Senior Jobs in Scotland

Senior
UK > Scotland

The median Senior salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,005 696 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.97% 15.23% 13.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.44% 16.94% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 496 390 453
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,129 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,818 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £86,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

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 6,508 4,108 5,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.89% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,627 2,223 3,003
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,414 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 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 -21 571 £60,000 - 71
Edinburgh +7 296 £60,000 -7.69% 76
Aberdeen -4 48 £60,000 -1.32% 21
West Lothian +11 36 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Dundee - 10 £60,000 - 5
Fife 0 9 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Midlothian +3 6 - - 16
Aberdeenshire +2 4 £58,750 -9.62% 11
South Lanarkshire - 4 £65,000 -
Argyll and Bute -6 3 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Highlands - 3 £45,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 - 1
Angus -1 1 £65,000 -
Stirling -5 1 £32,150 +192.27%
Lanarkshire -7 1 - - 21
East Lothian - 1 £35,000 -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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.

1 499 (49.65%) Software Engineering
2 424 (42.19%) Agile
3 406 (40.40%) Finance
4 369 (36.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 302 (30.05%) Law
6 265 (26.37%) Marketing
7 233 (23.18%) Java
8 229 (22.79%) SDLC
9 226 (22.49%) AWS
10 222 (22.09%) Azure
11 221 (21.99%) Operational Stability
12 217 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
13 199 (19.80%) SQL
14 178 (17.71%) Artificial Intelligence
15 161 (16.02%) Tech Ops
16 155 (15.42%) Machine Learning
17 146 (14.53%) Python
18 138 (13.73%) C#
19 135 (13.43%) .NET
20 129 (12.84%) Decision-Making
21 127 (12.64%) JavaScript
22 126 (12.54%) React
23 119 (11.84%) Cloud Native
24 113 (11.24%) Computer Science
25 110 (10.95%) DevOps
26 109 (10.85%) CI/CD
27 104 (10.35%) CSS
28 101 (10.05%) Actionable Insight
29 100 (9.95%) Security Cleared
30 97 (9.65%) SC Cleared

