Principal Java Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Principal Java Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.22% - 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 849 1,464 2,039
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 95.87% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 420 1,034 1,200
10th Percentile £29,375 £32,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Principal Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Java Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Java Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Principal Java Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Principal Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Principal Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes