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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 215 941 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 29.09% 47.26% 10.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 32.14% 51.65% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 19 88 68
10th Percentile £62,850 £24,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,500 £41,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £84,250 £77,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +0.80% -0.79%

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 669 1,822 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.53% 91.51% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 263 561 591
10th Percentile £29,550 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
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 25 (11.63%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.05%) Apache
3 8 (3.72%) Camunda
3 8 (3.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.86%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.86%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 89 (41.40%) AWS
2 33 (15.35%) Azure
3 20 (9.30%) GitHub
4 15 (6.98%) Amazon S3
4 15 (6.98%) GCP
5 11 (5.12%) Serverless
6 10 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.26%) npm
8 7 (3.26%) Yarn
9 6 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.33%) ChatGPT
10 5 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.86%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.56%) NoSQL
2 25 (11.63%) Big Data
3 17 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (7.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 16 (7.44%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.58%) KDB
5 12 (5.58%) Kdb+
6 10 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.19%) Apache Hive
7 9 (4.19%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (4.19%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.72%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.72%) RDBMS
9 7 (3.26%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.33%) HBase
11 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (8.84%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.44%) JUnit
3 15 (6.98%) Git
3 15 (6.98%) Maven
4 8 (3.72%) webpack
5 7 (3.26%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.26%) Vite
6 6 (2.79%) JIRA
7 5 (2.33%) Gradle
8 4 (1.86%) Subversion
9 2 (0.93%) GitLab
9 2 (0.93%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.47%) Protractor
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 189 (87.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 188 (87.44%) Finance
3 186 (86.51%) Law
4 102 (47.44%) Banking
5 77 (35.81%) Marketing
6 30 (13.95%) Social Skills
7 21 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (8.37%) Legal
9 16 (7.44%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.72%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.86%) Front Office
11 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 199 (92.56%) Software Engineer
2 101 (46.98%) Java Engineer
3 100 (46.51%) Java Software Engineer
4 59 (27.44%) Lead
5 57 (26.51%) Lead Software Engineer
6 53 (24.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 52 (24.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 32 (14.88%) Python Engineer
8 32 (14.88%) Python Software Engineer
9 25 (11.63%) Senior
10 24 (11.16%) Lead Java Engineer
10 24 (11.16%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (8.84%) AWS Software Engineer
12 18 (8.37%) Developer
13 17 (7.91%) Java Developer
14 14 (6.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 14 (6.51%) Software Developer
15 13 (6.05%) Java Software Developer
16 12 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (44.65%) Spring
2 75 (34.88%) React
3 59 (27.44%) Kafka
4 51 (23.72%) Spring Boot
5 39 (18.14%) AngularJS
6 31 (14.42%) RESTful
7 28 (13.02%) REST
8 15 (6.98%) .NET
8 15 (6.98%) HTML
9 14 (6.51%) CSS
9 14 (6.51%) PySpark
10 13 (6.05%) Hibernate
10 13 (6.05%) Web Services
11 10 (4.65%) JPA
12 9 (4.19%) .NET Core
12 9 (4.19%) Blazor
12 9 (4.19%) JDBC
12 9 (4.19%) Pandas
13 8 (3.72%) OpenAPI
13 8 (3.72%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 76 (35.35%) Algorithms
2 55 (25.58%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.58%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.12%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.72%) Derivative
6 8 (3.72%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.86%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.86%) Equities
8 4 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.79%) Unix
2 4 (1.86%) Linux
2 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.86%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (86.98%) Agile
2 160 (74.42%) SDLC
3 156 (72.56%) Operational Stability
4 153 (71.16%) CI/CD
5 113 (52.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 108 (50.23%) Machine Learning
7 106 (49.30%) Community of Practice
8 79 (36.74%) Visualisation
9 68 (31.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (29.77%) Full-Stack Development
11 52 (24.19%) Decision-Making
12 50 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (14.88%) Architectural Design
13 32 (14.88%) Information Architecture
14 26 (12.09%) Microservices
15 25 (11.63%) Risk Management
16 22 (10.23%) Computer Science
17 21 (9.77%) Continuous Delivery
17 21 (9.77%) TDD
18 20 (9.30%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 149 (69.30%) Java
2 69 (32.09%) SQL
3 61 (28.37%) Python
4 31 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.56%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.77%) C#
7 8 (3.72%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.79%) Go
9 5 (2.33%) C
9 5 (2.33%) C++
10 4 (1.86%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.86%) Scala
10 4 (1.86%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Swift
12 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (4.19%) Degree
2 7 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.47%) HNC
4 1 (0.47%) HND
4 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.93%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 23 (10.70%) Docker
2 5 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (27.44%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.70%) Terraform
3 16 (7.44%) Grafana
4 5 (2.33%) Ansible
5 4 (1.86%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.86%) Netcool
5 4 (1.86%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.86%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (20.47%) Oracle
2 24 (11.16%) Splunk
3 19 (8.84%) Dynatrace
4 14 (6.51%) Databricks
5 8 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.79%) Facebook
6 6 (2.79%) Google
7 5 (2.33%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.33%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.86%) IBM
8 4 (1.86%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.40%) Murex
10 2 (0.93%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.93%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.47%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.47%) Siemens
11 1 (0.47%) Solace
11 1 (0.47%) Sybase