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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 142 156
Rank change year-on-year +59 +14 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 21 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.42% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 0.26% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 5
10th Percentile - £50,850 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,125 £71,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,550 £69,250
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +11.63%

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 1,424 1,887 2,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 94.78% 98.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 1,107 1,538
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,425 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.57% +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 23 May 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 23 May 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 13 (61.90%) .NET
2 12 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 12 (57.14%) SaaS
3 9 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 9 (42.86%) C#
4 8 (38.10%) Azure
5 7 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 7 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (33.33%) Ruby
6 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
7 5 (23.81%) AWS
8 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
8 4 (19.05%) SQL
8 4 (19.05%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (19.05%) DevOps
8 4 (19.05%) SOLID
8 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
8 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (19.05%) Blazor
8 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
9 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 3 (14.29%) SDLC
9 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
10 1 (4.76%) REST
10 1 (4.76%) Kafka

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 12 (57.14%) SaaS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Vite
1 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) Blazor
4 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) JSON Schema
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.76%) OpenID
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) SOAP
4 1 (4.76%) Swagger
4 1 (4.76%) WCF
4 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (19.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 5 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) SOLID
6 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 3 (14.29%) SDLC
7 1 (4.76%) API Development
7 1 (4.76%) Bioinformatics
7 1 (4.76%) Data Science
7 1 (4.76%) Fintech
7 1 (4.76%) Informatics
7 1 (4.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) C#
2 7 (33.33%) Ruby
3 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes