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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,509 210 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 62.98% 13.37% 13.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 65.13% 13.90% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 99 83 78
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 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £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 3,852 1,511 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 96.69% 96.18% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 818 658 846
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +13.99% +1.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,903 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,650 £77,500 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +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 4 May 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 (23.44%) Apache Spark
2 137 (5.46%) Apache
3 117 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (3.91%) FileNet
5 32 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 30 (1.20%) ArcGIS
6 30 (1.20%) GeoServer
7 21 (0.84%) GemFire
8 20 (0.80%) 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 (0.080%) JBoss
13 2 (0.080%) 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 1,224 (48.78%) AWS
2 165 (6.58%) Azure
3 117 (4.66%) Datadog
4 100 (3.99%) GCP
5 98 (3.91%) Amazon S3
6 70 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
8 59 (2.35%) Serverless
9 56 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
10 51 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
10 51 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (1.91%) BlazeMeter
12 45 (1.79%) GitHub
13 43 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (1.00%) Google Play
15 7 (0.28%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.28%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (0.24%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.27%) 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
1 667 (26.58%) NoSQL
2 500 (19.93%) Big Data
3 233 (9.29%) Hadoop
4 152 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 147 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
6 131 (5.22%) Apache Hive
7 129 (5.14%) Relational Database
8 107 (4.26%) MongoDB
9 102 (4.07%) HBase
10 65 (2.59%) Metadata
11 62 (2.47%) Data Lake
12 52 (2.07%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.55%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.51%) CockroachDB
15 35 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (1.20%) GIS
16 30 (1.20%) MySQL
16 30 (1.20%) QGIS
17 29 (1.16%) DB2
18 21 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 263 (10.48%) Jenkins
2 210 (8.37%) JUnit
3 181 (7.21%) Git
4 112 (4.46%) Jasmine
5 86 (3.43%) Bitbucket Server
6 84 (3.35%) Cypress.io
7 70 (2.79%) Bitbucket
8 67 (2.67%) Maven
9 66 (2.63%) Artifactory
9 66 (2.63%) Karma Test Runner
10 61 (2.43%) Selenium
11 60 (2.39%) Protractor
11 60 (2.39%) WebDriver
12 45 (1.79%) Mockito
13 39 (1.55%) JIRA
14 32 (1.28%) GitLab
15 30 (1.20%) Gradle
16 28 (1.12%) JMeter
17 26 (1.04%) Cucumber
18 25 (1.00%) Android Studio
General
1 2,369 (94.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,353 (93.78%) Finance
3 2,350 (93.66%) Law
4 1,240 (49.42%) Marketing
5 655 (26.11%) Legal
6 433 (17.26%) Banking
7 351 (13.99%) Investment Banking
8 250 (9.96%) Financial Institution
9 181 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
10 162 (6.46%) Social Skills
11 82 (3.27%) Private Banking
12 58 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
14 27 (1.08%) Games
15 22 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.80%) Electronics
16 20 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.72%) Front Office
18 15 (0.60%) Publishing
19 5 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2,091 (83.34%) Software Engineer
2 799 (31.85%) Java Engineer
2 799 (31.85%) Java Software Engineer
3 712 (28.38%) Lead
4 686 (27.34%) Lead Software Engineer
5 390 (15.54%) Big Data Engineer
5 390 (15.54%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 332 (13.23%) Python Engineer
6 332 (13.23%) Python Software Engineer
7 325 (12.95%) Senior
8 322 (12.83%) Full Stack Engineer
8 322 (12.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 301 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
9 301 (12.00%) AWS Software Engineer
10 278 (11.08%) Lead Java Engineer
11 270 (10.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 241 (9.61%) Data Engineer
13 228 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
13 228 (9.09%) Scala Software Engineer
14 212 (8.45%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 670 (26.70%) Spring
2 518 (20.65%) React
3 392 (15.62%) AngularJS
4 352 (14.03%) Kafka
5 338 (13.47%) Spring Boot
6 261 (10.40%) HTML
7 254 (10.12%) CSS
8 248 (9.88%) J2EE
9 207 (8.25%) JSON
10 196 (7.81%) Hibernate
11 188 (7.49%) Node.js
12 186 (7.41%) RESTful
13 174 (6.94%) PySpark
14 171 (6.82%) JMS
15 163 (6.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 145 (5.78%) jQuery
17 140 (5.58%) Web Services
18 125 (4.98%) GraphQL
19 113 (4.50%) XML
20 108 (4.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 896 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 793 (31.61%) Algorithms
3 277 (11.04%) Public Cloud
4 156 (6.22%) Onboarding
5 130 (5.18%) Reference Data
6 125 (4.98%) Management Information System
7 107 (4.26%) Data Structures
8 98 (3.91%) Product Ownership
9 93 (3.71%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.59%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (2.03%) Credit Risk
12 43 (1.71%) Legacy Code
13 30 (1.20%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (0.84%) Replication
14 21 (0.84%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 132 (5.26%) Unix
2 108 (4.30%) Linux
3 25 (1.00%) Android
4 16 (0.64%) Windows
5 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,251 (89.72%) Agile
2 2,048 (81.63%) SDLC
3 1,958 (78.04%) CI/CD
4 1,860 (74.13%) Operational Stability
5 1,381 (55.04%) Machine Learning
6 1,378 (54.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,305 (52.01%) Community of Practice
8 826 (32.92%) Visualisation
9 803 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 689 (27.46%) Risk Management
11 555 (22.12%) Decision-Making
12 488 (19.45%) Microservices
13 479 (19.09%) Continuous Delivery
14 415 (16.54%) Architectural Design
15 397 (15.82%) Information Architecture
16 367 (14.63%) Full Stack Development
17 365 (14.55%) Computer Science
18 320 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
19 251 (10.00%) Test Automation
20 250 (9.96%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,674 (66.72%) Java
2 1,064 (42.41%) SQL
3 976 (38.90%) Python
4 330 (13.15%) JavaScript
5 319 (12.71%) Scala
6 200 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 148 (5.90%) PL/SQL
8 112 (4.46%) C#
9 87 (3.47%) Go
10 65 (2.59%) Prolog
10 65 (2.59%) SPARQL
11 48 (1.91%) C++
12 37 (1.47%) Groovy
13 30 (1.20%) C
14 29 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.16%) Ruby
15 28 (1.12%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.52%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.44%) COBOL
17 11 (0.44%) JCL
Qualifications
1 86 (3.43%) Degree
2 43 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (1.55%) Security Cleared
4 37 (1.47%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 20 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.040%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.040%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.47%) SLA
2 57 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.80%) 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 (4.07%) HDFS
2 65 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 57 (2.27%) Docker
4 11 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
5 9 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.080%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 337 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 258 (10.28%) Terraform
3 176 (7.01%) Grafana
4 80 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.84%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.84%) Kibana
6 21 (0.84%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.28%) Graphite
8 2 (0.080%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.080%) Puppet
9 1 (0.040%) Ansible
Vendors
1 354 (14.11%) Oracle
2 263 (10.48%) Databricks
3 185 (7.37%) Splunk
4 162 (6.46%) Dynatrace
5 87 (3.47%) Informatica
6 72 (2.87%) Cloudera
7 62 (2.47%) Google
8 57 (2.27%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.20%) ESRI
10 23 (0.92%) Sybase
11 22 (0.88%) Microsoft
12 20 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 20 (0.80%) 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 2 (0.080%) IBM
17 1 (0.040%) Sitecore