Software Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 368 484 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.99% 22.54% 19.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.53% 23.44% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 257 309 303
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,033 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +16.72% +19.00%
75th Percentile £91,934 £84,056 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 2,065 2,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.42% 96.18% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,192 1,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,404 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
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 (8.15%) ArcGIS
1 30 (8.15%) GeoServer
2 24 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.72%) Confluence
4 7 (1.90%) Captiva
4 7 (1.90%) FileNet
4 7 (1.90%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.54%) JBoss
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 110 (29.89%) AWS
2 80 (21.74%) Azure
3 62 (16.85%) GCP
4 58 (15.76%) SaaS
5 26 (7.07%) Amazon S3
6 23 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (6.25%) Google Docs
6 23 (6.25%) Lucidchart
6 23 (6.25%) Miro
6 23 (6.25%) Slack
7 15 (4.08%) GitHub
8 10 (2.72%) Serverless
9 4 (1.09%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.82%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.54%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.70%) Network Security
2 20 (5.43%) Wireless
3 6 (1.63%) Bluetooth
3 6 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.15%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (8.15%) GIS
2 30 (8.15%) QGIS
3 24 (6.52%) Big Data
3 24 (6.52%) Hadoop
4 23 (6.25%) Redis
4 23 (6.25%) Scylla
5 11 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.99%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.36%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.09%) MySQL
8 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.82%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 25 (6.79%) Git
2 19 (5.16%) JIRA
3 16 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.08%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.90%) Selenium
7 6 (1.63%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.09%) Maven
8 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.82%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.82%) JUnit
9 3 (0.82%) webpack
10 2 (0.54%) Appium
10 2 (0.54%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.54%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.27%) GitLab
11 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (23.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 68 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 52 (14.13%) Finance
4 40 (10.87%) Banking
5 10 (2.72%) Legal
6 7 (1.90%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.09%) Games
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.82%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 291 (79.08%) Software Engineer
2 121 (32.88%) Senior
3 99 (26.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 44 (11.96%) Principal Engineer
5 40 (10.87%) Principal Software Engineer
6 35 (9.51%) Embedded Engineer
7 23 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 22 (5.98%) Lead
9 21 (5.71%) C Software Engineer
10 20 (5.43%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
11 16 (4.35%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 15 (4.08%) Developer
13 14 (3.80%) .NET Software Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) C/C++ Software Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Senior C Software Engineer
14 13 (3.53%) Database Engineer
14 13 (3.53%) Research Software Engineer
14 13 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.00%) React
2 70 (19.02%) .NET
3 47 (12.77%) CSS
4 41 (11.14%) .NET Core
5 36 (9.78%) Kafka
6 30 (8.15%) Leaflet
6 30 (8.15%) OpenLayers
6 30 (8.15%) PostGIS
7 29 (7.88%) Node.js
8 24 (6.52%) AngularJS
9 23 (6.25%) GraphQL
10 20 (5.43%) HTML
10 20 (5.43%) RESTful
11 19 (5.16%) ASP.NET
12 17 (4.62%) Spring
13 16 (4.35%) WebGL
14 15 (4.08%) Spring Boot
15 14 (3.80%) ASP.NET MVC
16 13 (3.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 10 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.51%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 15 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.90%) DataPower
7 7 (1.90%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.09%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.54%) Online Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.30%) Linux
2 10 (2.72%) Windows
3 9 (2.45%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.90%) Unix
5 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.09%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (35.87%) Agile
2 95 (25.82%) DevOps
3 72 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (18.48%) Computer Science
5 44 (11.96%) Mentoring
6 43 (11.68%) Data Science
7 39 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
7 39 (10.60%) Microservices
8 37 (10.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 37 (10.05%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (10.05%) Mathematics
8 37 (10.05%) Test Automation
8 37 (10.05%) Threat Intelligence
9 34 (9.24%) SDLC
10 32 (8.70%) Computer Security
10 32 (8.70%) Web Development
11 31 (8.42%) Full Stack Development
11 31 (8.42%) TDD
12 30 (8.15%) Physics
13 28 (7.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 108 (29.35%) Python
2 105 (28.53%) Java
3 77 (20.92%) JavaScript
4 67 (18.21%) C
5 57 (15.49%) C#
6 44 (11.96%) TypeScript
7 40 (10.87%) C++
8 38 (10.33%) Bash
8 38 (10.33%) SQL
9 33 (8.97%) Go
10 27 (7.34%) Embedded C
11 24 (6.52%) Scala
12 17 (4.62%) Rust
13 16 (4.35%) GLSL
14 11 (2.99%) Ruby
15 7 (1.90%) Haskell
16 3 (0.82%) Perl
16 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (12.50%) Degree
2 32 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 32 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.90%) PhD
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.62%) QA
2 7 (1.90%) GDPR
3 4 (1.09%) DICOM
3 4 (1.09%) HL7
3 4 (1.09%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 25 (6.79%) Docker
2 14 (3.80%) Firmware
3 7 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.17%) Terraform
3 7 (1.90%) Ansible
4 4 (1.09%) Istio
4 4 (1.09%) vRealize
4 4 (1.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (10.60%) Google
2 37 (10.05%) Dell
3 30 (8.15%) ESRI
4 18 (4.89%) IBM
4 18 (4.89%) Oracle
5 7 (1.90%) Kofax
5 7 (1.90%) Pega
5 7 (1.90%) SAP
5 7 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.54%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.27%) CA
9 1 (0.27%) StreamSets