Software Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 29 10
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 61 52 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 8.09% 5.92% 18.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.79% 6.12% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,000 £46,875
25th Percentile £50,625 £40,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% +11.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,563 £65,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £68,750
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 694 850 740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 96.81% 98.14%
Number of salaries quoted 388 434 471
10th Percentile £29,175 £31,267 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £54,389 £51,514
% change year-on-year -17.26% +5.58% -6.34%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 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 Glasgow region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (83.61%) Agile
3 44 (72.13%) SDLC
4 43 (70.49%) CI/CD
5 41 (67.21%) Operational Stability
6 38 (62.30%) Java
7 35 (57.38%) AI
8 32 (52.46%) Machine Learning
9 29 (47.54%) Community of Practice
10 25 (40.98%) Spring
11 24 (39.34%) AWS
12 23 (37.70%) React
13 21 (34.43%) Visualisation
14 19 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
15 18 (29.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
16 17 (27.87%) Python
17 16 (26.23%) SQL
18 15 (24.59%) Kafka
19 14 (22.95%) AngularJS
19 14 (22.95%) Decision-Making
20 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
21 12 (19.67%) Azure
21 12 (19.67%) Spring Boot
22 10 (16.39%) Microservices
22 10 (16.39%) Oracle
22 10 (16.39%) RESTful
23 9 (14.75%) Architectural Design
23 9 (14.75%) Information Architecture
24 8 (13.11%) C#

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 7 (11.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.92%) Apache
3 2 (3.28%) Camunda
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) AWS
2 12 (19.67%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) GitHub
4 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.56%) GCP
5 4 (6.56%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.92%) Azure AI
6 3 (4.92%) ChatGPT
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.28%) npm
7 2 (3.28%) Yarn
8 1 (1.64%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Big Data
1 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.20%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.92%) Apache Hive
4 3 (4.92%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.92%) KDB
4 3 (4.92%) Kdb+
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.28%) HBase
5 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
1 5 (8.20%) Maven
2 4 (6.56%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) JUnit
3 3 (4.92%) webpack
4 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.28%) Gradle
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Vite
5 1 (1.64%) Ant
5 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.64%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.64%) Protractor
5 1 (1.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.64%) Subversion
5 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (85.25%) Finance
2 50 (81.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (81.97%) Law
3 27 (44.26%) Banking
4 22 (36.07%) Marketing
5 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
6 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.20%) Legal
8 4 (6.56%) Investment Banking
9 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.92%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.64%) Front Office
10 1 (1.64%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.98%) Spring
2 23 (37.70%) React
3 15 (24.59%) Kafka
4 14 (22.95%) AngularJS
5 12 (19.67%) Spring Boot
6 10 (16.39%) RESTful
7 7 (11.48%) .NET
7 7 (11.48%) REST
8 6 (9.84%) Blazor
9 5 (8.20%) .NET Core
9 5 (8.20%) PySpark
10 4 (6.56%) CSS
10 4 (6.56%) HTML
10 4 (6.56%) Web Services
11 3 (4.92%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.92%) JPA
11 3 (4.92%) Pandas
12 2 (3.28%) NumPy
12 2 (3.28%) OAuth
12 2 (3.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) Algorithms
2 15 (24.59%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Derivative
4 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Equities
5 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (83.61%) Agile
3 44 (72.13%) SDLC
4 43 (70.49%) CI/CD
5 41 (67.21%) Operational Stability
6 35 (57.38%) AI
7 32 (52.46%) Machine Learning
8 29 (47.54%) Community of Practice
9 21 (34.43%) Visualisation
10 19 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (29.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (22.95%) Decision-Making
13 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (16.39%) Microservices
15 9 (14.75%) Architectural Design
15 9 (14.75%) Information Architecture
16 8 (13.11%) DevOps
17 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
17 7 (11.48%) TDD
18 6 (9.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (62.30%) Java
2 17 (27.87%) Python
3 16 (26.23%) SQL
4 8 (13.11%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) Scala
7 1 (1.64%) Bicep
7 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
7 1 (1.64%) Swift
7 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.64%) Netcool
4 1 (1.64%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (1.64%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Oracle
2 5 (8.20%) Dynatrace
2 5 (8.20%) Splunk
3 4 (6.56%) Databricks
4 2 (3.28%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.28%) Facebook
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) Murex