Software Engineering Jobs in Kilmarnock

Software Engineering
East Ayrshire > Kilmarnock

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kilmarnock 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 1 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 23 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kilmarnock 21.90% 54.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.12% 63.16% -
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,801 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% - -
75th Percentile £60,265 - -
90th Percentile £69,646 - -
East Ayrshire median annual salary £58,033 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -3.28% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kilmarnock

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 Kilmarnock.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 19 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kilmarnock 99.05% 86.36% -
Number of salaries quoted 44 19 0
10th Percentile - £25,750 -
25th Percentile £47,683 £28,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% - -
75th Percentile £60,986 - -
90th Percentile £82,270 - -
East Ayrshire median annual salary £58,033 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -3.28% - -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kilmarnock

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Kilmarnock

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Kilmarnock

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Kilmarnock

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Kilmarnock

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Kilmarnock

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kilmarnock 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Maven
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (13.04%) Electronics
2 1 (4.35%) Banking
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Principal Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Assurance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) CSS
1 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.35%) HTML
1 1 (4.35%) JPA
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) Redux
1 1 (4.35%) Spring
1 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Systems Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) Digital Twin
2 16 (69.57%) Mathematics
2 16 (69.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) SysML
2 16 (69.57%) Validation
2 16 (69.57%) Verification and Validation
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
4 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Software Assurance
4 3 (13.04%) UML
4 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
5 1 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Front End Development
5 1 (4.35%) Microservices
5 1 (4.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) MATLAB
2 3 (13.04%) Ada
2 3 (13.04%) Ada 95
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Degree
2 16 (69.57%) HNC
2 16 (69.57%) HND
3 6 (26.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (13.04%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Solace