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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 26 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 225 206 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.21% 6.29% 10.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.04% 19.23% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 40 107 223
10th Percentile £44,675 £34,500 £32,650
25th Percentile £63,125 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £58,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +33.62% -11.25% +4.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 681 1,071 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.84% 32.69% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 254 566 763
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,375 £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 £78,790 £69,950 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,375 £79,608 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,439 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -

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 17 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 17 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 +16 164 £75,000 +28.76% 30
Edinburgh -13 58 £85,000 +41.67% 35
Fife +13 3 £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 (6.22%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.56%) Camunda
3 8 (3.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.22%) Apache
5 4 (1.78%) 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%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (41.78%) AWS
2 49 (21.78%) Azure
3 37 (16.44%) GitHub
4 26 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.11%) OCI
6 14 (6.22%) Amazon S3
6 14 (6.22%) Entra ID
7 13 (5.78%) GCP
7 13 (5.78%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.44%) Serverless
10 9 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.11%) npm
12 7 (3.11%) Yarn
13 6 (2.67%) SaaS
14 5 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.78%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) HTTP
1 2 (0.89%) SSH
1 2 (0.89%) SSL
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 18 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.11%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.22%) Big Data
5 13 (5.78%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (4.89%) Power BI
7 11 (4.89%) Tableau
8 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.00%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.56%) KDB
10 8 (3.56%) Kdb+
11 7 (3.11%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.67%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.22%) Apache Hive
13 5 (2.22%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.22%) HBase
13 5 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (19.56%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.56%) Git
3 25 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (7.56%) JIRA
5 16 (7.11%) JUnit
6 15 (6.67%) Maven
7 8 (3.56%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.56%) webpack
8 7 (3.11%) Vite
9 5 (2.22%) Gradle
10 4 (1.78%) Subversion
11 2 (0.89%) 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 (80.44%) Finance
2 138 (61.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 138 (61.33%) Law
3 69 (30.67%) Banking
4 63 (28.00%) Marketing
5 23 (10.22%) Social Skills
6 22 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.89%) Legal
8 13 (5.78%) Investment Banking
9 12 (5.33%) Games
10 7 (3.11%) Tech for Good
11 5 (2.22%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Back Office
13 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 155 (68.89%) Software Engineer
2 109 (48.44%) Java Engineer
3 106 (47.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 43 (19.11%) Lead
5 40 (17.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 38 (16.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 38 (16.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (15.56%) Senior
8 33 (14.67%) Developer
9 30 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
10 28 (12.44%) Java Developer
11 27 (12.00%) Lead Java Engineer
12 26 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (8.44%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (8.44%) AWS Software Engineer
13 19 (8.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (6.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (5.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 13 (5.78%) Java Software Developer
15 13 (5.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (45.33%) Spring
2 69 (30.67%) React
3 66 (29.33%) Spring Boot
4 65 (28.89%) Kafka
5 54 (24.00%) RESTful
6 30 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 30 (13.33%) REST
7 19 (8.44%) SOAP
8 17 (7.56%) JSON
8 17 (7.56%) OAuth
8 17 (7.56%) OAuth2
8 17 (7.56%) SAML
8 17 (7.56%) XML
9 15 (6.67%) HTML
10 12 (5.33%) CSS
10 12 (5.33%) Hibernate
11 10 (4.44%) Web Services
12 9 (4.00%) JPA
13 8 (3.56%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (3.56%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 64 (28.44%) Cloud Native
2 59 (26.22%) Algorithms
3 29 (12.89%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.89%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.89%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.22%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.78%) Derivative
7 4 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.78%) Equities
7 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.89%) NHS
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Tandem
9 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.22%) Unix
2 4 (1.78%) Linux
2 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (82.67%) Agile
2 167 (74.22%) Software Engineering
3 147 (65.33%) CI/CD
4 129 (57.33%) SDLC
5 113 (50.22%) Operational Stability
6 92 (40.89%) AI
7 79 (35.11%) Machine Learning
8 78 (34.67%) Community of Practice
9 62 (27.56%) Visualisation
10 59 (26.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 45 (20.00%) Test Automation
13 42 (18.67%) DevOps
14 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (16.44%) Decision-Making
16 35 (15.56%) Mentoring
17 30 (13.33%) Microservices
18 29 (12.89%) API Integration
18 29 (12.89%) Asset Management
19 28 (12.44%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 86 (38.22%) SQL
2 57 (25.33%) Python
3 30 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 27 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.78%) C#
8 6 (2.67%) Go
8 6 (2.67%) Scala
9 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.33%) C
12 2 (0.89%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Magik
13 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (4.89%) Degree
2 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.78%) 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 (1.33%) NCSC
1 3 (1.33%) NIST
1 3 (1.33%) QA
2 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.89%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.44%) GRC
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.56%) Docker
2 14 (6.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (21.33%) Terraform
2 45 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (7.11%) Grafana
5 5 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.78%) Netcool
6 4 (1.78%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (1.78%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.44%) Ansible
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (28.00%) Oracle
2 22 (9.78%) Splunk
3 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.56%) Dynatrace
5 14 (6.22%) Okta
6 10 (4.44%) Databricks
7 8 (3.56%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.67%) Facebook
8 6 (2.67%) Google
9 5 (2.22%) Cloudera
9 5 (2.22%) IBM
10 4 (1.78%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.44%) ESRI
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) Sybase