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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 19 9
Rank change year-on-year -50 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Java 75 304 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.20% 11.98% 23.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.56% 45.04% 48.92%
Number of salaries quoted 41 72 194
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,754 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +7.48% -20.15%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,878 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £78,966
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.49% +1.89%

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 515 675 2,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.08% 26.61% 48.86%
Number of salaries quoted 294 297 867
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
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 £77,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 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 2 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 -25 42 £75,000 +0.67% 38
Edinburgh -15 26 £60,000 +4.35% 18
South Lanarkshire -2 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian 0 2 - -
Stirling -5 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 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.00%) AWS
2 12 (16.00%) GitHub
3 9 (12.00%) Azure
4 8 (10.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (6.67%) dbt
5 5 (6.67%) SaaS
6 4 (5.33%) GCP
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.00%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.00%) PaaS
7 3 (4.00%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.67%) Datadog
8 2 (2.67%) Google Play
9 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Broadband
2 2 (2.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.67%) MySQL
3 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.00%) Git
3 5 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (4.00%) Maven
5 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.67%) GitLab
5 2 (2.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.33%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.33%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.33%) fastlane
6 1 (1.33%) Gradle
6 1 (1.33%) JUnit
6 1 (1.33%) Mockito
6 1 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.33%) Subversion
6 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Banking
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Local Government
5 3 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.00%) Front Office
5 3 (4.00%) Law
5 3 (4.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Aviation
6 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Automotive
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Developer
2 21 (28.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.33%) Lead
3 16 (21.33%) Senior
4 14 (18.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (14.67%) Software Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Java Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 9 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (12.00%) Technical Leader
8 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (10.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (9.33%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (9.33%) Software Manager
10 6 (8.00%) Software Engineering Manager
11 5 (6.67%) Analyst
11 5 (6.67%) Applications Support
11 5 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) Principal Java Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) Spring
2 14 (18.67%) React
3 13 (17.33%) Spring Boot
4 10 (13.33%) Kafka
5 9 (12.00%) Hibernate
5 9 (12.00%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (12.00%) JPA
5 9 (12.00%) JSP
5 9 (12.00%) REST
6 8 (10.67%) Next.js
7 7 (9.33%) .NET
8 4 (5.33%) AWS CDK
8 4 (5.33%) Node.js
8 4 (5.33%) React Native
9 3 (4.00%) LangChain
9 3 (4.00%) RESTful
9 3 (4.00%) Semantic Kernel
10 2 (2.67%) HTML
10 2 (2.67%) HTML5
10 2 (2.67%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Blog
6 1 (1.33%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 25 (33.33%) Agile
4 20 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 17 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (22.67%) Microservices
6 16 (21.33%) SDLC
7 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (18.67%) Code Quality
8 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
9 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (16.00%) Analytics
10 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
11 10 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (13.33%) DevOps
12 8 (10.67%) Data Analytics
12 8 (10.67%) Technical Architecture
13 6 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (6.67%) Observability
14 5 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.67%) Python
2 17 (22.67%) JavaScript
3 15 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.00%) SQL
5 2 (2.67%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.33%) Ada
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) C++
6 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (5.33%) Degree
3 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Ansible
2 2 (2.67%) Argo
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
2 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.67%) Google
2 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (4.00%) Foundry
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) Splunk
4 1 (1.33%) Databricks
4 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft