Software Engineering Jobs in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 75 2,509 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.31% 62.96% 13.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.05% 65.12% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 61 99 83
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,801 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £61,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +11.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £74,750
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.28% -7.69% +8.33%

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 440 3,853 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.80% 96.69% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 251 820 665
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,875 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -1.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £77,550 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,732
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.06% +9.97%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.33%) Confluence
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (34.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.67%) AWS
2 12 (16.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.67%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) GitHub
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.67%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.67%) SaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Serverless
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 3 (4.00%) DB2
2 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) GitLab
2 2 (2.67%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) JUnit
2 2 (2.67%) LabVIEW
2 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.33%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) Maven
3 1 (1.33%) Selenium
3 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.33%) Vite
General
1 9 (12.00%) Finance
1 9 (12.00%) Games
2 4 (5.33%) Banking
3 3 (4.00%) Electronics
3 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Legal
5 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Software Engineer
1 26 (34.67%) Systems Engineer
2 17 (22.67%) Senior
3 14 (18.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) PHP Software Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Graduate
8 3 (4.00%) Lead
9 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) CSS
2 11 (14.67%) HTML
2 11 (14.67%) React
3 9 (12.00%) .NET
4 7 (9.33%) Spring
5 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.33%) Hibernate
6 4 (5.33%) LAMP
6 4 (5.33%) Laravel
6 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.00%) Kafka
7 3 (4.00%) RESTful
8 2 (2.67%) CSS3
8 2 (2.67%) HTML5
8 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.67%) OpenID
8 2 (2.67%) Redux
8 2 (2.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Educational Technology
3 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Life Science
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) PKI
4 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.33%) Android
3 1 (1.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Mathematics
2 26 (34.67%) Digital Twin
2 26 (34.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 26 (34.67%) SysML
2 26 (34.67%) Systems Engineering
2 26 (34.67%) Validation
2 26 (34.67%) Verification and Validation
3 23 (30.67%) Agile
4 13 (17.33%) DevOps
4 13 (17.33%) Microservices
5 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
7 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (12.00%) E-Commerce
8 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
9 8 (10.67%) Front End Development
10 7 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.00%) MATLAB
2 17 (22.67%) Java
3 12 (16.00%) C++
3 12 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.67%) C
5 10 (13.33%) C#
6 9 (12.00%) PHP
6 9 (12.00%) SQL
7 6 (8.00%) Objective-C
8 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.00%) Python
10 1 (1.33%) Bicep
10 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.33%) Perl
10 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.33%) Rust
10 1 (1.33%) Scala
10 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (37.33%) Degree
2 26 (34.67%) HNC
2 26 (34.67%) HND
3 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
2 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (4.00%) Sybase
2 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (2.67%) ForgeRock
2 2 (2.67%) Ping Identity
2 2 (2.67%) Splunk
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.33%) Solace