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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 20 9
Rank change year-on-year -50 -11 +7
Permanent jobs citing Java 72 213 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.22% 10.48% 30.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.79% 34.58% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 89 258
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,334 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.10% -18.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £100,500 £96,827
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 563 616 3,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.36% 30.31% 57.18%
Number of salaries quoted 255 358 1,124
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,150 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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
Edinburgh -9 42 £57,500 - 6
Glasgow -35 22 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South Lanarkshire 0 4 £60,000 - 1
West Lothian -5 2 - -
Stirling -10 1 - -
Aberdeen -22 1 £70,000 +40.00% 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 5 (6.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.17%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.39%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) AWS
3 14 (19.44%) GitHub
4 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.89%) OCI
6 7 (9.72%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (6.94%) dbt
7 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.56%) SaaS
9 3 (4.17%) Azure AI
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (4.17%) PaaS
9 3 (4.17%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.78%) GCP
11 1 (1.39%) Firebase
11 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.39%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (1.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.94%) Power BI
2 5 (6.94%) Tableau
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.89%) Git
2 10 (13.89%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (1.39%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.39%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.39%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.39%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.39%) fastlane
5 1 (1.39%) Gradle
5 1 (1.39%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.39%) jMock
5 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 20 (27.78%) Finance
2 7 (9.72%) Banking
3 6 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 6 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Local Government
6 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Aviation
7 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (40.28%) Developer
2 22 (30.56%) Java Developer
2 22 (30.56%) Senior
3 10 (13.89%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Senior Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Analyst
4 9 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 9 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 8 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
6 7 (9.72%) Software Engineering Manager
6 7 (9.72%) Software Manager
7 6 (8.33%) Lead
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Applications Support
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) RESTful
2 9 (12.50%) .NET
3 6 (8.33%) Spring
4 5 (6.94%) JSON
4 5 (6.94%) OAuth
4 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
4 5 (6.94%) SAML
4 5 (6.94%) SOAP
4 5 (6.94%) XML
5 4 (5.56%) AWS CDK
5 4 (5.56%) Kafka
5 4 (5.56%) Node.js
5 4 (5.56%) React
5 4 (5.56%) React Native
5 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.17%) LangChain
6 3 (4.17%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (2.78%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.78%) JPA
7 2 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.94%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) SCADA
6 1 (1.39%) Blog
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Android
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.17%) Test Automation
2 20 (27.78%) Agile
3 19 (26.39%) Software Engineering
4 18 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
6 14 (19.44%) Microservices
7 11 (15.28%) API Integration
7 11 (15.28%) Coaching
7 11 (15.28%) DevOps
8 10 (13.89%) Analytics
8 10 (13.89%) Asset Management
8 10 (13.89%) ERP
9 9 (12.50%) AI
9 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven
10 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (11.11%) Observability
11 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Python
1 21 (29.17%) SQL
2 10 (13.89%) PL/SQL
2 10 (13.89%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.78%) C++
5 2 (2.78%) Scala
6 1 (1.39%) C
6 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (5.56%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Single Sign-On
1 10 (13.89%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Oracle
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) Okta
3 4 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) Foundry
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.39%) Siemens