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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 73 97 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.19% 9.95% 12.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.63% 25.53% 29.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39 66 127
10th Percentile £45,800 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,827 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,390 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +6.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,039 £67,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +3.76% +10.66% -11.27%

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 414 380 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.08% 38.97% 43.45%
Number of salaries quoted 194 257 450
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,375 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 20 March 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 10 (13.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.37%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.37%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.99%) Azure
2 24 (32.88%) GitHub
3 23 (31.51%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (30.14%) OCI
5 20 (27.40%) AWS
6 12 (16.44%) Entra ID
7 10 (13.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (13.70%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.22%) dbt
9 4 (5.48%) GCP
10 3 (4.11%) PaaS
10 3 (4.11%) SaaS
11 1 (1.37%) Datadog
11 1 (1.37%) Firebase
11 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.37%) Google Play
11 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) Power BI
1 10 (13.70%) Tableau
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) GIS
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (31.51%) Jenkins
2 22 (30.14%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (16.44%) Git
4 10 (13.70%) JIRA
5 2 (2.74%) JUnit
6 1 (1.37%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.37%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.37%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.37%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.37%) fastlane
6 1 (1.37%) Gradle
6 1 (1.37%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.37%) JMeter
6 1 (1.37%) jMock
6 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.37%) Locust
6 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 38 (52.05%) Finance
2 9 (12.33%) Games
3 6 (8.22%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Senior
2 27 (36.99%) Applications Engineer
3 22 (30.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (21.92%) Software Engineer
5 13 (17.81%) Lead
6 12 (16.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 9 (12.33%) Engineering Manager
8 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering Manager
8 8 (10.96%) Software Manager
9 6 (8.22%) Analyst
9 6 (8.22%) Applications Support
9 6 (8.22%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (8.22%) Developer
9 6 (8.22%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Applications Support
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Support Analyst
9 6 (8.22%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.99%) RESTful
2 12 (16.44%) JSON
2 12 (16.44%) SOAP
2 12 (16.44%) XML
3 10 (13.70%) OAuth
3 10 (13.70%) OAuth2
3 10 (13.70%) SAML
4 6 (8.22%) .NET
4 6 (8.22%) React
5 4 (5.48%) Kafka
5 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.74%) Swing
6 2 (2.74%) Web Services
7 1 (1.37%) Android SDK
7 1 (1.37%) CSS
7 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.37%) HTML
7 1 (1.37%) Java EE
7 1 (1.37%) Java SE
7 1 (1.37%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.14%) Cloud Native
1 22 (30.14%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.74%) SCADA
4 1 (1.37%) Blog
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Android
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) Agile
2 28 (38.36%) Software Engineering
2 28 (38.36%) Test Automation
3 27 (36.99%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.99%) Coaching
4 26 (35.62%) API Integration
4 26 (35.62%) Mentoring
5 25 (34.25%) DevOps
6 22 (30.14%) Asset Management
6 22 (30.14%) ERP
7 14 (19.18%) Analytics
8 13 (17.81%) Observability
8 13 (17.81%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (16.44%) Business Strategy
9 12 (16.44%) Data Governance
9 12 (16.44%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (16.44%) Migration
9 12 (16.44%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (15.07%) Clean Code
10 11 (15.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 31 (42.47%) SQL
2 29 (39.73%) Python
3 22 (30.14%) PL/SQL
3 22 (30.14%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.74%) C++
5 2 (2.74%) Scala
6 1 (1.37%) C
6 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.37%) Magik
6 1 (1.37%) Perl
6 1 (1.37%) Rust
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.74%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.37%) PhD
2 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) NCSC
1 3 (4.11%) NIST
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) WCAG
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (31.51%) Terraform
2 22 (30.14%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (42.47%) Oracle
2 12 (16.44%) Okta
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.11%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.37%) ESRI
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) Siemens