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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 24 9
Rank change year-on-year -30 -15 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 95 163 1,924
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.92% 8.44% 30.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.20% 26.16% 52.94%
Number of salaries quoted 46 117 286
10th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - -13.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,253 £77,929
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £97,506
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 669 623 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.58% 32.26% 58.32%
Number of salaries quoted 290 455 1,149
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,920 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -13 64 £61,250 +6.52% 12
Glasgow -26 23 £65,000 +1.56% 17
South Lanarkshire - 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian -4 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -20 1 £70,000 +40.00% 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 8 (8.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.21%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.21%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.05%) Smallworld
4 1 (1.05%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (16.84%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.47%) Azure
2 24 (25.26%) AWS
3 20 (21.05%) GitHub
4 17 (17.89%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (16.84%) OCI
6 10 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.42%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.37%) dbt
9 4 (4.21%) GCP
9 4 (4.21%) PaaS
9 4 (4.21%) SaaS
10 3 (3.16%) Azure AI
10 3 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.16%) Vertex AI
11 1 (1.05%) Boomi
11 1 (1.05%) Datadog
11 1 (1.05%) Firebase
11 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.05%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Broadband
2 1 (1.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Power BI
1 8 (8.42%) Tableau
2 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.16%) MySQL
5 1 (1.05%) GIS
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.84%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (14.74%) Git
4 12 (12.63%) JIRA
5 2 (2.11%) JUnit
6 1 (1.05%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.05%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.05%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.05%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.05%) fastlane
6 1 (1.05%) Gradle
6 1 (1.05%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.05%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.05%) JMeter
6 1 (1.05%) jMock
6 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.05%) Locust
6 1 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 34 (35.79%) Finance
2 8 (8.42%) Banking
3 7 (7.37%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Financial Institution
4 6 (6.32%) Games
5 5 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Local Government
7 3 (3.16%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.05%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (31.58%) Senior
2 28 (29.47%) Developer
3 19 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 17 (17.89%) Applications Engineer
4 17 (17.89%) Software Engineer
5 16 (16.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (13.68%) Lead
7 10 (10.53%) Analyst
7 10 (10.53%) Applications Support
7 10 (10.53%) Applications Support Analyst
7 10 (10.53%) Engineering Manager
7 10 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.53%) Support Analyst
8 9 (9.47%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 8 (8.42%) Software Engineering Manager
9 8 (8.42%) Software Manager
10 7 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (7.37%) Java Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) RESTful
2 10 (10.53%) .NET
3 9 (9.47%) React
3 9 (9.47%) SOAP
4 8 (8.42%) JSON
4 8 (8.42%) OAuth
4 8 (8.42%) OAuth2
4 8 (8.42%) SAML
4 8 (8.42%) XML
5 6 (6.32%) Kafka
6 5 (5.26%) Spring
6 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
7 4 (4.21%) Node.js
7 4 (4.21%) React Native
8 3 (3.16%) LangChain
8 3 (3.16%) REST
8 3 (3.16%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (3.16%) Web Services
9 2 (2.11%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.21%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.11%) SCADA
7 1 (1.05%) Blog
7 1 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Android
1 1 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.79%) Agile
2 32 (33.68%) Software Engineering
3 28 (29.47%) Test Automation
4 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
5 22 (23.16%) Mentoring
6 19 (20.00%) Coaching
6 19 (20.00%) DevOps
7 18 (18.95%) API Integration
7 18 (18.95%) Microservices
8 16 (16.84%) Asset Management
8 16 (16.84%) ERP
9 14 (14.74%) Analytics
10 13 (13.68%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.63%) AI
11 12 (12.63%) Observability
12 11 (11.58%) Event-Driven
12 11 (11.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 9 (9.47%) Clean Code
13 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (8.42%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) SQL
2 29 (30.53%) Python
3 16 (16.84%) PL/SQL
3 16 (16.84%) Shell Script
4 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.21%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.11%) C++
7 2 (2.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.05%) C
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.05%) Magik
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (6.32%) Degree
2 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.05%) PhD
3 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.11%) WCAG
3 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (8.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Terraform
2 16 (16.84%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (27.37%) Oracle
2 9 (9.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.42%) Okta
4 4 (4.21%) Google
5 3 (3.16%) Databricks
5 3 (3.16%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) ESRI
6 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.05%) Siemens
6 1 (1.05%) Talend