Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £64,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
22 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 66 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 -24 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 16 18 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.94% 1.86% 4.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 1.92% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 30
10th Percentile - £48,600 -
25th Percentile £63,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £55,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -9.47% -2.80%
75th Percentile £65,750 - £65,000
90th Percentile - £60,250 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% +5.69% -5.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 764 938 641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 97.10% 97.86%
Number of salaries quoted 382 518 492
10th Percentile £29,275 £29,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% -9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, Senior 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 Glasgow region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) AWS
3 10 (62.50%) SDLC
4 9 (56.25%) Java
5 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
5 7 (43.75%) Operational Stability
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (43.75%) Terraform
6 6 (37.50%) Azure
6 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (37.50%) GitHub
6 6 (37.50%) Kafka
6 6 (37.50%) Microservices
6 6 (37.50%) RESTful
7 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
7 4 (25.00%) Python
7 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
8 3 (18.75%) .NET
8 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
8 3 (18.75%) Analytics
8 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
8 3 (18.75%) Apache
8 3 (18.75%) Apache Hudi

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Hudi
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (18.75%) Big Data
1 3 (18.75%) Parquet
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
1 13 (81.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 13 (81.25%) Law
2 12 (75.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Private Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) Blazor
2 3 (18.75%) OAuth
2 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
2 3 (18.75%) OpenID
2 3 (18.75%) React
2 3 (18.75%) SAML
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (18.75%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) SDLC
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) Operational Stability
4 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (37.50%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
7 3 (18.75%) Analytics
7 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Information Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Investment Management
7 3 (18.75%) Parallel Processing
7 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
1 3 (18.75%) Facebook
1 3 (18.75%) Google
10 Senior Software Engineer jobs in Glasgow