Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Aberdeen

Software Engineering Manager
Scotland > Aberdeen

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in Aberdeen is £71,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeen 1.52% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 - -
75th Percentile £71,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -17.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Aberdeen

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Aberdeen. 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 Aberdeen with a recognized job title 57 291 153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.36% 96.68% 77.66%
Number of salaries quoted 38 239 80
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,750 £30,425
25th Percentile £35,625 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -22.73%
75th Percentile £62,813 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,100 £65,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Software Engineering Manager 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 Aberdeen region featuring Software Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React

Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft