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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 195 218 270
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.15% 6.67% 11.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.46% 19.82% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43 114 228
10th Percentile £42,600 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £59,250 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% -10.90% +6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,063 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,000 £93,778 £85,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 662 1,100 957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.28% 33.67% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 263 589 765
10th Percentile £28,050 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,750 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +14 129 £75,000 +28.21% 22
Edinburgh -12 64 £85,000 +41.67% 23
Fife +12 2 £50,000 -
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 12 (6.15%) Apache Spark
1 12 (6.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.08%) Camunda
2 6 (3.08%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.54%) Apache
3 3 (1.54%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.51%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (13.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.03%) AWS
2 48 (24.62%) Azure
3 37 (18.97%) GitHub
4 28 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (13.85%) OCI
6 15 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (6.15%) GCP
8 12 (6.15%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.10%) Serverless
11 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.08%) SaaS
13 5 (2.56%) npm
13 5 (2.56%) Yarn
14 4 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.05%) OpenShift
15 3 (1.54%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) SSH
2 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.21%) NoSQL
2 15 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.15%) Power BI
4 12 (6.15%) Tableau
5 10 (5.13%) Big Data
6 9 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.59%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.08%) KDB
9 6 (3.08%) Kdb+
9 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.56%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.05%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.05%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.05%) HBase
12 3 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (21.03%) Jenkins
2 27 (13.85%) Oracle Forms
3 24 (12.31%) Git
4 17 (8.72%) JIRA
5 12 (6.15%) JUnit
5 12 (6.15%) Maven
6 6 (3.08%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.08%) webpack
7 5 (2.56%) Vite
8 4 (2.05%) Gradle
9 3 (1.54%) Subversion
10 2 (1.03%) Selenium
11 1 (0.51%) Ant
11 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.51%) JMeter
11 1 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.51%) TestNG
11 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 148 (75.90%) Finance
2 103 (52.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 103 (52.82%) Law
3 52 (26.67%) Banking
4 48 (24.62%) Marketing
5 19 (9.74%) Social Skills
6 17 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.69%) Legal
8 12 (6.15%) Games
9 10 (5.13%) Investment Banking
10 8 (4.10%) Tech for Good
11 4 (2.05%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.03%) Back Office
13 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 122 (62.56%) Software Engineer
2 86 (44.10%) Java Engineer
3 83 (42.56%) Java Software Engineer
4 35 (17.95%) Lead
5 32 (16.41%) Applications Engineer
5 32 (16.41%) Senior
6 31 (15.90%) Developer
6 31 (15.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 30 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
8 29 (14.87%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 27 (13.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (12.82%) Java Developer
11 21 (10.77%) Lead Java Engineer
12 16 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 14 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (7.18%) AWS Software Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (5.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (41.03%) Spring
2 56 (28.72%) React
3 53 (27.18%) Spring Boot
4 52 (26.67%) Kafka
5 51 (26.15%) RESTful
6 25 (12.82%) REST
7 23 (11.79%) AngularJS
8 20 (10.26%) SOAP
9 18 (9.23%) JSON
9 18 (9.23%) XML
10 17 (8.72%) OAuth
10 17 (8.72%) OAuth2
10 17 (8.72%) SAML
11 12 (6.15%) HTML
12 10 (5.13%) CSS
12 10 (5.13%) Hibernate
13 9 (4.62%) Web Services
14 7 (3.59%) JPA
15 6 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
15 6 (3.08%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 57 (29.23%) Cloud Native
2 43 (22.05%) Algorithms
3 30 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.10%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.54%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.54%) Derivative
7 3 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.54%) Equities
7 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.03%) NHS
9 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.05%) Unix
2 3 (1.54%) Linux
2 3 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.54%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (79.49%) Agile
2 134 (68.72%) Software Engineering
3 121 (62.05%) CI/CD
4 99 (50.77%) SDLC
5 84 (43.08%) Operational Stability
6 73 (37.44%) AI
7 61 (31.28%) Machine Learning
8 57 (29.23%) Community of Practice
9 45 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (23.08%) Test Automation
9 45 (23.08%) Visualisation
10 42 (21.54%) DevOps
11 40 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (18.46%) Mentoring
13 32 (16.41%) API Integration
13 32 (16.41%) Coaching
14 31 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (15.38%) Asset Management
15 30 (15.38%) Decision-Making
16 28 (14.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 75 (38.46%) SQL
2 53 (27.18%) Python
3 31 (15.90%) PL/SQL
4 27 (13.85%) Shell Script
5 23 (11.79%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.64%) C#
8 6 (3.08%) Scala
9 5 (2.56%) Go
10 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.54%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.03%) C
13 1 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Groovy
13 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.51%) Magik
13 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (5.13%) Degree
2 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.54%) NCSC
1 3 (1.54%) NIST
1 3 (1.54%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.03%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) GRC
3 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.18%) Docker
3 4 (2.05%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (22.05%) Terraform
2 35 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.85%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (5.64%) Grafana
5 3 (1.54%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.54%) Netcool
5 3 (1.54%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (28.21%) Oracle
2 20 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.21%) Splunk
4 15 (7.69%) Okta
5 13 (6.67%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.62%) Databricks
7 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.56%) Facebook
8 5 (2.56%) Google
9 4 (2.05%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.05%) IBM
10 3 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.51%) ESRI
12 1 (0.51%) Talend