Software Engineer Jobs in Lanarkshire

Software Engineer
Scotland > Lanarkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Lanarkshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 20 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lanarkshire 21.51% 1.67% 15.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 25.32% 1.79% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile - - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lanarkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lanarkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Lanarkshire with a recognized job title 79 56 38
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.95% 93.33% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 23
10th Percentile £34,250 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,672 £37,500 £36,803
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -8.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £45,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £45,100 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lanarkshire

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lanarkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Lanarkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Lanarkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Lanarkshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Lanarkshire

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lanarkshire

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Lanarkshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (95.00%) GCP
2 19 (95.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (95.00%) Containerisation
2 19 (95.00%) Java
2 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 19 (95.00%) Finance
2 19 (95.00%) Banking
2 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 19 (95.00%) AWS
2 19 (95.00%) Kubernetes
3 18 (90.00%) React
3 18 (90.00%) SonarQube
3 18 (90.00%) Spring Boot
3 18 (90.00%) Solace
3 18 (90.00%) SDLC
3 18 (90.00%) Front End Development
3 18 (90.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 18 (90.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 18 (90.00%) Redux
3 18 (90.00%) Confluence
3 18 (90.00%) Cucumber
3 18 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (90.00%) Kafka
3 18 (90.00%) Bitbucket
3 18 (90.00%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (90.00%) Spring
3 18 (90.00%) Maven
3 18 (90.00%) JIRA
3 18 (90.00%) QA

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lanarkshire 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 18 (90.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
1 19 (95.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (90.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (90.00%) Bitbucket
1 18 (90.00%) Cucumber
1 18 (90.00%) GitLab
1 18 (90.00%) JIRA
1 18 (90.00%) Maven
1 18 (90.00%) Selenium
1 18 (90.00%) SonarQube
1 18 (90.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (95.00%) Banking
1 19 (95.00%) Finance
2 18 (90.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (90.00%) CSS
1 18 (90.00%) Hibernate
1 18 (90.00%) HTML
1 18 (90.00%) JPA
1 18 (90.00%) Kafka
1 18 (90.00%) React
1 18 (90.00%) Redux
1 18 (90.00%) Spring
1 18 (90.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (90.00%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (90.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (95.00%) Containerisation
2 19 (95.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (90.00%) Agile
3 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (90.00%) Clean Code
3 18 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (90.00%) DevOps
3 18 (90.00%) Front End Development
3 18 (90.00%) Microservices
3 18 (90.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 18 (90.00%) SDLC
3 18 (90.00%) TDD
3 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (5.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (5.00%) RBAC
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) Java
1 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (90.00%) QA
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Solace
2 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity