Senior Jobs in Scotland

Senior
UK > Scotland

The median Senior salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,002 703 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.92% 14.84% 13.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.41% 16.44% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 488 392 463
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,160 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

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 6,502 4,276 5,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.27% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,326 2,955
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,785 £28,500
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 £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Scotland

Senior
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow -24 562 £60,000 -4.69% 62
Edinburgh +7 305 £60,000 -11.29% 76
Aberdeen -2 49 £60,000 - 20
West Lothian +12 35 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Fife -1 10 £55,000 +12.82% 5
Dundee - 9 £60,000 - 5
Midlothian +2 6 - - 22
South Lanarkshire - 4 £65,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire 0 3 £52,500 -19.23% 14
Stirling -4 3 £32,150 +192.27%
Highlands - 3 £45,000 - 3
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 - 1
Angus -1 1 £65,000 -
Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 15
East Lothian - 1 £35,000 -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 500 (49.90%) Software Engineering
2 446 (44.51%) Agile
3 397 (39.62%) Finance
4 371 (37.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 296 (29.54%) Law
6 257 (25.65%) Marketing
7 240 (23.95%) Java
8 231 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (22.95%) SDLC
10 224 (22.36%) Azure
10 224 (22.36%) AWS
11 217 (21.66%) Operational Stability
12 206 (20.56%) SQL
13 177 (17.66%) Artificial Intelligence
14 157 (15.67%) Tech Ops
15 156 (15.57%) Machine Learning
16 149 (14.87%) Python
17 139 (13.87%) C#
18 136 (13.57%) React
19 135 (13.47%) .NET
20 134 (13.37%) JavaScript
21 127 (12.67%) Decision-Making
21 127 (12.67%) Cloud Native
22 121 (12.08%) Computer Science
23 113 (11.28%) DevOps
24 111 (11.08%) CI/CD
24 111 (11.08%) CSS
25 110 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
26 106 (10.58%) Security Cleared
27 103 (10.28%) SC Cleared

