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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 66 117 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.59% 7.43% 13.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.51% 21.01% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 47 89 145
10th Percentile £47,250 £38,250 £43,224
25th Percentile £49,559 £45,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £89,472
90th Percentile £96,500 £100,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +9.52% -24.40% +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 249 557 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.62% 35.39% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 159 428 449
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,875 £50,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £91,889 £73,886 £78,108
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,625 £89,882
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%

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 3 July 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 2 (3.03%) NetWeaver
1 2 (3.03%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.52%) CICS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Azure
2 16 (24.24%) AWS
2 16 (24.24%) GCP
3 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (6.06%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.03%) Apigee
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (3.03%) SaaS
6 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) Firebase
7 1 (1.52%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.52%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.52%) SSL
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.03%) Big Data
4 2 (3.03%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.58%) Git
3 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.55%) JUnit
4 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.03%) Maven
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.03%) Postman
4 2 (3.03%) SoapUI
4 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.52%) ESLint
5 1 (1.52%) Mocha
5 1 (1.52%) Selenium
5 1 (1.52%) TestNG
5 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Finance
3 16 (24.24%) Banking
4 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.06%) Games
6 3 (4.55%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.52%) Advertising
7 1 (1.52%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (39.39%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 21 (31.82%) Senior
4 17 (25.76%) Java Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (12.12%) C++ Developer
8 7 (10.61%) C++/Java Developer
8 7 (10.61%) Senior C++ Developer
9 5 (7.58%) Architect
9 5 (7.58%) Lead
10 4 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Angular Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Development Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) React Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) Spring Boot
2 14 (21.21%) Spring
3 12 (18.18%) REST
4 11 (16.67%) Kafka
5 10 (15.15%) React
6 7 (10.61%) MFC
7 5 (7.58%) HTML
8 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
8 4 (6.06%) JSON
8 4 (6.06%) Middleware
8 4 (6.06%) RESTful
8 4 (6.06%) WebSockets
9 3 (4.55%) gRPC
10 2 (3.03%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.03%) Java EE
10 2 (3.03%) OAuth
10 2 (3.03%) OAuth2
10 2 (3.03%) OpenID
10 2 (3.03%) React Native
10 2 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 6 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.58%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.06%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.03%) Life Science
5 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.03%) Replication
5 2 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (3.03%) Wiki
6 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) IoT
6 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Linux
1 12 (18.18%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Software Engineering
2 30 (45.45%) Agile
2 30 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (36.36%) DevOps
4 17 (25.76%) Test Automation
5 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.67%) Microservices
6 11 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 11 (16.67%) Scrum
6 11 (16.67%) TDD
7 9 (13.64%) Computer Science
7 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.12%) SDLC
8 8 (12.12%) Unit Testing
9 7 (10.61%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (10.61%) Prototyping
9 7 (10.61%) User Experience
10 6 (9.09%) Coaching
10 6 (9.09%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) Python
2 20 (30.30%) C++
3 16 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.12%) SQL
5 6 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.58%) C
7 4 (6.06%) VBA
8 3 (4.55%) C#
9 2 (3.03%) ABAP
9 2 (3.03%) Go
9 2 (3.03%) Groovy
9 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.52%) JCL
10 1 (1.52%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) ECSS
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) NDS
Systems Management
1 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Istio
4 1 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.52%) Grafana
4 1 (1.52%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.52%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Google
2 4 (6.06%) Blue Prism
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) UiPath
3 2 (3.03%) Databricks
3 2 (3.03%) ForgeRock
3 2 (3.03%) IBM
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle
3 2 (3.03%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.52%) NetIQ
4 1 (1.52%) Okta
4 1 (1.52%) Splunk
4 1 (1.52%) Workday