Developer Jobs in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer salary in Scotland is £54,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 15 4
Rank change year-on-year -18 -11 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 694 601 1,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.04% 13.88% 20.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.35% 15.50% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 467 427 796
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,460 £78,500 £83,125
UK median annual salary £55,173 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.12% +8.33% +9.09%

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 6,703 3,878 5,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.56% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,851 2,115 3,085
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,622 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Developer in Scotland

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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Glasgow -45 335 £55,000 - 40
Edinburgh +8 196 £60,000 - 43
Aberdeen +7 58 £42,500 - 14
Dundee +8 41 £45,000 +13.92% 2
Fife +10 28 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire +14 12 £48,750 -25.00% 7
Stirling -2 3 £49,750 +352.27% 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 3 £39,000 -
Inverclyde - 3 £50,000 -
Lanarkshire -15 2 - - 12
Renfrewshire -3 1 £52,500 +28.51%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £24,000 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 - 2
Highlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
Orkney Islands - 1 £35,000 -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Developer
UK

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

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

1 227 (32.71%) Agile
2 176 (25.36%) JavaScript
3 173 (24.93%) AWS
4 167 (24.06%) Java
5 165 (23.78%) .NET
6 153 (22.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 152 (21.90%) C#
8 150 (21.61%) React
9 147 (21.18%) Finance
10 144 (20.75%) SQL
11 139 (20.03%) Software Engineering
12 131 (18.88%) Azure
13 126 (18.16%) AngularJS
14 124 (17.87%) CI/CD
15 120 (17.29%) Full Stack Development
16 118 (17.00%) Microservices
17 115 (16.57%) Python
18 105 (15.13%) Artificial Intelligence
19 103 (14.84%) SDLC
19 103 (14.84%) Front End Development
20 100 (14.41%) Law
21 94 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
21 94 (13.54%) TypeScript
21 94 (13.54%) Social Skills
22 91 (13.11%) Machine Learning
23 89 (12.82%) CSS
24 88 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
25 84 (12.10%) TDD
26 83 (11.96%) Visualisation
26 83 (11.96%) Git

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 63 (9.08%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.87%) Umbraco
4 10 (1.44%) WordPress
5 9 (1.30%) CMS
6 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.58%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.29%) WildFly
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Mendix
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 14 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.58%) Sonata
3 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 173 (24.93%) AWS
2 131 (18.88%) Azure
3 53 (7.64%) SaaS
4 33 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 19 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.87%) GCP
8 12 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (1.73%) GitHub
8 12 (1.73%) Power Automate
8 12 (1.73%) PowerApps
8 12 (1.73%) Serverless
9 7 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.58%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.43%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.43%) Google Play
12 2 (0.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.01%) HTTP
1 7 (1.01%) Internet
2 6 (0.86%) MQTT
3 3 (0.43%) Intranet
3 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 63 (9.08%) Apache Hive
3 55 (7.93%) SQL Server
4 53 (7.64%) Hadoop
4 53 (7.64%) HBase
5 35 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (4.61%) MySQL
7 27 (3.89%) Power BI
8 15 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.02%) Big Data
9 14 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.87%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.87%) Oracle Database 11g
11 9 (1.30%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.72%) MS Access
14 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.58%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 83 (11.96%) Git
2 82 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 53 (7.64%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (1.59%) CircleCI
4 11 (1.59%) GitLab
5 10 (1.44%) Maven
5 10 (1.44%) webpack
6 9 (1.30%) Jasmine
6 9 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 8 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.43%) JUnit
10 3 (0.43%) Mockito
11 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.29%) JIRA
11 2 (0.29%) Postman
12 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 153 (22.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 147 (21.18%) Finance
3 100 (14.41%) Law
4 94 (13.54%) Social Skills
5 43 (6.20%) Marketing
6 39 (5.62%) Banking
7 38 (5.48%) Legal
8 17 (2.45%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.31%) Private Banking
10 15 (2.16%) Games
11 10 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (1.15%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.86%) Electronics
15 6 (0.86%) Front Office
15 6 (0.86%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.86%) Retail
16 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (23.78%) .NET
2 150 (21.61%) React
3 126 (18.16%) AngularJS
4 89 (12.82%) CSS
5 71 (10.23%) HTML
6 62 (8.93%) Node.js
7 59 (8.50%) .NET Framework
8 58 (8.36%) Vue
9 53 (7.64%) Spring
10 49 (7.06%) ASP.NET
11 46 (6.63%) ASP.NET Web API
12 40 (5.76%) Entity Framework
13 39 (5.62%) .NET Core
14 29 (4.18%) REST
15 27 (3.89%) ASP.NET MVC
16 24 (3.46%) JSON
17 22 (3.17%) Laravel
17 22 (3.17%) Spring Boot
18 19 (2.74%) Django
18 19 (2.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 82 (11.82%) Algorithms
2 60 (8.65%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (3.31%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.59%) Social Media
5 17 (2.45%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
8 11 (1.59%) IoT
9 9 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
9 9 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
10 8 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.86%) Arduino
12 6 (0.86%) BBC
12 6 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.86%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (0.72%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.58%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (9.80%) Unix
2 12 (1.73%) Windows
3 9 (1.30%) Android
3 9 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.15%) Linux
5 6 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (32.71%) Agile
2 139 (20.03%) Software Engineering
3 124 (17.87%) CI/CD
4 120 (17.29%) Full Stack Development
5 118 (17.00%) Microservices
6 105 (15.13%) Artificial Intelligence
7 103 (14.84%) Front End Development
7 103 (14.84%) SDLC
8 94 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (13.11%) Machine Learning
10 88 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 84 (12.10%) TDD
12 83 (11.96%) Visualisation
13 78 (11.24%) Test Automation
14 74 (10.66%) Community of Practice
14 74 (10.66%) Operational Stability
15 69 (9.94%) Open Source
16 63 (9.08%) Computer Science
17 62 (8.93%) DevOps
18 53 (7.64%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 176 (25.36%) JavaScript
2 167 (24.06%) Java
3 152 (21.90%) C#
4 144 (20.75%) SQL
5 115 (16.57%) Python
6 94 (13.54%) TypeScript
7 78 (11.24%) PL/SQL
8 46 (6.63%) PHP
9 32 (4.61%) C++
10 22 (3.17%) T-SQL
11 21 (3.03%) Ruby
12 19 (2.74%) C
13 12 (1.73%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.44%) Go
15 5 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.72%) GLSL
16 4 (0.58%) Groovy
16 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.58%) Swift
17 3 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (11.53%) Degree
2 30 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.16%) SC Cleared
3 15 (2.16%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.01%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.43%) PhD
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.61%) QA
2 6 (0.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.86%) WAI
3 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (7.64%) HDFS
2 37 (5.33%) Docker
3 13 (1.87%) Firmware
4 7 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (8.79%) Terraform
2 25 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.86%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 61 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.64%) Cloudera
2 53 (7.64%) Databricks
2 53 (7.64%) Informatica
3 47 (6.77%) Oracle
4 13 (1.87%) Google
5 9 (1.30%) Xamarin
6 7 (1.01%) Apple
7 6 (0.86%) Facebook
7 6 (0.86%) NVIDIA
7 6 (0.86%) SAP
7 6 (0.86%) Sony
7 6 (0.86%) Yahoo!
8 5 (0.72%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.72%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.43%) Cadence
9 3 (0.43%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.14%) Sage
10 1 (0.14%) Sybase
10 1 (0.14%) Vermilion