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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 19 9
Rank change year-on-year -45 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Java 76 303 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.17% 11.87% 23.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.84% 45.70% 48.88%
Number of salaries quoted 42 70 191
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,504 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +8.49% -20.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,375 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 512 663 2,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.60% 25.98% 48.72%
Number of salaries quoted 302 283 838
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £79,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £97,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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
Glasgow -23 44 £75,000 +0.67% 75
Edinburgh -16 25 £60,000 +4.35% 20
South Lanarkshire -2 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian +4 2 - -
Stirling -4 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 3 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.26%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) GitHub
3 10 (13.16%) Azure
4 8 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (7.89%) dbt
5 6 (7.89%) GCP
6 5 (6.58%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.95%) Azure AI
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.95%) Datadog
8 3 (3.95%) PaaS
8 3 (3.95%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.63%) Google Play
10 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.32%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Broadband
1 3 (3.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) MySQL
1 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) Git
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) GitLab
4 3 (3.95%) Maven
5 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.32%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.32%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.32%) fastlane
6 1 (1.32%) Gradle
6 1 (1.32%) JUnit
6 1 (1.32%) Mockito
6 1 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.32%) Subversion
6 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Finance
3 13 (17.11%) Banking
4 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.58%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Law
5 5 (6.58%) Marketing
6 4 (5.26%) Local Government
7 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Front Office
8 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.63%) Automotive
8 2 (2.63%) Aviation
8 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Developer
2 21 (27.63%) Java Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Lead
4 16 (21.05%) Senior
5 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (18.42%) Software Engineer
6 11 (14.47%) Java Engineer
7 10 (13.16%) Senior Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Technical Leader
9 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (7.89%) Principal Java Engineer
10 6 (7.89%) Software Manager
11 5 (6.58%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (5.26%) Software Engineering Manager
13 3 (3.95%) Analyst
13 3 (3.95%) Principal Software Engineer
13 3 (3.95%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) Spring
2 14 (18.42%) React
2 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 11 (14.47%) Kafka
4 9 (11.84%) Hibernate
4 9 (11.84%) Jakarta EE
4 9 (11.84%) JPA
4 9 (11.84%) JSP
4 9 (11.84%) REST
5 8 (10.53%) Next.js
6 6 (7.89%) .NET
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.26%) Node.js
7 4 (5.26%) React Native
8 3 (3.95%) LangChain
8 3 (3.95%) RESTful
8 3 (3.95%) Semantic Kernel
9 2 (2.63%) HTML
9 2 (2.63%) HTML5
9 2 (2.63%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Blog
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) Software Engineering
2 30 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 26 (34.21%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 18 (23.68%) Microservices
6 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (22.37%) SDLC
7 15 (19.74%) Code Quality
7 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (19.74%) Test Automation
8 14 (18.42%) Analytics
9 13 (17.11%) Machine Learning
10 10 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (13.16%) DevOps
11 8 (10.53%) Data Analytics
11 8 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
12 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (7.89%) Observability
13 6 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.26%) Python
2 18 (23.68%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (2.63%) Ada
5 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) C++
6 1 (1.32%) Rust
6 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (5.26%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) Argo
2 3 (3.95%) Grafana
2 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Google
2 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.95%) Foundry
3 3 (3.95%) Splunk
4 2 (2.63%) Databricks
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft