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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 28 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 -18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 129 204 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.67% 6.67% 14.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.18% 19.30% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 40 106 226
10th Percentile £40,475 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £46,063 £43,093
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £60,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -9.09% +1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,438 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 609 1,057 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.05% 34.58% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 252 564 770
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,625 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,760 £69,850 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,624 £82,505
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 11 December 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 11 December 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
Edinburgh -15 69 £85,000 +41.67% 30
Glasgow +14 59 £66,250 +10.42% 13
Fife +10 1 £50,000 - 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 15 (11.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.55%) Camunda
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.78%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.78%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 33 (25.58%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.31%) AWS
2 47 (36.43%) Azure
3 40 (31.01%) GitHub
4 34 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (25.58%) OCI
6 18 (13.95%) Entra ID
7 16 (12.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (11.63%) Power Platform
9 9 (6.98%) GCP
10 6 (4.65%) SaaS
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.10%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.10%) Serverless
12 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.33%) dbt
13 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.55%) Boomi
13 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.55%) npm
13 2 (1.55%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) HTTP
1 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.63%) Power BI
1 15 (11.63%) Tableau
2 10 (7.75%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.10%) Big Data
5 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.55%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.55%) HBase
7 2 (1.55%) KDB
7 2 (1.55%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 38 (29.46%) Jenkins
2 33 (25.58%) Oracle Forms
3 22 (17.05%) Git
4 18 (13.95%) JIRA
5 6 (4.65%) JUnit
6 5 (3.88%) Maven
7 3 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.33%) webpack
8 2 (1.55%) Gradle
8 2 (1.55%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.55%) Selenium
8 2 (1.55%) Vite
9 1 (0.78%) Ant
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) jMock
9 1 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.78%) Locust
9 1 (0.78%) Protractor
9 1 (0.78%) Subversion
9 1 (0.78%) TestNG
General
1 84 (65.12%) Finance
2 38 (29.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (28.68%) Law
4 19 (14.73%) Marketing
5 18 (13.95%) Banking
6 11 (8.53%) Social Skills
7 10 (7.75%) Games
8 8 (6.20%) Tech for Good
9 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (4.65%) Legal
11 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.55%) Back Office
12 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.55%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (43.41%) Software Engineer
2 38 (29.46%) Applications Engineer
3 37 (28.68%) Java Engineer
4 34 (26.36%) Java Software Engineer
5 33 (25.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (21.71%) Senior
7 21 (16.28%) Developer
8 19 (14.73%) Lead
9 18 (13.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 16 (12.40%) Java Developer
11 14 (10.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (10.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (8.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 10 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (6.98%) Lead Java Engineer
16 7 (5.43%) Security Engineer
17 6 (4.65%) Kafka Developer
18 5 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
18 5 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
18 5 (3.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (37.21%) RESTful
2 31 (24.03%) Spring
3 28 (21.71%) React
4 24 (18.60%) Kafka
5 22 (17.05%) Spring Boot
6 21 (16.28%) SOAP
6 21 (16.28%) XML
7 20 (15.50%) JSON
8 17 (13.18%) OAuth
8 17 (13.18%) OAuth2
8 17 (13.18%) SAML
9 12 (9.30%) REST
10 9 (6.98%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.65%) CSS
11 6 (4.65%) Hibernate
11 6 (4.65%) HTML
11 6 (4.65%) Web Services
12 3 (2.33%) .NET
12 3 (2.33%) JPA
13 2 (1.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 44 (34.11%) Cloud Native
2 34 (26.36%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (12.40%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.55%) NHS
5 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Derivative
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.78%) Equities
6 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Linux
1 2 (1.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (72.87%) Agile
2 72 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 67 (51.94%) Software Engineering
4 45 (34.88%) DevOps
5 44 (34.11%) Test Automation
6 39 (30.23%) SDLC
7 38 (29.46%) AI
7 38 (29.46%) API Integration
7 38 (29.46%) Coaching
8 34 (26.36%) Asset Management
8 34 (26.36%) ERP
9 33 (25.58%) Mentoring
10 29 (22.48%) Operational Stability
11 26 (20.16%) Microservices
12 23 (17.83%) Analytics
12 23 (17.83%) Machine Learning
13 22 (17.05%) Observability
14 20 (15.50%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.50%) Community of Practice
14 20 (15.50%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (43.41%) SQL
2 46 (35.66%) Python
3 35 (27.13%) PL/SQL
4 33 (25.58%) Shell Script
5 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.53%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.65%) C#
8 4 (3.10%) Scala
9 2 (1.55%) C
9 2 (1.55%) Go
9 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) Magik
10 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (6.20%) Degree
2 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) NCSC
1 3 (2.33%) NIST
1 3 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.55%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) GRC
3 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.53%) Docker
3 2 (1.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (30.23%) Terraform
2 33 (25.58%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (13.18%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.78%) Netcool
5 1 (0.78%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (32.56%) Oracle
2 20 (15.50%) Microsoft
3 18 (13.95%) Okta
4 6 (4.65%) Splunk
5 5 (3.88%) Databricks
5 5 (3.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.55%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.55%) Facebook
6 2 (1.55%) Google
6 2 (1.55%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.78%) ESRI
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) Talend