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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 209 192 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 26.62% 17.84% 10.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.48% 20.49% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15 76 58
10th Percentile £63,250 £24,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £63,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £67,375
90th Percentile £86,200 £110,000 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.69% -1.67%

All Process and 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 709 937 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.32% 87.08% 97.05%
Number of salaries quoted 298 467 533
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,588 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £53,249
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.47% +1.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

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 20 October 2025.

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 25 (11.96%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.22%) Apache
3 8 (3.83%) Camunda
3 8 (3.83%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.91%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.91%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 87 (41.63%) AWS
2 31 (14.83%) Azure
3 19 (9.09%) GitHub
4 15 (7.18%) GCP
5 14 (6.70%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.26%) Serverless
7 10 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.35%) npm
9 7 (3.35%) Yarn
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.39%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.91%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.96%) Big Data
1 25 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.13%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (7.66%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.18%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.74%) KDB
5 12 (5.74%) Kdb+
6 9 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.31%) Apache Hive
6 9 (4.31%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.83%) Hadoop
7 8 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.83%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.35%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.87%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.39%) HBase
10 5 (2.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.18%) Maven
3 14 (6.70%) Git
3 14 (6.70%) JUnit
4 8 (3.83%) webpack
5 7 (3.35%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.35%) Vite
6 6 (2.87%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) Gradle
8 4 (1.91%) Subversion
9 2 (0.96%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Ant
10 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.48%) GitLab
10 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 190 (90.91%) Finance
2 187 (89.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 186 (89.00%) Law
4 103 (49.28%) Banking
5 77 (36.84%) Marketing
6 30 (14.35%) Social Skills
7 21 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (8.61%) Legal
9 16 (7.66%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.83%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.91%) Front Office
11 4 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 197 (94.26%) Software Engineer
2 102 (48.80%) Java Engineer
3 101 (48.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 59 (28.23%) Lead
5 57 (27.27%) Lead Software Engineer
6 53 (25.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 52 (24.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 32 (15.31%) Python Engineer
8 32 (15.31%) Python Software Engineer
9 24 (11.48%) Lead Java Engineer
10 21 (10.05%) Senior
10 21 (10.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
12 16 (7.66%) Developer
13 15 (7.18%) Java Developer
14 14 (6.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 14 (6.70%) Software Developer
15 13 (6.22%) Java Software Developer
16 11 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (45.45%) Spring
2 71 (33.97%) React
3 59 (28.23%) Kafka
4 52 (24.88%) Spring Boot
5 38 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 30 (14.35%) RESTful
7 26 (12.44%) REST
8 14 (6.70%) PySpark
9 13 (6.22%) .NET
9 13 (6.22%) Hibernate
9 13 (6.22%) HTML
9 13 (6.22%) Web Services
10 10 (4.78%) CSS
10 10 (4.78%) JPA
11 9 (4.31%) JDBC
11 9 (4.31%) Pandas
12 8 (3.83%) Blazor
12 8 (3.83%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (3.83%) Swagger
12 8 (3.83%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (34.93%) Algorithms
2 55 (26.32%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.74%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.26%) Reference Data
5 8 (3.83%) Derivative
5 8 (3.83%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.91%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.91%) Equities
7 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.39%) Unix
2 4 (1.91%) Linux
2 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.91%) Windows
3 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (88.04%) Agile
2 158 (75.60%) SDLC
3 154 (73.68%) Operational Stability
4 149 (71.29%) CI/CD
5 111 (53.11%) AI
6 106 (50.72%) Machine Learning
7 104 (49.76%) Community of Practice
8 77 (36.84%) Visualisation
9 66 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (29.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 52 (24.88%) Decision-Making
12 50 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (15.31%) Architectural Design
13 32 (15.31%) Information Architecture
14 25 (11.96%) Risk Management
15 21 (10.05%) Computer Science
15 21 (10.05%) TDD
16 20 (9.57%) Data Engineering
16 20 (9.57%) Microservices
17 19 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 146 (69.86%) Java
2 69 (33.01%) SQL
3 60 (28.71%) Python
4 27 (12.92%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.61%) C#
7 8 (3.83%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.87%) Go
9 5 (2.39%) Scala
10 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.44%) C
11 3 (1.44%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.96%) Swift
13 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (3.83%) Degree
2 7 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.48%) HNC
4 1 (0.48%) HND
4 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) QA
3 1 (0.48%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 21 (10.05%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (26.79%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.53%) Terraform
3 14 (6.70%) Grafana
4 4 (1.91%) Ansible
4 4 (1.91%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.91%) Netcool
4 4 (1.91%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (1.91%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.91%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.05%) Oracle
2 22 (10.53%) Splunk
3 17 (8.13%) Dynatrace
4 14 (6.70%) Databricks
5 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.87%) Facebook
6 6 (2.87%) Google
7 5 (2.39%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.39%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.91%) IBM
8 4 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.44%) Murex
10 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.48%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.48%) Siemens
10 1 (0.48%) Solace
10 1 (0.48%) Sybase