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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 44 223 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 4.08% 31.54% 57.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 34.10% 61.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35 29 112
10th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +35.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile - £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -

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 800 654 2,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.21% 92.50% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 493 266 820
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £31,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,343 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% -7.92% -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 18 July 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 (4.55%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (4.55%) WinCC
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 1 (2.27%) Azure
2 1 (2.27%) GCP
2 1 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Modbus
1 2 (4.55%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) JUnit
1 1 (2.27%) Maven
1 1 (2.27%) Mockito
1 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Banking
3 2 (4.55%) Front Office
4 1 (2.27%) Aviation
4 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (70.45%) Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Lead
3 6 (13.64%) Technical Leader
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Control Systems Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) React
2 6 (13.64%) J2EE
2 6 (13.64%) JSP
2 6 (13.64%) Next.js
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) CSS
4 1 (2.27%) CSS3
4 1 (2.27%) HTML
4 1 (2.27%) HTML5
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) Spring
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (38.64%) Educational Technology
2 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (6.82%) SCADA
4 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Agile
2 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (20.45%) Code Quality
2 9 (20.45%) SDLC
3 7 (15.91%) DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.82%) Observability
7 3 (6.82%) Project Delivery
8 2 (4.55%) Analytics
8 2 (4.55%) Clean Code
8 2 (4.55%) Fintech
8 2 (4.55%) Incident Response
8 2 (4.55%) Roadmaps
8 2 (4.55%) Systems Engineering
8 2 (4.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Java
2 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (6.82%) Python
6 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) IEC 61131
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Rockwell
1 2 (4.55%) Siemens