Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 18 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 291 277 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.97% 12.90% 10.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.80% 13.51% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 201 178 145
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +20.78% +21.05%
75th Percentile £91,934 £82,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £76,385
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +21.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,470 2,051 2,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 95.53% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,207 1,413
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Edinburgh region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 291 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 109 (37.46%) Agile
3 98 (33.68%) Java
4 97 (33.33%) Python
5 85 (29.21%) AWS
6 76 (26.12%) React
7 73 (25.09%) DevOps
8 65 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (21.65%) .NET
9 63 (21.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (21.31%) Azure
11 60 (20.62%) JavaScript
12 59 (20.27%) Linux
13 55 (18.90%) C
14 53 (18.21%) GCP
15 52 (17.87%) Kubernetes
16 51 (17.53%) SaaS
17 50 (17.18%) C#
17 50 (17.18%) Social Skills
18 45 (15.46%) CSS
19 44 (15.12%) Finance
19 44 (15.12%) Computer Science
20 39 (13.40%) C++
20 39 (13.40%) .NET Core
20 39 (13.40%) Data Science
21 36 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
21 36 (12.37%) Kafka
22 35 (12.03%) Bash
22 35 (12.03%) Microservices
22 35 (12.03%) Banking

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 30 (10.31%) ArcGIS
1 30 (10.31%) GeoServer
2 24 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.41%) Captiva
3 7 (2.41%) FileNet
3 7 (2.41%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.21%) AWS
2 62 (21.31%) Azure
3 53 (18.21%) GCP
4 51 (17.53%) SaaS
5 26 (8.93%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.90%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (7.90%) Google Docs
6 23 (7.90%) Lucidchart
6 23 (7.90%) Miro
6 23 (7.90%) Slack
7 13 (4.47%) GitHub
8 10 (3.44%) Serverless
9 4 (1.37%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.03%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.62%) Network Security
2 8 (2.75%) Wireless
3 6 (2.06%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (10.31%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (10.31%) GIS
2 30 (10.31%) QGIS
3 24 (8.25%) Big Data
3 24 (8.25%) Hadoop
4 23 (7.90%) Redis
4 23 (7.90%) Scylla
5 11 (3.78%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.09%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.69%) MySQL
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.34%) DB2
10 1 (0.34%) Flink
Development Applications
1 18 (6.19%) Git
2 15 (5.15%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.78%) JIRA
4 6 (2.06%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (1.37%) Maven
5 4 (1.37%) Selenium
6 3 (1.03%) JDeveloper
6 3 (1.03%) webpack
7 2 (0.69%) Appium
7 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 63 (21.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (17.18%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.12%) Finance
4 35 (12.03%) Banking
5 10 (3.44%) Legal
6 7 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.72%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.03%) Games
8 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.12%) React
2 63 (21.65%) .NET
3 45 (15.46%) CSS
4 39 (13.40%) .NET Core
5 36 (12.37%) Kafka
6 30 (10.31%) Leaflet
6 30 (10.31%) OpenLayers
6 30 (10.31%) PostGIS
7 23 (7.90%) GraphQL
8 21 (7.22%) AngularJS
9 18 (6.19%) HTML
9 18 (6.19%) RESTful
10 17 (5.84%) ASP.NET
11 16 (5.50%) WebGL
12 15 (5.15%) Node.js
13 14 (4.81%) Spring
14 13 (4.47%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (4.47%) Spring Boot
15 12 (4.12%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (3.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.68%) Algorithms
2 23 (7.90%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.44%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.09%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.41%) DataPower
6 7 (2.41%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 59 (20.27%) Linux
2 9 (3.09%) Mac OS
2 9 (3.09%) Windows
3 7 (2.41%) Unix
4 6 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 109 (37.46%) Agile
3 73 (25.09%) DevOps
4 65 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (15.12%) Computer Science
6 39 (13.40%) Data Science
7 36 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
8 35 (12.03%) Microservices
9 33 (11.34%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 33 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (11.34%) Threat Intelligence
10 32 (11.00%) Computer Security
11 31 (10.65%) Mentoring
12 30 (10.31%) Web Development
13 29 (9.97%) TDD
14 27 (9.28%) High Availability
15 25 (8.59%) Mathematics
15 25 (8.59%) User Experience
16 24 (8.25%) Full Stack Development
16 24 (8.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (33.68%) Java
2 97 (33.33%) Python
3 60 (20.62%) JavaScript
4 55 (18.90%) C
5 50 (17.18%) C#
6 39 (13.40%) C++
7 35 (12.03%) Bash
8 33 (11.34%) Go
9 30 (10.31%) TypeScript
10 28 (9.62%) SQL
11 24 (8.25%) Scala
12 17 (5.84%) Rust
13 16 (5.50%) GLSL
14 15 (5.15%) Embedded C
15 7 (2.41%) Haskell
16 4 (1.37%) Ruby
17 3 (1.03%) Perl
18 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
19 1 (0.34%) COBOL
19 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 32 (11.00%) SC Cleared
1 32 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.62%) Degree
3 11 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.41%) GDPR
2 4 (1.37%) DICOM
2 4 (1.37%) HL7
2 4 (1.37%) ISO 13485
2 4 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 20 (6.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (17.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Istio
4 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (11.68%) Google
2 33 (11.34%) Dell
3 30 (10.31%) ESRI
4 18 (6.19%) IBM
4 18 (6.19%) Oracle
5 7 (2.41%) Kofax
5 7 (2.41%) Pega
5 7 (2.41%) SAP
5 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.34%) CA
8 1 (0.34%) StreamSets