Senior Java Developer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Java Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Java Developer salary in Edinburgh is £61,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 142 154
Rank change year-on-year +37 +12 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 8 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.53% 0.56% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.59% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile - £66,250 -
25th Percentile £59,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £69,063 £90,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £104,581 £95,000 £67,250
Scotland median annual salary £63,000 £71,250 £58,750
% change year-on-year -11.58% +21.28% +6.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,458 2,032 2,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.35% 97.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,208 1,449
10th Percentile £32,950 £36,250 £32,975
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,047 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior Java Developer 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 Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) React
3 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
3 5 (62.50%) Web Services
3 5 (62.50%) Git
4 4 (50.00%) HTML
4 4 (50.00%) OAuth
4 4 (50.00%) Groovy
4 4 (50.00%) JSON
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) CSS
4 4 (50.00%) OpenID
4 4 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (50.00%) ForgeRock
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) Spring
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Finance

Senior Java Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) JHipster
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) React
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (50.00%) HTML
3 4 (50.00%) JSON
3 4 (50.00%) OAuth
3 4 (50.00%) OpenID
3 4 (50.00%) REST
4 3 (37.50%) Spring
5 2 (25.00%) RESTful
5 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (12.50%) Express.js
6 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 1 (12.50%) JDBC
6 1 (12.50%) Jest
6 1 (12.50%) JPA
6 1 (12.50%) Node.js
6 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
6 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Kindle
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Release Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) Groovy
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) OCP
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (12.50%) Apple