Web Development Jobs in Scotland

Web Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Web Development over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 138 114
Rank change year-on-year +12 -24 +61
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 35 163 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 2.43% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.64% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 28 14 50
10th Percentile £52,500 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £33,563 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £98,474 £61,250 £64,688
90th Percentile - £69,475 £67,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% +3.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,772 6,185 4,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.68% 92.23% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 2,397 2,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,463
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,550 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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 +10 25 £94,637 +31.44% 7
Glasgow +87 7 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Aberdeen - 2 £65,000 -
West Lothian - 1 £37,500 -
Web Development
UK

Web Development
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 15 (42.86%) Umbraco
2 4 (11.43%) CMS
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.71%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) GCP
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 12 (34.29%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) BigQuery
2 10 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) MSBuild
2 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.71%) webpack
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Vite
General
1 23 (65.71%) Finance
2 12 (34.29%) Banking
3 10 (28.57%) Games
4 4 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 12 (34.29%) Architect
4 11 (31.43%) Lead
4 11 (31.43%) Lead Architect
4 11 (31.43%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 11 (31.43%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (25.71%) Senior Developer
6 6 (17.14%) PHP Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior PHP Developer
7 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 5 (14.29%) Web Developer
8 4 (11.43%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 2 (5.71%) Senior Web Developer
11 1 (2.86%) Junior Developer
11 1 (2.86%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (82.86%) CSS
2 18 (51.43%) React
3 16 (45.71%) HTML
4 13 (37.14%) OAuth
4 13 (37.14%) OpenID
4 13 (37.14%) SAML
5 12 (34.29%) jQuery
6 11 (31.43%) Ajax
7 10 (28.57%) LAMP
7 10 (28.57%) Laravel
8 3 (8.57%) .NET
8 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
8 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET
8 3 (8.57%) Next.js
8 3 (8.57%) REST
8 3 (8.57%) RESTful
9 2 (5.71%) JSON
9 2 (5.71%) LDAP
9 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
9 2 (5.71%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) MVC
2 12 (34.29%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (31.43%) Analytics
3 11 (31.43%) Content Management
3 11 (31.43%) Data Analytics
3 11 (31.43%) Domain-Driven Design
3 11 (31.43%) Software Deployment
4 10 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 10 (28.57%) OOP
5 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) User Experience
7 4 (11.43%) Front End Development
7 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.57%) DevOps
8 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
9 2 (5.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 11 (31.43%) PHP
3 5 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Groovy
6 2 (5.71%) Python
6 2 (5.71%) SQL
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) NDS
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.86%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.86%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
2 2 (5.71%) Optimizely
2 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
2 2 (5.71%) Sitecore
2 2 (5.71%) Twitter
3 1 (2.86%) Epicor
3 1 (2.86%) NetIQ
3 1 (2.86%) Okta
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle