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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -30 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 30 171 2,367
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.11% 31.73% 62.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 33.66% 65.75%
Number of salaries quoted 23 28 111
10th Percentile £51,600 £52,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +24.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile - £84,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 694 508 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 71.92% 94.25% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 430 201 866
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,688 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £86,750 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%

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 6 June 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 (6.67%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (6.67%) WinCC
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Modbus
1 2 (6.67%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (3.33%) Aviation
2 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Control Systems Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
1 1 (3.33%) React
1 1 (3.33%) Spring
1 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Educational Technology
2 3 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (10.00%) SCADA
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (10.00%) Observability
2 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (6.67%) Agile
3 2 (6.67%) Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (6.67%) Code Quality
3 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (6.67%) Fintech
3 2 (6.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (6.67%) SDLC
3 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (6.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (3.33%) Project Management
4 1 (3.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (3.33%) Software Delivery
4 1 (3.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (3.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Java
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) IEC 61131
2 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Rockwell
1 2 (6.67%) Siemens
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle