Developer Jobs in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer salary in Scotland is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 195 642 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.03% 10.27% 13.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.31% 10.58% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 119 436 385
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £43,160 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £71,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 2,667 6,069 3,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.47% 97.06% 91.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 2,744 2,083
10th Percentile £26,968 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,404 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% -8.36% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,798 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 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
Glasgow +17 76 £55,000 -2.22% 56
Edinburgh -19 74 £57,500 -4.17% 46
Midlothian - 16 £65,000 - 19
Dundee -5 7 £32,500 -27.78% 2
Lanarkshire -5 6 £50,000 - 26
Fife -16 3 £45,000 -10.00%
West Lothian +5 2 - -
South Lanarkshire +1 2 - -
Aberdeen -5 2 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -1 1 £51,000 +112.50% 1
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, 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 75 (38.46%) Agile
2 71 (36.41%) Finance
2 71 (36.41%) Java
3 55 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (23.08%) SQL
5 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
6 40 (20.51%) AWS
7 36 (18.46%) Banking
7 36 (18.46%) Social Skills
8 34 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (17.44%) CI/CD
9 33 (16.92%) React
9 33 (16.92%) Artificial Intelligence
10 32 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
11 30 (15.38%) HTML
11 30 (15.38%) Azure
12 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
13 28 (14.36%) Spring
13 28 (14.36%) Project Management
13 28 (14.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (13.33%) Microservices
15 25 (12.82%) C#
16 24 (12.31%) User Experience
17 23 (11.79%) CSS
17 23 (11.79%) REST
18 22 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
18 22 (11.28%) Kubernetes
19 21 (10.77%) User Research
19 21 (10.77%) .NET
19 21 (10.77%) SQL Server

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 7 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.03%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Sage 200
1 6 (3.08%) Sage 50
2 5 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 40 (20.51%) AWS
2 30 (15.38%) Azure
3 20 (10.26%) SaaS
4 19 (9.74%) GitHub
5 14 (7.18%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (5.13%) GCP
7 8 (4.10%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.59%) Serverless
9 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.26%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.15%) Power BI
6 11 (5.64%) MySQL
7 9 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (3.59%) DB2
9 5 (2.56%) Apache Hive
9 5 (2.56%) Big Data
9 5 (2.56%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.56%) HBase
9 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.05%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.23%) Git
2 18 (9.23%) Visual Studio
3 13 (6.67%) Maven
4 9 (4.62%) JUnit
5 8 (4.10%) Gradle
6 4 (2.05%) GitLab
7 3 (1.54%) JIRA
8 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.03%) Mockito
8 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.51%) Checkstyle
9 1 (0.51%) ESLint
9 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.51%) Mocha
9 1 (0.51%) Postman
9 1 (0.51%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.51%) Vite
9 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 71 (36.41%) Finance
2 36 (18.46%) Banking
2 36 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.18%) Law
6 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.08%) Games
7 6 (3.08%) Marketing
8 4 (2.05%) Private Banking
8 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.03%) Back Office
9 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.51%) Electronics
10 1 (0.51%) Front Office
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.92%) React
2 30 (15.38%) HTML
3 28 (14.36%) Spring
4 23 (11.79%) CSS
4 23 (11.79%) REST
5 21 (10.77%) .NET
6 20 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 17 (8.72%) Kafka
8 16 (8.21%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.21%) RESTful
9 12 (6.15%) jQuery
10 11 (5.64%) .NET Framework
10 11 (5.64%) React Native
11 10 (5.13%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.13%) HTML5
12 8 (4.10%) JPA
13 7 (3.59%) ASP.NET
13 7 (3.59%) MFC
13 7 (3.59%) Node.js
14 6 (3.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Virtual Team
2 16 (8.21%) Augmented Reality
3 11 (5.64%) Blockchain
4 10 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.59%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.08%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.05%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.05%) NHS
8 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.03%) Life Science
11 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.51%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.15%) Apple iOS
1 12 (6.15%) Windows
2 11 (5.64%) Android
3 10 (5.13%) Linux
4 9 (4.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.46%) Agile
2 55 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (17.44%) CI/CD
4 33 (16.92%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
6 28 (14.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (14.36%) Project Management
7 26 (13.33%) Microservices
8 24 (12.31%) User Experience
9 22 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (10.77%) User Research
10 21 (10.77%) UX Design
11 20 (10.26%) DevOps
11 20 (10.26%) SDLC
12 19 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (9.74%) Computer Science
12 19 (9.74%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 17 (8.72%) Design Thinking
14 17 (8.72%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.41%) Java
2 45 (23.08%) SQL
3 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.82%) C#
5 20 (10.26%) C++
6 19 (9.74%) Python
6 19 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.13%) C
8 6 (3.08%) PHP
9 5 (2.56%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.05%) Rust
10 4 (2.05%) VBA
11 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.03%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.03%) Swift
12 1 (0.51%) Cypher
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (10.26%) Degree
2 13 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.03%) ACCA
4 1 (0.51%) HND
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.72%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (9.23%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.08%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.67%) Oracle
3 6 (3.08%) Google
3 6 (3.08%) Sage
4 5 (2.56%) Cloudera
4 5 (2.56%) Databricks
5 4 (2.05%) Blue Prism
5 4 (2.05%) UiPath
6 3 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.54%) Splunk
6 3 (1.54%) Sybase
7 2 (1.03%) Curam
7 2 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) Epicor
8 1 (0.51%) Twitter
8 1 (0.51%) WooCommerce