Senior Jobs in Glasgow

Senior
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior salary in Glasgow is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 June 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 31 11
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 98 585 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.93% 14.64% 14.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.85% 14.92% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48 188 105
10th Percentile £51,645 £45,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,286 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £84,438 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 549 3,920 1,288
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.27% 98.12% 85.75%
Number of salaries quoted 245 932 637
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,300
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,825 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +0.92%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 57 (58.16%) Agile
2 54 (55.10%) Finance
3 28 (28.57%) Coaching
4 27 (27.55%) Software Engineering
5 24 (24.49%) AWS
5 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
6 23 (23.47%) Public Sector
7 22 (22.45%) IFRS
7 22 (22.45%) Local Government
7 22 (22.45%) ACCA
7 22 (22.45%) GAAP
8 18 (18.37%) Banking
8 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
9 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (17.35%) Law
10 16 (16.33%) Java
10 16 (16.33%) Decision-Making
11 15 (15.31%) Degree
11 15 (15.31%) Azure
12 14 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (14.29%) Terraform
13 13 (13.27%) Microservices
13 13 (13.27%) Mentoring
13 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
13 13 (13.27%) Docker
13 13 (13.27%) Jenkins
13 13 (13.27%) Python
14 11 (11.22%) SDLC
14 11 (11.22%) Cloud Native
15 10 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance

Senior 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 7 (7.14%) Apache
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.49%) AWS
2 15 (15.31%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) GitHub
4 8 (8.16%) GCP
4 8 (8.16%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.08%) CloudBees
6 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.06%) SaaS
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.04%) Serverless
8 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.02%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.02%) LAN
1 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.10%) MySQL
2 5 (5.10%) Power BI
3 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.06%) Apache Hudi
4 3 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (3.06%) Big Data
4 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.06%) Parquet
4 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.02%) DB2
6 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.12%) Git
2 6 (6.12%) GitLab
2 6 (6.12%) JUnit
3 2 (2.04%) Gradle
3 2 (2.04%) Maven
3 2 (2.04%) Mockito
4 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (55.10%) Finance
2 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.47%) Public Sector
4 22 (22.45%) Local Government
5 18 (18.37%) Banking
6 17 (17.35%) Law
7 14 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (6.12%) Games
10 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (3.06%) Private Banking
10 3 (3.06%) Retail
11 2 (2.04%) Front Office
11 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.02%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) Kafka
2 8 (8.16%) RESTful
3 6 (6.12%) React
3 6 (6.12%) Spring
3 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.10%) .NET
4 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.10%) CSS
4 5 (5.10%) HTML
4 5 (5.10%) OAuth
4 5 (5.10%) OAuth2
4 5 (5.10%) OpenID
5 4 (4.08%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.08%) SAML
6 3 (3.06%) Blazor
6 3 (3.06%) LAMP
6 3 (3.06%) Laravel
7 2 (2.04%) JPA
7 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.04%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.04%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.02%) PKI
7 1 (1.02%) PMI
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Unix
2 2 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.16%) Agile
2 28 (28.57%) Coaching
3 27 (27.55%) Software Engineering
4 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
5 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.33%) Decision-Making
7 13 (13.27%) Mentoring
7 13 (13.27%) Microservices
8 11 (11.22%) SDLC
9 10 (10.20%) DevOps
9 10 (10.20%) Project Management
10 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.18%) Risk Assessment
10 9 (9.18%) Risk Management
11 8 (8.16%) Analytics
11 8 (8.16%) Containerisation
11 8 (8.16%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (7.14%) Computer Science
12 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (7.14%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.33%) Java
2 13 (13.27%) Python
3 9 (9.18%) SQL
4 6 (6.12%) PHP
5 5 (5.10%) C#
5 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.08%) Go
7 3 (3.06%) Bash
8 2 (2.04%) C
8 2 (2.04%) C++
9 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.02%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.02%) Perl
9 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) ACCA
2 15 (15.31%) Degree
3 10 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.08%) CISA
4 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CCIE
7 1 (1.02%) CCNP
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.45%) GAAP
1 22 (22.45%) IFRS
2 5 (5.10%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (13.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.29%) Terraform
2 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (5.10%) IBM
2 4 (4.08%) IBM Sterling
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.06%) Databricks
3 3 (3.06%) Facebook
3 3 (3.06%) ForgeRock
3 3 (3.06%) Google
4 1 (1.02%) Cisco
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle
4 1 (1.02%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.02%) SAP
4 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.02%) Sybase