Software Developer Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Software Developer salary in Edinburgh is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 115 103
Rank change year-on-year +17 -12 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 24 39 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.56% 1.79% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.87% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19 33 35
10th Percentile - £37,950 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,875 £56,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £137,913 £67,500 £64,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +2.78%

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 1,478 2,083 2,236
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 95.55% 97.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,223 1,396
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £90,597 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Edinburgh

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in Edinburgh

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) .NET
4 10 (41.67%) C#
5 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 9 (37.50%) DevOps
6 8 (33.33%) SaaS
6 8 (33.33%) Front End Development
7 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (29.17%) Ruby
7 7 (29.17%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (20.83%) SDLC
10 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
10 4 (16.67%) React
10 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
10 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
10 4 (16.67%) SQL
10 4 (16.67%) Finance
10 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 4 (16.67%) Blazor
11 3 (12.50%) Jest
11 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 3 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
11 3 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
11 3 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
11 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 3 (12.50%) Java

Software Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.50%) Maven
1 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) .NET
2 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (16.67%) Blazor
3 4 (16.67%) React
4 3 (12.50%) Express.js
4 3 (12.50%) Jest
4 3 (12.50%) Node.js
4 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 7 (29.17%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (20.83%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (12.50%) API Design
7 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 3 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
7 3 (12.50%) Release Automation
7 3 (12.50%) SOLID
7 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) C#
2 7 (29.17%) Ruby
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) OCP
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Vermilion
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