Software Developer Jobs in Scotland

Software Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Software Developer salary in Scotland is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 142 140
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 30 148 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.97% 2.15% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 2.21% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14 126 67
10th Percentile £34,875 £34,000 -
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,813 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% -12.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,875 £70,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.24% -4.55% -

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 2,568 6,691 3,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.43% 96.99% 89.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 3,009 2,076
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,646 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £71,063
90th Percentile £84,925 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Scotland

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in Scotland

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Scotland

Software 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 Software Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Glasgow +120 19 £43,750 -20.45% 22
Edinburgh -2 9 £55,000 -13.04% 7
Fife -7 1 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 22 (73.33%) AWS
2 16 (53.33%) Java
2 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 16 (53.33%) Software Engineering
3 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (46.67%) Finance
4 14 (46.67%) Law
5 13 (43.33%) Spring
5 13 (43.33%) Test Automation
6 12 (40.00%) React
7 11 (36.67%) Microservices
7 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
7 11 (36.67%) SDLC
8 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 10 (33.33%) Operational Stability
8 10 (33.33%) TDD
9 9 (30.00%) Banking
9 9 (30.00%) Maven
9 9 (30.00%) SQL
9 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
10 8 (26.67%) Serverless
10 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
10 8 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
10 8 (26.67%) Kanban
11 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
11 7 (23.33%) JavaScript

Software 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 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (26.67%) Serverless
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon MSK
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 5 (16.67%) Big Data
1 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 5 (16.67%) HBase
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (13.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) DB2
4 1 (3.33%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Maven
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
1 14 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 14 (46.67%) Law
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Marketing
5 4 (13.33%) Private Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Electronics
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) Spring
2 12 (40.00%) React
3 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (20.00%) .NET
4 6 (20.00%) REST
5 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.67%) HTML
5 5 (16.67%) JPA
6 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (13.33%) jQuery
6 4 (13.33%) Kafka
6 4 (13.33%) Node.js
6 4 (13.33%) RESTful
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.67%) Entity Framework
9 1 (3.33%) CSS
9 1 (3.33%) HTML5
9 1 (3.33%) SOAP
9 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Life Science
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile
1 16 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 15 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (43.33%) Test Automation
4 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
4 11 (36.67%) Microservices
4 11 (36.67%) SDLC
5 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (33.33%) Operational Stability
5 10 (33.33%) TDD
6 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (26.67%) Kanban
8 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
9 5 (16.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Java
2 9 (30.00%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (16.67%) C#
5 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Python
7 2 (6.67%) C++
8 1 (3.33%) Objective-C
8 1 (3.33%) Ruby
8 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) HDFS
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 5 (16.67%) Databricks
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Curam