Senior Developer Job Trends in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Developer salary in Glasgow is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 60 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 -16 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 10 22 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.27% 2.20% 4.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 2.26% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 25
10th Percentile £48,375 - £48,600
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,313 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £74,500
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
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 733 974 657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 97.60% 98.06%
Number of salaries quoted 321 535 510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, Senior Developer 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 Glasgow region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) Investment Management
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) Kafka
3 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (40.00%) Tech Ops
3 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (40.00%) Law
2 4 (40.00%) Private Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Investment Management
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Tech Ops
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Fintech
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle