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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 23 15
Rank change year-on-year -43 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Java 80 277 374
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.94% 10.96% 10.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.78% 42.16% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 43 39 126
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +31.07% -21.97%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,000 £83,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 450 657 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.92% 25.99% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 282 220 635
10th Percentile £31,625 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -21 51 £75,000 +0.67% 156
Edinburgh -8 26 £70,000 +21.74% 81
South Lanarkshire -12 1 £60,000 -
Aberdeen - 1 £90,000 - 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 4 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) AWS
2 13 (16.25%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) GCP
3 11 (13.75%) GitHub
4 6 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.00%) dbt
6 3 (3.75%) Datadog
6 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.75%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.50%) MySQL
2 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.50%) Parquet
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.25%) Big Data
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.25%) Git
3 5 (6.25%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) Maven
5 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.75%) GitLab
5 3 (3.75%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Mockito
6 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.25%) Selenium
7 1 (1.25%) Subversion
7 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (41.25%) Finance
2 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.75%) Banking
4 7 (8.75%) Financial Institution
4 7 (8.75%) Law
5 6 (7.50%) Marketing
6 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Front Office
8 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.50%) Automotive
8 2 (2.50%) Aviation
8 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.25%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (35.00%) Software Engineer
2 26 (32.50%) Developer
3 23 (28.75%) Java Developer
4 19 (23.75%) Java Engineer
5 17 (21.25%) Senior
6 15 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (18.75%) Lead
7 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
8 11 (13.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (11.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (11.25%) Technical Leader
11 8 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (7.50%) Principal Java Engineer
13 4 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
14 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 2 (2.50%) Applications Engineer
15 2 (2.50%) Applications Manager
15 2 (2.50%) Lead Software Engineer
15 2 (2.50%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.00%) Spring
2 15 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 14 (17.50%) React
4 12 (15.00%) Kafka
5 9 (11.25%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (11.25%) JSP
6 8 (10.00%) Next.js
6 8 (10.00%) REST
7 7 (8.75%) Hibernate
7 7 (8.75%) JPA
8 5 (6.25%) .NET
9 4 (5.00%) Terraform
10 3 (3.75%) CSS
10 3 (3.75%) HTML
10 3 (3.75%) PySpark
10 3 (3.75%) RESTful
11 2 (2.50%) HTML5
11 2 (2.50%) JSF
11 2 (2.50%) JSON
11 2 (2.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.25%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (57.50%) Software Engineering
2 29 (36.25%) CI/CD
3 27 (33.75%) Agile
4 19 (23.75%) SDLC
5 18 (22.50%) Mentoring
6 17 (21.25%) DevOps
6 17 (21.25%) Microservices
7 16 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (17.50%) Analytics
10 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.50%) Machine Learning
11 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (11.25%) Technical Architecture
13 6 (7.50%) AI
13 6 (7.50%) Data Analytics
13 6 (7.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 20 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.00%) SQL
5 3 (3.75%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.50%) Ada
7 1 (1.25%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.25%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) Argo
3 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (5.00%) Splunk
2 3 (3.75%) Databricks
3 1 (1.25%) Google
3 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle