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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,002 692 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.95% 14.98% 13.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.43% 16.67% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 495 385 462
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,696 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £86,125
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 6,494 4,152 5,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 89.89% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,626 2,258 2,960
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,659
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 £66,250
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 9 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 9 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 -22 567 £60,000 -1.40% 57
Edinburgh +6 297 £60,000 -7.69% 71
Aberdeen -3 50 £60,000 -1.32% 21
West Lothian +10 36 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Dundee - 10 £60,000 - 5
Fife -1 9 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Midlothian +3 6 - - 18
South Lanarkshire - 4 £65,000 -
Aberdeenshire +1 3 £52,500 -19.23% 16
Highlands - 3 £45,000 - 3
Argyll and Bute -7 2 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 - 1
Angus -1 1 £65,000 -
Stirling -3 1 £32,150 +192.27%
Lanarkshire -6 1 - - 15
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 9 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.

1 503 (50.20%) Software Engineering
2 434 (43.31%) Agile
3 402 (40.12%) Finance
4 373 (37.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 301 (30.04%) Law
6 262 (26.15%) Marketing
7 235 (23.45%) Java
8 229 (22.85%) SDLC
9 226 (22.55%) AWS
10 224 (22.36%) Azure
11 223 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
12 221 (22.06%) Operational Stability
13 202 (20.16%) SQL
14 177 (17.66%) Artificial Intelligence
15 161 (16.07%) Tech Ops
16 156 (15.57%) Machine Learning
17 148 (14.77%) Python
18 141 (14.07%) C#
19 136 (13.57%) .NET
20 130 (12.97%) JavaScript
20 130 (12.97%) React
21 129 (12.87%) Decision-Making
22 123 (12.28%) Cloud Native
23 116 (11.58%) Computer Science
24 110 (10.98%) DevOps
25 109 (10.88%) CI/CD
25 109 (10.88%) CSS
26 103 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
27 102 (10.18%) Security Cleared
28 99 (9.88%) 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 88 (8.78%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.99%) ArcGIS
2 40 (3.99%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.80%) FileNet
4 17 (1.70%) Cloud Foundry
5 9 (0.90%) Confluence
5 9 (0.90%) SAS
5 9 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.60%) IIS
7 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) JBoss
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.100%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.60%) Sketch
3 12 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.80%) InVision
6 5 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.100%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.100%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.40%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.40%) Sonata
2 4 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.100%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.100%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (22.55%) AWS
2 224 (22.36%) Azure
3 70 (6.99%) GCP
4 47 (4.69%) SaaS
5 22 (2.20%) Amazon S3
5 22 (2.20%) Figma
5 22 (2.20%) Power Platform
6 21 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.20%) Miro
8 11 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.10%) SurveyMonkey
9 9 (0.90%) GitHub
10 8 (0.80%) Heroku
11 7 (0.70%) PaaS
12 6 (0.60%) Serverless
13 5 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.50%) IaaS
13 5 (0.50%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.89%) Kerberos
2 27 (2.69%) Wireless
3 20 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (1.80%) Ethernet
5 17 (1.70%) Network Security
6 15 (1.50%) Firewall
7 14 (1.40%) Modbus
7 14 (1.40%) RS-232
8 12 (1.20%) WAN
9 10 (1.00%) Broadband
10 7 (0.70%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.70%) SAN
10 7 (0.70%) VoIP
11 6 (0.60%) DNS
12 5 (0.50%) BGP
12 5 (0.50%) DHCP
12 5 (0.50%) OSPF
13 4 (0.40%) NetScaler
14 3 (0.30%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.88%) NoSQL
2 62 (6.19%) Big Data
3 61 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.29%) GIS
4 43 (4.29%) Metadata
5 40 (3.99%) QGIS
6 27 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.90%) Power BI
10 18 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.70%) CockroachDB
12 13 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
13 11 (1.10%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.10%) Tableau
14 7 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (6.59%) Git
2 54 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.19%) Artifactory
3 42 (4.19%) Bitbucket
4 36 (3.59%) JIRA
5 20 (2.00%) JUnit
