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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 34 223 2,153
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.37% 36.08% 59.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 38.18% 63.10%
Number of salaries quoted 25 29 130
10th Percentile £51,825 £52,500 £34,800
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +24.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile - £84,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 731 584 3,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 72.45% 94.50% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 451 215 910
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £40,808
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,750 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -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 20 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 (5.88%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (5.88%) WinCC
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) AWS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure
2 1 (2.94%) GCP
2 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Modbus
1 2 (5.88%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) JUnit
1 1 (2.94%) Maven
1 1 (2.94%) Mockito
1 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Aviation
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Front Office
3 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (70.59%) Software Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Control Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.94%) Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Site Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) React
2 2 (5.88%) J2EE
2 2 (5.88%) JSP
2 2 (5.88%) Next.js
2 2 (5.88%) Spring
2 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Educational Technology
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (8.82%) SCADA
4 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) Agile
1 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
1 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (14.71%) SDLC
2 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
3 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (8.82%) DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) Observability
3 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
4 2 (5.88%) Analytics
4 2 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (5.88%) Fintech
4 2 (5.88%) Incident Response
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (5.88%) Test Automation
4 2 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Java
2 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.82%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) IEC 61131
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Rockwell
1 2 (5.88%) Siemens
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle