Software Engineering Job Trends in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 72 220 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.00% 30.43% 56.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.98% 33.38% 60.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51 24 95
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,850 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +28.21% +1.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 902 659 2,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.17% 91.15% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 545 257 700
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,086 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
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 2 (2.78%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (2.78%) WinCC
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) AWS
2 6 (8.33%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) GCP
3 4 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.39%) GitHub
5 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Modbus
1 2 (2.78%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) Data Lake
1 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.39%) Big Data
3 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Claude Code
1 3 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) JUnit
2 1 (1.39%) Maven
2 1 (1.39%) Mockito
2 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (22.22%) Finance
2 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (16.67%) Law
4 9 (12.50%) Marketing
5 6 (8.33%) Banking
6 5 (6.94%) Front Office
7 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Aviation
8 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 55 (76.39%) Software Engineer
2 15 (20.83%) Lead
3 9 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 6 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Control Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Principal Java Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) React
2 8 (11.11%) Jakarta EE
2 8 (11.11%) JSP
2 8 (11.11%) Next.js
3 3 (4.17%) CrewAI
3 3 (4.17%) LangChain
3 3 (4.17%) LangGraph
3 3 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (4.17%) Ray
3 3 (4.17%) vLLM
4 2 (2.78%) Kafka
4 2 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (1.39%) CSS
5 1 (1.39%) CSS3
5 1 (1.39%) HTML
5 1 (1.39%) HTML5
5 1 (1.39%) Memcached
5 1 (1.39%) Node.js
5 1 (1.39%) Spring
5 1 (1.39%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Educational Technology
2 14 (19.44%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.33%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.17%) SCADA
6 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.39%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 17 (23.61%) Agile
2 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
2 17 (23.61%) SDLC
3 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (16.67%) AI
5 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
6 10 (13.89%) DevOps
7 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (12.50%) Operational Stability
7 9 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
8 8 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 7 (9.72%) Observability
9 7 (9.72%) Test Automation
10 6 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (6.94%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Java
2 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (16.67%) Python
3 11 (15.28%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) IEC 61131
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Grafana
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.17%) Databricks
1 3 (4.17%) NVIDIA
2 2 (2.78%) Rockwell
2 2 (2.78%) Siemens
3 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle
3 1 (1.39%) Splunk