Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Developer salary in Glasgow is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -54 -3 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 315 284 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.96% 18.07% 27.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.12% 21.01% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 166 182 236
10th Percentile £39,250 £38,289 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,879 1,352 1,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.03% 86.01% 97.89%
Number of salaries quoted 840 686 908
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,313 £28,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,075 £77,500 £72,772
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 172 (54.60%) Agile
2 139 (44.13%) Java
3 130 (41.27%) Finance
4 103 (32.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 101 (32.06%) CI/CD
6 100 (31.75%) Law
7 95 (30.16%) SQL
8 94 (29.84%) Artificial Intelligence
9 93 (29.52%) SDLC
10 92 (29.21%) AWS
11 91 (28.89%) Software Engineering
12 90 (28.57%) Microservices
13 88 (27.94%) Python
14 87 (27.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 83 (26.35%) Machine Learning
16 81 (25.71%) Visualisation
16 81 (25.71%) Algorithms
17 80 (25.40%) Community of Practice
17 80 (25.40%) Operational Stability
18 78 (24.76%) Jenkins
19 77 (24.44%) Test Automation
20 74 (23.49%) PL/SQL
21 71 (22.54%) Git
22 70 (22.22%) JavaScript
22 70 (22.22%) TDD
23 69 (21.90%) AngularJS
23 69 (21.90%) Apache Hive
23 69 (21.90%) Apache Spark
24 67 (21.27%) Unix
25 64 (20.32%) .NET

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:

Application Platforms
1 69 (21.90%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.17%) Umbraco
3 9 (2.86%) WordPress
4 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) Confluence
6 2 (0.63%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) Mendix
7 1 (0.32%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 7 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.27%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 92 (29.21%) AWS
2 46 (14.60%) Azure
3 16 (5.08%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.13%) SaaS
5 12 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.22%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.95%) GitHub
8 3 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) Internet
2 3 (0.95%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (21.90%) Apache Hive
2 60 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 56 (17.78%) Hadoop
3 56 (17.78%) HBase
4 29 (9.21%) SQL Server
5 23 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (6.35%) Big Data
7 11 (3.49%) MySQL
7 11 (3.49%) Power BI
7 11 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.54%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.54%) Oracle Database 11g
10 4 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.95%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.32%) DB2
Development Applications
1 78 (24.76%) Jenkins
2 71 (22.54%) Git
3 56 (17.78%) Bitbucket Server
4 12 (3.81%) GitLab
5 11 (3.49%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.17%) Jasmine
6 10 (3.17%) Karma Test Runner
7 9 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.59%) Maven
10 4 (1.27%) JUnit
10 4 (1.27%) Mockito
10 4 (1.27%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.27%) webpack
11 3 (0.95%) Postman
12 2 (0.63%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.63%) JIRA
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.32%) Travis CI
General
1 130 (41.27%) Finance
2 103 (32.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 100 (31.75%) Law
4 38 (12.06%) Legal
5 34 (10.79%) Marketing
5 34 (10.79%) Social Skills
6 31 (9.84%) Banking
7 22 (6.98%) Private Banking
8 6 (1.90%) Front Office
8 6 (1.90%) Games
9 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.27%) Retail
9 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.95%) Advertising
10 3 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.32%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (21.90%) AngularJS
2 64 (20.32%) .NET
3 47 (14.92%) Spring
4 44 (13.97%) React
5 34 (10.79%) ASP.NET
6 31 (9.84%) ASP.NET Web API
7 27 (8.57%) CSS
8 26 (8.25%) Vue
9 25 (7.94%) HTML
10 24 (7.62%) .NET Framework
11 21 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
12 19 (6.03%) Entity Framework
13 18 (5.71%) JSON
13 18 (5.71%) RESTful
14 17 (5.40%) REST
14 17 (5.40%) Spring Boot
15 16 (5.08%) .NET Core
16 15 (4.76%) Sass
17 14 (4.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 14 (4.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (25.71%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.13%) Social Media
5 12 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.90%) BBC
8 6 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Life Science
9 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.63%) CMDB
10 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.63%) IoT
10 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 67 (21.27%) Unix
2 4 (1.27%) Android
2 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.95%) Linux
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (54.60%) Agile
2 101 (32.06%) CI/CD
3 94 (29.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 93 (29.52%) SDLC
5 91 (28.89%) Software Engineering
6 90 (28.57%) Microservices
7 87 (27.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 83 (26.35%) Machine Learning
9 81 (25.71%) Visualisation
10 80 (25.40%) Community of Practice
10 80 (25.40%) Operational Stability
11 77 (24.44%) Test Automation
12 70 (22.22%) TDD
13 59 (18.73%) Open Source
14 58 (18.41%) Full Stack Development
15 56 (17.78%) Batch Processing
16 44 (13.97%) Risk Management
17 39 (12.38%) Front End Development
18 37 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (9.21%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (44.13%) Java
2 95 (30.16%) SQL
3 88 (27.94%) Python
4 74 (23.49%) PL/SQL
5 70 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 63 (20.00%) C#
7 21 (6.67%) T-SQL
8 19 (6.03%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.49%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.86%) Go
10 9 (2.86%) PHP
11 6 (1.90%) C++
12 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.27%) Swift
13 3 (0.95%) C
14 2 (0.63%) Scala
15 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.32%) VB
15 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.32%) VB6
Qualifications
1 37 (11.75%) Degree
2 11 (3.49%) SC Cleared
2 11 (3.49%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.76%) QA
2 9 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.86%) WAI
System Software
1 56 (17.78%) HDFS
2 23 (7.30%) Docker
3 6 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (17.78%) Terraform
2 16 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (17.78%) Cloudera
1 56 (17.78%) Databricks
1 56 (17.78%) Informatica
2 32 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.57%) Oracle
4 6 (1.90%) Apple
4 6 (1.90%) Facebook
4 6 (1.90%) Google
4 6 (1.90%) Sony
4 6 (1.90%) Yahoo!
5 3 (0.95%) Cadence
6 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.32%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.32%) Xamarin