Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 24 37
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,421 450 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 36.43% 9.43% 7.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 37.61% 10.44% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 357 273 205
10th Percentile £43,250 £40,245 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,328 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,437 4,309 5,474
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.86% 90.26% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,615 2,345 2,951
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,300 £28,193
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +65 2,017 £61,500 +11.82% 37
Edinburgh +11 286 £60,000 -13.60% 45
Aberdeen +19 42 £60,000 -7.69% 6
West Lothian -2 31 £60,000 - 5
Fife -7 11 £50,000 - 4
Dundee -7 8 £50,000 -23.08%
Scottish Borders +5 5 - -
South Lanarkshire +3 4 £65,000 - 2
Inverclyde - 3 £50,000 -
Angus - 3 £65,000 -
Aberdeenshire +5 2 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -14 1 - - 2
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 Scotland region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,419 (99.92%) Software Engineering
2 2,076 (85.75%) Agile
3 2,013 (83.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,955 (80.75%) Finance
5 1,910 (78.89%) Law
6 1,807 (74.64%) SDLC
7 1,713 (70.76%) Operational Stability
8 1,682 (69.48%) CI/CD
9 1,526 (63.03%) Java
10 1,264 (52.21%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,254 (51.80%) Machine Learning
12 1,217 (50.27%) Community of Practice
13 1,102 (45.52%) AWS
14 942 (38.91%) SQL
15 900 (37.17%) Python
16 874 (36.10%) Marketing
17 786 (32.47%) Algorithms
18 776 (32.05%) Visualisation
19 764 (31.56%) Continuous Improvement
20 668 (27.59%) Risk Management
21 648 (26.77%) Legal
22 606 (25.03%) Cloud Native
23 588 (24.29%) Spring
24 571 (23.59%) React
25 552 (22.80%) NoSQL
26 519 (21.44%) Apache Spark
27 448 (18.50%) Microservices
28 433 (17.89%) Big Data
29 414 (17.10%) Decision-Making
30 406 (16.77%) AngularJS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 519 (21.44%) Apache Spark
2 113 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (4.30%) Apache
4 100 (4.13%) FileNet
5 60 (2.48%) ArcGIS
5 60 (2.48%) GeoServer
6 29 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.87%) GemFire
8 20 (0.83%) Camunda
9 12 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.41%) CICS
10 10 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.29%) Captiva
11 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Confluence
13 4 (0.17%) JBoss
13 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
13 4 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (45.52%) AWS
2 196 (8.10%) Azure
3 144 (5.95%) GCP
4 118 (4.87%) Amazon S3
5 94 (3.88%) Datadog
6 73 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
7 69 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (2.73%) Serverless
9 56 (2.31%) GitHub
10 53 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 52 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
11 52 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (2.11%) SaaS
13 50 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
14 42 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
15 38 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
16 23 (0.95%) Google Play
16 23 (0.95%) Lucidchart
16 23 (0.95%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.35%) Kerberos
2 26 (1.07%) Network Security
2 26 (1.07%) Wireless
3 24 (0.99%) Ethernet
4 21 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (0.62%) RS-232
6 14 (0.58%) Modbus
6 14 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.25%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 552 (22.80%) NoSQL
2 433 (17.89%) Big Data
3 252 (10.41%) Hadoop
4 168 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
5 148 (6.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 129 (5.33%) Apache Hive
7 113 (4.67%) Relational Database
8 101 (4.17%) HBase
9 93 (3.84%) MongoDB
10 67 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.68%) Metadata
12 60 (2.48%) GIS
12 60 (2.48%) QGIS
13 50 (2.07%) Electronic Patient Records
14 41 (1.69%) Data Lake
15 37 (1.53%) CockroachDB
16 36 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
17 31 (1.28%) Redis
18 29 (1.20%) MySQL
19 23 (0.95%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 253 (10.45%) Jenkins
2 200 (8.26%) JUnit
3 199 (8.22%) Git
4 110 (4.54%) Jasmine
5 84 (3.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 81 (3.35%) Cypress.io
7 70 (2.89%) Bitbucket
8 66 (2.73%) Artifactory
8 66 (2.73%) Karma Test Runner
9 64 (2.64%) Selenium
10 62 (2.56%) Maven
11 60 (2.48%) Protractor
11 60 (2.48%) WebDriver
12 43 (1.78%) Mockito
13 40 (1.65%) JIRA
14 29 (1.20%) Gradle
15 23 (0.95%) Android Studio
15 23 (0.95%) JMeter
16 22 (0.91%) Cucumber
