Senior Jobs in Scotland

Senior
UK > Scotland

The median Senior salary in Scotland is £51,645 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 21 11
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 786 1,002 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.79% 15.00% 15.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 29.75% 15.47% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 343 494 388
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,225 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,172 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £60,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -6.61% +7.08%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,992 £80,000 £87,419
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% -10.71% -

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 2,642 6,477 4,170
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 96.93% 89.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,344 2,613 2,263
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £31,414
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +7.62%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Scotland

Senior
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 -2 161 £62,500 +4.17% 149
Glasgow +29 91 £55,000 -8.33% 130
Renfrewshire +9 79 £51,645 -1.63% 53
Fife +10 64 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East Ayrshire - 56 £59,000 -
Moray - 54 £60,000 -
Inverclyde +1 52 £51,645 -13.93%
South Ayrshire - 51 £60,000 -
Lanarkshire +13 50 £70,500 - 17
Midlothian +1 36 £26,929 - 21
West Lothian +2 27 £63,750 +6.25% 13
North Lanarkshire - 19 - - 3
East Lothian +2 10 £26,929 -23.06% 1
South Lanarkshire +1 9 - - 3
Stirling +5 8 £44,067 +37.07% 1
Dundee +7 4 £52,500 -12.50% 24
Highlands +6 4 £40,000 -11.11% 2
Aberdeen -2 4 £50,000 -16.67% 29
Falkirk - 2 - - 1
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 341 (43.38%) Degree
2 316 (40.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 225 (28.63%) Finance
4 192 (24.43%) Agile
5 152 (19.34%) Social Skills
6 137 (17.43%) Banking
7 129 (16.41%) Decision-Making
8 123 (15.65%) Management Information System
9 121 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (15.14%) Project Management
11 117 (14.89%) Mentoring
12 113 (14.38%) Risk Management
13 102 (12.98%) Risk Assessment
14 101 (12.85%) Microsoft Office
15 99 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 99 (12.60%) Presentation Skills
16 95 (12.09%) User Experience
17 94 (11.96%) IEC 61508
17 94 (11.96%) Systems Engineering
18 91 (11.58%) User Research
19 90 (11.45%) Prototyping
20 89 (11.32%) Accessibility
20 89 (11.32%) UX Design
21 88 (11.20%) Usability Testing
21 88 (11.20%) UX Research
21 88 (11.20%) Journey Map
21 88 (11.20%) Design Thinking
21 88 (11.20%) Wireframes
21 88 (11.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
22 86 (10.94%) Coaching

Senior 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 5 (0.64%) Apache
1 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.51%) Confluence
2 4 (0.51%) SAS
2 4 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 101 (12.85%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (5.09%) Windchill
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 40 (5.09%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.02%) Infor LN
2 8 (1.02%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (6.36%) AWS
2 45 (5.73%) Azure
3 36 (4.58%) GCP
4 17 (2.16%) SaaS
5 13 (1.65%) Power Platform
6 11 (1.40%) GitHub
7 8 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.76%) Serverless
9 5 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
9 5 (0.64%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.51%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (0.51%) CloudBees
10 4 (0.51%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.38%) dbt
11 3 (0.38%) IaaS
11 3 (0.38%) PaaS
12 2 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.15%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.02%) Modbus
2 8 (1.02%) VPN
3 7 (0.89%) Ethernet
3 7 (0.89%) RS-232
4 6 (0.76%) SSL
4 6 (0.76%) Wireless
5 4 (0.51%) IPsec
5 4 (0.51%) VLAN
6 3 (0.38%) DHCP
6 3 (0.38%) DNS
6 3 (0.38%) Firewall
6 3 (0.38%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.25%) HTTP
7 2 (0.25%) SSH
8 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.13%) Multicast
8 1 (0.13%) RTSP
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.04%) Tableau
2 15 (1.91%) MySQL
3 11 (1.40%) Power BI
4 10 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.89%) Big Data
5 7 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.38%) Looker
8 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (2.54%) Jenkins
2 19 (2.42%) Git
2 19 (2.42%) Visual Studio
3 11 (1.40%) JIRA
4 10 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.89%) GitLab
6 6 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.76%) webpack
7 5 (0.64%) JUnit
8 4 (0.51%) Maven
9 3 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) Gradle
10 2 (0.25%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.25%) Mockito
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 225 (28.63%) Finance
2 152 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 137 (17.43%) Banking
4 99 (12.60%) Presentation Skills
5 85 (10.81%) Games
6 77 (9.80%) Retail
7 68 (8.65%) Telecoms
8 62 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 33 (4.20%) Local Government
11 31 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (3.05%) Electronics
13 8 (1.02%) Marketing
13 8 (1.02%) Police
14 7 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.76%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.51%) Law
16 4 (0.51%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.51%) Wholesale Banking
17 3 (0.38%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.20%) HTML
2 32 (4.07%) CSS
3 29 (3.69%) React
4 20 (2.54%) .NET
5 14 (1.78%) Spring
5 14 (1.78%) Spring Boot
6 12 (1.53%) AngularJS
6 12 (1.53%) Laravel
6 12 (1.53%) RESTful
7 11 (1.40%) Node.js
8 10 (1.27%) LAMP
9 9 (1.15%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.02%) Kafka
11 7 (0.89%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.89%) MFC
12 6 (0.76%) Redux
13 5 (0.64%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.64%) Jest
13 5 (0.64%) OAuth2
13 5 (0.64%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 123 (15.65%) Management Information System
2 24 (3.05%) SCADA
3 15 (1.91%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.65%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.40%) Device Driver
7 9 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 7 (0.89%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.51%) FPGA
11 4 (0.51%) Replication
12 3 (0.38%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.38%) Mobile Banking
12 3 (0.38%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.25%) Analogue Electronics
13 2 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.58%) Linux
2 22 (2.80%) Windows
3 14 (1.78%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (1.40%) Unix
5 7 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.13%) Rocky
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (24.43%) Agile
2 129 (16.41%) Decision-Making
3 121 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (15.14%) Project Management
5 117 (14.89%) Mentoring
6 113 (14.38%) Risk Management
7 102 (12.98%) Risk Assessment
8 99 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (12.09%) User Experience
10 94 (11.96%) Systems Engineering
11 91 (11.58%) User Research
12 90 (11.45%) Prototyping
13 89 (11.32%) UX Design
14 88 (11.20%) Design Thinking
14 88 (11.20%) Journey Map
14 88 (11.20%) Usability Testing
14 88 (11.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 88 (11.20%) UX Research
14 88 (11.20%) Wireframes
15 86 (10.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.38%) Java
2 41 (5.22%) JavaScript
3 40 (5.09%) C++
4 39 (4.96%) Python
4 39 (4.96%) SQL
5 28 (3.56%) C
6 24 (3.05%) C#
6 24 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.42%) PHP
8 9 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.15%) Rust
9 6 (0.76%) Bash
10 5 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.38%) JCL
11 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) ABAP
12 2 (0.25%) Ruby
13 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 341 (43.38%) Degree
2 316 (40.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 59 (7.51%) Chartered Engineer
4 41 (5.22%) ACCA
5 24 (3.05%) Numerate Degree
6 17 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.65%) CISSP
8 8 (1.02%) CIMA
9 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.64%) SC Cleared
9 5 (0.64%) Security Cleared
10 4 (0.51%) CISA
10 4 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.25%) CCA
11 2 (0.25%) CCIE
11 2 (0.25%) CCNP
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.13%) ISEB
12 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.96%) IEC 61508
2 89 (11.32%) Accessibility
3 66 (8.40%) Def Stans
4 41 (5.22%) GAAP
4 41 (5.22%) IFRS
5 28 (3.56%) ARP4754
5 28 (3.56%) DO-254
6 23 (2.93%) HAZOP
7 11 (1.40%) QA
8 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.25%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (2.80%) Docker
2 11 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (1.40%) Firmware
3 7 (0.89%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (2.93%) Functional Safety
1 23 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.04%) Terraform
3 7 (0.89%) Ansible
4 4 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (0.38%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Puppet
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 66 (8.40%) BT
2 13 (1.65%) Microsoft
3 11 (1.40%) Oracle
3 11 (1.40%) SAP
4 8 (1.02%) Cognos
4 8 (1.02%) Infor
5 5 (0.64%) Adobe
5 5 (0.64%) Google
5 5 (0.64%) IBM
6 4 (0.51%) EMC
6 4 (0.51%) IBM Sterling
6 4 (0.51%) Tealium
7 2 (0.25%) Charles River
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco
7 2 (0.25%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.25%) Mentor Graphics
7 2 (0.25%) New Relic
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.25%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.25%) Twitter