Senior Developer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Developer salary in Edinburgh is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 60 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 53 106 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.44% 4.78% 4.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.58% 5.00% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 35 63 94
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £55,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.26% +20.91%
75th Percentile £67,375 £73,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.62% +4.00% +13.64%

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 1,480 2,118 2,225
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 95.45% 97.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 1,233 1,396
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,275
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,597 £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 19 (35.85%) Azure
1 19 (35.85%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) DevOps
3 16 (30.19%) AngularJS
3 16 (30.19%) SQL
4 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
4 15 (28.30%) Front End Development
4 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
5 14 (26.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (24.53%) React
6 13 (24.53%) Java
6 13 (24.53%) Software Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (20.75%) HTML
8 11 (20.75%) CSS
9 10 (18.87%) Agile
9 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
9 10 (18.87%) Git
9 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
10 9 (16.98%) Unit Testing
10 9 (16.98%) SaaS
10 9 (16.98%) NoSQL
11 8 (15.09%) Ruby
11 8 (15.09%) Degree
11 8 (15.09%) .NET
11 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (15.09%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
12 7 (13.21%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (13.21%) Secure Coding

Senior 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 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) AWS
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) SaaS
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
3 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.55%) Serverless
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle Database
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle Database 11g
2 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.32%) RDBMS
2 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.55%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Git
1 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.43%) Maven
3 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
3 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.77%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.89%) JHipster
5 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Aviation
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Police
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.19%) AngularJS
2 13 (24.53%) React
3 11 (20.75%) CSS
3 11 (20.75%) HTML
4 8 (15.09%) .NET
5 7 (13.21%) Express.js
5 7 (13.21%) Node.js
6 6 (11.32%) REST
7 5 (9.43%) Web Services
8 4 (7.55%) Blazor
8 4 (7.55%) JSON
8 4 (7.55%) OAuth
8 4 (7.55%) OpenID
8 4 (7.55%) Spring
8 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.66%) .NET Core
9 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
9 3 (5.66%) Jest
9 3 (5.66%) React Native
10 2 (3.77%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.66%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) DevOps
2 15 (28.30%) Front End Development
3 13 (24.53%) Software Engineering
4 12 (22.64%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (18.87%) Agile
5 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
6 9 (16.98%) Unit Testing
7 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.09%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.21%) Secure Coding
9 6 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (11.32%) Data Migration
9 6 (11.32%) Migration
9 6 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
11 4 (7.55%) Fintech
11 4 (7.55%) Prototyping
12 3 (5.66%) Design Patterns
12 3 (5.66%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) SQL
2 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 13 (24.53%) Java
4 8 (15.09%) Ruby
5 7 (13.21%) C
5 7 (13.21%) C#
5 7 (13.21%) C++
6 6 (11.32%) PL/SQL
6 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.55%) Groovy
8 2 (3.77%) Bash
8 2 (3.77%) PHP
8 2 (3.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.66%) OCP
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle
2 4 (7.55%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.89%) Apple