17 21 (0.87%) Jaeger
General
1 2,013 (83.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,955 (80.75%) Finance
3 1,910 (78.89%) Law
4 874 (36.10%) Marketing
5 648 (26.77%) Legal
6 397 (16.40%) Banking
7 289 (11.94%) Investment Banking
8 190 (7.85%) Social Skills
9 127 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
10 72 (2.97%) Private Banking
11 60 (2.48%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.87%) Games
14 21 (0.87%) Prime Brokerage
15 18 (0.74%) Front Office
15 18 (0.74%) Publishing
16 16 (0.66%) Aviation
17 13 (0.54%) Electronics
18 12 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 588 (24.29%) Spring
2 571 (23.59%) React
3 406 (16.77%) AngularJS
4 351 (14.50%) Kafka
5 294 (12.14%) CSS
6 273 (11.28%) HTML
7 262 (10.82%) Spring Boot
8 247 (10.20%) J2EE
9 210 (8.67%) JSON
10 203 (8.38%) Hibernate
11 201 (8.30%) Node.js
12 167 (6.90%) JMS
12 167 (6.90%) PySpark
13 159 (6.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 154 (6.36%) RESTful
15 150 (6.20%) Web Services
16 142 (5.87%) GraphQL
16 142 (5.87%) jQuery
17 137 (5.66%) .NET
18 116 (4.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 786 (32.47%) Algorithms
2 606 (25.03%) Cloud Native
3 235 (9.71%) Public Cloud
4 150 (6.20%) Onboarding
5 126 (5.20%) Reference Data
6 115 (4.75%) Data Structures
7 106 (4.38%) Management Information System
8 65 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 42 (1.73%) Legacy Code
10 35 (1.45%) Private Cloud
11 33 (1.36%) Product Ownership
12 29 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (0.95%) Market Risk
14 21 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (0.87%) Replication
15 17 (0.70%) Credit Risk
15 17 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.62%) Device Driver
16 15 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
17 11 (0.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.81%) Linux
2 135 (5.58%) Unix
3 23 (0.95%) Android
3 23 (0.95%) Windows
4 15 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,419 (99.92%) Software Engineering
2 2,076 (85.75%) Agile
3 1,807 (74.64%) SDLC
4 1,713 (70.76%) Operational Stability
5 1,682 (69.48%) CI/CD
6 1,264 (52.21%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,254 (51.80%) Machine Learning
8 1,217 (50.27%) Community of Practice
9 776 (32.05%) Visualisation
10 764 (31.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 668 (27.59%) Risk Management
12 448 (18.50%) Microservices
13 414 (17.10%) Decision-Making
14 392 (16.19%) Architectural Design
15 386 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
16 372 (15.37%) Information Architecture
17 362 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
18 322 (13.30%) Continuous Delivery
19 248 (10.24%) Test Automation
20 235 (9.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,526 (63.03%) Java
2 942 (38.91%) SQL
3 900 (37.17%) Python
4 385 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 265 (10.95%) Scala
6 234 (9.67%) TypeScript
7 185 (7.64%) C#
8 128 (5.29%) PL/SQL
9 116 (4.79%) Go
10 112 (4.63%) C
11 82 (3.39%) C++
12 65 (2.68%) Prolog
12 65 (2.68%) SPARQL
13 46 (1.90%) Embedded C
14 42 (1.73%) Ruby
15 40 (1.65%) Bash
16 37 (1.53%) Groovy
17 28 (1.16%) T-SQL
18 25 (1.03%) Kotlin
19 16 (0.66%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 88 (3.63%) Degree
2 73 (3.02%) Security Cleared
3 71 (2.93%) SC Cleared
4 50 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 19 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.33%) PhD
8 1 (0.041%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 43 (1.78%) SLA
3 34 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.83%) PMO
5 17 (0.70%) QA
6 7 (0.29%) GDPR
7 6 (0.25%) WAI
8 4 (0.17%) DICOM
8 4 (0.17%) HL7
8 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.041%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.041%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 100 (4.13%) HDFS
2 65 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 50 (2.07%) Docker
4 12 (0.50%) Firmware
5 10 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 332 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 240 (9.91%) Terraform
3 147 (6.07%) Grafana
4 58 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.87%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.87%) Kibana
6 21 (0.87%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.29%) Graphite
8 2 (0.083%) Istio
9 1 (0.041%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.041%) Rancher
Vendors
1 341 (14.09%) Oracle
2 207 (8.55%) Databricks
3 155 (6.40%) Splunk
4 139 (5.74%) Dynatrace
5 85 (3.51%) Informatica
6 78 (3.22%) Google
7 71 (2.93%) Cloudera
8 60 (2.48%) ESRI
9 36 (1.49%) Alteryx
10 33 (1.36%) Dell
11 27 (1.12%) Pega
12 20 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 18 (0.74%) IBM
13 18 (0.74%) SaltStack
14 13 (0.54%) Microsoft
15 9 (0.37%) Twitter
16 8 (0.33%) TOWER Software
17 7 (0.29%) Kofax
17 7 (0.29%) SAP
17 7 (0.29%) ServiceNow