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 88 (8.78%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.99%) ArcGIS
2 40 (3.99%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.80%) FileNet
4 17 (1.70%) Cloud Foundry
5 16 (1.60%) Confluence
6 9 (0.90%) SAS
6 9 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.80%) IIS
8 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.40%) JBoss
9 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.20%) Apache
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.100%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.60%) Sketch
3 12 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.80%) InVision
5 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.60%) Simulink
6 6 (0.60%) Stateflow
7 5 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.100%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.100%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.40%) Sonata
3 2 (0.20%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.100%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.100%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (22.36%) AWS
1 224 (22.36%) Azure
2 69 (6.89%) GCP
3 44 (4.39%) SaaS
4 22 (2.20%) Amazon S3
4 22 (2.20%) Figma
4 22 (2.20%) Power Platform
5 20 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 12 (1.20%) Miro
7 11 (1.10%) SurveyMonkey
8 10 (1.00%) GitHub
9 8 (0.80%) Heroku
10 6 (0.60%) PaaS
10 6 (0.60%) Serverless
11 5 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.50%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.40%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.89%) Kerberos
2 27 (2.69%) Wireless
3 20 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (1.90%) Network Security
5 18 (1.80%) Ethernet
6 14 (1.40%) Modbus
6 14 (1.40%) RS-232
6 14 (1.40%) WAN
7 13 (1.30%) Firewall
8 10 (1.00%) Broadband
9 7 (0.70%) Bluetooth
9 7 (0.70%) SAN
9 7 (0.70%) VoIP
10 6 (0.60%) DNS
11 5 (0.50%) BGP
11 5 (0.50%) DHCP
11 5 (0.50%) OSPF
12 4 (0.40%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.30%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.78%) NoSQL
2 65 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (6.19%) Big Data
4 43 (4.29%) GIS
4 43 (4.29%) Metadata
5 40 (3.99%) QGIS
6 25 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.90%) Power BI
10 18 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.70%) CockroachDB
12 15 (1.50%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
14 11 (1.10%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.10%) Tableau
15 9 (0.90%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 68 (6.79%) Git
2 59 (5.89%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.49%) JIRA
4 42 (4.19%) Artifactory
4 42 (4.19%) Bitbucket
5 21 (2.10%) JUnit
6 16 (1.60%) GitLab
7 13 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.50%) IntelliJ
8 5 (0.50%) Maven
9 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.30%) Mockito
11 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.100%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.100%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.100%) webpack
12 1 (0.100%) Zephyr
General
1 397 (39.62%) Finance
2 371 (37.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 296 (29.54%) Law
4 257 (25.65%) Marketing
5 98 (9.78%) Social Skills
6 87 (8.68%) Banking
7 54 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.99%) Investment Banking
9 32 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (2.69%) Legal
10 27 (2.69%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.50%) Public Sector
12 20 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.10%) General Ledger
15 10 (1.00%) Games
15 10 (1.00%) Retail
16 8 (0.80%) Police
17 7 (0.70%) Electronics
17 7 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (13.57%) React
2 135 (13.47%) .NET
3 111 (11.08%) CSS
4 86 (8.58%) HTML
5 77 (7.68%) AngularJS
6 76 (7.58%) JSON
7 67 (6.69%) RESTful
8 58 (5.79%) Web Services
9 57 (5.69%) .NET Core
9 57 (5.69%) Spring
10 55 (5.49%) XML
11 52 (5.19%) Kafka
12 48 (4.79%) SAML
13 46 (4.59%) OpenID
14 42 (4.19%) JSON-LD
14 42 (4.19%) LDAP
15 40 (3.99%) Leaflet
15 40 (3.99%) Node.js
15 40 (3.99%) OpenLayers
15 40 (3.99%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 127 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.99%) Management Information System
2 50 (4.99%) Public Cloud
3 43 (4.29%) Reference Data
4 42 (4.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 41 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.40%) Device Driver
8 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.10%) Market Risk
10 11 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.00%) Social Media
12 9 (0.90%) Credit Risk
12 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (0.80%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.80%) Clustering
13 8 (0.80%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.88%) Linux
2 70 (6.99%) Windows
3 27 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
6 9 (0.90%) Unix
7 8 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.50%) Android
9 4 (0.40%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (49.90%) Software Engineering
2 446 (44.51%) Agile
3 231 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (22.95%) SDLC
5 217 (21.66%) Operational Stability
6 177 (17.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 157 (15.67%) Tech Ops
8 156 (15.57%) Machine Learning
9 127 (12.67%) Decision-Making
10 121 (12.08%) Computer Science
11 113 (11.28%) DevOps
12 111 (11.08%) CI/CD
13 110 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
14 100 (9.98%) Microservices
15 85 (8.48%) Mathematics
16 81 (8.08%) Roadmaps
17 79 (7.88%) Coaching
18 72 (7.19%) Test Automation
19 71 (7.09%) Performance Tuning
20 67 (6.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 240 (23.95%) Java
2 206 (20.56%) SQL
3 149 (14.87%) Python
4 139 (13.87%) C#
5 134 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 64 (6.39%) C
6 64 (6.39%) C++
7 52 (5.19%) Scala
8 45 (4.49%) Go
9 42 (4.19%) Prolog
9 42 (4.19%) SPARQL
10 38 (3.79%) TypeScript
11 35 (3.49%) Ruby
12 28 (2.79%) Embedded C
13 19 (1.90%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.30%) Bash
14 13 (1.30%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.80%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Groovy
17 6 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 106 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 103 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.39%) Degree
4 18 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.00%) ACCA
5 10 (1.00%) CIMA
6 9 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.80%) CISM
7 8 (0.80%) CISSP
7 8 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.60%) CCNP
9 6 (0.60%) CISA
9 6 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.50%) MCSE
10 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.50%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.40%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 33 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.70%) QA
4 11 (1.10%) WCAG
5 8 (0.80%) NIST
6 7 (0.70%) GDPR
7 6 (0.60%) IFRS
7 6 (0.60%) IFRS 9
7 6 (0.60%) ITGC
7 6 (0.60%) PMO
7 6 (0.60%) SLA
8 4 (0.40%) DICOM
8 4 (0.40%) HL7
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 13485
9 3 (0.30%) CRD IV
9 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.20%) GMP
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.100%) Basel III
11 1 (0.100%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.99%) Docker
3 19 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.60%) Firmware
5 14 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.40%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 81 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 44 (4.39%) Terraform
3 16 (1.60%) Ansible
4 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.60%) Grafana
5 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.50%) Puppet
7 4 (0.40%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.40%) vRealize
7 4 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (0.20%) SCCM
8 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.100%) Kibana
9 1 (0.100%) Nagios
9 1 (0.100%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.100%) WMI
Vendors
1 57 (5.69%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.49%) Oracle
3 40 (3.99%) ESRI
4 35 (3.49%) Google
5 25 (2.50%) VMware
6 19 (1.90%) SAP
7 13 (1.30%) Dell
8 11 (1.10%) Databricks
9 10 (1.00%) CA
10 6 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.60%) Sage
10 6 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.50%) JD Edwards
12 4 (0.40%) Citrix
12 4 (0.40%) ConnectWise
12 4 (0.40%) Epicor
12 4 (0.40%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.40%) IFS
12 4 (0.40%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (0.40%) Veeam