Applications Developer Jobs in Scotland

Application Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Application Developer salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 271 203
Rank change year-on-year +132 -68 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 6 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.21% 0.089% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.092% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 16
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,250
25th Percentile - £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,500 £53,691
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -11.53% +2.27%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £60,313
90th Percentile - £55,000 £63,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in Scotland

Applications Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Applications Developer in Scotland

Applications Developer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 4 - -
Glasgow +173 2 £75,000 +57.89%
Applications Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications 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 Scotland region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Spinnaker
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) UX Design
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Express.js
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) XCTest

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Spinnaker
2 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
2 1 (16.67%) XCTest
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) Express.js
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Android SDK
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Cordova
3 1 (16.67%) Core Animation
3 1 (16.67%) Core Data
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (16.67%) iOS SDK
3 1 (16.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) Business Agility
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Development
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle