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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 19 9
Rank change year-on-year -49 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Java 76 301 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.15% 11.80% 23.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.96% 45.33% 48.99%
Number of salaries quoted 41 67 189
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +8.49% -20.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 508 664 2,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.35% 26.03% 48.50%
Number of salaries quoted 299 276 832
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £94,389 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 14 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 14 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 -22 46 £75,000 +0.67% 78
Edinburgh -16 23 £61,250 +6.52% 20
South Lanarkshire -3 4 £60,000 -
West Lothian +5 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 4 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) GitHub
3 12 (15.79%) Azure
4 8 (10.53%) GCP
4 8 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (7.89%) dbt
6 5 (6.58%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.95%) Azure AI
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.95%) Datadog
8 3 (3.95%) PaaS
8 3 (3.95%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.63%) Google Play
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.32%) Firebase
10 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Broadband
1 3 (3.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) MySQL
1 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) Git
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) GitLab
4 3 (3.95%) Maven
5 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.32%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.32%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.32%) fastlane
6 1 (1.32%) Gradle
6 1 (1.32%) JUnit
6 1 (1.32%) Mockito
6 1 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.32%) Subversion
6 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (21.05%) Finance
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Banking
4 10 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.21%) Law
6 6 (7.89%) Marketing
7 5 (6.58%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.26%) Local Government
9 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.95%) Front Office
10 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.63%) Automotive
10 2 (2.63%) Aviation
10 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.32%) Games
11 1 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (35.53%) Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Lead
4 16 (21.05%) Software Engineer
5 15 (19.74%) Senior
6 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (14.47%) Java Engineer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Technical Leader
9 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (9.21%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (7.89%) Principal Java Engineer
12 5 (6.58%) Software Manager
13 4 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
13 4 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
14 3 (3.95%) Analyst
14 3 (3.95%) Applications Support
14 3 (3.95%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) Spring
2 15 (19.74%) React
3 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
4 13 (17.11%) Kafka
5 9 (11.84%) Hibernate
5 9 (11.84%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (11.84%) JPA
5 9 (11.84%) JSP
5 9 (11.84%) REST
6 8 (10.53%) Next.js
7 6 (7.89%) .NET
8 4 (5.26%) AWS CDK
8 4 (5.26%) Node.js
8 4 (5.26%) React Native
9 3 (3.95%) LangChain
9 3 (3.95%) RESTful
9 3 (3.95%) Semantic Kernel
10 2 (2.63%) CSS
10 2 (2.63%) HTML
10 2 (2.63%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.32%) Blog
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.68%) Software Engineering
2 31 (40.79%) CI/CD
3 27 (35.53%) Agile
4 20 (26.32%) Microservices
5 19 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 18 (23.68%) Code Quality
6 18 (23.68%) SDLC
7 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (19.74%) Machine Learning
9 14 (18.42%) Analytics
9 14 (18.42%) Test Automation
10 11 (14.47%) DevOps
11 10 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (11.84%) Technical Architecture
13 8 (10.53%) AI
13 8 (10.53%) Data Analytics
14 7 (9.21%) Observability
14 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) Python
2 18 (23.68%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (2.63%) Ada
5 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) C++
6 1 (1.32%) Rust
6 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Degree
3 4 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Grafana
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
3 3 (3.95%) Argo
3 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Dynatrace
1 5 (6.58%) Google
2 4 (5.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.95%) Databricks
3 3 (3.95%) Foundry
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.32%) OpenAI