Software Engineer Job Trends in Galashiels

Software Engineer
Scottish Borders > Galashiels

The median Software Engineer salary in Galashiels is £39,594 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Galashiels 100.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 - -
75th Percentile £40,919 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scottish Borders median annual salary £39,594 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Galashiels

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Galashiels. 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 Galashiels with a recognized job title 1 0 1
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 - -
75th Percentile £40,919 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scottish Borders median annual salary £40,000 £28,250 £34,000
% change year-on-year +41.59% -16.91% -47.69%

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Galashiels

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Galashiels region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Galashiels by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy