Java Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Java Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Java Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 114 133
Rank change year-on-year +40 +19 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 32 18 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.02% 1.00% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.05% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26 5 9
10th Percentile - - £63,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £70,735 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £80,294 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.73% +14.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £61,875 £89,852 £75,000
90th Percentile £62,500 - £76,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £74,027 £70,000
% change year-on-year -32.46% +5.75% +47.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,527 1,708 2,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 94.63% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,018 1,593
10th Percentile £32,600 £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 £71,250 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,419 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Edinburgh

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Edinburgh

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (78.13%) Software Engineering
3 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (43.75%) Network Security
5 13 (40.63%) Spring
5 13 (40.63%) Linux
5 13 (40.63%) Spring Boot
6 12 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (31.25%) Microservices
9 9 (28.13%) Agile
10 8 (25.00%) Finance
10 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
11 7 (21.88%) AWS
12 6 (18.75%) REST
13 5 (15.63%) SQL
13 5 (15.63%) Serverless
13 5 (15.63%) Full Stack Development
14 4 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
14 4 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 4 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
14 4 (12.50%) Confluent
14 4 (12.50%) Functional Programming
14 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
14 4 (12.50%) GraphQL
14 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
14 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
14 4 (12.50%) J2EE

Java Engineer 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 2 (6.25%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Serverless
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
2 3 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) Selenium
4 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.13%) Gradle
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (3.13%) Mockito
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Aviation
4 2 (6.25%) Games
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) Spring
1 13 (40.63%) Spring Boot
2 6 (18.75%) REST
3 4 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 4 (12.50%) J2EE
3 4 (12.50%) Kafka
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle ADF
3 4 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (12.50%) Spring Integration
3 4 (12.50%) Spring Security
4 2 (6.25%) ADO
4 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.25%) Java EE
4 2 (6.25%) OpenJDK
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) JavaFX
5 1 (3.13%) React
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) Swagger
5 1 (3.13%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Software Engineering
2 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (31.25%) Microservices
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Full Stack Development
7 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.50%) BDD
7 4 (12.50%) Clean Code
7 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.50%) Functional Programming
7 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
7 4 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (12.50%) TDD
7 4 (12.50%) User Stories
8 3 (9.38%) DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) OO
9 2 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Confluent
1 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle