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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,878 703 924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.81% 16.36% 14.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 46.64% 17.29% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 594 408 516
10th Percentile £38,400 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £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 £71,000 £77,715 £74,063
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,301 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,750 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -13.21% +1.34% +15.13%

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 6,171 4,065 5,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.66% 94.60% 91.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,034 2,888
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 10 June 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 10 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 +7 2,286 £60,000 +4.35% 50
Edinburgh +7 368 £60,000 -9.91% 63
Aberdeen +15 86 £52,500 -19.23% 13
West Lothian -3 36 £60,000 - 1
Dundee +7 26 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Fife -5 17 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire +7 9 £42,500 -34.62% 6
South Lanarkshire - 7 £80,000 - 2
East Ayrshire - 5 £60,000 - 1
Scottish Borders +1 4 - -
Renfrewshire 0 4 £52,500 +28.51%
Inverclyde - 4 £50,000 -
Midlothian - 3 - - 27
Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 20
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
1 526 (18.28%) Apache Spark
2 112 (3.89%) Apache
3 108 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (3.54%) FileNet
5 56 (1.95%) ArcGIS
5 56 (1.95%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.73%) GemFire
8 14 (0.49%) Camunda
9 11 (0.38%) CICS
10 10 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.21%) Confluence
12 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.14%) Captiva
13 4 (0.14%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.069%) SAS
15 1 (0.035%) Tuxedo
15 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.035%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.035%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (40.86%) AWS
2 220 (7.64%) Azure
3 119 (4.13%) GCP
4 116 (4.03%) Datadog
5 114 (3.96%) Amazon S3
6 62 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (2.15%) Serverless
7 56 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
7 56 (1.95%) GitHub
8 55 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 48 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
12 43 (1.49%) SaaS
13 41 (1.42%) BlazeMeter
14 25 (0.87%) Google Play
15 23 (0.80%) Power Platform
16 12 (0.42%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.85%) Kerberos
2 59 (2.05%) Wireless
3 45 (1.56%) Network Security
4 22 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (0.73%) Ethernet
6 16 (0.56%) RS-232
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.45%) Modbus
9 12 (0.42%) DSL
10 7 (0.24%) Bluetooth
11 6 (0.21%) HTTP
11 6 (0.21%) MQTT
12 3 (0.10%) ZigBee
13 2 (0.069%) Internet
13 2 (0.069%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (21.30%) NoSQL
2 440 (15.29%) Big Data
3 217 (7.54%) Hadoop
4 158 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
5 151 (5.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 111 (3.86%) Apache Hive
7 106 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 95 (3.30%) MongoDB
9 90 (3.13%) HBase
10 65 (2.26%) Metadata
10 65 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
11 57 (1.98%) GIS
12 56 (1.95%) QGIS
13 55 (1.91%) Data Lake
14 45 (1.56%) Electronic Patient Records
15 39 (1.36%) MySQL
15 39 (1.36%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (1.32%) CockroachDB
17 24 (0.83%) DB2
18 23 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 253 (8.79%) Jenkins
2 205 (7.12%) JUnit
3 194 (6.74%) Git
4 111 (3.86%) Jasmine
5 92 (3.20%) Cypress.io
6 81 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 68 (2.36%) Selenium
9 66 (2.29%) Artifactory
9 66 (2.29%) Karma Test Runner
10 65 (2.26%) Maven
11 60 (2.08%) Protractor
11 60 (2.08%) WebDriver
12 45 (1.56%) Mockito
13 40 (1.39%) JIRA
14 29 (1.01%) GitLab
15 28 (0.97%) JMeter
16 25 (0.87%) Android Studio
16 25 (0.87%) Cucumber
16 25 (0.87%) Gradle
General
1 2,290 (79.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,170 (75.40%) Finance
3 2,117 (73.56%) Law
4 1,102 (38.29%) Marketing
5 611 (21.23%) Legal
6 405 (14.07%) Banking
7 326 (11.33%) Investment Banking
8 247 (8.58%) Social Skills
9 219 (7.61%) Financial Institution
10 155 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
11 61 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
12 59 (2.05%) Private Banking
13 55 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.53%) Electronics
14 44 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (1.08%) Games
16 22 (0.76%) Prime Brokerage
17 20 (0.69%) Automotive
18 18 (0.63%) Front Office
18 18 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2,326 (80.82%) Software Engineer
2 738 (25.64%) Java Engineer
2 738 (25.64%) Java Software Engineer
3 676 (23.49%) Lead
4 637 (22.13%) Lead Software Engineer
5 474 (16.47%) Senior
6 385 (13.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 343 (11.92%) Big Data Engineer
