Principal Java Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Principal Java Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in Scotland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 276 219
Rank change year-on-year +133 -57 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.071% 0.015% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.015% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £70,839
25th Percentile £75,000 - £75,848
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £88,390
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £111,293
90th Percentile - - £122,517
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £140,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -21.43% +23.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Principal Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Java Engineer in Scotland

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Java Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Principal Java Engineer in Scotland

Principal Java Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Java Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 2 £80,000 -
Principal Java Engineer
UK

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Principal Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Principal Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes