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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 22 9
Rank change year-on-year -41 -13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Java 92 162 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.73% 8.58% 30.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.00% 26.30% 53.08%
Number of salaries quoted 44 120 278
10th Percentile £42,900 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,253 £79,688
90th Percentile £92,000 £100,250 £98,931
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 657 616 3,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.47% 32.63% 58.16%
Number of salaries quoted 280 453 1,146
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £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 £77,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £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 28 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 28 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 -11 61 £60,000 +4.35% 8
Glasgow -35 23 £65,000 -5.45% 13
South Lanarkshire - 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian -8 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -22 1 £70,000 +40.00%
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 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.26%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.09%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.26%) Azure
2 21 (22.83%) AWS
3 20 (21.74%) GitHub
4 17 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.39%) OCI
6 10 (10.87%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.52%) dbt
9 4 (4.35%) SaaS
10 3 (3.26%) Azure AI
10 3 (3.26%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.26%) GCP
10 3 (3.26%) PaaS
10 3 (3.26%) Vertex AI
11 1 (1.09%) Boomi
11 1 (1.09%) Firebase
11 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.09%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) Broadband
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) Power BI
1 8 (8.70%) Tableau
2 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.26%) MySQL
3 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.39%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (14.13%) Git
4 11 (11.96%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) JUnit
6 1 (1.09%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.09%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.09%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.09%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.09%) fastlane
6 1 (1.09%) Gradle
6 1 (1.09%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.09%) jMock
6 1 (1.09%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 33 (35.87%) Finance
2 8 (8.70%) Banking
3 6 (6.52%) Financial Institution
3 6 (6.52%) Games
3 6 (6.52%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.43%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Local Government
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.17%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.09%) Aviation
8 1 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) Senior
2 28 (30.43%) Developer
3 20 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 16 (17.39%) Applications Engineer
4 16 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (17.39%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Lead
6 10 (10.87%) Engineering Manager
6 10 (10.87%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Analyst
7 9 (9.78%) Applications Support
7 9 (9.78%) Applications Support Analyst
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Support Analyst
8 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Java Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Software Engineering Manager
8 8 (8.70%) Software Manager
9 7 (7.61%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) RESTful
2 9 (9.78%) .NET
2 9 (9.78%) SOAP
3 8 (8.70%) JSON
3 8 (8.70%) OAuth
3 8 (8.70%) OAuth2
3 8 (8.70%) SAML
3 8 (8.70%) XML
4 7 (7.61%) React
5 6 (6.52%) Spring
6 5 (5.43%) Kafka
7 4 (4.35%) AWS CDK
7 4 (4.35%) Node.js
7 4 (4.35%) React Native
7 4 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.26%) LangChain
8 3 (3.26%) REST
8 3 (3.26%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (3.26%) Web Services
9 2 (2.17%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.43%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.17%) SCADA
7 1 (1.09%) Blog
7 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Android
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.70%) Agile
2 30 (32.61%) Software Engineering
3 27 (29.35%) Test Automation
4 24 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 22 (23.91%) Mentoring
6 19 (20.65%) Coaching
7 18 (19.57%) API Integration
8 17 (18.48%) DevOps
8 17 (18.48%) Microservices
9 16 (17.39%) Asset Management
9 16 (17.39%) ERP
10 14 (15.22%) Analytics
11 12 (13.04%) AI
11 12 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (11.96%) Event-Driven
12 11 (11.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (11.96%) Observability
13 9 (9.78%) Clean Code
14 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (8.70%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.43%) Python
1 28 (30.43%) SQL
2 16 (17.39%) PL/SQL
2 16 (17.39%) Shell Script
3 6 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.17%) C++
6 2 (2.17%) Scala
7 1 (1.09%) C
7 1 (1.09%) C#
7 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (1.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.09%) PhD
2 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
1 16 (17.39%) Terraform
2 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Oracle
2 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.70%) Okta
4 4 (4.35%) Google
5 3 (3.26%) Databricks
5 3 (3.26%) Foundry
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) Siemens
6 1 (1.09%) Talend