Junior Jobs in Scotland

Junior
UK > Scotland

The median Junior salary in Scotland is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 184 199
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 83 24 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.21% 0.55% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.62% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 65 20 50
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £22,375
25th Percentile £24,240 £31,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
90th Percentile - £43,875 £52,500
UK median annual salary £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%

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 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Scotland

Junior
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Junior in Scotland

Junior
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior in Scotland

Junior
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Aberdeen +11 26 £30,000 -20.00% 3
Edinburgh +44 22 £35,000 +30.84% 1
Glasgow -101 19 £24,000 -36.84% 18
Aberdeenshire - 3 £30,000 - 1
Perthshire - 3 £30,000 -
Dundee -13 1 £25,000 -33.33% 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 £26,500 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 -
Fife - 1 - -
Junior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 47 (56.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (43.37%) Degree
3 34 (40.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (33.73%) Computer Science
5 26 (31.33%) Software Engineering
6 25 (30.12%) Wireless
7 23 (27.71%) C
7 23 (27.71%) Embedded C
7 23 (27.71%) Firmware
7 23 (27.71%) Mathematics
7 23 (27.71%) Physics
8 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
9 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
10 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.25%) C#
12 10 (12.05%) Project Management
13 9 (10.84%) SQL
13 9 (10.84%) Agile
13 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
13 9 (10.84%) Driving Licence
13 9 (10.84%) Power BI
14 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
14 8 (9.64%) PRINCE2
15 7 (8.43%) Telecoms
15 7 (8.43%) Windows
15 7 (8.43%) Java
15 7 (8.43%) Customer Service
16 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
16 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (7.23%) PRINCE2 Certification

Junior 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 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.02%) Azure
3 3 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (3.61%) SaaS
4 2 (2.41%) AWS
4 2 (2.41%) IaaS
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.20%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.20%) PaaS
5 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) Wireless
2 5 (6.02%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Power BI
2 5 (6.02%) MS Access
3 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
2 3 (3.61%) GitLab
3 2 (2.41%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Gradle
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) Maven
General
1 47 (56.63%) Social Skills
2 34 (40.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.02%) Finance
6 3 (3.61%) Law
7 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.41%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) .NET
2 4 (4.82%) Spring
3 2 (2.41%) CSS
3 2 (2.41%) HTML
3 2 (2.41%) Pandas
3 2 (2.41%) XGBoost
4 1 (1.20%) React
4 1 (1.20%) Sass
4 1 (1.20%) XML
4 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.41%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Windows
2 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.73%) Computer Science
2 26 (31.33%) Software Engineering
3 23 (27.71%) Mathematics
3 23 (27.71%) Physics
4 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
5 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (12.05%) Project Management
7 9 (10.84%) Agile
8 8 (9.64%) PRINCE2
9 7 (8.43%) Customer Service
10 5 (6.02%) Asset Management
10 5 (6.02%) Proactive Maintenance
10 5 (6.02%) Scrum
11 4 (4.82%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (4.82%) Change Management
11 4 (4.82%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (4.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (4.82%) DevOps
11 4 (4.82%) OOP
11 4 (4.82%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.71%) C
1 23 (27.71%) Embedded C
2 11 (13.25%) C#
3 9 (10.84%) SQL
4 7 (8.43%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) Python
5 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) C++
7 1 (1.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) PHP
7 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Ruby
7 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (43.37%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (7.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) PCI DSS
1 5 (6.02%) SLA
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 23 (27.71%) Firmware
2 5 (6.02%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Grafana
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Dell
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco
3 1 (1.20%) ConnectWise
3 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.20%) VMware