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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 18 9
Rank change year-on-year -55 -9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Java 66 244 1,911
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.08% 11.83% 29.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.52% 37.31% 52.78%
Number of salaries quoted 33 88 256
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,251 £34,375
25th Percentile £51,375 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -20.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £97,019
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 527 654 3,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 16.61% 31.72% 56.29%
Number of salaries quoted 251 360 1,138
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.97%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,005 £65,000
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -8 36 £57,500 - 11
Glasgow -34 22 £65,000 -10.03% 12
South Lanarkshire 0 4 £60,000 - 1
West Lothian -3 2 - -
Stirling -10 1 - -
Aberdeen -21 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 3 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (4.55%) WebSphere
1 3 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) AWS
3 10 (15.15%) GitHub
4 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.09%) OCI
6 5 (7.58%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (6.06%) dbt
7 4 (6.06%) SaaS
8 3 (4.55%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.55%) PaaS
8 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.55%) Vertex AI
9 1 (1.52%) Firebase
9 1 (1.52%) GCP
9 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.52%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Broadband
2 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.55%) MySQL
2 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) Tableau
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.12%) Git
3 7 (10.61%) JIRA
4 6 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.03%) JUnit
6 1 (1.52%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.52%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.52%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.52%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.52%) fastlane
6 1 (1.52%) Gradle
6 1 (1.52%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.52%) jMock
6 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 7 (10.61%) Banking
3 6 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 6 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Local Government
6 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Aviation
7 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Developer
2 21 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 20 (30.30%) Senior
4 10 (15.15%) Analyst
4 10 (15.15%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Applications Support
5 9 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Support Analyst
6 7 (10.61%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Applications Support
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Support Analyst
7 6 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
7 6 (9.09%) Software Manager
8 5 (7.58%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) .NET
2 8 (12.12%) RESTful
3 6 (9.09%) Spring
4 4 (6.06%) AWS CDK
4 4 (6.06%) Node.js
4 4 (6.06%) React
4 4 (6.06%) React Native
4 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.55%) JSON
5 3 (4.55%) Kafka
5 3 (4.55%) LangChain
5 3 (4.55%) OAuth
5 3 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.55%) SAML
5 3 (4.55%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (4.55%) SOAP
5 3 (4.55%) XML
6 2 (3.03%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.03%) Swing
6 2 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) SCADA
6 1 (1.52%) Blog
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Android
1 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Software Engineering
2 17 (25.76%) Agile
2 17 (25.76%) Test Automation
3 14 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.21%) Mentoring
4 12 (18.18%) Microservices
5 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (10.61%) AI
6 7 (10.61%) Analytics
6 7 (10.61%) API Integration
6 7 (10.61%) Coaching
6 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.61%) DevOps
6 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 6 (9.09%) Collateral Management
7 6 (9.09%) ERP
7 6 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (9.09%) Machine Learning
7 6 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) SQL
2 17 (25.76%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 6 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (1.52%) C
7 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.52%) Perl
7 1 (1.52%) Rust
7 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (6.06%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) Foundry
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Okta
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.52%) Siemens