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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 19 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 290 253 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.31% 12.28% 10.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.12% 12.92% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 203 163 149
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,650
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,634 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +16.99% +21.71%
75th Percentile £91,934 £82,548 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,466 £78,024
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 1,441 1,958 2,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.94% 95.05% 98.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 1,162 1,467
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,775 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
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 £94,116 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £56,868 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.68% +8.32% +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 7 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 7 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.

1 290 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 101 (34.83%) Agile
3 97 (33.45%) Python
4 96 (33.10%) Java
5 84 (28.97%) AWS
6 71 (24.48%) React
7 69 (23.79%) DevOps
8 65 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (22.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 63 (21.72%) Azure
10 63 (21.72%) .NET
11 60 (20.69%) Linux
12 57 (19.66%) JavaScript
12 57 (19.66%) C
13 51 (17.59%) SaaS
13 51 (17.59%) GCP
14 50 (17.24%) C#
15 49 (16.90%) Social Skills
16 48 (16.55%) Kubernetes
17 44 (15.17%) CSS
17 44 (15.17%) Computer Science
18 41 (14.14%) C++
19 40 (13.79%) .NET Core
20 37 (12.76%) Data Science
20 37 (12.76%) Finance
21 36 (12.41%) Actionable Insight
21 36 (12.41%) Kafka
22 35 (12.07%) Bash
23 34 (11.72%) Algorithms
24 33 (11.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence

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 (10.34%) ArcGIS
1 30 (10.34%) GeoServer
2 24 (8.28%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.41%) Captiva
3 7 (2.41%) FileNet
3 7 (2.41%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.03%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 84 (28.97%) AWS
2 63 (21.72%) Azure
3 51 (17.59%) GCP
3 51 (17.59%) SaaS
4 26 (8.97%) Amazon S3
5 23 (7.93%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (7.93%) Google Docs
5 23 (7.93%) Lucidchart
5 23 (7.93%) Miro
5 23 (7.93%) Slack
6 14 (4.83%) GitHub
7 10 (3.45%) Serverless
8 4 (1.38%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.03%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.69%) Network Security
2 8 (2.76%) Wireless
3 6 (2.07%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (10.34%) GIS
2 30 (10.34%) QGIS
3 24 (8.28%) Big Data
3 24 (8.28%) Hadoop
4 23 (7.93%) Redis
4 23 (7.93%) Scylla
5 12 (4.14%) Oracle Database
6 10 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Accumulo
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.34%) DB2
10 1 (0.34%) Flink
10 1 (0.34%) HBase
Development Applications
1 16 (5.52%) Oracle Forms
2 15 (5.17%) Git
3 10 (3.45%) JIRA
4 7 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.07%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.38%) Maven
6 4 (1.38%) Selenium
7 3 (1.03%) JDeveloper
7 3 (1.03%) webpack
8 2 (0.69%) Appium
8 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 64 (22.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.76%) Finance
4 28 (9.66%) Banking
5 10 (3.45%) Legal
6 7 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.07%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.03%) Games
9 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.69%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (24.48%) React
2 63 (21.72%) .NET
3 44 (15.17%) CSS
4 40 (13.79%) .NET Core
5 36 (12.41%) Kafka
6 30 (10.34%) Leaflet
6 30 (10.34%) OpenLayers
6 30 (10.34%) PostGIS
7 23 (7.93%) GraphQL
8 20 (6.90%) AngularJS
9 16 (5.52%) ASP.NET
9 16 (5.52%) HTML
9 16 (5.52%) RESTful
9 16 (5.52%) WebGL
10 15 (5.17%) Spring
11 13 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (4.14%) Spring Boot
13 11 (3.79%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (3.79%) Node.js
14 10 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.72%) Algorithms
2 23 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.10%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.41%) DataPower
6 7 (2.41%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.69%) Linux
2 9 (3.10%) Mac OS
2 9 (3.10%) Windows
3 7 (2.41%) Unix
4 6 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 101 (34.83%) Agile
3 69 (23.79%) DevOps
4 65 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (15.17%) Computer Science
6 37 (12.76%) Data Science
7 36 (12.41%) Actionable Insight
8 33 (11.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 33 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (11.38%) Microservices
8 33 (11.38%) Threat Intelligence
9 32 (11.03%) Computer Security
10 30 (10.34%) Web Development
11 28 (9.66%) Mentoring
11 28 (9.66%) TDD
12 27 (9.31%) High Availability
13 25 (8.62%) Mathematics
13 25 (8.62%) Test Automation
13 25 (8.62%) User Experience
14 23 (7.93%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 97 (33.45%) Python
2 96 (33.10%) Java
3 57 (19.66%) C
3 57 (19.66%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.24%) C#
5 41 (14.14%) C++
6 35 (12.07%) Bash
7 33 (11.38%) Go
8 30 (10.34%) SQL
9 27 (9.31%) TypeScript
10 24 (8.28%) Scala
11 17 (5.86%) Rust
12 16 (5.52%) GLSL
13 15 (5.17%) Embedded C
14 7 (2.41%) Haskell
15 4 (1.38%) Ruby
16 3 (1.03%) Perl
16 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.34%) COBOL
17 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 32 (11.03%) SC Cleared
1 32 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.66%) Degree
3 11 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.41%) 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 (6.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.03%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Istio
4 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (11.38%) Dell
2 32 (11.03%) Google
3 30 (10.34%) ESRI
4 19 (6.55%) Oracle
5 18 (6.21%) IBM
6 7 (2.41%) Kofax
6 7 (2.41%) Pega
6 7 (2.41%) SAP
6 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.34%) CA
8 1 (0.34%) StreamSets