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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 29 8
Rank change year-on-year -28 -21 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 106 155 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.46% 7.52% 28.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.70% 22.86% 49.78%
Number of salaries quoted 49 102 271
10th Percentile £48,400 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,171 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £67,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% +9.84% -10.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £107,875 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 675 678 2,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.01% 32.88% 56.75%
Number of salaries quoted 288 462 1,085
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,563 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,563 £74,080 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,875 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 March 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 March 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 -6 77 £75,000 - 21
Glasgow -13 24 £65,000 +1.56% 13
West Lothian -1 2 - -
Aberdeen -15 1 £70,000 +40.00%
South Lanarkshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Stirling - 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 11 (10.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.77%) WebSphere
2 4 (3.77%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.94%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.94%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (23.58%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) Azure
2 30 (28.30%) AWS
3 29 (27.36%) GitHub
4 26 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (23.58%) OCI
6 14 (13.21%) Entra ID
7 13 (12.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (10.38%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.66%) dbt
10 4 (3.77%) GCP
11 3 (2.83%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (2.83%) PaaS
11 3 (2.83%) SaaS
11 3 (2.83%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.94%) Boomi
12 1 (0.94%) Datadog
12 1 (0.94%) Firebase
12 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.94%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) Broadband
2 1 (0.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) Power BI
1 11 (10.38%) Tableau
2 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.94%) GIS
5 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.58%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (16.04%) Git
4 15 (14.15%) JIRA
5 2 (1.89%) JUnit
6 1 (0.94%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.94%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.94%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.94%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.94%) fastlane
6 1 (0.94%) Gradle
6 1 (0.94%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.94%) JMeter
6 1 (0.94%) jMock
6 1 (0.94%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.94%) Locust
6 1 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 48 (45.28%) Finance
2 9 (8.49%) Games
3 8 (7.55%) Banking
4 7 (6.60%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.94%) Local Government
9 1 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (33.96%) Senior
2 30 (28.30%) Applications Engineer
3 25 (23.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (22.64%) Developer
5 18 (16.98%) Java Developer
5 18 (16.98%) Software Engineer
6 14 (13.21%) Lead
6 14 (13.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Analyst
7 10 (9.43%) Applications Support
7 10 (9.43%) Applications Support Analyst
7 10 (9.43%) Engineering Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Support Analyst
8 9 (8.49%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (7.55%) Software Engineering Manager
9 8 (7.55%) Software Manager
10 7 (6.60%) Java Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.30%) RESTful
2 15 (14.15%) SOAP
3 14 (13.21%) JSON
3 14 (13.21%) XML
4 11 (10.38%) OAuth
4 11 (10.38%) OAuth2
4 11 (10.38%) SAML
5 10 (9.43%) .NET
6 9 (8.49%) React
7 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.66%) Kafka
8 6 (5.66%) Spring
9 3 (2.83%) LangChain
9 3 (2.83%) REST
9 3 (2.83%) Semantic Kernel
9 3 (2.83%) Web Services
10 2 (1.89%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.89%) JPA
10 2 (1.89%) Swing
11 1 (0.94%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (23.58%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.89%) SCADA
6 1 (0.94%) Blog
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Android
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) Agile
2 35 (33.02%) Software Engineering
3 34 (32.08%) Test Automation
4 33 (31.13%) CI/CD
5 31 (29.25%) Mentoring
6 30 (28.30%) API Integration
6 30 (28.30%) Coaching
7 28 (26.42%) DevOps
8 25 (23.58%) Asset Management
8 25 (23.58%) ERP
9 19 (17.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (16.98%) Microservices
10 18 (16.98%) Observability
11 17 (16.04%) Analytics
12 15 (14.15%) AI
13 14 (13.21%) Data Governance
13 14 (13.21%) Event-Driven
13 14 (13.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (13.21%) Migration
13 14 (13.21%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.79%) SQL
2 37 (34.91%) Python
3 25 (23.58%) PL/SQL
3 25 (23.58%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.83%) Scala
5 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.89%) C++
6 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.94%) C
7 1 (0.94%) C#
7 1 (0.94%) Magik
7 1 (0.94%) Perl
7 1 (0.94%) Ruby
7 1 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (5.66%) Degree
2 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.94%) PhD
2 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) NCSC
2 3 (2.83%) NIST
3 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (24.53%) Terraform
2 25 (23.58%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (33.02%) Oracle
2 14 (13.21%) Okta
3 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.77%) Google
5 3 (2.83%) Databricks
5 3 (2.83%) Foundry
6 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.94%) ESRI
6 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.94%) Siemens
6 1 (0.94%) Talend