Software Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,027 780 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 44.57% 17.44% 14.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 48.85% 18.46% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 550 431 495
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,227 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,290 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -12.14% +0.80% +15.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,197 4,226 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.25% 94.48% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 2,092 2,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +11 2,472 £60,000 +4.35% 42
Edinburgh +5 346 £60,000 -11.20% 57
Aberdeen +11 78 £52,500 -19.23% 8
West Lothian -2 33 £60,000 - 3
Dundee +6 26 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Fife -3 17 £50,000 - 6
South Lanarkshire +9 9 £80,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +7 9 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Scottish Borders +2 4 - -
Renfrewshire 0 4 £52,500 +28.51%
Inverclyde - 4 £50,000 -
Midlothian -1 3 - - 15
Lanarkshire -12 2 - - 14
Angus - 1 £65,000 -
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 596 (19.69%) Apache Spark
2 134 (4.43%) Apache
3 115 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (3.37%) FileNet
5 60 (1.98%) ArcGIS
5 60 (1.98%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.69%) GemFire
8 19 (0.63%) Camunda
9 12 (0.40%) Confluence
10 11 (0.36%) CICS
11 10 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.13%) Captiva
14 4 (0.13%) SharePoint
15 2 (0.066%) SAS
16 1 (0.033%) Tuxedo
16 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.033%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,309 (43.24%) AWS
2 241 (7.96%) Azure
3 142 (4.69%) GCP
4 118 (3.90%) Amazon S3
5 116 (3.83%) Datadog
6 71 (2.35%) Serverless
7 68 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
9 57 (1.88%) GitHub
10 55 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
13 50 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
14 48 (1.59%) SaaS
15 47 (1.55%) BlazeMeter
16 25 (0.83%) Google Play
17 23 (0.76%) Power Platform
18 17 (0.56%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.71%) Kerberos
2 55 (1.82%) Wireless
3 38 (1.26%) Network Security
4 20 (0.66%) Ethernet
5 19 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (0.56%) DSL
7 13 (0.43%) Modbus
7 13 (0.43%) RS-232
7 13 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) MQTT
9 6 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.066%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (22.04%) NoSQL
2 507 (16.75%) Big Data
3 251 (8.29%) Hadoop
4 168 (5.55%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (5.02%) Apache Cassandra
6 129 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 128 (4.23%) Apache Hive
8 112 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 100 (3.30%) HBase
10 70 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.15%) Metadata
12 61 (2.02%) Data Lake
12 61 (2.02%) GIS
13 60 (1.98%) QGIS
14 51 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
15 39 (1.29%) MySQL
15 39 (1.29%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (1.26%) CockroachDB
17 29 (0.96%) DB2
18 25 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 267 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 211 (6.97%) JUnit
3 205 (6.77%) Git
4 112 (3.70%) Jasmine
5 92 (3.04%) Cypress.io
6 85 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 71 (2.35%) Maven
8 70 (2.31%) Bitbucket
9 69 (2.28%) Selenium
10 66 (2.18%) Artifactory
10 66 (2.18%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (1.98%) Protractor
11 60 (1.98%) WebDriver
12 45 (1.49%) JIRA
12 45 (1.49%) Mockito
13 30 (0.99%) Gradle
14 28 (0.93%) GitLab
14 28 (0.93%) JMeter
15 25 (0.83%) Android Studio
15 25 (0.83%) Cucumber
General
1 2,493 (82.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,365 (78.13%) Finance
3 2,314 (76.45%) Law
4 1,224 (40.44%) Marketing
5 657 (21.70%) Legal
6 446 (14.73%) Banking
7 347 (11.46%) Investment Banking
8 264 (8.72%) Social Skills
9 247 (8.16%) Financial Institution
10 177 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
11 78 (2.58%) Private Banking
12 63 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
13 56 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (1.82%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.35%) Electronics
16 31 (1.02%) Games
17 22 (0.73%) Prime Brokerage
18 18 (0.59%) Front Office
18 18 (0.59%) Publishing
19 17 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2,451 (80.97%) Software Engineer
2 808 (26.69%) Java Engineer
2 808 (26.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 727 (24.02%) Lead
4 689 (22.76%) Lead Software Engineer
5 488 (16.12%) Senior
6 402 (13.28%) Senior Software Engineer
7 382 (12.62%) Big Data Engineer
