Senior Developer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Developer salary in Edinburgh is £61,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 49 117 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.22% 5.50% 4.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.36% 5.76% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 31 71 88
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -2.26% +20.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.12% +11.36%

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 1,457 2,032 2,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.49% 97.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,201 1,443
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £33,098
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 17 (34.69%) Azure
1 17 (34.69%) AWS
2 15 (30.61%) DevOps
2 15 (30.61%) Front End Development
3 14 (28.57%) SQL
4 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.49%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (24.49%) AngularJS
5 12 (24.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
6 11 (22.45%) JavaScript
7 10 (20.41%) .NET
8 9 (18.37%) CSS
8 9 (18.37%) HTML
8 9 (18.37%) Java
8 9 (18.37%) Unit Testing
8 9 (18.37%) SaaS
8 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
8 9 (18.37%) React
9 8 (16.33%) Git
9 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
9 8 (16.33%) Ruby
9 8 (16.33%) Agile
9 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
10 7 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (14.29%) C#
10 7 (14.29%) Oracle
10 7 (14.29%) Secure Coding
11 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
11 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared

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 (2.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) AWS
1 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) SaaS
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon S3
3 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.16%) Serverless
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle Database
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle Database 11g
2 6 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.16%) RDBMS
3 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.04%) JHipster
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) Maven
3 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (24.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Aviation
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Games
5 1 (2.04%) Police
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) AngularJS
2 10 (20.41%) .NET
3 9 (18.37%) CSS
3 9 (18.37%) HTML
3 9 (18.37%) React
4 6 (12.24%) REST
5 5 (10.20%) .NET Framework
5 5 (10.20%) Express.js
5 5 (10.20%) Node.js
5 5 (10.20%) Web Services
6 4 (8.16%) Blazor
6 4 (8.16%) JSON
6 4 (8.16%) OAuth
6 4 (8.16%) OpenID
6 4 (8.16%) Spring
7 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.08%) Laravel
8 2 (4.08%) RESTful
8 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.04%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.12%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Kindle
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) DevOps
1 15 (30.61%) Front End Development
2 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
3 12 (24.49%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (18.37%) Unit Testing
5 8 (16.33%) Agile
5 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
6 7 (14.29%) Secure Coding
7 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (12.24%) Data Migration
7 6 (12.24%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (12.24%) Migration
7 6 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.16%) Fintech
10 3 (6.12%) Open Source
10 3 (6.12%) SDLC
10 3 (6.12%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.37%) Java
4 8 (16.33%) Ruby
5 7 (14.29%) C#
6 6 (12.24%) PL/SQL
6 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
7 5 (10.20%) C
7 5 (10.20%) C++
8 4 (8.16%) Groovy
9 2 (4.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) OCP
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.04%) Apple