Senior Job Trends in Edinburgh

Senior
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior salary in Edinburgh is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 145 222 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.74% 17.72% 20.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.70% 18.55% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40 131 154
10th Percentile £47,375 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,625 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -7.14% +3.50%
75th Percentile £78,881 £75,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £85,125 £80,000 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 736 1,197 974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.99% 95.53% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 342 530 785
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £55,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £73,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £85,000 £91,661
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,865 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.88% +5.73% -9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Senior job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Senior
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Edinburgh

Senior
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 83 (57.24%) Coaching
2 77 (53.10%) Asset Management
3 74 (51.03%) Azure
4 68 (46.90%) Agile
5 65 (44.83%) Mentoring
6 50 (34.48%) DevOps
7 45 (31.03%) CI/CD
8 43 (29.66%) Migration
8 43 (29.66%) SQL
9 42 (28.97%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (24.83%) Test Automation
11 35 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (24.14%) Terraform
12 34 (23.45%) GitHub
13 32 (22.07%) Python
14 31 (21.38%) Roadmaps
15 29 (20.00%) AWS
15 29 (20.00%) Entra ID
16 27 (18.62%) ERP
16 27 (18.62%) Oracle
16 27 (18.62%) Oracle Forms
17 26 (17.93%) SOAP
18 24 (16.55%) Oracle ERP
19 23 (15.86%) Observability
20 22 (15.17%) Software Engineering
21 21 (14.48%) Clean Code
21 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
21 21 (14.48%) Root Cause Analysis
21 21 (14.48%) Single Sign-On
21 21 (14.48%) Sprint Planning

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (16.55%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (9.66%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (9.66%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (9.66%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (9.66%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (9.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (5.52%) Workday HCM
4 7 (4.83%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.69%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) Azure
2 42 (28.97%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (23.45%) GitHub
4 29 (20.00%) AWS
4 29 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 20 (13.79%) dbt
6 17 (11.72%) OCI
7 16 (11.03%) GitHub Copilot
7 16 (11.03%) Snowflake
8 12 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (7.59%) SaaS
10 9 (6.21%) GCP
11 8 (5.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (5.52%) Boomi
11 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.45%) Salesforce Einstein
13 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) Firewall
2 4 (2.76%) DNS
2 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (7.59%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.83%) Essbase
4 7 (4.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.76%) Redis
6 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (18.62%) Oracle Forms
2 20 (13.79%) JIRA
3 13 (8.97%) Jenkins
General
1 95 (65.52%) Finance
2 28 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.14%) Legal
6 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.45%) Retail
7 4 (2.76%) Banking
7 4 (2.76%) Electronics
7 4 (2.76%) Front Office
8 3 (2.07%) Games
8 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Norwegian Language
10 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.69%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.69%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.93%) SOAP
2 15 (10.34%) RESTful
3 13 (8.97%) JSON
3 13 (8.97%) REST
3 13 (8.97%) XML
4 8 (5.52%) SAML
4 8 (5.52%) Web Services
5 5 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (2.76%) Django
6 4 (2.76%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.76%) Kafka
6 4 (2.76%) OAuth
6 4 (2.76%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.76%) Swagger
7 3 (2.07%) .NET
7 3 (2.07%) React
8 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.38%) HTML
8 2 (1.38%) Spring
8 2 (1.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.31%) Product Ownership
2 24 (16.55%) Cloud Native
3 21 (14.48%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.52%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.38%) FPGA
6 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.69%) Midjourney
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Linux
2 5 (3.45%) Unix
3 4 (2.76%) VMS
4 2 (1.38%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (57.24%) Coaching
2 77 (53.10%) Asset Management
3 68 (46.90%) Agile
4 65 (44.83%) Mentoring
5 50 (34.48%) DevOps
6 45 (31.03%) CI/CD
7 43 (29.66%) Migration
8 36 (24.83%) Test Automation
9 35 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (21.38%) Roadmaps
11 27 (18.62%) ERP
12 23 (15.86%) Observability
13 22 (15.17%) Software Engineering
14 21 (14.48%) Clean Code
14 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (14.48%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (14.48%) Sprint Planning
14 21 (14.48%) Sprint Retrospective
15 20 (13.79%) Translating Business Requirements
16 19 (13.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.66%) SQL
2 32 (22.07%) Python
3 20 (13.79%) Java
4 17 (11.72%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.97%) PL/SQL
5 13 (8.97%) Shell Script
6 11 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.83%) Groovy
8 6 (4.14%) C#
9 5 (3.45%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.76%) Bicep
11 3 (2.07%) C++
12 2 (1.38%) Go
12 2 (1.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.69%) C
13 1 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.69%) CCNA
2 1 (0.69%) CCNP
2 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.69%) CISSP
2 1 (0.69%) Degree
2 1 (0.69%) GCIA
2 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (0.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) NIST
2 8 (5.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) QA
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.59%) Docker
3 8 (5.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (24.14%) Terraform
2 21 (14.48%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.83%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.07%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.38%) Kibana
6 2 (1.38%) logstash
7 1 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (18.62%) Oracle
2 16 (11.03%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.97%) Okta
4 8 (5.52%) MuleSoft
4 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.52%) Workday
5 7 (4.83%) Hyperion
6 5 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.76%) Charles River
7 4 (2.76%) Google
8 2 (1.38%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.38%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.38%) EMC
8 2 (1.38%) Pega
9 1 (0.69%) Adobe
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco
9 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.69%) Qualys
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.69%) Splunk