Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 18 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 289 271 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.00% 12.72% 10.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.82% 13.34% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 201 175 148
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +20.78% +21.05%
75th Percentile £91,934 £82,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £77,470
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +21.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,458 2,032 2,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.35% 97.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,208 1,449
10th Percentile £32,950 £36,250 £32,975
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,047 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Edinburgh region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 289 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 103 (35.64%) Agile
3 97 (33.56%) Java
3 97 (33.56%) Python
4 84 (29.07%) AWS
5 72 (24.91%) React
6 71 (24.57%) DevOps
7 65 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (22.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 63 (21.80%) .NET
10 62 (21.45%) Azure
11 60 (20.76%) Linux
12 58 (20.07%) JavaScript
13 56 (19.38%) C
14 52 (17.99%) GCP
15 51 (17.65%) SaaS
16 50 (17.30%) C#
16 50 (17.30%) Social Skills
17 49 (16.96%) Kubernetes
18 44 (15.22%) CSS
18 44 (15.22%) Computer Science
19 40 (13.84%) C++
20 39 (13.49%) Finance
20 39 (13.49%) .NET Core
21 38 (13.15%) Data Science
22 36 (12.46%) Actionable Insight
22 36 (12.46%) Kafka
23 35 (12.11%) Bash
24 34 (11.76%) Microservices
24 34 (11.76%) Algorithms

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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (10.38%) ArcGIS
1 30 (10.38%) GeoServer
2 24 (8.30%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.42%) Captiva
3 7 (2.42%) FileNet
3 7 (2.42%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.04%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 84 (29.07%) AWS
2 62 (21.45%) Azure
3 52 (17.99%) GCP
4 51 (17.65%) SaaS
5 26 (9.00%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.96%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (7.96%) Google Docs
6 23 (7.96%) Lucidchart
6 23 (7.96%) Miro
6 23 (7.96%) Slack
7 14 (4.84%) GitHub
8 10 (3.46%) Serverless
9 4 (1.38%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.04%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.38%) Network Security
2 8 (2.77%) Wireless
3 6 (2.08%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.04%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (10.38%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (10.38%) GIS
2 30 (10.38%) QGIS
3 24 (8.30%) Big Data
3 24 (8.30%) Hadoop
4 23 (7.96%) Redis
4 23 (7.96%) Scylla
5 12 (4.15%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.11%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.73%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.04%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.35%) DB2
10 1 (0.35%) Flink
10 1 (0.35%) HBase
10 1 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (5.54%) Git
1 16 (5.54%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (3.46%) JIRA
3 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.08%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (1.38%) Maven
5 4 (1.38%) Selenium
6 3 (1.04%) JDeveloper
6 3 (1.04%) webpack
7 2 (0.69%) Appium
7 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.35%) JUnit
8 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (22.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (17.30%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.49%) Finance
4 30 (10.38%) Banking
5 10 (3.46%) Legal
6 7 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.73%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.04%) Games
8 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (24.91%) React
2 63 (21.80%) .NET
3 44 (15.22%) CSS
4 39 (13.49%) .NET Core
5 36 (12.46%) Kafka
6 30 (10.38%) Leaflet
6 30 (10.38%) OpenLayers
6 30 (10.38%) PostGIS
7 23 (7.96%) GraphQL
8 19 (6.57%) AngularJS
9 17 (5.88%) ASP.NET
10 16 (5.54%) HTML
10 16 (5.54%) RESTful
10 16 (5.54%) WebGL
11 15 (5.19%) Spring
12 13 (4.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (4.50%) Spring Boot
13 12 (4.15%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (4.15%) Node.js
14 10 (3.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 23 (7.96%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.46%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.11%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.42%) DataPower
6 7 (2.42%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.35%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.76%) Linux
2 9 (3.11%) Mac OS
2 9 (3.11%) Windows
3 7 (2.42%) Unix
4 6 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 103 (35.64%) Agile
3 71 (24.57%) DevOps
4 65 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (15.22%) Computer Science
6 38 (13.15%) Data Science
7 36 (12.46%) Actionable Insight
8 34 (11.76%) Microservices
9 33 (11.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 33 (11.42%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (11.42%) Threat Intelligence
10 32 (11.07%) Computer Security
11 30 (10.38%) Mentoring
11 30 (10.38%) Web Development
12 28 (9.69%) TDD
13 27 (9.34%) High Availability
14 25 (8.65%) Mathematics
14 25 (8.65%) Test Automation
14 25 (8.65%) User Experience
15 23 (7.96%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 97 (33.56%) Java
1 97 (33.56%) Python
2 58 (20.07%) JavaScript
3 56 (19.38%) C
4 50 (17.30%) C#
5 40 (13.84%) C++
6 35 (12.11%) Bash
7 33 (11.42%) Go
8 29 (10.03%) SQL
9 28 (9.69%) TypeScript
10 24 (8.30%) Scala
11 17 (5.88%) Rust
12 16 (5.54%) GLSL
13 15 (5.19%) Embedded C
14 7 (2.42%) Haskell
15 4 (1.38%) Ruby
16 3 (1.04%) Perl
16 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.35%) COBOL
17 1 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 32 (11.07%) SC Cleared
1 32 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.69%) Degree
3 11 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.42%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.42%) GDPR
2 4 (1.38%) DICOM
2 4 (1.38%) HL7
2 4 (1.38%) ISO 13485
2 4 (1.38%) QA
System Software
1 18 (6.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.38%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Istio
4 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (11.42%) Dell
1 33 (11.42%) Google
2 30 (10.38%) ESRI
3 19 (6.57%) Oracle
4 18 (6.23%) IBM
5 7 (2.42%) Kofax
5 7 (2.42%) Pega
5 7 (2.42%) SAP
5 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.35%) CA
7 1 (0.35%) StreamSets