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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 38 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 27 45 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.29% 6.01% 7.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.45% 18.52% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 55
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £49,375 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £68,125
90th Percentile - £87,500 £98,084
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +35.00% -24.24%

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 132 243 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.20% 32.44% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 89 104 258
10th Percentile - £26,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,722
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £89,250 £83,250
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.34%

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 1 October 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) AWS
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
1 2 (7.41%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) dbt
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
2 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
2 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Tech for Good
3 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.41%) Automotive
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Aviation
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
1 10 (37.04%) Software Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Senior Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Java Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Associate Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (3.70%) Lead
8 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Spring
1 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Bitcoin
2 1 (3.70%) Blockchain
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
4 3 (11.11%) AI
4 3 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.41%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
5 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.70%) BDD
6 1 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.70%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (3.70%) Information Security
6 1 (3.70%) LLM
6 1 (3.70%) Scrum
6 1 (3.70%) Software Architecture
6 1 (3.70%) TDD
6 1 (3.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.41%) Ada
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Google