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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 93 274 263
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.20% 10.48% 7.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.62% 40.90% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 46 34 114
10th Percentile £49,063 £47,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £52,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +44.50% -23.49%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +6.67%

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 451 670 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.65% 25.63% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 284 220 595
10th Percentile £34,325 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -1.82% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,375 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -15 60 £75,000 +0.67% 166
Edinburgh -13 28 £80,000 +14.29% 64
Aberdeen - 2 £90,000 - 2
Highlands - 2 £70,000 - 2
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 4 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.03%) AWS
2 16 (17.20%) Azure
3 11 (11.83%) GCP
3 11 (11.83%) GitHub
4 6 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.23%) Datadog
6 3 (3.23%) dbt
6 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.15%) SaaS
7 2 (2.15%) Serverless
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.45%) MySQL
2 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.15%) Parquet
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.68%) Git
3 5 (5.38%) JIRA
4 4 (4.30%) GitLab
4 4 (4.30%) Maven
5 3 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.23%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.15%) JUnit
6 2 (2.15%) Mockito
6 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.08%) JMeter
7 1 (1.08%) Selenium
7 1 (1.08%) Subversion
7 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (46.24%) Finance
2 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.68%) Banking
3 9 (9.68%) Financial Institution
3 9 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.53%) Law
5 6 (6.45%) Marketing
6 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Tech for Good
8 3 (3.23%) Front Office
9 2 (2.15%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.15%) Automotive
9 2 (2.15%) Aviation
9 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (38.71%) Developer
2 34 (36.56%) Java Developer
3 31 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 24 (25.81%) Senior
5 18 (19.35%) Java Engineer
5 18 (19.35%) Senior Developer
6 17 (18.28%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (15.05%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (15.05%) Lead
8 12 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (12.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (9.68%) Technical Leader
10 8 (8.60%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) Principal Java Engineer
12 4 (4.30%) Principal Software Engineer
13 3 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (2.15%) Applications Manager
14 2 (2.15%) Graduate
14 2 (2.15%) Release Manager
14 2 (2.15%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) Spring
2 15 (16.13%) Spring Boot
3 13 (13.98%) Kafka
3 13 (13.98%) React
4 9 (9.68%) Jakarta EE
4 9 (9.68%) JSP
5 8 (8.60%) Next.js
5 8 (8.60%) REST
6 7 (7.53%) Hibernate
6 7 (7.53%) JPA
7 5 (5.38%) .NET
8 4 (4.30%) Terraform
9 3 (3.23%) CSS
9 3 (3.23%) HTML
9 3 (3.23%) PySpark
9 3 (3.23%) RESTful
10 2 (2.15%) HTML5
10 2 (2.15%) JSF
10 2 (2.15%) JSON
10 2 (2.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.15%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.15%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.08%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Android
2 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.69%) Software Engineering
2 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.03%) Agile
4 19 (20.43%) Mentoring
4 19 (20.43%) SDLC
5 18 (19.35%) DevOps
5 18 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (17.20%) Microservices
7 15 (16.13%) Code Quality
7 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (15.05%) Analytics
9 12 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.83%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.68%) Technical Architecture
12 8 (8.60%) AI
13 7 (7.53%) Validation
14 6 (6.45%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.88%) Python
2 21 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 17 (18.28%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.38%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.30%) SQL
6 2 (2.15%) Ada
6 2 (2.15%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) Go
6 2 (2.15%) Rust
7 1 (1.08%) Bash
7 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) Degree
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) QA
2 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (13.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.38%) Grafana
3 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.23%) Ansible
4 3 (3.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (5.38%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.30%) Splunk
3 3 (3.23%) Databricks
3 3 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle
4 1 (1.08%) YouTube