7 382 (12.62%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 341 (11.27%) Full Stack Engineer
8 341 (11.27%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 331 (10.93%) Python Engineer
9 331 (10.93%) Python Software Engineer
10 301 (9.94%) AWS Engineer
11 296 (9.78%) AWS Software Engineer
12 274 (9.05%) Lead Java Engineer
13 241 (7.96%) Data Engineer
14 224 (7.40%) Scala Engineer
14 224 (7.40%) Scala Software Engineer
15 213 (7.04%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 678 (22.40%) Spring
2 602 (19.89%) React
3 425 (14.04%) AngularJS
4 374 (12.36%) Kafka
5 345 (11.40%) Spring Boot
6 311 (10.27%) CSS
7 290 (9.58%) HTML
8 250 (8.26%) J2EE
9 219 (7.23%) Node.js
10 206 (6.81%) JSON
11 199 (6.57%) Hibernate
12 193 (6.38%) RESTful
13 175 (5.78%) .NET
14 172 (5.68%) PySpark
15 171 (5.65%) JMS
16 165 (5.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 147 (4.86%) jQuery
18 142 (4.69%) Web Services
19 141 (4.66%) GraphQL
20 113 (3.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 886 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 818 (27.02%) Algorithms
3 282 (9.32%) Public Cloud
4 158 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 129 (4.26%) Reference Data
6 124 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 123 (4.06%) Data Structures
8 97 (3.20%) Product Ownership
9 92 (3.04%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (1.68%) Credit Risk
12 42 (1.39%) Legacy Code
13 35 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (1.09%) Private Cloud
15 32 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (0.69%) Replication
17 20 (0.66%) Taxonomies
18 13 (0.43%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 185 (6.11%) Linux
2 134 (4.43%) Unix
3 26 (0.86%) Android
4 21 (0.69%) Windows
5 13 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.033%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,334 (77.11%) Agile
2 2,058 (67.99%) SDLC
3 1,943 (64.19%) CI/CD
4 1,828 (60.39%) Operational Stability
5 1,389 (45.89%) Machine Learning
6 1,376 (45.46%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,289 (42.58%) Community of Practice
8 826 (27.29%) Visualisation
9 805 (26.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 682 (22.53%) Risk Management
11 549 (18.14%) Decision-Making
12 518 (17.11%) Microservices
13 474 (15.66%) Computer Science
14 469 (15.49%) Continuous Delivery
15 413 (13.64%) Architectural Design
16 410 (13.54%) Full Stack Development
17 406 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
18 389 (12.85%) Information Architecture
19 308 (10.18%) Mathematics
20 282 (9.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,756 (58.01%) Java
2 1,113 (36.77%) SQL
3 1,097 (36.24%) Python
4 419 (13.84%) JavaScript
5 329 (10.87%) Scala
6 258 (8.52%) TypeScript
7 223 (7.37%) C#
8 179 (5.91%) C
9 149 (4.92%) PL/SQL
10 118 (3.90%) C++
11 109 (3.60%) Go
12 81 (2.68%) Embedded C
13 65 (2.15%) Prolog
13 65 (2.15%) SPARQL
14 53 (1.75%) Ruby
15 37 (1.22%) Groovy
16 32 (1.06%) Bash
17 31 (1.02%) Kotlin
18 28 (0.93%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 171 (5.65%) Degree
2 74 (2.44%) Security Cleared
3 71 (2.35%) SC Cleared
4 65 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 19 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.33%) PhD
8 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.033%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.033%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.033%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (1.98%) SLA
2 55 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 33 (1.09%) QA
4 19 (0.63%) PMO
5 6 (0.20%) WAI
6 4 (0.13%) DICOM
6 4 (0.13%) GDPR
6 4 (0.13%) HL7
6 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.033%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.033%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 100 (3.30%) HDFS
2 74 (2.44%) Docker
3 65 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 63 (2.08%) Firmware
5 22 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 373 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 257 (8.49%) Terraform
3 173 (5.72%) Grafana
4 80 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.69%) Kibana
6 21 (0.69%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.23%) Graphite
8 4 (0.13%) Istio
9 2 (0.066%) Ansible
9 2 (0.066%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.066%) Puppet
10 1 (0.033%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 363 (11.99%) Oracle
2 257 (8.49%) Databricks
3 187 (6.18%) Splunk
4 165 (5.45%) Dynatrace
5 88 (2.91%) Google
6 86 (2.84%) Informatica
7 70 (2.31%) Cloudera
8 60 (1.98%) ESRI
9 56 (1.85%) Alteryx
10 30 (0.99%) Microsoft
11 23 (0.76%) Pega
12 22 (0.73%) Sybase
13 19 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.59%) SaltStack
15 17 (0.56%) Cognos
15 17 (0.56%) Dell
16 11 (0.36%) IBM
16 11 (0.36%) SAP
17 9 (0.30%) TOWER Software
17 9 (0.30%) Twitter