Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 116 144
Rank change year-on-year +46 +28 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 272 100 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.77% 2.64% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.92% 2.86% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 107 68 69
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -4.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow +18 166 £55,000 -6.38% 2
Edinburgh +61 77 £60,000 +4.35% 4
West Lothian +5 20 £67,500 -
South Lanarkshire +1 2 £65,000 -
Aberdeen -7 2 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 272 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 175 (64.34%) Agile
3 150 (55.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (49.63%) SDLC
5 134 (49.26%) Finance
6 127 (46.69%) Law
6 127 (46.69%) Operational Stability
7 113 (41.54%) Marketing
8 102 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (36.76%) Java
10 96 (35.29%) Tech Ops
11 78 (28.68%) SQL
12 77 (28.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 76 (27.94%) AWS
14 72 (26.47%) Machine Learning
15 66 (24.26%) CI/CD
16 65 (23.90%) Decision-Making
17 62 (22.79%) Azure
18 61 (22.43%) C#
19 57 (20.96%) Python
20 51 (18.75%) NoSQL
21 49 (18.01%) Cloud Native
21 49 (18.01%) JSON
22 48 (17.65%) Kerberos
23 47 (17.28%) Computer Science
24 46 (16.91%) C
25 44 (16.18%) .NET
25 44 (16.18%) Kubernetes
26 42 (15.44%) JavaScript
26 42 (15.44%) CSS

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:

Application Platforms
1 39 (14.34%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.62%) ArcGIS
2 18 (6.62%) FileNet
2 18 (6.62%) GeoServer
3 17 (6.25%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 76 (27.94%) AWS
2 62 (22.79%) Azure
3 30 (11.03%) GCP
4 18 (6.62%) Amazon S3
5 9 (3.31%) SaaS
6 2 (0.74%) Serverless
7 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.37%) IaaS
7 1 (0.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.65%) Kerberos
2 17 (6.25%) Network Security
3 13 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (4.78%) Wireless
4 11 (4.04%) Ethernet
4 11 (4.04%) RS-232
5 5 (1.84%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.74%) Modbus
6 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 31 (11.40%) Metadata
3 29 (10.66%) Big Data
4 23 (8.46%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (6.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 18 (6.62%) GIS
6 18 (6.62%) QGIS
7 17 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (6.25%) CockroachDB
8 4 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.74%) MySQL
9 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (12.13%) Git
1 33 (12.13%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.40%) Artifactory
2 31 (11.40%) Bitbucket
3 18 (6.62%) JUnit
4 2 (0.74%) GitLab
4 2 (0.74%) JIRA
4 2 (0.74%) Maven
4 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 150 (55.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 134 (49.26%) Finance
3 127 (46.69%) Law
4 113 (41.54%) Marketing
5 32 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (5.88%) Banking
7 12 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.04%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.57%) Electronics
9 7 (2.57%) Social Skills
9 7 (2.57%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.84%) Legal
11 3 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Games
12 2 (0.74%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.01%) JSON
2 44 (16.18%) .NET
3 42 (15.44%) CSS
4 41 (15.07%) React
5 40 (14.71%) Kafka
6 39 (14.34%) Spring
7 37 (13.60%) RESTful
8 35 (12.87%) GraphQL
9 34 (12.50%) Web Services
10 31 (11.40%) JSON-LD
10 31 (11.40%) LDAP
10 31 (11.40%) OpenID
10 31 (11.40%) SAML
10 31 (11.40%) XML
11 26 (9.56%) AngularJS
12 24 (8.82%) .NET Core
12 24 (8.82%) HTML
13 20 (7.35%) Node.js
14 18 (6.62%) Leaflet
14 18 (6.62%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.40%) Enterprise Cloud
2 31 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 31 (11.40%) Reference Data
3 20 (7.35%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.04%) Device Driver
5 9 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.74%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.37%) IoT
7 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.76%) Linux
2 11 (4.04%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.84%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 175 (64.34%) Agile
3 135 (49.63%) SDLC
4 127 (46.69%) Operational Stability
5 102 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (35.29%) Tech Ops
7 77 (28.31%) Artificial Intelligence
8 72 (26.47%) Machine Learning
9 66 (24.26%) CI/CD
10 65 (23.90%) Decision-Making
11 47 (17.28%) Computer Science
12 41 (15.07%) Microservices
13 40 (14.71%) Test Automation
14 34 (12.50%) Mathematics
15 32 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
16 31 (11.40%) Architectural Design
16 31 (11.40%) Community of Practice
16 31 (11.40%) Continuous Delivery
16 31 (11.40%) Data Transformation
16 31 (11.40%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (36.76%) Java
2 78 (28.68%) SQL
3 61 (22.43%) C#
4 57 (20.96%) Python
5 46 (16.91%) C
6 42 (15.44%) JavaScript
7 40 (14.71%) C++
8 32 (11.76%) Go
9 31 (11.40%) Prolog
9 31 (11.40%) SPARQL
10 29 (10.66%) Scala
11 23 (8.46%) TypeScript
12 20 (7.35%) Embedded C
13 6 (2.21%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.78%) Degree
4 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.47%) DICOM
2 4 (1.47%) HL7
2 4 (1.47%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.37%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 31 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.31%) Docker
2 9 (3.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (7.35%) Oracle
2 18 (6.62%) ESRI
3 17 (6.25%) Google
4 5 (1.84%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.37%) Coverity
6 1 (0.37%) Klocwork
6 1 (0.37%) Thales