Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £61,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 101 101
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 270 24 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.78% 1.53% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.92% 1.78% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 42 17 3
10th Percentile £46,875 £44,500 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £45,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -26.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £83,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,904 1,347 1,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.04% 85.91% 98.02%
Number of salaries quoted 844 679 889
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,525 £75,250 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior 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 Glasgow region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 270 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 245 (90.74%) Agile
3 207 (76.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 198 (73.33%) Operational Stability
4 198 (73.33%) SDLC
4 198 (73.33%) Finance
4 198 (73.33%) Law
5 183 (67.78%) Marketing
6 175 (64.81%) Java
7 158 (58.52%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (57.41%) Tech Ops
9 132 (48.89%) Machine Learning
9 132 (48.89%) Artificial Intelligence
10 111 (41.11%) AWS
11 104 (38.52%) SQL
12 101 (37.41%) Decision-Making
13 85 (31.48%) Apache Spark
14 74 (27.41%) CI/CD
15 73 (27.04%) Python
16 69 (25.56%) NoSQL
17 64 (23.70%) Azure
18 62 (22.96%) JSON
18 62 (22.96%) Microservices
19 59 (21.85%) Kerberos
20 54 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
21 52 (19.26%) Big Data
22 51 (18.89%) Performance Tuning
22 51 (18.89%) Cloud Native
22 51 (18.89%) Scala
23 49 (18.15%) CSS

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 85 (31.48%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.41%) ArcGIS
2 20 (7.41%) GeoServer
3 18 (6.67%) FileNet
4 17 (6.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) JBoss
5 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 111 (41.11%) AWS
2 64 (23.70%) Azure
3 35 (12.96%) GCP
4 18 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.37%) Datadog
5 1 (0.37%) IaaS
5 1 (0.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (21.85%) Kerberos
2 13 (4.81%) Modbus
2 13 (4.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.48%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (25.56%) NoSQL
2 52 (19.26%) Big Data
3 42 (15.56%) Metadata
4 21 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (7.41%) GIS
5 20 (7.41%) QGIS
6 18 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (6.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (6.30%) CockroachDB
8 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.37%) MySQL
9 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (15.56%) Artifactory
1 42 (15.56%) Bitbucket
1 42 (15.56%) Git
1 42 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.67%) JUnit
3 16 (5.93%) JIRA
4 15 (5.56%) GitLab
5 13 (4.81%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.74%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 207 (76.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 198 (73.33%) Finance
2 198 (73.33%) Law
3 183 (67.78%) Marketing
4 54 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (5.56%) Banking
6 12 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.11%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.37%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.96%) JSON
2 49 (18.15%) CSS
3 46 (17.04%) RESTful
4 44 (16.30%) Web Services
4 44 (16.30%) XML
5 42 (15.56%) JSON-LD
5 42 (15.56%) LDAP
5 42 (15.56%) OpenID
5 42 (15.56%) SAML
6 41 (15.19%) Spring
7 38 (14.07%) React
8 37 (13.70%) Kafka
9 35 (12.96%) GraphQL
10 34 (12.59%) PySpark
11 33 (12.22%) .NET
11 33 (12.22%) HTML
12 21 (7.78%) AngularJS
13 20 (7.41%) Leaflet
13 20 (7.41%) OpenLayers
13 20 (7.41%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.89%) Cloud Native
2 42 (15.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 42 (15.56%) Management Information System
2 42 (15.56%) Reference Data
3 32 (11.85%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.74%) Credit Risk
4 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.81%) Windows
2 7 (2.59%) Linux
3 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 245 (90.74%) Agile
3 198 (73.33%) Operational Stability
3 198 (73.33%) SDLC
4 158 (58.52%) Problem-Solving
5 155 (57.41%) Tech Ops
6 132 (48.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 132 (48.89%) Machine Learning
7 101 (37.41%) Decision-Making
8 74 (27.41%) CI/CD
9 62 (22.96%) Microservices
10 51 (18.89%) Performance Tuning
11 43 (15.93%) Continuous Delivery
11 43 (15.93%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (15.93%) Test Automation
12 42 (15.56%) Data Modelling
12 42 (15.56%) Information Architecture
12 42 (15.56%) Ontologies
12 42 (15.56%) RDF
12 42 (15.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 175 (64.81%) Java
2 104 (38.52%) SQL
3 73 (27.04%) Python
4 51 (18.89%) Scala
5 44 (16.30%) Go
6 43 (15.93%) C#
7 42 (15.56%) Prolog
7 42 (15.56%) SPARQL
8 38 (14.07%) JavaScript
9 22 (8.15%) C++
10 18 (6.67%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.74%) C
11 2 (0.74%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.74%) Ruby
12 1 (0.37%) Bash
12 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (8.52%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.37%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 42 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.22%) Firmware
3 4 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Grafana
3 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (7.41%) ESRI
1 20 (7.41%) Oracle
2 17 (6.30%) Google
3 4 (1.48%) Databricks
4 1 (0.37%) Coverity
4 1 (0.37%) Klocwork
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.37%) Thales