Developer Jobs in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer salary in Scotland is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 22 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 315 900 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.05% 17.87% 25.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.37% 18.68% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 248 722 856
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,770 4,819 4,365
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.16% 95.71% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,788 2,793 2,844
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £78,675
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Developer in Scotland

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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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 +1 159 £56,318 -2.06% 52
Glasgow -14 103 £55,000 - 32
Aberdeen -11 17 £40,000 - 7
Dundee +10 11 £50,000 +11.11% 16
Aberdeenshire - 4 £33,500 - 1
Midlothian - 3 £37,500 - 14
Roxburghshire - 2 £40,500 -
Stirling +1 1 - - 1
West Lothian -3 1 £72,500 +41.46% 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £70,000 -
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 127 (40.32%) JavaScript
2 106 (33.65%) React
3 96 (30.48%) Agile
4 93 (29.52%) CSS
5 91 (28.89%) Social Skills
6 86 (27.30%) Java
7 81 (25.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 76 (24.13%) .NET
9 74 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (22.86%) HTML
10 72 (22.86%) SQL
11 69 (21.90%) AWS
12 63 (20.00%) AngularJS
13 62 (19.68%) Azure
14 59 (18.73%) Python
15 58 (18.41%) Git
16 56 (17.78%) C#
17 54 (17.14%) DevOps
18 53 (16.83%) Front End Development
18 53 (16.83%) Full Stack Development
19 51 (16.19%) Docker
19 51 (16.19%) Degree
20 48 (15.24%) Computer Science
20 48 (15.24%) Finance
21 46 (14.60%) MySQL
22 41 (13.02%) TypeScript
23 40 (12.70%) Jenkins
24 39 (12.38%) Software Engineering
25 37 (11.75%) Computer Science Degree
26 35 (11.11%) Actionable Insight

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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.71%) CMS
2 12 (3.81%) Confluence
3 9 (2.86%) Drupal
4 5 (1.59%) Headless CMS
5 4 (1.27%) JBoss
5 4 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.63%) Apache
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.63%) Jetty
7 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.63%) WordPress
8 1 (0.32%) IIS
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.90%) AWS
2 62 (19.68%) Azure
3 32 (10.16%) SaaS
4 31 (9.84%) GitHub
5 20 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 19 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.22%) Serverless
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.90%) GCP
11 5 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.95%) Azure Functions
13 3 (0.95%) Azure Pipelines
14 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.63%) dbt
14 2 (0.63%) npm
14 2 (0.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.63%) MQTT
2 2 (0.63%) PPP
2 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) DNS
3 1 (0.32%) RTMP
3 1 (0.32%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.60%) MySQL
2 28 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.71%) Power BI
6 17 (5.40%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.13%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.17%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.86%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.54%) Oracle Database
10 8 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.27%) JasperReports
13 4 (1.27%) MariaDB
13 4 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.27%) Redis
14 3 (0.95%) Apache Hive
14 3 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (18.41%) Git
2 40 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.52%) Maven
4 23 (7.30%) IntelliJ
5 12 (3.81%) JIRA
6 6 (1.90%) JUnit
7 5 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.59%) Postman
8 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.27%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.27%) Selenium
8 4 (1.27%) Travis CI
8 4 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.95%) Mockito
9 3 (0.95%) NUnit
9 3 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.95%) Subversion
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 81 (25.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 48 (15.24%) Finance
4 18 (5.71%) Banking
5 16 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.44%) Games
7 12 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.49%) Marketing
9 9 (2.86%) Law
10 8 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.59%) Retail
11 5 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.27%) Electronics
13 3 (0.95%) Aviation
13 3 (0.95%) Legal
13 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.63%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.63%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (33.65%) React
2 93 (29.52%) CSS
3 76 (24.13%) .NET
4 72 (22.86%) HTML
5 63 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 35 (11.11%) Node.js
7 32 (10.16%) Spring
8 25 (7.94%) React Native
9 22 (6.98%) Spring Boot
10 21 (6.67%) Redux
10 21 (6.67%) REST
11 20 (6.35%) J2EE
12 19 (6.03%) jOOQ
13 17 (5.40%) .NET Framework
13 17 (5.40%) XML
14 15 (4.76%) Kafka
15 14 (4.44%) .NET Core
15 14 (4.44%) Django
15 14 (4.44%) Laravel
15 14 (4.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.22%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.27%) Mobile Games
9 3 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) PropTech
9 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.63%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.67%) Linux
2 19 (6.03%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (0.95%) Windows
5 2 (0.63%) Android
5 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (30.48%) Agile
2 74 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (17.14%) DevOps
4 53 (16.83%) Front End Development
4 53 (16.83%) Full Stack Development
5 48 (15.24%) Computer Science
6 39 (12.38%) Software Engineering
7 35 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
8 32 (10.16%) User Experience
9 27 (8.57%) Microservices
10 25 (7.94%) CI/CD
10 25 (7.94%) Mathematics
11 23 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (6.98%) UX Design
13 21 (6.67%) Prototyping
14 20 (6.35%) Scrum
14 20 (6.35%) Translating Business Requirements
14 20 (6.35%) Web Development
15 19 (6.03%) Customer Service
16 18 (5.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 127 (40.32%) JavaScript
2 86 (27.30%) Java
3 72 (22.86%) SQL
4 59 (18.73%) Python
5 56 (17.78%) C#
6 41 (13.02%) TypeScript
7 29 (9.21%) PHP
8 23 (7.30%) C++
9 19 (6.03%) Bash
10 12 (3.81%) C
11 11 (3.49%) PL/SQL
11 11 (3.49%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.90%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.27%) Ruby
14 2 (0.63%) Go
14 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.63%) VBA
15 1 (0.32%) Rust
15 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 51 (16.19%) Degree
2 37 (11.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.13%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.13%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.95%) OCP
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.59%) QA
2 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.32%) WAI
System Software
1 51 (16.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.95%) Grafana
4 2 (0.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.63%) MIIS
4 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.03%) Oracle
3 8 (2.54%) SAP
4 3 (0.95%) Epicor
4 3 (0.95%) Rollbar
5 2 (0.63%) Aderant
5 2 (0.63%) Ariba
5 2 (0.63%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.63%) Confluent
5 2 (0.63%) Google
5 2 (0.63%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.63%) Sage
5 2 (0.63%) Splunk
5 2 (0.63%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.32%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.32%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.32%) IBM
6 1 (0.32%) Informatica
6 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore