Software Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £55,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 9 29
Rank change year-on-year -37 +20 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 47 163 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.49% 13.19% 7.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.46% 13.80% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 36 99 62
10th Percentile £39,125 £49,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £65,000 £68,724
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -5.42% +9.96%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,813
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,750 £137,913
Scotland median annual salary £64,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.92% - -

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 727 1,181 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.93% 95.55% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 333 519 792
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -11.65% +3.75%
75th Percentile £73,775 £74,572 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £91,125
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (36.17%) Java
3 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 14 (29.79%) AWS
5 13 (27.66%) C
6 12 (25.53%) Bluetooth
6 12 (25.53%) C++
6 12 (25.53%) Firmware
6 12 (25.53%) RS-232
6 12 (25.53%) Wireless
7 9 (19.15%) Kafka
7 9 (19.15%) React
8 8 (17.02%) Azure
8 8 (17.02%) Microservices
9 7 (14.89%) GCP
9 7 (14.89%) Spring Boot
10 6 (12.77%) E-Commerce
11 5 (10.64%) DevOps
11 5 (10.64%) Docker
11 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
11 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
11 5 (10.64%) TDD
12 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
12 4 (8.51%) SaaS
12 4 (8.51%) Spring
13 3 (6.38%) .NET
13 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
13 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
13 3 (6.38%) Coaching

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) AWS
2 8 (17.02%) Azure
3 7 (14.89%) GCP
4 4 (8.51%) SaaS
5 3 (6.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) Bluetooth
1 12 (25.53%) RS-232
1 12 (25.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (25.53%) Electronics
2 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Games
4 3 (6.38%) Tech for Good
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) Kafka
1 9 (19.15%) React
2 7 (14.89%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.51%) Spring
4 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.38%) CSS
4 3 (6.38%) HTML
4 3 (6.38%) RESTful
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (31.91%) Agile
3 8 (17.02%) Microservices
4 6 (12.77%) E-Commerce
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) TDD
6 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.38%) Coaching
7 3 (6.38%) Front End Development
7 3 (6.38%) MVC
7 3 (6.38%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.38%) Test Automation
8 2 (4.26%) CI/CD
8 2 (4.26%) Information Security
8 2 (4.26%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (4.26%) SOLID
8 2 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.26%) Validation
8 2 (4.26%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Java
2 13 (27.66%) C
3 12 (25.53%) C++
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.13%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Firmware
2 5 (10.64%) Docker
3 2 (4.26%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) Avaloq
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
45 Software Engineer jobs in Edinburgh