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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 5
Rank change year-on-year -22 -13 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 14 62 734
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 2.04% 9.00% 51.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 9.66% 53.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9 42 63
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% +14.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £110,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £88,000 - £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -0.33%

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 514 642 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.82% 93.18% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 318 284 507
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,125 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,700
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,014
% change year-on-year -23.64% +5.74% -9.54%

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 18 January 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 1 (7.14%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Avionics
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Control Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) React
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
3 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) Vue
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.14%) Blazor
5 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) OOP
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (21.43%) Web Development
5 2 (14.29%) AI
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Multithreading
6 1 (7.14%) Pair Programming
6 1 (7.14%) Software Architecture
6 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Ada
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) Ruby
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) IEC 61131
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) Rockwell
1 1 (7.14%) Siemens