Senior Developer Jobs in Glasgow

Senior Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Developer salary in Glasgow is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 169 48
Rank change year-on-year +121 -121 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 63 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.23% 1.58% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.61% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2 42 39
10th Percentile £50,850 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,625 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £67,125 £61,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,350 £74,250 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +6.12%

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 436 3,904 1,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.16% 98.04% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 259 844 685
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 £75,360 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £78,525 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

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 7 May 2025.

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 7 May 2025, 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 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) JUnit
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) React
4 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) Gradle
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) Mockito
4 2 (33.33%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) Maven
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) Power Query
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) JPA
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Journey Map
4 1 (16.67%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase
25 Senior Developer jobs in Scotland