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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 228 203 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.20% 6.14% 10.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.14% 18.95% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 40 104 222
10th Percentile £44,675 £34,125 £32,575
25th Percentile £63,125 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £58,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -11.25% +4.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +4.17%

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 688 1,071 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.75% 32.42% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 256 566 762
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,760 £69,950 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,125 £79,569 £80,000
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 15 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 15 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 +20 165 £75,000 +28.76% 26
Edinburgh -11 59 £85,000 +41.67% 35
Fife +13 4 £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 14 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.51%) Camunda
3 8 (3.51%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.19%) Apache
5 4 (1.75%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.44%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (10.96%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (42.11%) AWS
2 50 (21.93%) Azure
3 37 (16.23%) GitHub
4 26 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (10.96%) OCI
6 15 (6.58%) GCP
7 14 (6.14%) Amazon S3
7 14 (6.14%) Entra ID
8 13 (5.70%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (4.82%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.39%) Serverless
11 9 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.07%) npm
13 7 (3.07%) Yarn
14 6 (2.63%) SaaS
15 5 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.19%) OpenShift
16 4 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) SSH
1 3 (1.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.77%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.14%) Big Data
5 13 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (4.82%) Power BI
7 11 (4.82%) Tableau
8 10 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.95%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.51%) KDB
10 8 (3.51%) Kdb+
11 7 (3.07%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.63%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.19%) Apache Hive
13 5 (2.19%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.19%) HBase
13 5 (2.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.40%) Git
3 25 (10.96%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (7.46%) JIRA
5 16 (7.02%) JUnit
6 15 (6.58%) Maven
7 8 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.51%) webpack
8 7 (3.07%) Vite
9 5 (2.19%) Gradle
10 4 (1.75%) Subversion
11 2 (0.88%) Selenium
12 1 (0.44%) Ant
12 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.44%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.44%) JMeter
12 1 (0.44%) Locust
12 1 (0.44%) TestNG
12 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 181 (79.39%) Finance
2 138 (60.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 138 (60.53%) Law
3 69 (30.26%) Banking
4 63 (27.63%) Marketing
5 23 (10.09%) Social Skills
6 22 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.77%) Legal
8 13 (5.70%) Games
8 13 (5.70%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.07%) Tech for Good
10 5 (2.19%) Private Banking
11 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Back Office
12 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 155 (67.98%) Software Engineer
2 109 (47.81%) Java Engineer
3 106 (46.49%) Java Software Engineer
4 43 (18.86%) Lead
5 40 (17.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 38 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 38 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 36 (15.79%) Senior
8 34 (14.91%) Developer
9 30 (13.16%) Applications Engineer
10 29 (12.72%) Java Developer
11 27 (11.84%) Lead Java Engineer
12 26 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
13 19 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (6.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (5.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 13 (5.70%) Java Software Developer
15 13 (5.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (45.18%) Spring
2 70 (30.70%) React
3 67 (29.39%) Kafka
3 67 (29.39%) Spring Boot
4 54 (23.68%) RESTful
5 30 (13.16%) AngularJS
5 30 (13.16%) REST
6 19 (8.33%) SOAP
7 17 (7.46%) JSON
7 17 (7.46%) OAuth
7 17 (7.46%) OAuth2
7 17 (7.46%) SAML
7 17 (7.46%) XML
8 15 (6.58%) HTML
9 12 (5.26%) CSS
9 12 (5.26%) Hibernate
10 10 (4.39%) Web Services
11 9 (3.95%) JPA
12 8 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (3.51%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 64 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 59 (25.88%) Algorithms
3 29 (12.72%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.82%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.82%) Reference Data
5 7 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.19%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.75%) Derivative
7 4 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.75%) Equities
7 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) Tandem
9 2 (0.88%) NHS
10 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.19%) Unix
2 4 (1.75%) Linux
2 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (82.46%) Agile
2 168 (73.68%) Software Engineering
3 147 (64.47%) CI/CD
4 129 (56.58%) SDLC
5 113 (49.56%) Operational Stability
6 92 (40.35%) AI
7 79 (34.65%) Machine Learning
8 78 (34.21%) Community of Practice
9 62 (27.19%) Visualisation
10 59 (25.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (20.18%) Test Automation
13 44 (19.30%) DevOps
14 39 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (16.23%) Decision-Making
16 36 (15.79%) Mentoring
17 30 (13.16%) Microservices
18 29 (12.72%) API Integration
18 29 (12.72%) Asset Management
18 29 (12.72%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 87 (38.16%) SQL
2 58 (25.44%) Python
3 30 (13.16%) PL/SQL
4 28 (12.28%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.40%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.96%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.70%) C#
8 6 (2.63%) Go
8 6 (2.63%) Scala
9 5 (2.19%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.32%) C
12 2 (0.88%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Magik
13 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (4.82%) Degree
2 9 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.32%) NCSC
1 3 (1.32%) NIST
1 3 (1.32%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.44%) GRC
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.89%) Docker
2 14 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (21.05%) Terraform
2 46 (20.18%) Kubernetes
3 25 (10.96%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (7.02%) Grafana
5 5 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.75%) Netcool
6 4 (1.75%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (1.75%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.44%) Ansible
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (27.63%) Oracle
2 22 (9.65%) Splunk
3 19 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.46%) Dynatrace
5 14 (6.14%) Okta
6 10 (4.39%) Databricks
7 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.63%) Facebook
8 6 (2.63%) Google
8 6 (2.63%) IBM
9 5 (2.19%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.44%) ESRI
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) Sybase