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 87 (8.66%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.98%) ArcGIS
2 40 (3.98%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.79%) FileNet
4 17 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
5 9 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.80%) SAS
7 7 (0.70%) Confluence
8 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.100%) Apache
11 1 (0.100%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.59%) Sketch
3 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.80%) InVision
5 5 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.100%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.100%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.40%) Sonata
3 4 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (22.49%) AWS
2 222 (22.09%) Azure
3 70 (6.97%) GCP
4 48 (4.78%) SaaS
5 22 (2.19%) Amazon S3
5 22 (2.19%) Figma
5 22 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.19%) Power Platform
6 12 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.19%) Entra ID
6 12 (1.19%) Miro
7 11 (1.09%) SurveyMonkey
8 9 (0.90%) GitHub
9 8 (0.80%) Heroku
10 7 (0.70%) PaaS
11 6 (0.60%) Serverless
12 5 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.50%) IaaS
12 5 (0.50%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.87%) Kerberos
2 26 (2.59%) Wireless
3 19 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (1.79%) Network Security
5 16 (1.59%) Ethernet
5 16 (1.59%) Firewall
6 13 (1.29%) Modbus
6 13 (1.29%) RS-232
7 10 (1.00%) Broadband
7 10 (1.00%) WAN
8 7 (0.70%) Bluetooth
8 7 (0.70%) DNS
8 7 (0.70%) SAN
8 7 (0.70%) VoIP
9 6 (0.60%) DHCP
10 5 (0.50%) BGP
10 5 (0.50%) OSPF
11 4 (0.40%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.30%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.76%) NoSQL
2 62 (6.17%) Big Data
3 59 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.28%) GIS
4 43 (4.28%) Metadata
5 40 (3.98%) QGIS
6 27 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.89%) Power BI
8 19 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 18 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.69%) CockroachDB
11 13 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.09%) Oracle Database 11g
12 11 (1.09%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.09%) Tableau
13 8 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 64 (6.37%) Git
2 54 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.18%) Artifactory
3 42 (4.18%) Bitbucket
4 33 (3.28%) JIRA
5 20 (1.99%) JUnit
6 14 (1.39%) GitLab
7 12 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.40%) Maven
9 3 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.20%) Mockito
10 2 (0.20%) Selenium
10 2 (0.20%) webpack
11 1 (0.100%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.100%) JHipster
11 1 (0.100%) MSI
11 1 (0.100%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.100%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 406 (40.40%) Finance
2 369 (36.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 302 (30.05%) Law
4 265 (26.37%) Marketing
5 97 (9.65%) Social Skills
6 87 (8.66%) Banking
7 55 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 37 (3.68%) Legal
10 29 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 24 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (2.39%) Public Sector
12 23 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.29%) Police
15 11 (1.09%) General Ledger
16 10 (1.00%) Games
17 9 (0.90%) Electronics
17 9 (0.90%) Retail
18 8 (0.80%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (13.43%) .NET
2 126 (12.54%) React
3 104 (10.35%) CSS
4 79 (7.86%) HTML
5 75 (7.46%) JSON
6 70 (6.97%) AngularJS
7 59 (5.87%) .NET Core
7 59 (5.87%) RESTful
8 56 (5.57%) Web Services
9 54 (5.37%) Kafka
9 54 (5.37%) XML
10 52 (5.17%) Spring
11 48 (4.78%) SAML
12 47 (4.68%) OpenID
13 42 (4.18%) JSON-LD
13 42 (4.18%) LDAP
14 40 (3.98%) Leaflet
14 40 (3.98%) OpenLayers
14 40 (3.98%) PostGIS
15 39 (3.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 119 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 50 (4.98%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.28%) Reference Data
5 42 (4.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 37 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.29%) Device Driver
9 12 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.09%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.00%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.00%) Social Media
12 9 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.70%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.60%) Driving Licence
14 6 (0.60%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (7.46%) Linux
2 66 (6.57%) Windows
3 25 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 13 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.70%) Unix
8 4 (0.40%) Android
8 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.100%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (49.65%) Software Engineering
2 424 (42.19%) Agile
3 229 (22.79%) SDLC
4 221 (21.99%) Operational Stability
5 217 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
6 178 (17.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 161 (16.02%) Tech Ops
8 155 (15.42%) Machine Learning
9 129 (12.84%) Decision-Making
10 113 (11.24%) Computer Science
11 110 (10.95%) DevOps
12 109 (10.85%) CI/CD
13 101 (10.05%) Actionable Insight
14 93 (9.25%) Microservices
15 85 (8.46%) Roadmaps
16 84 (8.36%) Coaching
16 84 (8.36%) Mathematics
17 70 (6.97%) Test Automation
18 69 (6.87%) Performance Tuning
19 61 (6.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 233 (23.18%) Java
2 199 (19.80%) SQL
3 146 (14.53%) Python
4 138 (13.73%) C#
5 127 (12.64%) JavaScript
6 67 (6.67%) C
7 64 (6.37%) C++
8 52 (5.17%) Scala
9 45 (4.48%) Go
10 42 (4.18%) Prolog
10 42 (4.18%) SPARQL
11 39 (3.88%) TypeScript
12 31 (3.08%) Ruby
13 29 (2.89%) Embedded C
14 18 (1.79%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.19%) Bash
16 11 (1.09%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.80%) PHP
18 7 (0.70%) Groovy
19 5 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (9.95%) Security Cleared
2 97 (9.65%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.77%) Degree
4 12 (1.19%) Azure Certification
4 12 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.00%) ACCA
6 10 (1.00%) CIMA
6 10 (1.00%) CISM
6 10 (1.00%) CISSP
7 8 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (0.60%) CCNP
8 6 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.50%) MCSE
9 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.78%) Accessibility
1 38 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 27 (2.69%) QA
3 12 (1.19%) GDPR
4 11 (1.09%) WCAG
5 9 (0.90%) NIST
6 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.50%) GMP
7 5 (0.50%) IFRS
7 5 (0.50%) IFRS 9
7 5 (0.50%) SLA
8 4 (0.40%) DICOM
8 4 (0.40%) HL7
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 13485
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 22301
8 4 (0.40%) ITGC
8 4 (0.40%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) CRD IV
10 1 (0.100%) Basel III
10 1 (0.100%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 49 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.69%) Docker
3 17 (1.69%) Firmware
4 16 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 13 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.40%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.100%) RACF
7 1 (0.100%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.18%) Terraform
3 11 (1.09%) Ansible
4 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.60%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.40%) Puppet
7 4 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.100%) SCCM
9 1 (0.100%) WMI
Vendors
1 58 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.37%) Oracle
3 40 (3.98%) ESRI
4 36 (3.58%) Google
5 22 (2.19%) VMware
6 18 (1.79%) SAP
7 11 (1.09%) Databricks
8 10 (1.00%) CA
9 7 (0.70%) Dell
9 7 (0.70%) NEC
10 5 (0.50%) JD Edwards
10 5 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.40%) Citrix
11 4 (0.40%) ConnectWise
11 4 (0.40%) Epicor
11 4 (0.40%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.40%) IFS
11 4 (0.40%) Nimble Storage
11 4 (0.40%) Sage
11 4 (0.40%) Veeam