Java Developer Jobs in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Java Developer salary in Edinburgh is £60,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 105 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 12 33 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.79% 1.78% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.88% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10 29 53
10th Percentile £50,686 £55,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £51,764 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £90,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £56,318 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.57% +8.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,467 1,756 2,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 94.56% 98.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 1,054 1,552
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,459 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Java Developer in Edinburgh

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Java Developer 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 Edinburgh region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) REST
3 8 (66.67%) SQL
4 7 (58.33%) Spring
4 7 (58.33%) JSON
4 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (50.00%) Azure
5 6 (50.00%) React
5 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (41.67%) Web Services
6 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
6 5 (41.67%) DevOps
6 5 (41.67%) AWS
6 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
7 4 (33.33%) DynamoDB
7 4 (33.33%) OpenID
7 4 (33.33%) OAuth
7 4 (33.33%) Git
7 4 (33.33%) ForgeRock
7 4 (33.33%) Docker
7 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (33.33%) TDD
7 4 (33.33%) Finance
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (33.33%) Groovy
7 4 (33.33%) CSS

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (8.33%) JHipster
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) REST
2 7 (58.33%) JSON
2 7 (58.33%) Spring
3 6 (50.00%) React
4 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (41.67%) Web Services
5 4 (33.33%) CSS
5 4 (33.33%) HTML
5 4 (33.33%) OAuth
5 4 (33.33%) OpenID
6 3 (25.00%) Kafka
6 3 (25.00%) XML
7 2 (16.67%) SOAP
8 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
8 1 (8.33%) Java EE
8 1 (8.33%) JDBC
8 1 (8.33%) JPA
8 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
8 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (33.33%) Fintech
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Social Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) OOP
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (33.33%) Groovy
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ForgeRock
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Sybase