Software Engineering Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 1 14
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 -10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 52 313 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.74% 24.65% 14.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 28.51% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 38 213 131
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £50,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,500 £100,000 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £58,250
% change year-on-year +2.08% +3.00% -2.92%

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 713 1,098 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.48% 86.46% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 299 588 852
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +0.80% +0.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £95,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 September 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 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) GCP
3 11 (21.15%) Azure
4 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.69%) SaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (3.85%) Apigee
6 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Bluetooth
1 8 (15.38%) RS-232
1 8 (15.38%) Wireless
2 1 (1.92%) FTP
2 1 (1.92%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Big Data
2 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.92%) DB2
3 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.85%) JUnit
3 2 (3.85%) Maven
3 2 (3.85%) Postman
3 2 (3.85%) SoapUI
3 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.92%) GitLab
4 1 (1.92%) Xcode
4 1 (1.92%) XCTest
4 1 (1.92%) XCUITest
General
1 11 (21.15%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Electronics
3 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Tech for Good
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Games
6 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 18 (34.62%) Senior
2 18 (34.62%) Senior Software Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Developer
5 3 (5.77%) C++ Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (5.77%) Head of Software Engineering
5 3 (5.77%) Lead
6 2 (3.85%) Development Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Head of Payments
6 2 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Test Development Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Data Scientist
7 1 (1.92%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Senior Development Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) Kafka
1 10 (19.23%) React
1 10 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 7 (13.46%) Spring
3 5 (9.62%) .NET
4 3 (5.77%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.77%) RESTful
5 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (3.85%) CSS
5 2 (3.85%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.85%) HTML
5 2 (3.85%) Playwright
6 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.92%) JSON
6 1 (1.92%) LangChain
6 1 (1.92%) Middleware
6 1 (1.92%) Pandas
6 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.92%) AS400
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.92%) iSeries
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Agile
2 17 (32.69%) DevOps
3 13 (25.00%) Microservices
4 10 (19.23%) TDD
4 10 (19.23%) Test Automation
5 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
7 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.62%) Prototyping
9 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (7.69%) Coaching
9 4 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (7.69%) Unit Testing
10 3 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (5.77%) High Availability
10 3 (5.77%) Software Architecture
10 3 (5.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) Java
2 11 (21.15%) C++
3 10 (19.23%) C
3 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.38%) Python
4 8 (15.38%) SQL
5 4 (7.69%) Go
6 3 (5.77%) C#
6 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
7 1 (1.92%) RPG
7 1 (1.92%) RPG IV
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.85%) SEPA
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) ECSS
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
2 8 (15.38%) Firmware
3 2 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Istio
4 1 (1.92%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) IBM
2 2 (3.85%) Avaloq
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Splunk
3 1 (1.92%) Workday