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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 15 9
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 67 314 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.01% 13.25% 24.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.40% 44.92% 48.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36 79 249
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,337 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,156 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -24.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,250 £69,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £95,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 500 699 3,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.99% 29.49% 51.20%
Number of salaries quoted 270 311 1,136
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,711 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,375 £66,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -30 31 £75,000 +0.67% 29
Edinburgh -10 28 £57,500 - 9
South Lanarkshire -4 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian -2 2 - -
Stirling -8 1 - -
Aberdeen -18 1 £70,000 +40.00% 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 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) AWS
2 7 (10.45%) Azure
2 7 (10.45%) GitHub
3 5 (7.46%) SaaS
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (4.48%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (4.48%) dbt
5 3 (4.48%) PaaS
5 3 (4.48%) Vertex AI
6 2 (2.99%) Google Play
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) Firebase
7 1 (1.49%) GCP
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Broadband
2 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.46%) MySQL
3 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
1 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.46%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.99%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.99%) JUnit
3 2 (2.99%) Maven
3 2 (2.99%) Subversion
4 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.49%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.49%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.49%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.49%) fastlane
4 1 (1.49%) Gradle
4 1 (1.49%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (17.91%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Banking
3 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Financial Institution
5 5 (7.46%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Local Government
7 2 (2.99%) Aviation
7 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Front Office
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (41.79%) Developer
2 20 (29.85%) Java Developer
3 18 (26.87%) Senior
4 11 (16.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (14.93%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.43%) Analyst
6 9 (13.43%) Applications Support
6 9 (13.43%) Lead
6 9 (13.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (11.94%) Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Support Analyst
8 7 (10.45%) Engineering Manager
8 7 (10.45%) Java Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Senior Applications Support
9 6 (8.96%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (8.96%) Senior Support Analyst
9 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering Manager
9 6 (8.96%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) Spring
2 9 (13.43%) .NET
2 9 (13.43%) React
3 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.46%) JPA
4 5 (7.46%) JSP
4 5 (7.46%) REST
5 4 (5.97%) AWS CDK
5 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
5 4 (5.97%) J2EE
5 4 (5.97%) Kafka
5 4 (5.97%) Next.js
5 4 (5.97%) Node.js
5 4 (5.97%) React Native
6 3 (4.48%) LangChain
6 3 (4.48%) RESTful
6 3 (4.48%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (2.99%) Android SDK
7 2 (2.99%) JSF
8 1 (1.49%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.46%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) SCADA
6 1 (1.49%) Blog
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) Software Engineering
2 18 (26.87%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
4 16 (23.88%) Mentoring
5 14 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
6 12 (17.91%) Microservices
7 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.43%) SDLC
9 8 (11.94%) Code Quality
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (10.45%) Machine Learning
11 6 (8.96%) Collateral Management
11 6 (8.96%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (8.96%) DevOps
12 5 (7.46%) Analytics
12 5 (7.46%) End-to-End Testing
13 4 (5.97%) Data Analytics
13 4 (5.97%) Root Cause Analysis
13 4 (5.97%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
2 11 (16.42%) SQL
3 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.99%) C++
5 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.49%) C
6 1 (1.49%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) Perl
6 1 (1.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (5.97%) Degree
1 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Oracle
2 5 (7.46%) Google
3 3 (4.48%) Foundry
4 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.49%) Siemens