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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -60 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 63 280 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.01% 13.33% 29.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 40.64% 52.38%
Number of salaries quoted 32 87 260
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,156 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -20.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £97,597
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 504 689 3,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 16.05% 32.81% 55.46%
Number of salaries quoted 246 351 1,146
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,563 £46,461 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +5.51% -4.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -10 33 £57,500 - 17
Glasgow -33 22 £65,000 -12.75% 18
South Lanarkshire 0 4 £60,000 - 1
West Lothian -3 2 - -
Stirling -11 1 - -
Aberdeen -22 1 £70,000 +40.00%
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 3 (4.76%) WebSphere
1 3 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) AWS
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) GitHub
3 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.35%) dbt
4 4 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (6.35%) OCI
4 4 (6.35%) SaaS
5 3 (4.76%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (4.76%) PaaS
5 3 (4.76%) Vertex AI
6 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.59%) Firebase
7 1 (1.59%) GCP
7 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.59%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Broadband
2 1 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.17%) Power BI
3 2 (3.17%) Tableau
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.52%) Git
2 6 (9.52%) JIRA
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.59%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.59%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.59%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.59%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.59%) fastlane
4 1 (1.59%) Gradle
4 1 (1.59%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.59%) JUnit
4 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.59%) Subversion
General
1 14 (22.22%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Banking
3 6 (9.52%) Financial Institution
3 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Local Government
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Aviation
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Developer
2 20 (31.75%) Java Developer
3 19 (30.16%) Senior
4 10 (15.87%) Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Applications Support
5 9 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Support Analyst
6 7 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Applications Support
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Support Analyst
7 6 (9.52%) Software Engineering Manager
7 6 (9.52%) Software Manager
8 5 (7.94%) Java Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Lead
8 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) .NET
2 6 (9.52%) Spring
3 5 (7.94%) RESTful
4 4 (6.35%) AWS CDK
4 4 (6.35%) Node.js
4 4 (6.35%) React
4 4 (6.35%) React Native
4 4 (6.35%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.76%) Kafka
5 3 (4.76%) LangChain
5 3 (4.76%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (3.17%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.17%) JPA
6 2 (3.17%) JSON
6 2 (3.17%) OAuth
6 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.17%) REST
6 2 (3.17%) SAML
6 2 (3.17%) SOAP
6 2 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.17%) SCADA
6 1 (1.59%) Blog
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) Software Engineering
2 15 (23.81%) Test Automation
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 13 (20.63%) Mentoring
5 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 11 (17.46%) Microservices
7 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.52%) AI
9 6 (9.52%) Analytics
9 6 (9.52%) Collateral Management
9 6 (9.52%) Machine Learning
9 6 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (7.94%) API Integration
10 5 (7.94%) Coaching
10 5 (7.94%) DevOps
10 5 (7.94%) Event-Driven
10 5 (7.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (7.94%) Observability
11 4 (6.35%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
1 15 (23.81%) SQL
2 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
2 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
2 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.17%) C++
5 1 (1.59%) C
5 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.59%) Perl
5 1 (1.59%) Rust
5 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (6.35%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Oracle
2 4 (6.35%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) Foundry
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) Okta
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) Siemens