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 leading to 20 May 2025.

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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 59 8
Rank change year-on-year +46 -51 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 45 320 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.02% 8.00% 16.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.34% 8.15% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24 170 166
10th Percentile £39,250 £37,375 £38,447
25th Percentile £42,063 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £73,875 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -

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 435 3,925 1,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.17% 98.13% 85.84%
Number of salaries quoted 260 862 662
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,025 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,462
% change year-on-year +4.76% -5.34% +5.64%

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 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 22 (48.89%) Agile
2 21 (46.67%) Java
3 17 (37.78%) SQL
4 14 (31.11%) Azure
4 14 (31.11%) AWS
4 14 (31.11%) MongoDB
5 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
6 12 (26.67%) React
6 12 (26.67%) Microservices
6 12 (26.67%) Kafka
6 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 11 (24.44%) Front End Development
7 11 (24.44%) Finance
7 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
8 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
8 10 (22.22%) Spring
8 10 (22.22%) SDLC
8 10 (22.22%) Docker
9 9 (20.00%) DevOps
9 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
9 9 (20.00%) Oracle
10 8 (17.78%) JUnit
10 8 (17.78%) C#
10 8 (17.78%) Unit Testing
10 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
11 7 (15.56%) Spring Boot
11 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
11 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
11 7 (15.56%) Python

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 (4.44%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (8.89%) Serverless
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (6.67%) OCI
4 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 3 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) MongoDB
2 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.11%) DB2
4 5 (11.11%) Power BI
4 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.89%) MySQL
6 3 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.44%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) JUnit
2 6 (13.33%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) Gradle
3 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) Maven
3 3 (6.67%) Spinnaker
4 2 (4.44%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.44%) GitLab
4 2 (4.44%) Mockito
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.22%) MSTest
5 1 (2.22%) NUnit
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.22%) PyCharm
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.22%) Vite
General
1 11 (24.44%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) Kafka
1 12 (26.67%) React
2 10 (22.22%) Spring
3 7 (15.56%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.33%) .NET
4 6 (13.33%) CSS
5 5 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 5 (11.11%) REST
5 5 (11.11%) RESTful
6 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.89%) HTML
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
7 3 (6.67%) JPA
7 3 (6.67%) JSON
7 3 (6.67%) PySpark
7 3 (6.67%) SOAP
8 2 (4.44%) JWT
8 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Agile
2 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (26.67%) Microservices
2 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (24.44%) Front End Development
4 10 (22.22%) SDLC
5 9 (20.00%) DevOps
6 8 (17.78%) Unit Testing
7 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.11%) CRM
9 5 (11.11%) User Experience
9 5 (11.11%) UX Design
10 4 (8.89%) ETL
10 4 (8.89%) Machine Learning
10 4 (8.89%) MVC
10 4 (8.89%) Operational Stability
10 4 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) Java
2 17 (37.78%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (17.78%) C#
6 7 (15.56%) Python
7 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.22%) C
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.22%) PHP
8 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) ACCA
1 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Databricks
3 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 3 (6.67%) Sybase
4 2 (4.44%) Curam
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) WooCommerce