The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 44 53 50
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 52 39 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 4.779% 2.816% 3.665%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.990% 2.955% 3.846%
Number of salaries quoted 35 32 52
Average salary £41,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £32,500 £34,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £44,750 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1042 1320 1456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.77% 95.31% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 604 965 1058
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
Scotland

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Edinburgh Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Developer in their job title.

1 58 (59.79%) .NET
2 54 (55.67%) C#
3 48 (49.48%) SQL Server
4 45 (46.39%) ASP.NET
5 43 (44.33%) Finance
6 40 (41.24%) Java
7 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
7 32 (32.99%) Oracle
8 31 (31.96%) CSS
9 28 (28.87%) Web Services
10 26 (26.80%) SQL
11 25 (25.77%) Microsoft
12 22 (22.68%) Visual Studio
13 21 (21.65%) XML
14 20 (20.62%) WCF
14 20 (20.62%) jQuery
15 17 (17.53%) Windows
15 17 (17.53%) HTML
16 16 (16.49%) MVC
16 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
16 16 (16.49%) HTML5
17 15 (15.46%) SQL Server 2005
17 15 (15.46%) .NET Framework
17 15 (15.46%) J2EE
18 14 (14.43%) Linux
18 14 (14.43%) Degree
18 14 (14.43%) ASP.NET MVC
19 13 (13.40%) Unit Testing
20 12 (12.37%) VB.NET
20 12 (12.37%) PL/SQL

