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 to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -89 -1 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 143 224 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.12% 4.75% 5.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% 5.26% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 101 125 176
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,875
25th Percentile £49,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

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 6,524 4,257 5,514
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.87% 90.19% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 2,312 2,970
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,658
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 £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 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 -121 64 £57,500 -11.54% 11
Edinburgh -10 50 £63,000 -3.08% 10
Aberdeen -2 13 £52,500 -16.00% 4
Fife -2 8 £55,000 +10.00%
Dundee - 4 £80,288 - 3
Aberdeenshire +8 2 £58,750 -9.62% 3
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 45 (31.47%) Front End Development
2 40 (27.97%) .NET
3 39 (27.27%) React
4 38 (26.57%) AWS
5 36 (25.17%) C#
6 34 (23.78%) Agile
7 33 (23.08%) JavaScript
7 33 (23.08%) Azure
8 32 (22.38%) SQL
9 30 (20.98%) AngularJS
10 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
11 26 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 25 (17.48%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (16.78%) DevOps
13 24 (16.78%) Java
13 24 (16.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (16.08%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (15.38%) Unit Testing
16 20 (13.99%) Ruby
16 20 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (13.29%) Oracle
18 18 (12.59%) Computer Science
18 18 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
19 17 (11.89%) PL/SQL
20 16 (11.19%) Mentoring
21 15 (10.49%) Secure Coding
21 15 (10.49%) Finance
21 15 (10.49%) CSS
22 14 (9.79%) HTML

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.10%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Sonata
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.57%) AWS
2 33 (23.08%) Azure
3 14 (9.79%) SaaS
4 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.80%) Serverless
6 3 (2.10%) GCP
7 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.40%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 13 (9.09%) Oracle Database 11g
3 10 (6.99%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.40%) Power BI
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.70%) MySQL
7 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Git
1 11 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.80%) JIRA
2 4 (2.80%) Maven
3 3 (2.10%) JUnit
3 3 (2.10%) Mockito
4 2 (1.40%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.70%) JHipster
5 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (10.49%) Finance
4 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.10%) Banking
6 2 (1.40%) Aviation
6 2 (1.40%) Police
6 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Games
7 1 (0.70%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing
7 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.97%) .NET
2 39 (27.27%) React
3 30 (20.98%) AngularJS
4 15 (10.49%) CSS
5 14 (9.79%) HTML
6 12 (8.39%) JSON
6 12 (8.39%) Node.js
6 12 (8.39%) Vue
7 11 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 11 (7.69%) Spring
8 10 (6.99%) REST
9 9 (6.29%) Express.js
10 7 (4.90%) Web Services
10 7 (4.90%) XML
11 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
12 5 (3.50%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.50%) Blazor
12 5 (3.50%) Kafka
13 4 (2.80%) Laravel
13 4 (2.80%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.08%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
3 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Kindle
6 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.29%) Mac OS
1 9 (6.29%) Windows
2 5 (3.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (31.47%) Front End Development
2 34 (23.78%) Agile
3 26 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 25 (17.48%) Actionable Insight
5 24 (16.78%) DevOps
6 22 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.38%) Unit Testing
7 18 (12.59%) Computer Science
7 18 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
8 16 (11.19%) Mentoring
9 15 (10.49%) Secure Coding
10 14 (9.79%) CI/CD
11 13 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (9.09%) Data Migration
11 13 (9.09%) Migration
11 13 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (8.39%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (7.69%) Design Patterns
14 10 (6.99%) SDLC
15 8 (5.59%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.17%) C#
2 33 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 32 (22.38%) SQL
4 24 (16.78%) Java
5 20 (13.99%) Ruby
6 17 (11.89%) PL/SQL
7 13 (9.09%) C++
7 13 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.90%) Python
9 6 (4.20%) PHP
10 5 (3.50%) C
11 4 (2.80%) Groovy
11 4 (2.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.70%) Bash
12 1 (0.70%) Elixir
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (8.39%) Degree
1 12 (8.39%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.70%) OCP
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (13.29%) Oracle
2 4 (2.80%) ForgeRock
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.70%) Apple
4 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.70%) Xamarin