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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 358 452 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.83% 22.02% 18.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.56% 22.94% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 259 286 310
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,033 £41,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,634 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.72% +20.00%
75th Percentile £91,934 £84,056 £72,500
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 1,348 1,970 2,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.75% 95.96% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,151 1,382
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,313
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,500 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +10.20%

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 10 May 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 (8.38%) ArcGIS
1 30 (8.38%) GeoServer
2 24 (6.70%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.96%) Captiva
3 7 (1.96%) FileNet
3 7 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (0.56%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 108 (30.17%) AWS
2 80 (22.35%) Azure
3 60 (16.76%) GCP
4 59 (16.48%) SaaS
5 26 (7.26%) Amazon S3
6 23 (6.42%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (6.42%) Google Docs
6 23 (6.42%) Lucidchart
6 23 (6.42%) Miro
6 23 (6.42%) Slack
7 17 (4.75%) GitHub
8 9 (2.51%) Serverless
9 4 (1.12%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.84%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.56%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.56%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.66%) Network Security
2 20 (5.59%) Wireless
3 6 (1.68%) Bluetooth
3 6 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.84%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.38%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (8.38%) GIS
2 30 (8.38%) QGIS
3 24 (6.70%) Big Data
3 24 (6.70%) Hadoop
4 23 (6.42%) Redis
4 23 (6.42%) Scylla
5 12 (3.35%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.35%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.84%) MySQL
8 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.56%) Power BI
10 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.28%) DB2
10 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 21 (5.87%) Git
2 16 (4.47%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (3.63%) JIRA
4 11 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.51%) Selenium
6 8 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.40%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.12%) Maven
9 3 (0.84%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.84%) JUnit
9 3 (0.84%) webpack
10 2 (0.56%) Appium
10 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.56%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 87 (24.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 68 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.29%) Finance
4 31 (8.66%) Banking
5 10 (2.79%) Legal
6 7 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.68%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.12%) Games
10 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (79.89%) Software Engineer
2 118 (32.96%) Senior
3 100 (27.93%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (10.89%) Principal Engineer
4 39 (10.89%) Principal Software Engineer
5 35 (9.78%) Embedded Engineer
6 23 (6.42%) C Software Engineer
6 23 (6.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 21 (5.87%) Java Engineer
7 21 (5.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 21 (5.87%) Lead
8 18 (5.03%) C++ Software Engineer
8 18 (5.03%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 16 (4.47%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 16 (4.47%) Senior C Software Engineer
10 15 (4.19%) Developer
11 14 (3.91%) .NET Software Engineer
12 13 (3.63%) Database Engineer
12 13 (3.63%) Research Engineer
12 13 (3.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (23.18%) React
2 70 (19.55%) .NET
3 46 (12.85%) CSS
4 42 (11.73%) .NET Core
5 36 (10.06%) Kafka
6 30 (8.38%) Leaflet
6 30 (8.38%) OpenLayers
6 30 (8.38%) PostGIS
7 23 (6.42%) GraphQL
7 23 (6.42%) Node.js
8 22 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.03%) ASP.NET
9 18 (5.03%) HTML
10 17 (4.75%) Spring
11 16 (4.47%) RESTful
12 15 (4.19%) Spring Boot
12 15 (4.19%) WebGL
13 13 (3.63%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (3.07%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.78%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.42%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.47%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.23%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.96%) DataPower
7 7 (1.96%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) IoT
8 5 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.56%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.28%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.20%) Linux
2 8 (2.23%) Mac OS
2 8 (2.23%) Windows
3 7 (1.96%) Unix
4 5 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (32.40%) Agile
2 87 (24.30%) DevOps
3 65 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (17.60%) Computer Science
5 40 (11.17%) Data Science
5 40 (11.17%) Test Automation
6 38 (10.61%) Mentoring
7 36 (10.06%) Mathematics
7 36 (10.06%) Microservices
8 35 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (8.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 32 (8.94%) Threat Intelligence
10 32 (8.94%) Web Development
11 31 (8.66%) Computer Security
12 29 (8.10%) Full Stack Development
12 29 (8.10%) Physics
12 29 (8.10%) TDD
13 27 (7.54%) High Availability
13 27 (7.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.05%) Python
2 103 (28.77%) Java
3 72 (20.11%) JavaScript
4 69 (19.27%) C
5 56 (15.64%) C#
6 42 (11.73%) SQL
7 41 (11.45%) C++
8 40 (11.17%) TypeScript
9 37 (10.34%) Bash
10 33 (9.22%) Go
11 27 (7.54%) Embedded C
12 24 (6.70%) Scala
13 17 (4.75%) Rust
14 15 (4.19%) GLSL
15 10 (2.79%) Ruby
16 7 (1.96%) Haskell
17 4 (1.12%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.84%) Perl
19 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
19 2 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (11.73%) Degree
2 31 (8.66%) SC Cleared
2 31 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.23%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.96%) PhD
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.03%) QA
2 7 (1.96%) GDPR
3 4 (1.12%) DICOM
3 4 (1.12%) HL7
3 4 (1.12%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 22 (6.15%) Docker
2 14 (3.91%) Firmware
3 7 (1.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.40%) Terraform
3 4 (1.12%) Istio
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (10.34%) Google
2 32 (8.94%) Dell
3 30 (8.38%) ESRI
4 19 (5.31%) Oracle
5 17 (4.75%) IBM
6 7 (1.96%) Kofax
6 7 (1.96%) Pega
6 7 (1.96%) SAP
6 7 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.28%) CA
10 1 (0.28%) StreamSets