Java Job Trends in Scotland

Java
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 21 9
Rank change year-on-year -46 -12 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 76 287 863
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.95% 11.30% 18.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.59% 44.22% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 40 48 152
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £35,100
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +11.65% -21.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £85,750 £97,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 458 649 2,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.75% 25.55% 44.22%
Number of salaries quoted 282 229 723
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £67,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Java job vacancy trend in Scotland

Java
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Scotland

Java
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -26 49 £75,000 +0.67% 114
Edinburgh -15 21 £70,000 +21.74% 50
South Lanarkshire -8 3 £60,000 -
West Lothian +1 2 - - 1
Stirling -4 1 - -
Java
UK

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.84%) AWS
2 15 (19.74%) Azure
3 11 (14.47%) GitHub
4 10 (13.16%) GCP
5 6 (7.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.26%) dbt
7 3 (3.95%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.95%) Datadog
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.95%) SaaS
7 3 (3.95%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Broadband
1 3 (3.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.89%) MySQL
2 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.63%) Parquet
5 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.32%) Big Data
6 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.84%) Git
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 4 (5.26%) Maven
5 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.95%) GitLab
5 3 (3.95%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.63%) JUnit
6 2 (2.63%) Mockito
6 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.32%) Selenium
7 1 (1.32%) Subversion
7 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (34.21%) Finance
2 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
4 9 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.21%) Law
6 6 (7.89%) Marketing
7 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.95%) Front Office
8 3 (3.95%) Local Government
9 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.63%) Automotive
9 2 (2.63%) Aviation
9 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.32%) Games
10 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (35.53%) Developer
2 22 (28.95%) Java Developer
3 21 (27.63%) Software Engineer
4 17 (22.37%) Senior
5 16 (21.05%) Lead
6 14 (18.42%) Java Engineer
7 12 (15.79%) Senior Developer
8 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (14.47%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (14.47%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (11.84%) Technical Leader
10 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (7.89%) Principal Java Engineer
12 4 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
13 2 (2.63%) Applications Engineer
13 2 (2.63%) Applications Manager
13 2 (2.63%) Lead Software Engineer
13 2 (2.63%) Release Manager
13 2 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) Spring
2 14 (18.42%) React
2 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 11 (14.47%) Kafka
4 9 (11.84%) Jakarta EE
4 9 (11.84%) JSP
5 8 (10.53%) Next.js
5 8 (10.53%) REST
6 7 (9.21%) Hibernate
6 7 (9.21%) JPA
7 4 (5.26%) .NET
7 4 (5.26%) Terraform
8 3 (3.95%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.95%) LangChain
8 3 (3.95%) Node.js
8 3 (3.95%) PySpark
8 3 (3.95%) React Native
8 3 (3.95%) RESTful
8 3 (3.95%) Semantic Kernel
9 2 (2.63%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.32%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (55.26%) Software Engineering
2 31 (40.79%) Agile
2 31 (40.79%) CI/CD
3 20 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 20 (26.32%) Microservices
4 19 (25.00%) SDLC
5 18 (23.68%) Code Quality
6 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (19.74%) DevOps
9 14 (18.42%) Analytics
10 13 (17.11%) Machine Learning
10 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.84%) AI
11 9 (11.84%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.84%) Technical Architecture
11 9 (11.84%) Validation
12 8 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) Python
2 20 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (2.63%) Ada
5 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Grafana
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
3 3 (3.95%) Argo
3 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
1 4 (5.26%) Google
1 4 (5.26%) Splunk
2 3 (3.95%) Databricks
2 3 (3.95%) Foundry
3 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle