Developer Jobs in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer salary in Scotland is £53,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 14 3
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 644 714 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.59% 15.17% 21.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 16.82% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 432 522 767
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £82,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

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 6,505 4,245 5,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.17% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,309 2,967
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,530 £28,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,550 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -54 315 £55,000 - 52
Edinburgh +1 185 £60,000 - 34
Aberdeen -2 51 £42,500 - 8
Dundee +8 40 £47,500 +14.46% 4
Fife +10 27 £50,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire +11 6 £45,000 -30.77% 4
Inverclyde - 3 £50,000 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 3 £39,000 -
Lanarkshire -17 2 - - 9
Renfrewshire -3 1 £52,500 +28.51%
West Lothian -6 1 £72,500 +38.10% 3
Stirling -6 1 £49,500 +350.00% 2
Orkney Islands - 1 £35,000 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £24,000 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 - 1
Highlands - 1 £65,000 -
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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.

1 234 (36.34%) Agile
2 176 (27.33%) JavaScript
3 172 (26.71%) AWS
4 169 (26.24%) Java
5 167 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 158 (24.53%) Finance
7 151 (23.45%) React
8 146 (22.67%) SQL
9 144 (22.36%) Software Engineering
10 131 (20.34%) .NET
11 127 (19.72%) C#
12 125 (19.41%) CI/CD
13 124 (19.25%) Python
13 124 (19.25%) AngularJS
14 117 (18.17%) Full Stack Development
15 114 (17.70%) Azure
16 113 (17.55%) Microservices
17 110 (17.08%) Law
17 110 (17.08%) Artificial Intelligence
18 109 (16.93%) SDLC
19 108 (16.77%) Front End Development
20 100 (15.53%) CSS
21 98 (15.22%) Machine Learning
22 95 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
22 95 (14.75%) Git
22 95 (14.75%) Social Skills
23 93 (14.44%) TypeScript
24 92 (14.29%) Jenkins
24 92 (14.29%) Visualisation
25 91 (14.13%) Algorithms

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 69 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.71%) CMS
3 11 (1.71%) Umbraco
4 9 (1.40%) WordPress
5 4 (0.62%) Confluence
5 4 (0.62%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.62%) SAS
6 2 (0.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.31%) Drupal
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Mendix
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 14 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.62%) Sonata
3 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.16%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 172 (26.71%) AWS
2 114 (17.70%) Azure
3 47 (7.30%) SaaS
4 29 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 19 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.64%) GitHub
7 14 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (1.86%) Power Automate
8 12 (1.86%) PowerApps
8 12 (1.86%) Serverless
9 5 (0.78%) GCP
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.47%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.47%) Google Play
12 2 (0.31%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.40%) HTTP
2 8 (1.24%) MQTT
3 6 (0.93%) Internet
4 3 (0.47%) Intranet
4 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.18%) NoSQL
2 69 (10.71%) Apache Hive
3 56 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 56 (8.70%) HBase
4 53 (8.23%) SQL Server
5 36 (5.59%) MySQL
6 34 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (3.57%) Power BI
8 20 (3.11%) Big Data
9 15 (2.33%) Oracle Database
9 15 (2.33%) Oracle Database 11g
9 15 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 14 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.24%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 95 (14.75%) Git
2 92 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 56 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 12 (1.86%) GitLab
4 12 (1.86%) Jasmine
4 12 (1.86%) Karma Test Runner
4 12 (1.86%) Maven
5 11 (1.71%) CircleCI
6 9 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.93%) webpack
9 5 (0.78%) JIRA
9 5 (0.78%) JUnit
10 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.62%) Mockito
10 4 (0.62%) Postman
11 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 167 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 158 (24.53%) Finance
3 110 (17.08%) Law
4 95 (14.75%) Social Skills
5 46 (7.14%) Banking
5 46 (7.14%) Marketing
6 38 (5.90%) Legal
7 22 (3.42%) Private Banking
8 16 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 13 (2.02%) Games
10 12 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.40%) Multimedia
11 9 (1.40%) Retail
12 8 (1.24%) Electronics
12 8 (1.24%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (0.93%) Front Office
15 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.47%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (23.45%) React
2 131 (20.34%) .NET
3 124 (19.25%) AngularJS
4 100 (15.53%) CSS
5 78 (12.11%) HTML
6 61 (9.47%) Node.js
7 58 (9.01%) Spring
8 54 (8.39%) Vue
9 49 (7.61%) ASP.NET
10 44 (6.83%) .NET Framework
11 43 (6.68%) ASP.NET Web API
12 33 (5.12%) .NET Core
12 33 (5.12%) REST
13 32 (4.97%) Entity Framework
14 29 (4.50%) ASP.NET MVC
15 26 (4.04%) JSON
16 25 (3.88%) Spring Boot
17 24 (3.73%) Laravel
18 22 (3.42%) Django
18 22 (3.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (14.13%) Algorithms
2 64 (9.94%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.02%) Social Media
6 12 (1.86%) Augmented Reality
6 12 (1.86%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.86%) Virtual Reality
7 11 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
8 10 (1.55%) IoT
9 9 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.24%) Arduino
10 8 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.24%) Raspberry Pi
11 7 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.93%) BBC
12 6 (0.93%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.62%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 68 (10.56%) Unix
2 10 (1.55%) Linux
2 10 (1.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.40%) Android
3 9 (1.40%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (36.34%) Agile
2 144 (22.36%) Software Engineering
3 125 (19.41%) CI/CD
4 117 (18.17%) Full Stack Development
5 113 (17.55%) Microservices
6 110 (17.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 109 (16.93%) SDLC
8 108 (16.77%) Front End Development
9 98 (15.22%) Machine Learning
10 95 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (14.29%) Visualisation
12 91 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
13 88 (13.66%) Test Automation
14 85 (13.20%) TDD
15 80 (12.42%) Community of Practice
15 80 (12.42%) Operational Stability
16 71 (11.02%) Open Source
17 65 (10.09%) Computer Science
18 60 (9.32%) DevOps
19 56 (8.70%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 176 (27.33%) JavaScript
2 169 (26.24%) Java
3 146 (22.67%) SQL
4 127 (19.72%) C#
5 124 (19.25%) Python
6 93 (14.44%) TypeScript
7 82 (12.73%) PL/SQL
8 46 (7.14%) PHP
9 39 (6.06%) C++
10 24 (3.73%) C
10 24 (3.73%) T-SQL
11 20 (3.11%) Ruby
12 11 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.55%) Go
14 5 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.78%) GLSL
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
15 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.62%) Swift
16 3 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (12.58%) Degree
2 34 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (2.64%) SC Cleared
3 17 (2.64%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.09%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.47%) PhD
6 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.31%) OCP
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.66%) QA
2 9 (1.40%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.40%) WAI
3 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (8.70%) HDFS
2 38 (5.90%) Docker
3 15 (2.33%) Firmware
4 7 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (9.94%) Terraform
2 25 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 57 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.70%) Cloudera
2 56 (8.70%) Databricks
2 56 (8.70%) Informatica
3 36 (5.59%) Oracle
4 10 (1.55%) Google
5 8 (1.24%) NVIDIA
5 8 (1.24%) SAP
6 7 (1.09%) Apple
7 6 (0.93%) Facebook
7 6 (0.93%) Sony
7 6 (0.93%) Xamarin
7 6 (0.93%) Yahoo!
8 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.47%) Cadence
9 3 (0.47%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.31%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.16%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.16%) Vermilion