Senior Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Developer salary in Glasgow is £58,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2024.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 66 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 17 31 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.86% 3.30% 6.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 3.35% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 56
10th Percentile £54,000 £48,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -6.12% +7.93%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 875 924 1,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 98.51% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 453 469 777
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% +10.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (23.53%) React
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) PHP
3 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 4 (23.53%) Web Development
3 4 (23.53%) QA
3 4 (23.53%) WordPress
3 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
3 4 (23.53%) Docker
4 3 (17.65%) User Experience
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Spring
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.76%) WooCommerce
5 2 (11.76%) Test Assurance
5 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
5 2 (11.76%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) Twig
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
5 2 (11.76%) HTML

Senior 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 4 (23.53%) WordPress
2 2 (11.76%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Umbraco
2 2 (11.76%) WildFly
3 1 (5.88%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 4 (23.53%) Marketing
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
1 4 (23.53%) React
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) Symfony
3 2 (11.76%) Twig
3 2 (11.76%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (23.53%) Web Development
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) User Experience
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
4 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Test Assurance
4 2 (11.76%) Time Management
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Data Management
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.88%) Microservices
5 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.88%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) PHP
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Netcool
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) WooCommerce