Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 59 119
Rank change year-on-year -35 +60 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 64 417 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.16% 6.21% 2.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 6.41% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 56 152 73
10th Percentile - £48,750 £49,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £69,525 £77,715
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,675 6,501 4,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 96.89% 90.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 2,635 2,282
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,868
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.68% +8.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Scotland

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Scotland

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Scotland

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -31 32 £66,500 +10.83% 31
Glasgow +31 14 £55,000 -10.57% 4
West Lothian -1 8 £63,750 +6.25% 4
Fife - 3 £58,000 -
Moray - 2 £58,000 -
East Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
Dundee +13 1 - - 5
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Senior 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 Scotland region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (43.75%) Agile
3 26 (40.63%) Java
4 22 (34.38%) JavaScript
4 22 (34.38%) Test Automation
4 22 (34.38%) GCP
5 21 (32.81%) CI/CD
6 20 (31.25%) Azure
7 19 (29.69%) AWS
8 18 (28.13%) Finance
9 17 (26.56%) TDD
9 17 (26.56%) DevOps
10 16 (25.00%) Kubernetes
10 16 (25.00%) Python
11 15 (23.44%) React
12 13 (20.31%) Microservices
13 12 (18.75%) C++
13 12 (18.75%) Linux
13 12 (18.75%) Banking
13 12 (18.75%) Games
14 11 (17.19%) Git
14 11 (17.19%) Degree
14 11 (17.19%) Docker
15 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
15 10 (15.63%) Clean Code
15 10 (15.63%) DevSecOps
15 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
15 10 (15.63%) Software Testing
15 10 (15.63%) CSS
15 10 (15.63%) HTML

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) GCP
2 20 (31.25%) Azure
3 19 (29.69%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (6.25%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.69%) GitHub
5 3 (4.69%) SaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Apigee
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) npm
7 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Ethernet
1 5 (7.81%) RS-232
2 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) Multicast
2 1 (1.56%) RTP
2 1 (1.56%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) MySQL
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.38%) webpack
4 3 (4.69%) JIRA
4 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.13%) JUnit
5 2 (3.13%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) GitLab
6 1 (1.56%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.56%) Postman
6 1 (1.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 18 (28.13%) Finance
2 12 (18.75%) Banking
2 12 (18.75%) Games
3 6 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.13%) Electronics
6 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
6 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.44%) React
2 10 (15.63%) CSS
2 10 (15.63%) HTML
3 9 (14.06%) RESTful
3 9 (14.06%) Spring
3 9 (14.06%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.94%) .NET
5 6 (9.38%) .NET Core
5 6 (9.38%) Redux
6 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.81%) Jest
6 5 (7.81%) OAuth
6 5 (7.81%) OAuth2
7 4 (6.25%) Enzyme
7 4 (6.25%) JWT
7 4 (6.25%) LAMP
7 4 (6.25%) Laravel
7 4 (6.25%) Node.js
7 4 (6.25%) Yocto
8 3 (4.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Public Cloud
2 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Device Driver
4 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Life Science
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.56%) IPTV
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.56%) MPEG
5 1 (1.56%) PCIe
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 3 (4.69%) Windows
5 1 (1.56%) Android
5 1 (1.56%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.56%) Rocky
5 1 (1.56%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (43.75%) Agile
3 22 (34.38%) Test Automation
4 21 (32.81%) CI/CD
5 17 (26.56%) DevOps
5 17 (26.56%) TDD
6 13 (20.31%) Microservices
7 10 (15.63%) Clean Code
7 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
7 10 (15.63%) DevSecOps
7 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 10 (15.63%) Software Testing
8 9 (14.06%) E-Commerce
8 9 (14.06%) Mathematics
9 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (12.50%) Scrum
10 7 (10.94%) SOLID
10 7 (10.94%) Unit Testing
11 6 (9.38%) Containerisation
11 6 (9.38%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Java
2 22 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.00%) Python
4 12 (18.75%) C++
5 10 (15.63%) C
5 10 (15.63%) PHP
6 9 (14.06%) Rust
6 9 (14.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (10.94%) C#
7 7 (10.94%) SQL
8 3 (4.69%) Embedded C
8 3 (4.69%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.56%) JCL
9 1 (1.56%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.56%) Perl
9 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) QA
System Software
1 11 (17.19%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.81%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Istio
3 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.56%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) Adobe
1 4 (6.25%) Google
1 4 (6.25%) Tealium
2 2 (3.13%) ForgeRock
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.56%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.56%) Splunk