Junior Developer Jobs in Scotland

Junior Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Junior Developer salary in Scotland is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 204 235
Rank change year-on-year -66 +31 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 12 11 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.29% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 26
10th Percentile - £25,000 £28,125
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,125 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
90th Percentile - £41,625 £41,875
UK median annual salary £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%

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 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in Scotland

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in Scotland

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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 -14 4 £30,000 -20.00%
Glasgow -95 3 - - 3
Aberdeenshire - 3 £30,000 -
Fife - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 - 1
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) C#
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 7 (58.33%) MS Access
3 7 (58.33%) Degree
3 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (58.33%) Power BI
4 3 (25.00%) SOLID
4 3 (25.00%) CircleCI
4 3 (25.00%) Spring
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (25.00%) GitLab
4 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Law
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
4 3 (25.00%) OOP
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript

Junior 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) MS Access
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) Sass
4 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) OOP
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) SOLID
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree