Senior Software Developer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Software Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Software Developer salary in Scotland is £57,500 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 237 198 215
Rank change year-on-year -39 +17 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 45 24 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.67% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.56% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 38 22 10
10th Percentile - £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,063 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,875
UK median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.29% - +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,504 4,273 5,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.86% 90.24% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,331 2,950
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,569 £28,247
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Scotland

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in Scotland

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in Scotland

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +50 18 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Glasgow -107 12 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Aberdeen - 11 £52,500 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 2 £58,750 - 2
Senior Software Developer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 24 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 20 (44.44%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (42.22%) Ruby
3 19 (42.22%) C#
3 19 (42.22%) .NET
4 18 (40.00%) Front End Development
5 17 (37.78%) Azure
6 15 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 15 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (26.67%) React
8 11 (24.44%) Agile
9 9 (20.00%) AWS
9 9 (20.00%) SaaS
9 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
10 8 (17.78%) Customer Experience
10 8 (17.78%) DevOps
11 7 (15.56%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (15.56%) SQL
12 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
12 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
12 6 (13.33%) SDLC
13 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
13 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
13 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
13 5 (11.11%) Web Development
13 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
13 5 (11.11%) JSON
13 5 (11.11%) XML

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
1 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
1 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.44%) Maven
1 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 15 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (42.22%) .NET
2 12 (26.67%) React
3 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 5 (11.11%) JSON
4 5 (11.11%) XML
5 4 (8.89%) Blazor
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.44%) Express.js
7 2 (4.44%) Jest
7 2 (4.44%) REST
7 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (2.22%) Redux
8 1 (2.22%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 18 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 15 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 11 (24.44%) Agile
5 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 8 (17.78%) Customer Experience
6 8 (17.78%) DevOps
7 7 (15.56%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (13.33%) SDLC
8 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
9 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 5 (11.11%) Web Development
10 4 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
11 3 (6.67%) Microservices
11 3 (6.67%) SOLID
12 2 (4.44%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) C#
1 19 (42.22%) Ruby
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.22%) Elixir
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
5 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) OCP
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft