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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 61 221 1,596
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 5.41% 30.48% 57.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 33.48% 61.34%
Number of salaries quoted 47 27 102
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +36.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% +7.50% -2.44%

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 843 660 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.80% 91.03% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 504 265 721
10th Percentile £28,650 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -

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 2 August 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 (3.28%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (3.28%) WinCC
2 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) AWS
2 3 (4.92%) Azure
2 3 (4.92%) GCP
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Modbus
1 2 (3.28%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Claude Code
1 2 (3.28%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) JUnit
2 1 (1.64%) Maven
2 1 (1.64%) Mockito
2 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (9.84%) Law
4 5 (8.20%) Marketing
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Front Office
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 46 (75.41%) Software Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) Lead
3 8 (13.11%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Technical Leader
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Senior
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Control Systems Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Principal Java Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Principal Software Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Reliability Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Lead Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) React
2 8 (13.11%) Jakarta EE
2 8 (13.11%) JSP
2 8 (13.11%) Next.js
3 2 (3.28%) CrewAI
3 2 (3.28%) LangChain
3 2 (3.28%) LangGraph
3 2 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.28%) Ray
3 2 (3.28%) RESTful
3 2 (3.28%) vLLM
4 1 (1.64%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) CSS3
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) Node.js
4 1 (1.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Educational Technology
2 12 (19.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.92%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.92%) SCADA
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) Agile
1 14 (22.95%) CI/CD
1 14 (22.95%) SDLC
2 13 (21.31%) Code Quality
3 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
5 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (14.75%) DevOps
5 9 (14.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (13.11%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (13.11%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (9.84%) AI
8 5 (8.20%) Observability
8 5 (8.20%) Operational Stability
8 5 (8.20%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.56%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (6.56%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (6.56%) Incident Response
9 4 (6.56%) Machine Learning
9 4 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) Java
2 11 (18.03%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.39%) TypeScript
4 8 (13.11%) C++
5 7 (11.48%) Python
6 2 (3.28%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) IEC 61131
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.28%) NVIDIA
1 2 (3.28%) Rockwell
1 2 (3.28%) Siemens
2 1 (1.64%) Databricks