Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 34 101
Rank change year-on-year -21 +67 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 25 88 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.86% 5.59% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% 5.82% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22 63 28
10th Percentile £50,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £92,833 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £73,886 £70,564
Scotland median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +4.35% -8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 758 1,512 1,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.63% 96.12% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 341 1,059 991
10th Percentile £26,929 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £83,738 £71,250 £76,943
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,750 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (40.00%) GCP
3 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (36.00%) Azure
3 9 (36.00%) Java
3 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (32.00%) Finance
4 8 (32.00%) React
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) AWS
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) TDD
6 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (24.00%) Banking
6 6 (24.00%) SQL
7 5 (20.00%) Spring
7 5 (20.00%) Docker
7 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
8 4 (16.00%) Tealium
8 4 (16.00%) Redux
8 4 (16.00%) Jest
8 4 (16.00%) Enzyme
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) webpack
8 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
8 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
8 4 (16.00%) Scrum

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) GCP
2 9 (36.00%) Azure
3 7 (28.00%) AWS
4 4 (16.00%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Google Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Apigee
6 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) webpack
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) JUnit
3 2 (8.00%) Maven
3 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Games
4 2 (8.00%) Agriculture
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) React
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) Enzyme
3 4 (16.00%) Jest
3 4 (16.00%) Kafka
3 4 (16.00%) Redux
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.00%) Web Services
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) TDD
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) BDD
4 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) Pair Programming
4 4 (16.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Coaching
5 3 (12.00%) Microservices
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) Line Management
6 2 (8.00%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (8.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (8.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
1 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Python
4 3 (12.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) C++
5 2 (8.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) C
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Istio
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Adobe
1 4 (16.00%) Google
1 4 (16.00%) Tealium
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Avaloq
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk