Software Engineering Jobs in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 5 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,484 208 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 62.85% 13.26% 12.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 65.01% 13.80% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 99 81 80
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -6.38% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,821 1,507 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 96.69% 96.05% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 814 664 855
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,698 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,886 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +13.40% +2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,375 £75,000
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
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
1 588 (23.67%) Apache Spark
2 137 (5.52%) Apache
3 117 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
4 96 (3.86%) FileNet
5 31 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 30 (1.21%) ArcGIS
6 30 (1.21%) GeoServer
7 21 (0.85%) GemFire
8 20 (0.81%) Camunda
9 11 (0.44%) CICS
9 11 (0.44%) Confluence
10 10 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.081%) JBoss
13 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.040%) Tuxedo
14 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (48.79%) AWS
2 162 (6.52%) Azure
3 115 (4.63%) Datadog
4 97 (3.90%) GCP
5 96 (3.86%) Amazon S3
6 70 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (2.33%) Serverless
9 55 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
10 51 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
10 51 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (1.89%) BlazeMeter
12 44 (1.77%) GitHub
13 43 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (0.97%) Google Play
15 7 (0.28%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.28%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (0.24%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.30%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.72%) DSL
3 14 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.52%) Modbus
5 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 664 (26.73%) NoSQL
2 500 (20.13%) Big Data
3 233 (9.38%) Hadoop
4 150 (6.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 142 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
6 131 (5.27%) Apache Hive
7 129 (5.19%) Relational Database
8 105 (4.23%) MongoDB
9 102 (4.11%) HBase
10 65 (2.62%) Metadata
11 60 (2.42%) Data Lake
12 52 (2.09%) Electronic Patient Records
13 38 (1.53%) CockroachDB
14 37 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
15 35 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (1.21%) GIS
16 30 (1.21%) QGIS
17 29 (1.17%) DB2
17 29 (1.17%) MySQL
18 21 (0.85%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 262 (10.55%) Jenkins
2 208 (8.37%) JUnit
3 181 (7.29%) Git
4 111 (4.47%) Jasmine
5 86 (3.46%) Bitbucket Server
6 83 (3.34%) Cypress.io
7 70 (2.82%) Bitbucket
8 66 (2.66%) Artifactory
8 66 (2.66%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (2.62%) Maven
10 61 (2.46%) Selenium
11 60 (2.42%) Protractor
11 60 (2.42%) WebDriver
12 44 (1.77%) Mockito
13 39 (1.57%) JIRA
14 32 (1.29%) GitLab
15 30 (1.21%) Gradle
16 27 (1.09%) JMeter
17 25 (1.01%) Cucumber
18 24 (0.97%) Android Studio
General
1 2,344 (94.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,328 (93.72%) Finance
3 2,325 (93.60%) Law
4 1,226 (49.36%) Marketing
5 650 (26.17%) Legal
6 427 (17.19%) Banking
7 346 (13.93%) Investment Banking
8 247 (9.94%) Financial Institution
9 180 (7.25%) Influencing Skills
10 161 (6.48%) Social Skills
11 81 (3.26%) Private Banking
12 57 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
14 26 (1.05%) Games
15 22 (0.89%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.81%) Electronics
16 20 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.72%) Front Office
18 15 (0.60%) Publishing
19 5 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2,071 (83.37%) Software Engineer
2 790 (31.80%) Java Engineer
2 790 (31.80%) Java Software Engineer
3 705 (28.38%) Lead
4 679 (27.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 390 (15.70%) Big Data Engineer
5 390 (15.70%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 328 (13.20%) Python Engineer
6 328 (13.20%) Python Software Engineer
7 320 (12.88%) Senior
8 317 (12.76%) Full Stack Engineer
8 317 (12.76%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 299 (12.04%) AWS Engineer
9 299 (12.04%) AWS Software Engineer
10 274 (11.03%) Lead Java Engineer
11 266 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 237 (9.54%) Data Engineer
13 228 (9.18%) Scala Engineer
13 228 (9.18%) Scala Software Engineer
14 209 (8.41%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 664 (26.73%) Spring
2 513 (20.65%) React
3 388 (15.62%) AngularJS
4 346 (13.93%) Kafka
5 335 (13.49%) Spring Boot
6 259 (10.43%) HTML
7 252 (10.14%) CSS
8 246 (9.90%) J2EE
9 206 (8.29%) JSON
10 194 (7.81%) Hibernate
11 187 (7.53%) Node.js
12 185 (7.45%) RESTful
13 172 (6.92%) PySpark
14 170 (6.84%) JMS
15 162 (6.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 144 (5.80%) jQuery
17 140 (5.64%) Web Services
18 123 (4.95%) GraphQL
19 113 (4.55%) XML
20 108 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 886 (35.67%) Cloud Native
2 786 (31.64%) Algorithms
3 274 (11.03%) Public Cloud
4 154 (6.20%) Onboarding
5 129 (5.19%) Reference Data
6 125 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 107 (4.31%) Data Structures
8 99 (3.99%) Product Ownership
9 91 (3.66%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 64 (2.58%) Distributed Applications
12 48 (1.93%) Credit Risk
13 43 (1.73%) Legacy Code
14 29 (1.17%) Private Cloud
15 21 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (0.85%) Replication
15 21 (0.85%) Taxonomies
16 20 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 132 (5.31%) Unix
2 108 (4.35%) Linux
3 24 (0.97%) Android
4 16 (0.64%) Windows
5 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,229 (89.73%) Agile
2 2,028 (81.64%) SDLC
3 1,942 (78.18%) CI/CD
4 1,843 (74.19%) Operational Stability
5 1,365 (54.95%) Machine Learning
6 1,362 (54.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,294 (52.09%) Community of Practice
8 816 (32.85%) Visualisation
9 792 (31.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 683 (27.50%) Risk Management
11 548 (22.06%) Decision-Making
12 481 (19.36%) Microservices
13 478 (19.24%) Continuous Delivery
14 414 (16.67%) Architectural Design
15 396 (15.94%) Information Architecture
16 361 (14.53%) Full Stack Development
17 358 (14.41%) Computer Science
18 317 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
19 248 (9.98%) Test Automation
20 244 (9.82%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,661 (66.87%) Java
2 1,057 (42.55%) SQL
3 965 (38.85%) Python
4 327 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 319 (12.84%) Scala
6 198 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 147 (5.92%) PL/SQL
8 111 (4.47%) C#
9 86 (3.46%) Go
10 65 (2.62%) Prolog
10 65 (2.62%) SPARQL
11 48 (1.93%) C++
12 37 (1.49%) Groovy
13 30 (1.21%) C
14 29 (1.17%) Ruby
15 28 (1.13%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.13%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.52%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.44%) COBOL
17 11 (0.44%) JCL
Qualifications
1 86 (3.46%) Degree
2 43 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (1.57%) Security Cleared
4 37 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 19 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.040%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.040%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.50%) SLA
2 57 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.81%) PMO
5 12 (0.48%) QA
6 6 (0.24%) WAI
7 1 (0.040%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.040%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 102 (4.11%) HDFS
2 65 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 54 (2.17%) Docker
4 11 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
5 9 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.040%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 330 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 257 (10.35%) Terraform
3 174 (7.00%) Grafana
4 78 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.85%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.85%) Kibana
6 21 (0.85%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.28%) Graphite
8 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.081%) Puppet
9 1 (0.040%) Ansible
Vendors
1 349 (14.05%) Oracle
2 263 (10.59%) Databricks
3 183 (7.37%) Splunk
4 161 (6.48%) Dynatrace
5 87 (3.50%) Informatica
6 72 (2.90%) Cloudera
7 61 (2.46%) Google
8 55 (2.21%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.21%) ESRI
10 23 (0.93%) Sybase
11 21 (0.85%) Microsoft
12 20 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 20 (0.81%) Pega
13 18 (0.72%) Cognos
13 18 (0.72%) SaltStack
14 9 (0.36%) TOWER Software
15 5 (0.20%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.20%) CA
16 1 (0.040%) Optimizely
16 1 (0.040%) Thales