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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 205 102 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 25.18% 10.45% 8.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.35% 12.14% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 77 50
10th Percentile £61,850 £24,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £63,250 £40,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £67,375
90th Percentile £86,000 £110,000 £78,875
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -2.37%

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 723 840 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.82% 86.07% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 316 454 490
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,195 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%

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 November 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 (12.20%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.34%) Apache
3 8 (3.90%) Camunda
3 8 (3.90%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.95%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.95%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.98%) AWS
2 28 (13.66%) Azure
3 19 (9.27%) GitHub
4 14 (6.83%) Amazon S3
5 12 (5.85%) GCP
6 11 (5.37%) Serverless
7 10 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.41%) npm
9 7 (3.41%) Yarn
10 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.44%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.95%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.20%) Big Data
1 25 (12.20%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.29%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (5.85%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.85%) KDB
5 12 (5.85%) Kdb+
6 9 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.39%) Apache Hive
6 9 (4.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.90%) Hadoop
7 8 (3.90%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.90%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.41%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.93%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.44%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (2.44%) HBase
Development Applications
1 18 (8.78%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.83%) Git
2 14 (6.83%) JUnit
2 14 (6.83%) Maven
3 8 (3.90%) webpack
4 7 (3.41%) Cypress.io
4 7 (3.41%) Vite
5 6 (2.93%) JIRA
6 5 (2.44%) Gradle
7 4 (1.95%) Subversion
8 1 (0.49%) Ant
8 1 (0.49%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.49%) Protractor
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 188 (91.71%) Finance
2 186 (90.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 186 (90.73%) Law
3 101 (49.27%) Banking
4 77 (37.56%) Marketing
5 30 (14.63%) Social Skills
6 21 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.78%) Legal
8 16 (7.80%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.90%) Private Banking
10 4 (1.95%) Front Office
10 4 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.95%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Avionics
11 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 194 (94.63%) Software Engineer
2 102 (49.76%) Java Engineer
3 101 (49.27%) Java Software Engineer
4 59 (28.78%) Lead
5 57 (27.80%) Lead Software Engineer
6 53 (25.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 52 (25.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 32 (15.61%) Python Engineer
8 32 (15.61%) Python Software Engineer
9 24 (11.71%) Lead Java Engineer
10 20 (9.76%) Senior
10 20 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (9.27%) AWS Software Engineer
12 16 (7.80%) Developer
13 15 (7.32%) Java Developer
14 14 (6.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 14 (6.83%) Software Developer
15 13 (6.34%) Java Software Developer
16 11 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (45.85%) Spring
2 69 (33.66%) React
3 58 (28.29%) Kafka
4 51 (24.88%) Spring Boot
5 37 (18.05%) AngularJS
6 30 (14.63%) RESTful
7 26 (12.68%) REST
8 14 (6.83%) PySpark
9 13 (6.34%) Web Services
10 12 (5.85%) .NET
10 12 (5.85%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.85%) HTML
11 9 (4.39%) CSS
11 9 (4.39%) JPA
11 9 (4.39%) Pandas
12 8 (3.90%) Blazor
12 8 (3.90%) JDBC
12 8 (3.90%) OpenAPI
12 8 (3.90%) Swagger
12 8 (3.90%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (35.61%) Algorithms
2 55 (26.83%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.85%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.37%) Reference Data
5 8 (3.90%) Derivative
5 8 (3.90%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.95%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.95%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.95%) Equities
7 4 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.44%) Unix
2 4 (1.95%) Linux
2 4 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.95%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (88.78%) Agile
2 157 (76.59%) SDLC
3 154 (75.12%) Operational Stability
4 148 (72.20%) CI/CD
5 111 (54.15%) AI
6 106 (51.71%) Machine Learning
7 104 (50.73%) Community of Practice
8 77 (37.56%) Visualisation
9 65 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (28.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 52 (25.37%) Decision-Making
12 50 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (15.61%) Architectural Design
13 32 (15.61%) Information Architecture
14 25 (12.20%) Risk Management
15 21 (10.24%) Computer Science
16 20 (9.76%) Data Engineering
16 20 (9.76%) TDD
17 19 (9.27%) Continuous Delivery
17 19 (9.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 143 (69.76%) Java
2 67 (32.68%) SQL
3 60 (29.27%) Python
4 25 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 18 (8.78%) C#
6 8 (3.90%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.93%) Go
8 5 (2.44%) Scala
9 4 (1.95%) C
9 4 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.46%) C++
11 2 (0.98%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.98%) Swift
12 1 (0.49%) Ada
12 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (3.90%) Degree
2 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.95%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.49%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) IEC 61131
2 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 20 (9.76%) Docker
2 5 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (26.34%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.73%) Terraform
3 14 (6.83%) Grafana
4 4 (1.95%) Ansible
4 4 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.95%) Netcool
4 4 (1.95%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (1.95%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.95%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 44 (21.46%) Oracle
2 22 (10.73%) Splunk
3 17 (8.29%) Dynatrace
4 14 (6.83%) Databricks
5 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.93%) Facebook
6 6 (2.93%) Google
7 5 (2.44%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.44%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.95%) IBM
8 4 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.46%) Murex
10 1 (0.49%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.49%) Siemens
10 1 (0.49%) Sybase