7 343 (11.92%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 312 (10.84%) Python Engineer
9 311 (10.81%) Python Software Engineer
10 306 (10.63%) Full Stack Engineer
10 306 (10.63%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 269 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
12 265 (9.21%) AWS Software Engineer
13 256 (8.90%) Lead Java Engineer
14 225 (7.82%) Data Engineer
15 202 (7.02%) Engineering Manager
15 202 (7.02%) Software Engineering Manager
16 200 (6.95%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 621 (21.58%) Spring
2 560 (19.46%) React
3 392 (13.62%) AngularJS
4 350 (12.16%) Kafka
5 303 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 299 (10.39%) CSS
7 278 (9.66%) HTML
8 240 (8.34%) J2EE
9 214 (7.44%) Node.js
10 205 (7.12%) JSON
11 197 (6.85%) Hibernate
12 184 (6.39%) RESTful
13 182 (6.32%) .NET
14 166 (5.77%) PySpark
15 165 (5.73%) JMS
15 165 (5.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 146 (5.07%) jQuery
17 135 (4.69%) GraphQL
18 133 (4.62%) Web Services
19 107 (3.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 824 (28.63%) Cloud Native
2 759 (26.37%) Algorithms
3 232 (8.06%) Public Cloud
4 143 (4.97%) Onboarding
5 120 (4.17%) Reference Data
6 115 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 113 (3.93%) Data Structures
8 81 (2.81%) Market Risk
9 78 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 65 (2.26%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
11 50 (1.74%) Credit Risk
12 36 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 36 (1.25%) Legacy Code
13 31 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (0.94%) Private Cloud
15 21 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (0.73%) Replication
16 16 (0.56%) IoT
17 14 (0.49%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 181 (6.29%) Linux
2 126 (4.38%) Unix
3 26 (0.90%) Android
4 22 (0.76%) Windows
5 14 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.17%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.035%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,142 (74.43%) Agile
2 1,888 (65.60%) SDLC
3 1,789 (62.16%) CI/CD
4 1,668 (57.96%) Operational Stability
5 1,270 (44.13%) Machine Learning
6 1,263 (43.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,197 (41.59%) Community of Practice
8 771 (26.79%) Visualisation
9 746 (25.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 633 (21.99%) Risk Management
11 490 (17.03%) Decision-Making
12 474 (16.47%) Microservices
13 454 (15.77%) Computer Science
14 427 (14.84%) Continuous Delivery
15 379 (13.17%) Architectural Design
16 374 (13.00%) Full Stack Development
17 365 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
18 355 (12.33%) Information Architecture
19 295 (10.25%) Mathematics
20 261 (9.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,592 (55.32%) Java
2 1,005 (34.92%) SQL
3 992 (34.47%) Python
4 399 (13.86%) JavaScript
5 287 (9.97%) Scala
6 246 (8.55%) TypeScript
7 223 (7.75%) C#
8 188 (6.53%) C
9 135 (4.69%) PL/SQL
10 126 (4.38%) C++
11 94 (3.27%) Go
12 84 (2.92%) Embedded C
13 65 (2.26%) Prolog
13 65 (2.26%) SPARQL
14 43 (1.49%) Ruby
15 37 (1.29%) Groovy
16 32 (1.11%) Kotlin
17 27 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 23 (0.80%) Bash
19 15 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 156 (5.42%) Degree
2 70 (2.43%) Security Cleared
3 67 (2.33%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 15 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.35%) PhD
8 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.035%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.035%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.035%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (1.63%) SLA
2 45 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.01%) QA
4 28 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.49%) PMO
6 6 (0.21%) WAI
7 4 (0.14%) DICOM
7 4 (0.14%) GDPR
7 4 (0.14%) HL7
7 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.035%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.035%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 90 (3.13%) HDFS
2 76 (2.64%) Docker
3 66 (2.29%) Firmware
4 65 (2.26%) Active Directory
5 21 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.069%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 351 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 235 (8.17%) Terraform
3 163 (5.66%) Grafana
4 80 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.73%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.73%) Kibana
6 21 (0.73%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.24%) Graphite
8 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 2 (0.069%) Ansible
9 2 (0.069%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.069%) Puppet
10 1 (0.035%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 332 (11.54%) Oracle
2 225 (7.82%) Databricks
3 178 (6.18%) Splunk
4 155 (5.39%) Dynatrace
5 82 (2.85%) Informatica
6 81 (2.81%) Google
7 60 (2.08%) Cloudera
8 56 (1.95%) ESRI
9 51 (1.77%) Alteryx
10 30 (1.04%) Microsoft
11 18 (0.63%) Pega
11 18 (0.63%) SaltStack
12 17 (0.59%) Sybase
13 14 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.42%) Cognos
14 12 (0.42%) Dell
15 10 (0.35%) IBM
15 10 (0.35%) SAP
16 9 (0.31%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.31%) Twitter