Backend Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Backend Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

As of 5 July 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Backend Developer salary in Glasgow.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 211 128
Rank change year-on-year +127 -83 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 1 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.13% 0.23% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £83,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -39.76% +27.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 674 3,465 1,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.92% 98.08% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 301 962 658
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Glasgow

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Glasgow

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Backend 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 Glasgow region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) JWT

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes