Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £61,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 72 42
Rank change year-on-year +65 -30 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,091 58 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 52.48% 3.69% 6.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 53.53% 4.29% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 55 33 33
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £43,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £73,500 £85,000
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
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,906 1,352 1,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.04% 86.06% 97.89%
Number of salaries quoted 845 680 892
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,550 £28,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +3.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,450 £76,375 £72,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 4 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 Glasgow region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,091 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2,019 (96.56%) Agile
3 1,994 (95.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,982 (94.79%) Finance
4 1,982 (94.79%) Law
5 1,853 (88.62%) SDLC
6 1,777 (84.98%) Operational Stability
7 1,733 (82.88%) CI/CD
8 1,454 (69.54%) Java
9 1,304 (62.36%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,285 (61.45%) Machine Learning
11 1,260 (60.26%) Community of Practice
12 1,049 (50.17%) AWS
13 922 (44.09%) SQL
14 913 (43.66%) Marketing
15 805 (38.50%) Python
16 799 (38.21%) Visualisation
17 788 (37.69%) Continuous Improvement
18 775 (37.06%) Algorithms
19 689 (32.95%) Risk Management
20 655 (31.32%) Legal
21 618 (29.56%) Cloud Native
22 587 (28.07%) Spring
23 555 (26.54%) NoSQL
24 507 (24.25%) Apache Spark
25 505 (24.15%) React
26 427 (20.42%) Decision-Making
27 424 (20.28%) Microservices
28 419 (20.04%) Big Data
29 397 (18.99%) Architectural Design

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 507 (24.25%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (5.07%) Apache
4 98 (4.69%) FileNet
5 32 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 30 (1.43%) ArcGIS
6 30 (1.43%) GeoServer
7 21 (1.00%) GemFire
8 20 (0.96%) Camunda
9 11 (0.53%) CICS
10 10 (0.48%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.096%) Confluence
13 2 (0.096%) JBoss
13 2 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.048%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (50.17%) AWS
2 136 (6.50%) Azure
3 102 (4.88%) Datadog
4 98 (4.69%) Amazon S3
5 97 (4.64%) GCP
6 70 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (2.82%) Serverless
8 56 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 54 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
10 51 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
10 51 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (2.15%) GitHub
12 42 (2.01%) BlazeMeter
12 42 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (1.20%) Google Play
14 7 (0.33%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (0.33%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (0.29%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.92%) Kerberos
2 14 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 13 (0.62%) Modbus
4 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 555 (26.54%) NoSQL
2 419 (20.04%) Big Data
3 233 (11.14%) Hadoop
4 152 (7.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 147 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
6 131 (6.26%) Apache Hive
7 108 (5.16%) Relational Database
8 102 (4.88%) HBase
9 89 (4.26%) MongoDB
10 65 (3.11%) Metadata
11 51 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 44 (2.10%) Data Lake
13 39 (1.87%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.82%) CockroachDB
15 35 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (1.43%) GIS
16 30 (1.43%) QGIS
17 28 (1.34%) MySQL
18 21 (1.00%) Hazelcast
19 20 (0.96%) Looker
Development Applications
1 246 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 204 (9.76%) JUnit
3 181 (8.66%) Git
4 112 (5.36%) Jasmine
5 86 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 84 (4.02%) Cypress.io
7 70 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 66 (3.16%) Artifactory
8 66 (3.16%) Karma Test Runner
9 63 (3.01%) Maven
10 60 (2.87%) Protractor
10 60 (2.87%) Selenium
10 60 (2.87%) WebDriver
11 45 (2.15%) Mockito
12 30 (1.43%) Gradle
12 30 (1.43%) JIRA
13 27 (1.29%) JMeter
14 25 (1.20%) Android Studio
14 25 (1.20%) Cucumber
15 21 (1.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1,994 (95.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,982 (94.79%) Finance
2 1,982 (94.79%) Law
3 913 (43.66%) Marketing
4 655 (31.32%) Legal
5 376 (17.98%) Banking
6 302 (14.44%) Investment Banking
7 136 (6.50%) Social Skills
8 128 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
9 74 (3.54%) Private Banking
10 60 (2.87%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.05%) Prime Brokerage
13 21 (1.00%) Games
14 18 (0.86%) Front Office
15 15 (0.72%) Publishing
16 9 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
17 5 (0.24%) Electronics
17 5 (0.24%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 587 (28.07%) Spring
2 505 (24.15%) React
3 377 (18.03%) AngularJS
4 334 (15.97%) Kafka
5 259 (12.39%) HTML
6 257 (12.29%) Spring Boot
7 252 (12.05%) CSS
8 248 (11.86%) J2EE
9 204 (9.76%) JSON
10 196 (9.37%) Hibernate
11 187 (8.94%) Node.js
12 174 (8.32%) PySpark
13 171 (8.18%) JMS
14 163 (7.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 145 (6.93%) jQuery
16 139 (6.65%) Web Services
17 137 (6.55%) RESTful
18 125 (5.98%) GraphQL
19 113 (5.40%) XML
20 100 (4.78%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 775 (37.06%) Algorithms
2 618 (29.56%) Cloud Native
3 240 (11.48%) Public Cloud
4 155 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 129 (6.17%) Reference Data
6 107 (5.12%) Management Information System
7 92 (4.40%) Data Structures
8 65 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 43 (2.06%) Legacy Code
10 30 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 27 (1.29%) Market Risk
11 27 (1.29%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.10%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.00%) Replication
14 20 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
16 11 (0.53%) Mainframe
16 11 (0.53%) VSAM
17 8 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.22%) Unix
2 105 (5.02%) Linux
3 25 (1.20%) Android
4 13 (0.62%) Windows
5 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,091 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2,019 (96.56%) Agile
3 1,853 (88.62%) SDLC
4 1,777 (84.98%) Operational Stability
5 1,733 (82.88%) CI/CD
6 1,304 (62.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,285 (61.45%) Machine Learning
8 1,260 (60.26%) Community of Practice
9 799 (38.21%) Visualisation
10 788 (37.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 689 (32.95%) Risk Management
12 427 (20.42%) Decision-Making
13 424 (20.28%) Microservices
14 397 (18.99%) Architectural Design
15 379 (18.13%) Information Architecture
16 363 (17.36%) Full Stack Development
17 326 (15.59%) Continuous Delivery
18 284 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
19 232 (11.10%) Test Automation
20 211 (10.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,454 (69.54%) Java
2 922 (44.09%) SQL
3 805 (38.50%) Python
4 330 (15.78%) JavaScript
5 248 (11.86%) Scala
6 200 (9.56%) TypeScript
7 130 (6.22%) PL/SQL
8 86 (4.11%) Go
9 84 (4.02%) C#
10 65 (3.11%) Prolog
10 65 (3.11%) SPARQL
11 37 (1.77%) Groovy
12 28 (1.34%) C++
12 28 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 28 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.29%) Ruby
14 13 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.53%) COBOL
15 11 (0.53%) JCL
16 10 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (2.58%) Degree
2 41 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (1.63%) Security Cleared
4 32 (1.53%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 19 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.048%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.048%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (2.73%) Accessibility
2 43 (2.06%) SLA
3 34 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.96%) PMO
5 12 (0.57%) QA
6 6 (0.29%) WAI
7 1 (0.048%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.048%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 102 (4.88%) HDFS
2 65 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.72%) Docker
4 11 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
5 6 (0.29%) Firmware
6 4 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 300 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 242 (11.57%) Terraform
3 154 (7.36%) Grafana
4 64 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.00%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.00%) Kibana
6 21 (1.00%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.33%) Graphite
Vendors
1 334 (15.97%) Oracle
2 214 (10.23%) Databricks
3 164 (7.84%) Splunk
4 141 (6.74%) Dynatrace
5 87 (4.16%) Informatica
6 72 (3.44%) Cloudera
7 47 (2.25%) Google
8 39 (1.87%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.43%) ESRI
10 20 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 20 (0.96%) Pega
11 18 (0.86%) SaltStack
12 9 (0.43%) Microsoft
12 9 (0.43%) TOWER Software
13 5 (0.24%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.24%) CA
13 5 (0.24%) Sybase
14 2 (0.096%) IBM
15 1 (0.048%) Coverity
15 1 (0.048%) Thales