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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 19 9
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Java 73 306 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.16% 12.23% 23.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.12% 44.93% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41 73 203
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,837 £36,300
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +8.49% -21.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £94,756 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.65% -

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 517 681 2,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.28% 27.21% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 296 301 918
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,694 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £68,114
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -22 38 £75,000 +0.67% 40
Edinburgh -14 27 £58,750 +2.17% 19
South Lanarkshire -2 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian +2 2 - -
Stirling -7 1 - -
Aberdeen -18 1 £70,000 - 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 2 (2.74%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) AWS
2 11 (15.07%) GitHub
3 8 (10.96%) GitHub Copilot
4 7 (9.59%) Azure
5 5 (6.85%) SaaS
6 4 (5.48%) dbt
7 3 (4.11%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.11%) PaaS
7 3 (4.11%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.74%) GCP
8 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.74%) Google Play
9 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.37%) Datadog
9 1 (1.37%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Broadband
1 3 (4.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.96%) MySQL
3 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.85%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) JIRA
3 3 (4.11%) Maven
4 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.74%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.37%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.37%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.37%) fastlane
5 1 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (1.37%) Gradle
5 1 (1.37%) JUnit
5 1 (1.37%) Mockito
5 1 (1.37%) Selenium
5 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.37%) Subversion
5 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (17.81%) Banking
2 12 (16.44%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.48%) Local Government
6 3 (4.11%) Front Office
6 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.74%) Aviation
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (39.73%) Developer
2 21 (28.77%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.29%) Senior
4 14 (19.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (17.81%) Lead
6 11 (15.07%) Java Engineer
7 10 (13.70%) Senior Developer
8 9 (12.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (12.33%) Software Engineer
9 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (10.96%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (10.96%) Technical Leader
10 7 (9.59%) Engineering Manager
11 6 (8.22%) Analyst
11 6 (8.22%) Applications Support
11 6 (8.22%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (8.22%) Principal Java Engineer
11 6 (8.22%) Software Engineering Manager
11 6 (8.22%) Software Manager
12 5 (6.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) Spring
2 13 (17.81%) React
3 12 (16.44%) Spring Boot
4 9 (12.33%) Hibernate
4 9 (12.33%) JPA
4 9 (12.33%) Kafka
4 9 (12.33%) REST
5 8 (10.96%) Jakarta EE
5 8 (10.96%) JSP
6 7 (9.59%) .NET
6 7 (9.59%) Next.js
7 4 (5.48%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.48%) Node.js
7 4 (5.48%) React Native
8 3 (4.11%) LangChain
8 3 (4.11%) RESTful
8 3 (4.11%) Semantic Kernel
9 2 (2.74%) HTML
9 2 (2.74%) HTML5
9 2 (2.74%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.85%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Blog
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Android
2 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Software Engineering
2 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
3 23 (31.51%) Agile
4 19 (26.03%) Mentoring
5 17 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (21.92%) Microservices
7 14 (19.18%) SDLC
8 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
9 12 (16.44%) Code Quality
9 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (15.07%) Machine Learning
11 10 (13.70%) Analytics
12 9 (12.33%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (12.33%) DevOps
13 8 (10.96%) Data Analytics
14 7 (9.59%) Technical Architecture
15 5 (6.85%) Customer Experience
15 5 (6.85%) End-to-End Testing
15 5 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.29%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
3 13 (17.81%) TypeScript
4 7 (9.59%) SQL
5 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.37%) Ada
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) C++
6 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (4.11%) Degree
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Argo
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) Google
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) Foundry
4 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.37%) Splunk