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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 28 6
Rank change year-on-year -30 -22 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 91 183 547
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.32% 6.58% 20.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.77% 18.58% 42.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38 96 219
10th Percentile £37,925 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,639 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.48% -2.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,927 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,126 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 577 985 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 21.07% 35.39% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 257 517 754
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,750 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 December 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 19 December 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
Edinburgh -14 69 £85,000 +41.67% 46
Glasgow -2 21 £66,250 +6.85% 19
Fife +9 1 £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 16 (17.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.20%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.10%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 41 (45.05%) GitHub
3 36 (39.56%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (38.46%) AWS
4 35 (38.46%) OCI
5 19 (20.88%) Entra ID
6 17 (18.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 16 (17.58%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.59%) SaaS
9 5 (5.49%) GCP
10 3 (3.30%) dbt
10 3 (3.30%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.20%) Boomi
11 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.10%) Datadog
12 1 (1.10%) PaaS
12 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) Power BI
1 16 (17.58%) Tableau
2 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.10%) GIS
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle Forms
2 20 (21.98%) Git
3 18 (19.78%) JIRA
4 2 (2.20%) JUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.10%) JMeter
5 1 (1.10%) jMock
5 1 (1.10%) Locust
5 1 (1.10%) Selenium
5 1 (1.10%) TestNG
General
1 50 (54.95%) Finance
2 9 (9.89%) Games
3 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Tech for Good
4 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Back Office
5 2 (2.20%) Banking
5 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Legal
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (43.96%) Applications Engineer
2 35 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (27.47%) Senior
4 19 (20.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 19 (20.88%) Software Engineer
5 15 (16.48%) Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Lead
7 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
8 9 (9.89%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Core Java Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Kafka Developer
12 3 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
12 3 (3.30%) Lead Java Engineer
13 2 (2.20%) Analyst
13 2 (2.20%) Applications Support
13 2 (2.20%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (46.15%) RESTful
2 22 (24.18%) XML
3 21 (23.08%) SOAP
4 20 (21.98%) JSON
5 16 (17.58%) OAuth
5 16 (17.58%) OAuth2
5 16 (17.58%) SAML
6 13 (14.29%) React
7 8 (8.79%) Kafka
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.40%) Spring
10 3 (3.30%) .NET
10 3 (3.30%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.30%) REST
10 3 (3.30%) Web Services
11 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.20%) CSS
11 2 (2.20%) HTML
12 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET
12 1 (1.10%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.56%) Cloud Native
2 35 (38.46%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.20%) NHS
4 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (62.64%) Agile
2 44 (48.35%) CI/CD
2 44 (48.35%) DevOps
3 42 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 40 (43.96%) API Integration
5 39 (42.86%) Coaching
6 36 (39.56%) ERP
7 35 (38.46%) Asset Management
8 29 (31.87%) Mentoring
8 29 (31.87%) Software Engineering
9 21 (23.08%) Analytics
9 21 (23.08%) Observability
9 21 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (21.98%) Microservices
11 19 (20.88%) Business Strategy
11 19 (20.88%) Data Governance
11 19 (20.88%) Identity Access Management
11 19 (20.88%) Migration
11 19 (20.88%) Translating Business Requirements
12 18 (19.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 45 (49.45%) SQL
2 41 (45.05%) Python
3 35 (38.46%) PL/SQL
3 35 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.40%) C#
7 3 (3.30%) Scala
8 2 (2.20%) C
8 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.10%) Groovy
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.10%) Magik
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) NCSC
2 3 (3.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (20.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (39.56%) Terraform
2 35 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (39.56%) Oracle
2 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
3 19 (20.88%) Okta
4 2 (2.20%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) ESRI
5 1 (1.10%) Talend