Senior Developer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Developer salary in Scotland is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 129 62
Rank change year-on-year +19 -67 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 56 162 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.81% 2.34% 4.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 2.42% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 35 114 106
10th Percentile - £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £53,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -8.40% +4.80%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £79,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 2,595 6,708 3,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.06% 96.99% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 2,983 2,072
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,696 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £70,600
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -3 25 £55,000 -8.33% 57
Glasgow +90 13 £55,000 -4.35% 74
Midlothian - 6 £70,000 - 6
Lanarkshire - 3 - - 3
Dundee +13 2 £52,500 -34.61% 2
Renfrewshire - 1 - - 6
West Lothian - 1 - - 4
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 22 (39.29%) Agile
2 21 (37.50%) Finance
3 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (32.14%) AWS
5 17 (30.36%) Java
6 16 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (26.79%) Project Management
8 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 13 (23.21%) Banking
10 11 (19.64%) Microservices
11 10 (17.86%) C++
11 10 (17.86%) Visual Studio
11 10 (17.86%) Windows
12 9 (16.07%) SQL
12 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (16.07%) Usability Testing
12 9 (16.07%) Unit Testing
12 9 (16.07%) UX Design
12 9 (16.07%) TypeScript
12 9 (16.07%) User Experience
12 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (16.07%) React
12 9 (16.07%) Wireframes
12 9 (16.07%) Prototyping
12 9 (16.07%) Virtual Team
12 9 (16.07%) Accessibility
12 9 (16.07%) User Research
12 9 (16.07%) UX Research
12 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
12 9 (16.07%) Journey Map

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
2 8 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.71%) SaaS
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.14%) GitHub
5 4 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) MySQL
1 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) DB2
6 1 (1.79%) Power Query
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Visual Studio
2 6 (10.71%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) JUnit
4 2 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (3.57%) Gradle
4 2 (3.57%) Maven
4 2 (3.57%) Mockito
General
1 21 (37.50%) Finance
2 16 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 13 (23.21%) Banking
5 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Games
7 4 (7.14%) Law
7 4 (7.14%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Front Office
8 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) React
2 7 (12.50%) Kafka
2 7 (12.50%) MFC
2 7 (12.50%) Spring
2 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (10.71%) RESTful
4 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.14%) CSS
5 4 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.14%) HTML
5 4 (7.14%) LAMP
5 4 (7.14%) Laravel
5 4 (7.14%) Node.js
6 3 (5.36%) React Native
7 2 (3.57%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.57%) JPA
7 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (3.57%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.79%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Virtual Team
2 6 (10.71%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Android
2 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.57%) Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Agile
2 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (26.79%) Project Management
4 11 (19.64%) Microservices
5 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.07%) Design Thinking
5 9 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (16.07%) Journey Map
5 9 (16.07%) Prototyping
5 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (16.07%) Unit Testing
5 9 (16.07%) Usability Testing
5 9 (16.07%) User Experience
5 9 (16.07%) User Research
5 9 (16.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (16.07%) UX Design
5 9 (16.07%) UX Research
5 9 (16.07%) Wireframes
6 8 (14.29%) Mobile Development
7 7 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) Java
2 10 (17.86%) C++
3 9 (16.07%) SQL
3 9 (16.07%) TypeScript
4 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.93%) PHP
6 2 (3.57%) Python
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
7 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.79%) IBM
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.79%) Sybase
1 1 (1.79%) Twitter