Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Developer salary in Glasgow is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 37 3
Rank change year-on-year +31 -34 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 107 150 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.66% 10.20% 25.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.33% 10.40% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 53 82 227
10th Percentile £35,450 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £44,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% - +4.76%

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 698 1,443 1,152
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.62% 98.10% 93.58%
Number of salaries quoted 321 515 708
10th Percentile £34,000 £28,880 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,875 £66,875
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% +13.00%

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 11 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 2025, 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 44 (41.12%) SQL
2 38 (35.51%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (32.71%) SQL Server
4 30 (28.04%) Java
4 30 (28.04%) Finance
5 29 (27.10%) Power Platform
6 28 (26.17%) Power BI
7 26 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (24.30%) C#
8 22 (20.56%) .NET
8 22 (20.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (19.63%) JavaScript
9 21 (19.63%) Azure
9 21 (19.63%) SaaS
9 21 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (18.69%) Degree
11 19 (17.76%) Fintech
12 18 (16.82%) Oracle
13 17 (15.89%) Agile
13 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
14 16 (14.95%) Software Testing
14 16 (14.95%) MVC
14 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
14 16 (14.95%) React
15 15 (14.02%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (14.02%) Project Management
15 15 (14.02%) CSS
15 15 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
15 15 (14.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills

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 2 (1.87%) Apache
1 2 (1.87%) WildFly
1 2 (1.87%) WordPress
2 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) Power Platform
2 21 (19.63%) Azure
2 21 (19.63%) SaaS
3 14 (13.08%) AWS
4 8 (7.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 7 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.54%) OCI
5 7 (6.54%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (5.61%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.74%) Serverless
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.80%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (32.71%) SQL Server
2 28 (26.17%) Power BI
3 22 (20.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.61%) MySQL
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle ODI
6 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.87%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.93%) Essbase
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.74%) Git
3 3 (2.80%) Spinnaker
4 2 (1.87%) Maven
4 2 (1.87%) NUnit
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.93%) MSTest
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
General
1 30 (28.04%) Finance
2 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.41%) Banking
6 7 (6.54%) Marketing
7 5 (4.67%) Advertising
8 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Back Office
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Legal
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) .NET
2 16 (14.95%) React
3 15 (14.02%) CSS
4 12 (11.21%) .NET Framework
4 12 (11.21%) HTML
5 11 (10.28%) Entity Framework
6 10 (9.35%) .NET Core
6 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET
6 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET MVC
6 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET Web API
7 9 (8.41%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (7.48%) RESTful
8 8 (7.48%) Spring Boot
9 7 (6.54%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.54%) REST
10 6 (5.61%) Blazor
10 6 (5.61%) JSON
10 6 (5.61%) Kafka
10 6 (5.61%) Spring
11 5 (4.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.74%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (3.74%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Reality
4 3 (2.80%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) PMI
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Android
2 2 (1.87%) Linux
2 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.51%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (17.76%) Fintech
5 17 (15.89%) Agile
6 16 (14.95%) MVC
6 16 (14.95%) Software Testing
7 15 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
7 15 (14.02%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (14.02%) Project Management
8 13 (12.15%) Change Control
8 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
9 12 (11.21%) CRM
9 12 (11.21%) User Experience
10 11 (10.28%) Analytics
10 11 (10.28%) Web Development
11 10 (9.35%) Data Management
11 10 (9.35%) TDD
12 9 (8.41%) DevOps
12 9 (8.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.12%) SQL
2 30 (28.04%) Java
3 26 (24.30%) C#
4 21 (19.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.48%) PHP
5 8 (7.48%) Python
5 8 (7.48%) VB
6 5 (4.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.74%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.80%) Scala
8 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (18.69%) Degree
2 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) ACCA
4 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) QA
System Software
1 11 (10.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Consul
3 2 (1.87%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Netcool
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Oracle
2 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.80%) Databricks
4 2 (1.87%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) JD Edwards