Software Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 363 464 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.88% 22.02% 18.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.52% 22.92% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 258 292 308
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,129 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,540 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +14.69% +19.53%
75th Percentile £91,934 £84,056 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,369 2,024 2,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.07% 96.06% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,174 1,371
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,390 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £69,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

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 5 May 2024.

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 30 (8.26%) ArcGIS
1 30 (8.26%) GeoServer
2 24 (6.61%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.93%) Captiva
3 7 (1.93%) FileNet
3 7 (1.93%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.38%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) JBoss
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 109 (30.03%) AWS
2 80 (22.04%) Azure
3 61 (16.80%) GCP
4 58 (15.98%) SaaS
5 26 (7.16%) Amazon S3
6 23 (6.34%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (6.34%) Google Docs
6 23 (6.34%) Lucidchart
6 23 (6.34%) Miro
6 23 (6.34%) Slack
7 16 (4.41%) GitHub
8 10 (2.75%) Serverless
9 4 (1.10%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.83%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.55%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.26%) Network Security
2 20 (5.51%) Wireless
3 6 (1.65%) Bluetooth
3 6 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.83%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.26%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (8.26%) GIS
2 30 (8.26%) QGIS
3 24 (6.61%) Big Data
3 24 (6.61%) Hadoop
4 23 (6.34%) Redis
4 23 (6.34%) Scylla
5 12 (3.31%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.83%) MySQL
9 3 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.55%) Power BI
11 1 (0.28%) Flink
11 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (6.34%) Git
2 16 (4.41%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.86%) JIRA
4 8 (2.20%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.20%) Selenium
5 6 (1.65%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.10%) Maven
7 3 (0.83%) JDeveloper
7 3 (0.83%) JUnit
7 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.83%) webpack
8 2 (0.55%) Appium
8 2 (0.55%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.55%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.28%) GitLab
9 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.95%) Finance
4 35 (9.64%) Banking
5 10 (2.75%) Legal
6 7 (1.93%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.38%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.10%) Games
9 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.55%) Retail
10 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 290 (79.89%) Software Engineer
2 119 (32.78%) Senior
3 101 (27.82%) Senior Software Engineer
4 40 (11.02%) Principal Engineer
4 40 (11.02%) Principal Software Engineer
5 35 (9.64%) Embedded Engineer
6 23 (6.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 22 (6.06%) C Software Engineer
7 22 (6.06%) Java Engineer
7 22 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 22 (6.06%) Lead
8 17 (4.68%) C++ Software Engineer
8 17 (4.68%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) Developer
9 15 (4.13%) Senior C Software Engineer
10 14 (3.86%) .NET Software Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Database Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Research Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (24.24%) React
2 70 (19.28%) .NET
3 46 (12.67%) CSS
4 41 (11.29%) .NET Core
5 36 (9.92%) Kafka
6 30 (8.26%) Leaflet
6 30 (8.26%) OpenLayers
6 30 (8.26%) PostGIS
7 26 (7.16%) Node.js
8 23 (6.34%) GraphQL
9 22 (6.06%) AngularJS
10 19 (5.23%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.96%) HTML
11 18 (4.96%) RESTful
11 18 (4.96%) Spring
12 16 (4.41%) WebGL
13 15 (4.13%) Spring Boot
14 14 (3.86%) ASP.NET MVC
15 13 (3.58%) ASP.NET Web API
16 10 (2.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.64%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.34%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.93%) DataPower
8 7 (1.93%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.10%) IoT
11 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.55%) Online Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.28%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.80%) Linux
2 10 (2.75%) Windows
3 9 (2.48%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.93%) Unix
5 6 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (33.61%) Agile
2 93 (25.62%) DevOps
3 68 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (17.63%) Computer Science
5 43 (11.85%) Mentoring
6 42 (11.57%) Data Science
7 39 (10.74%) Actionable Insight
7 39 (10.74%) Test Automation
8 38 (10.47%) Microservices
9 37 (10.19%) Mathematics
10 33 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 33 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
11 32 (8.82%) Computer Security
11 32 (8.82%) Web Development
12 30 (8.26%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (8.26%) Physics
12 30 (8.26%) TDD
13 28 (7.71%) Coaching
13 28 (7.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 105 (28.93%) Java
1 105 (28.93%) Python
2 75 (20.66%) JavaScript
3 68 (18.73%) C
4 57 (15.70%) C#
5 42 (11.57%) TypeScript
6 40 (11.02%) C++
6 40 (11.02%) SQL
7 38 (10.47%) Bash
8 33 (9.09%) Go
9 27 (7.44%) Embedded C
10 24 (6.61%) Scala
11 17 (4.68%) Rust
12 16 (4.41%) GLSL
13 11 (3.03%) Ruby
14 7 (1.93%) Haskell
15 3 (0.83%) Perl
15 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (11.57%) Degree
2 32 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 32 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.93%) PhD
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.68%) QA
2 7 (1.93%) GDPR
3 4 (1.10%) DICOM
3 4 (1.10%) HL7
3 4 (1.10%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 23 (6.34%) Docker
2 14 (3.86%) Firmware
3 7 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.93%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) Istio
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (10.47%) Google
2 33 (9.09%) Dell
3 30 (8.26%) ESRI
4 19 (5.23%) Oracle
5 18 (4.96%) IBM
6 7 (1.93%) Kofax
6 7 (1.93%) Pega
6 7 (1.93%) SAP
6 7 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.28%) CA
9 1 (0.28%) StreamSets