Software Engineer Jobs in Livingston

Software Engineer
West Lothian > Livingston

The median Software Engineer salary in Livingston is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 8 25 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Livingston 42.11% 31.25% 43.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 42.11% 33.78% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 19
10th Percentile £38,500 - -
25th Percentile £40,000 £57,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +84.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £65,000
West Lothian median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +37.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Livingston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Livingston. 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 Livingston with a recognized job title 19 74 59
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 92.50% 98.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 44 48
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,075 £20,750
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £22,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +65.52% -45.37%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £54,688
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,875 £63,750
West Lothian median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% +33.33% -25.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Livingston

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Livingston

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Livingston

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Livingston

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Livingston

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Livingston over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Livingston

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Livingston region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (37.50%) Entity Framework
4 3 (37.50%) WPF
4 3 (37.50%) C#
4 3 (37.50%) C++
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Electronics
4 3 (37.50%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) SQLite
5 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 1 (12.50%) JPA
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
6 1 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (12.50%) Confluence
6 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Banking

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Livingston 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (37.50%) Electronics
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Entity Framework
1 3 (37.50%) WPF
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (12.50%) SDLC
2 1 (12.50%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Solace
4 Software Engineer jobs in West Lothian