6 16 (1.60%) GitLab
7 13 (1.30%) 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%) webpack
11 1 (0.100%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.100%) GoCD
11 1 (0.100%) JHipster
11 1 (0.100%) MSI
11 1 (0.100%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.100%) Selenium
General
1 402 (40.12%) Finance
2 373 (37.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 301 (30.04%) Law
4 262 (26.15%) Marketing
5 96 (9.58%) Social Skills
6 88 (8.78%) Banking
7 55 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.09%) Investment Banking
9 33 (3.29%) Legal
10 28 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
12 23 (2.30%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.10%) General Ledger
16 10 (1.00%) Games
16 10 (1.00%) Police
17 9 (0.90%) Retail
18 8 (0.80%) Electronics
19 7 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (13.57%) .NET
2 130 (12.97%) React
3 109 (10.88%) CSS
4 84 (8.38%) HTML
5 75 (7.49%) JSON
6 71 (7.09%) AngularJS
7 61 (6.09%) RESTful
8 59 (5.89%) .NET Core
9 56 (5.59%) Web Services
10 54 (5.39%) Kafka
10 54 (5.39%) XML
11 53 (5.29%) Spring
12 48 (4.79%) SAML
13 47 (4.69%) OpenID
14 42 (4.19%) JSON-LD
14 42 (4.19%) LDAP
15 40 (3.99%) .NET Framework
15 40 (3.99%) Leaflet
15 40 (3.99%) OpenLayers
15 40 (3.99%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 50 (4.99%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.29%) Reference Data
5 42 (4.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 39 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.40%) Device Driver
9 12 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (1.10%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.10%) Market Risk
10 11 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.00%) Social Media
12 7 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.70%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.60%) Clustering
13 6 (0.60%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.78%) Linux
2 69 (6.89%) Windows
3 25 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.70%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.40%) 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
1 503 (50.20%) Software Engineering
2 434 (43.31%) Agile
3 229 (22.85%) SDLC
4 223 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
5 221 (22.06%) Operational Stability
6 177 (17.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 161 (16.07%) Tech Ops
8 156 (15.57%) Machine Learning
9 129 (12.87%) Decision-Making
10 116 (11.58%) Computer Science
11 110 (10.98%) DevOps
12 109 (10.88%) CI/CD
13 103 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
14 96 (9.58%) Microservices
15 85 (8.48%) Mathematics
16 82 (8.18%) Roadmaps
17 81 (8.08%) Coaching
18 71 (7.09%) Test Automation
19 69 (6.89%) Performance Tuning
20 62 (6.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 235 (23.45%) Java
2 202 (20.16%) SQL
3 148 (14.77%) Python
4 141 (14.07%) C#
5 130 (12.97%) JavaScript
6 67 (6.69%) C
7 65 (6.49%) C++
8 52 (5.19%) Scala
9 45 (4.49%) Go
10 42 (4.19%) Prolog
10 42 (4.19%) SPARQL
11 40 (3.99%) TypeScript
12 34 (3.39%) Ruby
13 30 (2.99%) Embedded C
14 18 (1.80%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.20%) Bash
16 10 (1.00%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.80%) PHP
18 7 (0.70%) Groovy
19 6 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (10.18%) Security Cleared
2 99 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.79%) Degree
4 13 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.00%) ACCA
5 10 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.00%) CIMA
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.90%) CISM
6 9 (0.90%) CISSP
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%) DBS Check
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%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 35 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.10%) QA
4 12 (1.20%) GDPR
5 11 (1.10%) WCAG
6 9 (0.90%) NIST
7 6 (0.60%) IFRS
7 6 (0.60%) IFRS 9
8 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.50%) SLA
9 4 (0.40%) DICOM
9 4 (0.40%) HL7
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 13485
9 4 (0.40%) ITGC
9 4 (0.40%) PMO
10 3 (0.30%) CRD IV
10 3 (0.30%) GMP
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.100%) Basel III
11 1 (0.100%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 47 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.69%) Docker
3 17 (1.70%) Firmware
3 17 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.40%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 78 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.19%) Terraform
3 12 (1.20%) 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 56 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.29%) Oracle
3 40 (3.99%) ESRI
4 36 (3.59%) Google
5 23 (2.30%) VMware
6 17 (1.70%) SAP
7 11 (1.10%) Databricks
8 10 (1.00%) CA
9 9 (0.90%) Dell
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%) NEC
11 4 (0.40%) Nimble Storage
11 4 (0.40%) Sage
11 4 (0.40%) Veeam