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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 22 9
Rank change year-on-year -42 -13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 79 199 1,954
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.41% 9.98% 30.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.23% 31.99% 53.53%
Number of salaries quoted 35 105 261
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -17.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 597 622 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.23% 31.19% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 261 404 1,134
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,800 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,583 £67,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £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 17 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 17 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 -11 47 £57,500 - 9
Glasgow -30 24 £65,000 -5.45% 12
South Lanarkshire -2 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian -4 2 - -
Stirling -10 1 - -
Aberdeen -23 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 6 (7.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.80%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.85%) Azure
2 18 (22.78%) AWS
3 16 (20.25%) GitHub
4 13 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (15.19%) OCI
6 8 (10.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (7.59%) dbt
7 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.06%) SaaS
9 3 (3.80%) Azure AI
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.80%) GCP
9 3 (3.80%) PaaS
9 3 (3.80%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.27%) Boomi
10 1 (1.27%) Firebase
10 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.27%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Broadband
2 1 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Power BI
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
1 6 (7.59%) Tableau
2 3 (3.80%) MySQL
2 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (18.99%) Jenkins
2 12 (15.19%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (13.92%) Git
4 9 (11.39%) JIRA
5 2 (2.53%) JUnit
6 1 (1.27%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.27%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.27%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.27%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.27%) fastlane
6 1 (1.27%) Gradle
6 1 (1.27%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.27%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.27%) jMock
6 1 (1.27%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 22 (27.85%) Finance
2 7 (8.86%) Banking
3 6 (7.59%) Financial Institution
3 6 (7.59%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Local Government
6 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Aviation
7 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (39.24%) Developer
2 23 (29.11%) Java Developer
2 23 (29.11%) Senior
3 12 (15.19%) Applications Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Engineering Manager
4 10 (12.66%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Analyst
5 9 (11.39%) Applications Support
5 9 (11.39%) Applications Support Analyst
5 9 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Support Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering Manager
6 8 (10.13%) Software Manager
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Support Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) RESTful
2 9 (11.39%) .NET
3 7 (8.86%) SOAP
4 6 (7.59%) JSON
4 6 (7.59%) OAuth
4 6 (7.59%) OAuth2
4 6 (7.59%) SAML
4 6 (7.59%) Spring
4 6 (7.59%) XML
5 5 (6.33%) Kafka
5 5 (6.33%) React
6 4 (5.06%) AWS CDK
6 4 (5.06%) Node.js
6 4 (5.06%) React Native
6 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.80%) LangChain
7 3 (3.80%) REST
7 3 (3.80%) Semantic Kernel
7 3 (3.80%) Web Services
8 2 (2.53%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.19%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.33%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.53%) SCADA
7 1 (1.27%) Blog
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Android
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.11%) Agile
1 23 (29.11%) Test Automation
2 21 (26.58%) Software Engineering
3 20 (25.32%) CI/CD
3 20 (25.32%) Mentoring
4 15 (18.99%) Coaching
4 15 (18.99%) Microservices
5 14 (17.72%) API Integration
6 13 (16.46%) DevOps
7 12 (15.19%) Analytics
7 12 (15.19%) Asset Management
7 12 (15.19%) ERP
8 10 (12.66%) AI
8 10 (12.66%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven
9 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (11.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (11.39%) Observability
10 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.38%) Python
1 24 (30.38%) SQL
2 12 (15.19%) PL/SQL
2 12 (15.19%) Shell Script
3 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.53%) C++
6 2 (2.53%) Scala
7 1 (1.27%) C
7 1 (1.27%) C#
7 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (5.06%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (5.06%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (15.19%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) Oracle
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.59%) Okta
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) Foundry
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) Siemens
6 1 (1.27%) Talend