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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 24 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 48 97 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.78% 7.76% 13.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.84% 20.25% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23 47 116
10th Percentile £46,500 £35,000 £44,562
25th Percentile £60,000 £38,750 £58,216
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -28.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £69,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £97,889 £86,875
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £54,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +38.89% -17.37% +4.56%

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 285 479 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.30% 38.32% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 120 238 378
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £42,675
25th Percentile £30,168 £46,750 £47,572
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 £73,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £86,125
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

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 31 October 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 9 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.08%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.08%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (43.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) GitHub
3 21 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (43.75%) OCI
4 12 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (18.75%) GitHub Copilot
5 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
6 8 (16.67%) GCP
7 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.08%) Datadog
8 1 (2.08%) dbt
8 1 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Power BI
1 9 (18.75%) Tableau
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) GIS
Development Applications
1 21 (43.75%) Jenkins
1 21 (43.75%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 9 (18.75%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) JMeter
4 1 (2.08%) Locust
General
1 28 (58.33%) Finance
2 7 (14.58%) Games
3 6 (12.50%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Legal
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (54.17%) Applications Engineer
2 21 (43.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (33.33%) Senior
4 12 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 12 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Lead
6 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Performance Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Performance Test Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Senior Java Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) RESTful
2 12 (25.00%) JSON
2 12 (25.00%) SOAP
2 12 (25.00%) XML
3 11 (22.92%) Spring Boot
4 10 (20.83%) React
5 9 (18.75%) OAuth
5 9 (18.75%) OAuth2
5 9 (18.75%) SAML
6 7 (14.58%) Kafka
7 4 (8.33%) Spring
8 2 (4.17%) CSS
8 2 (4.17%) HTML
9 1 (2.08%) Gherkin
9 1 (2.08%) Next.js
9 1 (2.08%) Playwright
9 1 (2.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 21 (43.75%) Cloud Native
1 21 (43.75%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) Agile
2 31 (64.58%) DevOps
3 29 (60.42%) Test Automation
4 27 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 25 (52.08%) Coaching
6 24 (50.00%) API Integration
7 21 (43.75%) Asset Management
7 21 (43.75%) ERP
8 19 (39.58%) Software Engineering
9 18 (37.50%) Mentoring
10 14 (29.17%) Observability
11 13 (27.08%) Microservices
12 12 (25.00%) Business Strategy
12 12 (25.00%) Data Governance
12 12 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
12 12 (25.00%) Migration
12 12 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (18.75%) Clean Code
13 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (52.08%) Python
2 22 (45.83%) SQL
3 21 (43.75%) PL/SQL
3 21 (43.75%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) C++
6 1 (2.08%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) Degree
1 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) NCSC
1 3 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (45.83%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) Oracle
2 12 (25.00%) Okta
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) ESRI