Software Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 1 8
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 114 368 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.00% 23.56% 17.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% 27.32% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 78 278 195
10th Percentile £25,313 £43,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £50,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £89,063 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £102,625 £100,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.28% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 836 1,347 1,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.32% 86.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 376 924 979
10th Percentile £26,590 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,951 £46,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% +3.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,001 £91,121 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
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 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.75%) Confluence
1 2 (1.75%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.88%) CICS
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.56%) GCP
2 26 (22.81%) AWS
3 18 (15.79%) Azure
4 11 (9.65%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.39%) SaaS
6 4 (3.51%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (3.51%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.75%) Apigee
7 2 (1.75%) Datadog
7 2 (1.75%) GitHub
7 2 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) npm
8 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.75%) FTP
3 1 (0.88%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.88%) RS-232
3 1 (0.88%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.51%) Big Data
2 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.63%) DB2
3 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) Git
3 4 (3.51%) JIRA
3 4 (3.51%) webpack
4 3 (2.63%) Xcode
4 3 (2.63%) XCTest
4 3 (2.63%) XCUITest
5 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.75%) GitLab
5 2 (1.75%) JUnit
5 2 (1.75%) Maven
5 2 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.75%) Postman
5 2 (1.75%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (45.61%) Finance
2 43 (37.72%) Banking
3 15 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Electronics
4 6 (5.26%) Tech for Good
5 5 (4.39%) Games
6 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (53.51%) Software Engineer
2 27 (23.68%) Senior
3 26 (22.81%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (7.02%) Developer
4 8 (7.02%) Head of Engineering
5 7 (6.14%) Architect
5 7 (6.14%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (6.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (6.14%) Lead
5 7 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Junior
6 5 (4.39%) Junior Embedded Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Junior Software Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 4 (3.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (3.51%) Head of Software Engineering
7 4 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.51%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (2.63%) C++ Developer
9 2 (1.75%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.67%) React
2 13 (11.40%) Kafka
2 13 (11.40%) Spring Boot
3 12 (10.53%) Software Packaging
4 10 (8.77%) Spring
5 7 (6.14%) .NET
6 5 (4.39%) Jest
6 5 (4.39%) RESTful
7 4 (3.51%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.51%) Enzyme
7 4 (3.51%) React Native
7 4 (3.51%) Redux
8 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.63%) J2EE
8 3 (2.63%) Node.js
8 3 (2.63%) REST
9 2 (1.75%) CSS
9 2 (1.75%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.75%) Java EE
9 2 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Private Cloud
2 8 (7.02%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (7.02%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.63%) Wiki
6 2 (1.75%) AS400
6 2 (1.75%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) iSeries
6 2 (1.75%) Life Science
6 2 (1.75%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.75%) Replication
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.89%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Unix
3 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (46.49%) Agile
2 29 (25.44%) DevOps
3 26 (22.81%) Test Automation
4 23 (20.18%) Microservices
5 21 (18.42%) Mentoring
6 20 (17.54%) Roadmaps
6 20 (17.54%) TDD
7 18 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 18 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.04%) Coaching
8 16 (14.04%) Customer Experience
8 16 (14.04%) Line Management
8 16 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (12.28%) Fintech
9 14 (12.28%) Mathematics
10 12 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (9.65%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (8.77%) Data Architecture
12 10 (8.77%) Prototyping
12 10 (8.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.19%) Java
2 17 (14.91%) JavaScript
2 17 (14.91%) SQL
3 14 (12.28%) Python
4 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.02%) C
5 8 (7.02%) C++
6 7 (6.14%) C#
7 4 (3.51%) Go
8 3 (2.63%) Swift
9 2 (1.75%) RPG
9 2 (1.75%) RPG IV
9 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) COBOL
10 1 (0.88%) Groovy
10 1 (0.88%) JCL
10 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 16 (14.04%) Degree
2 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.63%) QA
1 3 (2.63%) SEPA
2 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) ECSS
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) NDS
Systems Management
1 25 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Terraform
3 3 (2.63%) Grafana
4 2 (1.75%) Istio
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.88%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.88%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Google
2 4 (3.51%) Adobe
2 4 (3.51%) IBM
2 4 (3.51%) Tealium
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.63%) Oracle
4 2 (1.75%) Avaloq
4 2 (1.75%) Splunk
5 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.88%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.88%) NetIQ
5 1 (0.88%) Okta
5 1 (0.88%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.88%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.88%) Workday