20 (28.17%) Business Strategy
9 20 (28.17%) Data Governance
9 20 (28.17%) Identity Access Management
9 20 (28.17%) Microservices
9 20 (28.17%) Migration
9 20 (28.17%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (28.17%) Translating Business Requirements
10 19 (26.76%) Analytics
11 17 (23.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (56.34%) Python
2 39 (54.93%) SQL
3 37 (52.11%) PL/SQL
3 37 (52.11%) Shell Script
4 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.41%) Magik
6 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.41%) Degree
1 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
1 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) NCSC
1 3 (4.23%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (28.17%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (53.52%) Terraform
2 37 (52.11%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (53.52%) Oracle
2 20 (28.17%) Okta
3 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) ESRI