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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 158 99 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 19.08% 10.65% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.77% 12.15% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 16 72 52
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,812 £41,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +0.82% +6.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £67,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.93%

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 694 815 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.82% 87.63% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 346 424 466
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -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 27 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 18 (11.39%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.70%) Apache
3 6 (3.80%) Camunda
3 6 (3.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.90%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.63%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 65 (41.14%) AWS
2 25 (15.82%) Azure
3 16 (10.13%) GitHub
4 10 (6.33%) Amazon S3
4 10 (6.33%) GCP
5 8 (5.06%) Serverless
6 7 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.16%) npm
8 5 (3.16%) Yarn
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.53%) Azure AI
9 4 (2.53%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.03%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.39%) Big Data
3 12 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (7.59%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.70%) KDB
5 9 (5.70%) Kdb+
6 7 (4.43%) Apache Hive
7 6 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.80%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (3.80%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.80%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.53%) HBase
10 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.90%) Impala
Development Applications
1 14 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.96%) Git
2 11 (6.96%) Maven
3 10 (6.33%) JUnit
4 6 (3.80%) webpack
5 5 (3.16%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.16%) JIRA
5 5 (3.16%) Vite
6 4 (2.53%) Gradle
7 3 (1.90%) Subversion
8 1 (0.63%) Ant
8 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.63%) Protractor
8 1 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (88.61%) Finance
2 138 (87.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 138 (87.34%) Law
3 75 (47.47%) Banking
4 58 (36.71%) Marketing
5 23 (14.56%) Social Skills
6 16 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.23%) Legal
8 12 (7.59%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.80%) Private Banking
10 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.90%) Front Office
11 3 (1.90%) Publishing
12 1 (0.63%) Avionics
12 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (93.67%) Software Engineer
2 79 (50.00%) Java Engineer
3 78 (49.37%) Java Software Engineer
4 46 (29.11%) Lead
5 43 (27.22%) Lead Software Engineer
6 42 (26.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 41 (25.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 24 (15.19%) Python Engineer
8 24 (15.19%) Python Software Engineer
9 18 (11.39%) Lead Java Engineer
10 15 (9.49%) Senior
10 15 (9.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (8.86%) AWS Software Engineer
12 13 (8.23%) Developer
13 12 (7.59%) Java Developer
14 10 (6.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 10 (6.33%) Java Software Developer
14 10 (6.33%) Software Developer
15 9 (5.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (45.57%) Spring
2 56 (35.44%) React
3 42 (26.58%) Kafka
4 38 (24.05%) Spring Boot
5 31 (19.62%) AngularJS
6 25 (15.82%) RESTful
7 20 (12.66%) REST
8 13 (8.23%) .NET
9 11 (6.96%) PySpark
10 10 (6.33%) Hibernate
10 10 (6.33%) Web Services
11 9 (5.70%) HTML
12 8 (5.06%) Blazor
13 7 (4.43%) .NET Core
13 7 (4.43%) CSS
13 7 (4.43%) JPA
13 7 (4.43%) Pandas
14 6 (3.80%) JDBC
14 6 (3.80%) Swagger
14 6 (3.80%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (33.54%) Algorithms
2 40 (25.32%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.06%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.06%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.80%) Derivative
5 6 (3.80%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.90%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.90%) Equities
7 3 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.53%) Unix
2 3 (1.90%) Linux
2 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.90%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (86.71%) Agile
2 117 (74.05%) SDLC
3 113 (71.52%) CI/CD
3 113 (71.52%) Operational Stability
4 84 (53.16%) AI
5 80 (50.63%) Machine Learning
6 76 (48.10%) Community of Practice
7 56 (35.44%) Visualisation
8 48 (30.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (29.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (24.68%) Decision-Making
11 38 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (15.19%) Architectural Design
12 24 (15.19%) Information Architecture
13 19 (12.03%) Risk Management
14 17 (10.76%) Microservices
15 15 (9.49%) Analytics
15 15 (9.49%) Computer Science
15 15 (9.49%) DevOps
15 15 (9.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 108 (68.35%) Java
2 52 (32.91%) SQL
3 45 (28.48%) Python
4 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
4 19 (12.03%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.13%) C#
6 6 (3.80%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.16%) Go
8 4 (2.53%) Scala
9 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.63%) Ada
10 1 (0.63%) Bicep
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
10 1 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (4.43%) Degree
2 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.63%) IEC 61131
2 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 17 (10.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (27.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.13%) Terraform
3 10 (6.33%) Grafana
4 3 (1.90%) Ansible
4 3 (1.90%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.90%) Netcool
4 3 (1.90%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.90%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (20.25%) Oracle
2 16 (10.13%) Splunk
3 13 (8.23%) Dynatrace
4 10 (6.33%) Databricks
5 6 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.16%) Facebook
6 5 (3.16%) Google
7 4 (2.53%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.53%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.90%) IBM
8 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.27%) Murex
10 1 (0.63%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.63%) Siemens