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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 160 214 444
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 11.19% 28.01% 30.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.84% 30.88% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 110 20 87
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £63,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £74,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% +24.58% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £84,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - £91,250 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.35%

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 1,078 693 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.38% 90.71% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 679 281 537
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £84,850
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

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 27 September 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 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.25%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (1.25%) WinCC
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.00%) AWS
2 12 (7.50%) GCP
3 11 (6.88%) Azure
4 5 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (1.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (1.88%) GitHub
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (1.25%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.25%) Serverless
6 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.63%) Dagster
7 1 (0.63%) dbt
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.63%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) Modbus
1 2 (1.25%) Profibus
2 1 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.75%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.25%) Parquet
3 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.63%) Big Data
4 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (2.50%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.25%) IntelliJ
3 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) JUnit
3 2 (1.25%) Maven
3 2 (1.25%) Mockito
3 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 46 (28.75%) Finance
2 18 (11.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.13%) Financial Institution
4 12 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (7.50%) Law
5 9 (5.63%) Marketing
6 8 (5.00%) Games
7 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.75%) Banking
9 5 (3.13%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Aviation
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 124 (77.50%) Software Engineer
2 59 (36.88%) Lead
3 46 (28.75%) Lead Software Engineer
4 18 (11.25%) Senior
5 17 (10.63%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
6 12 (7.50%) Principal Software Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) Reliability Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Applications Manager
10 8 (5.00%) Release Manager
10 8 (5.00%) Software Manager
10 8 (5.00%) Software Release Manager
10 8 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.50%) React
2 8 (5.00%) Jakarta EE
2 8 (5.00%) JSP
2 8 (5.00%) Next.js
3 4 (2.50%) PySpark
3 4 (2.50%) Terraform
4 3 (1.88%) CrewAI
4 3 (1.88%) LangChain
4 3 (1.88%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.88%) Ray
4 3 (1.88%) RESTful
4 3 (1.88%) vLLM
5 2 (1.25%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.25%) CSS
5 2 (1.25%) HTML5
5 2 (1.25%) JSON
5 2 (1.25%) Spring
5 2 (1.25%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (1.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.63%) Educational Technology
3 8 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.88%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.88%) SCADA
8 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.25%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.25%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.63%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.63%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.13%) Agile
2 23 (14.38%) AI
2 23 (14.38%) CI/CD
3 20 (12.50%) SDLC
4 19 (11.88%) Code Quality
5 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (10.00%) Analytics
6 16 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (9.38%) Data Engineering
7 15 (9.38%) DevOps
7 15 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (9.38%) KYC
8 14 (8.75%) Mentoring
9 13 (8.13%) LLM
9 13 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (6.88%) Observability
11 10 (6.25%) Fintech
11 10 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (6.25%) Test Automation
12 9 (5.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.75%) Java
2 18 (11.25%) Python
3 14 (8.75%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.13%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.63%) C++
6 5 (3.13%) SQL
7 3 (1.88%) Go
8 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (4.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.13%) Degree
3 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.25%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
1 1 (0.63%) GPFS
1 1 (0.63%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Grafana
3 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.38%) Databricks
2 3 (1.88%) NVIDIA
3 2 (1.25%) Rockwell
3 2 (1.25%) Siemens
4 1 (0.63%) Brocade
4 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.63%) EMC
4 1 (0.63%) Google
4 1 (0.63%) IBM
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.63%) NetApp
4 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle
4 1 (0.63%) Splunk
4 1 (0.63%) Veritas