Senior Software Developer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Software Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Software Developer salary in Edinburgh is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 148 145
Rank change year-on-year +50 -3 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 18 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.17% 0.23% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.24% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile - £50,850 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,125 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £124,330 £73,550 £68,750
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +4.65%

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 1,474 2,053 2,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 95.53% 97.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 1,209 1,406
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,938 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) SaaS
3 8 (44.44%) .NET
4 7 (38.89%) C#
4 7 (38.89%) Ruby
4 7 (38.89%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (38.89%) Front End Development
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 5 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
7 4 (22.22%) Blazor
7 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
8 3 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (16.67%) AWS
8 3 (16.67%) SQL
8 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
8 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 3 (16.67%) SDLC
8 3 (16.67%) SOLID
8 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 2 (11.11%) Microservices
9 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
9 2 (11.11%) React

Senior Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) Maven
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
3 4 (22.22%) Blazor
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (11.11%) Express.js
5 2 (11.11%) Jest
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 2 (11.11%) React
5 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Front End Development
3 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) SOLID
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) API Design
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Micro Frontends
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Release Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C#
1 7 (38.89%) Ruby
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) OCP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform