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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 218 196 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.03% 6.03% 10.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.59% 18.67% 28.01%
Number of salaries quoted 32 100 219
10th Percentile £45,250 £33,750 £33,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.84% +4.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +4.74%

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 649 1,050 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.90% 32.32% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 233 556 753
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £78,312 £67,906 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +16 164 £75,000 +32.74% 18
Edinburgh -18 49 £80,000 +45.45% 49
Fife +12 5 £50,000 - 5
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 14 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.67%) Camunda
3 8 (3.67%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.29%) Apache
5 4 (1.83%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (9.63%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (43.12%) AWS
2 46 (21.10%) Azure
3 33 (15.14%) GitHub
4 22 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (9.63%) OCI
6 16 (7.34%) GCP
7 14 (6.42%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.50%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (4.59%) Serverless
11 9 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.21%) npm
13 7 (3.21%) Yarn
14 6 (2.75%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.75%) SaaS
15 5 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (1.83%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) SSH
1 4 (1.83%) SSL
2 2 (0.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.17%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.72%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.34%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.42%) Big Data
5 13 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (5.05%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.13%) Power BI
9 9 (4.13%) RDBMS
9 9 (4.13%) Tableau
10 8 (3.67%) KDB
10 8 (3.67%) Kdb+
11 7 (3.21%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.75%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.29%) Apache Hive
13 5 (2.29%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.29%) HBase
13 5 (2.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (18.35%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.01%) Git
3 21 (9.63%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (7.34%) JUnit
5 15 (6.88%) JIRA
5 15 (6.88%) Maven
6 8 (3.67%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.67%) webpack
7 7 (3.21%) Vite
8 5 (2.29%) Gradle
9 4 (1.83%) Subversion
10 2 (0.92%) Selenium
11 1 (0.46%) Ant
11 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.46%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.46%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.46%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Protractor
11 1 (0.46%) TestNG
11 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (78.90%) Finance
2 138 (63.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 138 (63.30%) Law
3 68 (31.19%) Banking
4 63 (28.90%) Marketing
5 23 (10.55%) Social Skills
6 22 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (9.17%) Legal
8 13 (5.96%) Investment Banking
9 9 (4.13%) Games
10 6 (2.75%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.83%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Back Office
13 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 149 (68.35%) Software Engineer
2 106 (48.62%) Java Engineer
3 103 (47.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (18.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 39 (17.89%) Lead
6 38 (17.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 35 (16.06%) Lead Software Engineer
8 34 (15.60%) Developer
9 33 (15.14%) Senior
10 29 (13.30%) Java Developer
11 26 (11.93%) Applications Engineer
12 25 (11.47%) Lead Java Engineer
13 22 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (8.72%) AWS Software Engineer
15 17 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (5.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 13 (5.96%) Java Software Developer
16 13 (5.96%) Software Developer
17 12 (5.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (47.25%) Spring
2 68 (31.19%) React
3 67 (30.73%) Kafka
3 67 (30.73%) Spring Boot
4 50 (22.94%) RESTful
5 30 (13.76%) AngularJS
5 30 (13.76%) REST
6 17 (7.80%) SOAP
7 15 (6.88%) HTML
7 15 (6.88%) JSON
7 15 (6.88%) OAuth
7 15 (6.88%) OAuth2
7 15 (6.88%) SAML
7 15 (6.88%) XML
8 12 (5.50%) CSS
8 12 (5.50%) Hibernate
9 10 (4.59%) Web Services
10 9 (4.13%) JPA
11 8 (3.67%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (3.67%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.52%) Cloud Native
2 59 (27.06%) Algorithms
3 25 (11.47%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.05%) Reference Data
5 7 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.29%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.83%) Derivative
7 4 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.83%) Equities
7 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.83%) Tandem
8 2 (0.92%) NHS
9 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.29%) Unix
2 4 (1.83%) Linux
2 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (83.94%) Agile
2 163 (74.77%) Software Engineering
3 143 (65.60%) CI/CD
4 129 (59.17%) SDLC
5 113 (51.83%) Operational Stability
6 90 (41.28%) AI
7 79 (36.24%) Machine Learning
8 78 (35.78%) Community of Practice
9 62 (28.44%) Visualisation
10 59 (27.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (23.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (19.72%) Test Automation
13 41 (18.81%) DevOps
14 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (16.97%) Decision-Making
16 34 (15.60%) Mentoring
17 28 (12.84%) Microservices
18 26 (11.93%) TDD
19 25 (11.47%) API Integration
19 25 (11.47%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (38.53%) SQL
2 55 (25.23%) Python
3 28 (12.84%) JavaScript
4 26 (11.93%) PL/SQL
5 25 (11.47%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.63%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.96%) C#
8 6 (2.75%) Go
8 6 (2.75%) Scala
9 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.38%) C
12 2 (0.92%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) Magik
13 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (5.05%) Degree
2 9 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.38%) NCSC
1 3 (1.38%) NIST
1 3 (1.38%) QA
2 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.46%) GRC
3 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (8.26%) Docker
2 12 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 44 (20.18%) Terraform
3 21 (9.63%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (7.34%) Grafana
5 5 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.83%) Netcool
6 4 (1.83%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (1.83%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.46%) Ansible
7 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (27.06%) Oracle
2 22 (10.09%) Splunk
3 17 (7.80%) Dynatrace
3 17 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.50%) Okta
5 10 (4.59%) Databricks
6 8 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.21%) IBM
8 6 (2.75%) Facebook
8 6 (2.75%) Google
9 5 (2.29%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.46%) ESRI
11 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.46%) Sybase