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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 167 362 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.17% 23.80% 22.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.66% 26.40% 23.18%
Number of salaries quoted 124 257 302
10th Percentile £33,350 £45,000 £44,033
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +9.58% -13.60% +16.72%
75th Percentile £91,132 £91,934 £84,056
90th Percentile £96,403 £100,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.28% -7.69% +8.33%

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 895 1,371 2,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.39% 90.14% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 424 962 1,195
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,732
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.06% +9.97%

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 4 May 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 4 (2.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) CICS
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 51 (30.54%) GCP
2 45 (26.95%) AWS
3 44 (26.35%) Azure
4 9 (5.39%) GitHub
5 8 (4.79%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.79%) SaaS
6 4 (2.40%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.40%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.20%) Apigee
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.20%) Datadog
8 2 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.20%) npm
8 2 (1.20%) Serverless
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.99%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.20%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.20%) FTP
2 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.20%) Wireless
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.60%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.60%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.59%) Big Data
3 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.59%) MySQL
3 6 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.80%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.80%) DB2
5 3 (1.80%) Metadata
6 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (11.38%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.38%) Git
3 8 (4.79%) webpack
4 6 (3.59%) JIRA
5 5 (2.99%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.80%) Xcode
6 3 (1.80%) XCTest
6 3 (1.80%) XCUITest
7 2 (1.20%) GitLab
7 2 (1.20%) JUnit
7 2 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) Selenium
7 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
General
1 84 (50.30%) Finance
2 73 (43.71%) Banking
3 29 (17.37%) Social Skills
4 13 (7.78%) Electronics
5 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.99%) Games
7 5 (2.99%) Legal
7 5 (2.99%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.20%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.20%) Wearables
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (58.08%) Software Engineer
2 50 (29.94%) Senior
3 40 (23.95%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (10.18%) Lead
5 14 (8.38%) Embedded Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Architect
6 10 (5.99%) Developer
6 10 (5.99%) Junior
6 10 (5.99%) Junior Embedded Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Junior Software Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 7 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (3.59%) Head of Engineering
8 6 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
8 6 (3.59%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.59%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (2.99%) Graduate
10 4 (2.40%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.96%) React
2 26 (15.57%) Spring
3 25 (14.97%) Spring Boot
4 18 (10.78%) CSS
4 18 (10.78%) HTML
5 15 (8.98%) Node.js
6 14 (8.38%) .NET
6 14 (8.38%) AngularJS
6 14 (8.38%) Kafka
7 12 (7.19%) RESTful
7 12 (7.19%) Software Packaging
8 9 (5.39%) Redux
9 8 (4.79%) .NET Core
9 8 (4.79%) REST
10 6 (3.59%) Jest
10 6 (3.59%) Laravel
10 6 (3.59%) OAuth
10 6 (3.59%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.99%) JWT
12 4 (2.40%) Enzyme
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.98%) Embedded Systems
3 11 (6.59%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.59%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.59%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.59%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.99%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.99%) Learning Management System
7 4 (2.40%) Wiki
8 3 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.20%) GNSS
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.20%) Life Science
9 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.20%) Smart City
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.78%) Linux
2 9 (5.39%) Unix
3 3 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (45.51%) Agile
2 59 (35.33%) DevOps
3 48 (28.74%) Microservices
4 40 (23.95%) Mentoring
5 35 (20.96%) CI/CD
5 35 (20.96%) Test Automation
6 34 (20.36%) TDD
7 33 (19.76%) Customer Experience
8 27 (16.17%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (14.97%) Roadmaps
10 24 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (12.57%) Coaching
11 21 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (11.98%) Fintech
13 19 (11.38%) Translating Business Requirements
14 18 (10.78%) Line Management
14 18 (10.78%) SDLC
15 17 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (9.58%) Mathematics
17 15 (8.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.73%) Java
2 44 (26.35%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.17%) TypeScript
4 26 (15.57%) SQL
5 23 (13.77%) Python
6 17 (10.18%) C#
7 14 (8.38%) C
8 8 (4.79%) Go
9 7 (4.19%) C++
9 7 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.59%) Bash
10 6 (3.59%) JCL
10 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.99%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.40%) PHP
13 3 (1.80%) Swift
14 2 (1.20%) Embedded C
14 2 (1.20%) Embedded C++
14 2 (1.20%) RPG
14 2 (1.20%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 26 (15.57%) Degree
2 10 (5.99%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.19%) PhD
4 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.80%) QA
3 2 (1.20%) IEC 62304
3 2 (1.20%) MISRA
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) ECSS
4 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (16.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
2 1 (0.60%) NDS
Systems Management
1 38 (22.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.79%) Terraform
3 5 (2.99%) CA Endevor
4 3 (1.80%) Grafana
5 2 (1.20%) Istio
6 1 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.60%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Google
2 9 (5.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.19%) IBM
4 4 (2.40%) Adobe
4 4 (2.40%) Oracle
4 4 (2.40%) Tealium
5 2 (1.20%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) Apple
6 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.60%) NetIQ
6 1 (0.60%) Okta
6 1 (0.60%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.60%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.60%) Workday
6 1 (0.60%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.60%) YouTube