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 58 (59.79%) .NET
2 45 (46.39%) ASP.NET
3 31 (31.96%) CSS
4 28 (28.87%) Web Services
5 21 (21.65%) XML
6 20 (20.62%) WCF
6 20 (20.62%) jQuery
7 17 (17.53%) HTML
8 16 (16.49%) HTML5
9 15 (15.46%) .NET Framework
9 15 (15.46%) J2EE
10 14 (14.43%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (10.31%) CSS3
12 9 (9.278%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 9 (9.278%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 9 (9.278%) WebSphere
12 9 (9.278%) WinForms
13 7 (7.216%) JSON
13 7 (7.216%) Ajax
13 7 (7.216%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 8 (8.247%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (7.216%) Windows Azure
3 3 (3.093%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (3.093%) Apache
3 3 (3.093%) CMS
4 2 (2.062%) MSMQ
4 2 (2.062%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.062%) NServiceBus
5 1 (1.031%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.031%) ESB
5 1 (1.031%) Drupal
5 1 (1.031%) Mule
5 1 (1.031%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.031%) IIS
5 1 (1.031%) TeamSite
5 1 (1.031%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (5.155%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.031%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.031%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.155%) Internet
2 3 (3.093%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (49.48%) SQL Server
2 15 (15.46%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (12.37%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (9.278%) PowerCenter
5 7 (7.216%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (4.124%) MySQL
6 4 (4.124%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.093%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.093%) Redis
7 3 (3.093%) SQLite
7 3 (3.093%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.093%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.031%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (1.031%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (1.031%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (1.031%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Visual Studio
2 9 (9.278%) Oracle APEX
3 7 (7.216%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (7.216%) Eclipse
4 4 (4.124%) Xcode
5 3 (3.093%) MSTest
5 3 (3.093%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.093%) Maven
5 3 (3.093%) Subversion
6 2 (2.062%) JUnit
6 2 (2.062%) Selenium
6 2 (2.062%) JIRA
7 1 (1.031%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (1.031%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.031%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.031%) Ant
7 1 (1.031%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (44.33%) Finance
2 6 (6.186%) Games
3 4 (4.124%) Banking
4 3 (3.093%) Publishing
5 2 (2.062%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.031%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.278%) Computer Science
2 8 (8.247%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.155%) SWIFT
4 4 (4.124%) N-Tier
5 3 (3.093%) Open Source
5 3 (3.093%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.093%) Visualisation
5 3 (3.093%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.093%) Replication
5 3 (3.093%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.062%) W3C
6 2 (2.062%) Web 2.0
6 2 (2.062%) iPad
7 1 (1.031%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.031%) iPhone
7 1 (1.031%) ASIC
7 1 (1.031%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.53%) Windows
2 14 (14.43%) Linux
3 11 (11.34%) Android
4 6 (6.186%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.031%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (16.49%) MVC
1 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
2 13 (13.40%) Unit Testing
3 11 (11.34%) OO
4 10 (10.31%) TDD
4 10 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (8.247%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (8.247%) Web Development
6 7 (7.216%) Business Analysis
6 7 (7.216%) BPMN
6 7 (7.216%) UML
6 7 (7.216%) OOD
6 7 (7.216%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.186%) Scrum
8 5 (5.155%) Automated Testing
8 5 (5.155%) Investment Management
9 4 (4.124%) ETL
10 3 (3.093%) Build Automation
10 3 (3.093%) Penetration Testing
10 3 (3.093%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.67%) C#
2 40 (41.24%) Java
3 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
4 26 (26.80%) SQL
5 12 (12.37%) VB.NET
5 12 (12.37%) PL/SQL
6 11 (11.34%) Objective-C
7 7 (7.216%) C++
7 7 (7.216%) VBA
8 5 (5.155%) XPath
8 5 (5.155%) XQuery
9 4 (4.124%) Python
9 4 (4.124%) PHP
10 3 (3.093%) Ruby
10 3 (3.093%) C
10 3 (3.093%) VB
10 3 (3.093%) Jython
11 1 (1.031%) ALGOL
11 1 (1.031%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.031%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.031%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.031%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (3.093%) Puppet
1 3 (3.093%) Munin
1 3 (3.093%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (32.99%) Oracle
2 25 (25.77%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.278%) Informatica
4 6 (6.186%) DevExpress
5 3 (3.093%) Pega
6 2 (2.062%) JBoss
7 1 (1.031%) Talend
7 1 (1.031%) Unisys
7 1 (1.031%) IBM
7 1 (1.031%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.031%) webMethods
7 1 (1.031%) Sun
Edinburgh, Scotland
They are looking for an Agile Senior .NET Developer (C#/WPF/UI Design) to come in and add something to an already talented and highly technical team.The...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
They are experiencing rapid growth and would like to take on an enthusiastic developer to help them drive their software forward and to maximize revenues. You will be...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland, Lothian
This could be an ideal opportunity for someone with strong Unisys skills and COBOL programming that is looking to develop their career further in a stable and exciting...
360 Resourcing Solutions
Salary: £35k - 42k per year + 5% Flexibenefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Position This position requires someone with an excellent academic record, strong experience working in C#/ASP.NET (with a great understanding of the project life-cycle)... SQL...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £35000 - £48000 per annum + bonuses + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will need to be proficient in ASP.NET, MVC, SQL as well as web technologies including JavaScript, JQuery, XHTML and CSS. This is an excellent opportunity to...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The successful Senior Developer must have experience of building solutions for brands or marketing and have a can do attitude, inspire and enthuse the team, plus the following...
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience: *Java development experience *Exposure to Objective-C/C# *Oracle/SQL Server *Android *Any ASP.NET exposure If you...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Extensive knowledge and proven experience in the following technologies is critical to the success: Java (Web development) JavaScript / AJAX/ JQuery. JBOSS / Apache / Linux. XML/XSLT. HTML/CSS. Oracle...
Sanderson
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Undertake database design work, primarily on Microsoft SQL server... The candidate should be able to demonstrate: Excellent knowledge of software development using C# and ASP.NET and Microsoft ...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent company benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The successful candidate will be an expert developer in a range of scripting and programming languages. You will be involved in managing projects and also mentoring other developers...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
I am currently recruiting for a Senior Unisys developer with COBOL programming experience for a leading client of mine based in Scotland. The Unisys developer will be based...
360 Resourcing Solutions
Salary: £35k - 42k per year + 5% Flexibenefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Avaloq Innovation Ltd are currently recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer (Software, Developer, Software Engineer)... Avaloq, a Swiss-originated software development company has been successfully providing major banks...
Avaloq
Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Senior Developer Consultant - Oracle Business Intelligence... Oracle Discoverer... Data Warehouse design and ETL principles... Dimensional modelling... Kimball methodology... * Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio... * Experience of complimentary OBI...
Asset Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013