Senior Jobs in Glasgow

Senior
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior salary in Glasgow is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 28 10
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 111 555 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.94% 15.53% 14.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.77% 15.83% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 59 190 106
10th Percentile £51,645 £45,000 £37,005
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +1.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £79,805 £68,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 662 3,506 1,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.10% 98.10% 87.78%
Number of salaries quoted 290 977 651
10th Percentile £29,975 £29,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 63 (56.76%) Agile
2 59 (53.15%) Finance
3 30 (27.03%) Software Engineering
4 28 (25.23%) Coaching
5 27 (24.32%) AWS
6 25 (22.52%) Social Skills
7 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (20.72%) Public Sector
8 22 (19.82%) IFRS
8 22 (19.82%) GAAP
8 22 (19.82%) ACCA
8 22 (19.82%) Banking
8 22 (19.82%) Law
8 22 (19.82%) Local Government
9 20 (18.02%) Azure
9 20 (18.02%) CI/CD
10 19 (17.12%) Java
11 18 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (16.22%) SDLC
12 17 (15.32%) Decision-Making
12 17 (15.32%) Degree
13 16 (14.41%) Microservices
13 16 (14.41%) Terraform
14 15 (13.51%) Kubernetes
15 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Office
15 14 (12.61%) Python
15 14 (12.61%) Docker
15 14 (12.61%) Jenkins
16 13 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (11.71%) Cloud Native

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 8 (7.21%) Apache
2 5 (4.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.60%) SAP CO
2 4 (3.60%) SAP FI
2 4 (3.60%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.32%) AWS
2 20 (18.02%) Azure
3 12 (10.81%) GitHub
4 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.11%) GCP
6 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.60%) CloudBees
7 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.60%) SaaS
8 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.80%) Serverless
10 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.90%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.41%) Power BI
3 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.60%) Apache Hudi
4 4 (3.60%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (3.60%) Big Data
4 4 (3.60%) MySQL
4 4 (3.60%) Parquet
4 4 (3.60%) SAP BW
5 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.90%) DB2
7 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.31%) JUnit
3 6 (5.41%) GitLab
4 5 (4.50%) Git
5 2 (1.80%) Gradle
5 2 (1.80%) Maven
5 2 (1.80%) Mockito
6 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.90%) JIRA
6 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (53.15%) Finance
2 25 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Public Sector
4 22 (19.82%) Banking
4 22 (19.82%) Law
4 22 (19.82%) Local Government
5 18 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (9.01%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Games
8 4 (3.60%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) Kafka
2 10 (9.01%) RESTful
3 8 (7.21%) React
4 7 (6.31%) .NET
4 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.31%) Spring
4 7 (6.31%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.41%) OAuth
5 6 (5.41%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.41%) OpenID
6 5 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 5 (4.50%) SAML
7 4 (3.60%) Blazor
7 4 (3.60%) CSS
7 4 (3.60%) HTML
8 2 (1.80%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.80%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.80%) JPA
8 2 (1.80%) LAMP
8 2 (1.80%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.60%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.90%) PKI
7 1 (0.90%) PMI
7 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Unix
2 2 (1.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) Agile
2 30 (27.03%) Software Engineering
3 28 (25.23%) Coaching
4 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (18.02%) CI/CD
6 18 (16.22%) SDLC
7 17 (15.32%) Decision-Making
8 16 (14.41%) Microservices
9 13 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.81%) DevOps
10 12 (10.81%) Mentoring
11 11 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (9.91%) Project Management
12 10 (9.01%) Analytics
12 10 (9.01%) Risk Management
13 9 (8.11%) Computer Science
13 9 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (8.11%) Operational Stability
13 9 (8.11%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.12%) Java
2 14 (12.61%) Python
3 10 (9.01%) SQL
4 7 (6.31%) C#
5 5 (4.50%) C++
5 5 (4.50%) Go
5 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.60%) PHP
7 3 (2.70%) Bash
8 2 (1.80%) C
9 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.90%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.90%) Perl
9 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (19.82%) ACCA
2 17 (15.32%) Degree
3 10 (9.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.60%) CISA
6 3 (2.70%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.82%) GAAP
1 22 (19.82%) IFRS
2 4 (3.60%) PMO
2 4 (3.60%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (14.41%) Terraform
2 15 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.31%) Ansible
4 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.50%) IBM
2 5 (4.50%) SAP
3 4 (3.60%) Databricks
3 4 (3.60%) Facebook
3 4 (3.60%) Google
3 4 (3.60%) IBM Sterling
4 3 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle
5 1 (0.90%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.90%) Sybase
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