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 to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 120 143
Rank change year-on-year +61 +23 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 417 115 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.22% 2.49% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.42% 2.77% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 152 73 58
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,805
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,525 £77,715 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,500 4,154 5,559
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 89.87% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,633 2,259 2,968
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,693
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +30 269 £61,500 +11.82% 3
Edinburgh +51 100 £60,000 - 14
West Lothian +7 18 £60,000 -11.11% 3
Aberdeen +5 15 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South Lanarkshire - 4 £65,000 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Angus - 1 £65,000 -
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 417 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 300 (71.94%) Agile
3 230 (55.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 205 (49.16%) Finance
5 200 (47.96%) SDLC
6 198 (47.48%) Law
6 198 (47.48%) Operational Stability
7 183 (43.88%) Marketing
8 182 (43.65%) Java
9 164 (39.33%) Problem-Solving
10 155 (37.17%) Tech Ops
11 143 (34.29%) AWS
12 136 (32.61%) Artificial Intelligence
13 132 (31.65%) Machine Learning
14 113 (27.10%) SQL
15 104 (24.94%) Python
16 102 (24.46%) Azure
17 101 (24.22%) Decision-Making
18 91 (21.82%) C#
19 85 (20.38%) Apache Spark
20 84 (20.14%) Microservices
21 79 (18.94%) CSS
22 78 (18.71%) .NET
23 77 (18.47%) NoSQL
24 74 (17.75%) CI/CD
25 73 (17.51%) React
25 73 (17.51%) JavaScript
26 62 (14.87%) JSON
27 59 (14.15%) Kerberos
27 59 (14.15%) Cloud Native

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 85 (20.38%) Apache Spark
2 40 (9.59%) ArcGIS
2 40 (9.59%) GeoServer
3 18 (4.32%) FileNet
4 17 (4.08%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) JBoss
5 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 143 (34.29%) AWS
2 102 (24.46%) Azure
3 45 (10.79%) GCP
4 21 (5.04%) SaaS
5 18 (4.32%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.48%) Serverless
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.24%) Datadog
7 1 (0.24%) IaaS
7 1 (0.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.15%) Kerberos
2 20 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
2 20 (4.80%) Wireless
3 18 (4.32%) Ethernet
4 17 (4.08%) Network Security
5 14 (3.36%) Modbus
5 14 (3.36%) RS-232
6 13 (3.12%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.44%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (18.47%) NoSQL
2 52 (12.47%) Big Data
3 42 (10.07%) Metadata
3 42 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (9.59%) GIS
4 40 (9.59%) QGIS
5 27 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (4.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (4.08%) CockroachDB
8 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.48%) MySQL
9 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (10.55%) Git
2 42 (10.07%) Artifactory
2 42 (10.07%) Bitbucket
2 42 (10.07%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.32%) JUnit
4 15 (3.60%) GitLab
4 15 (3.60%) JIRA
5 13 (3.12%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.48%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 230 (55.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 205 (49.16%) Finance
3 198 (47.48%) Law
4 183 (43.88%) Marketing
5 54 (12.95%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (3.60%) Banking
7 14 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.88%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.68%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.44%) Legal
11 5 (1.20%) Social Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.72%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Games
15 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.24%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.94%) CSS
2 78 (18.71%) .NET
3 73 (17.51%) React
4 62 (14.87%) JSON
5 54 (12.95%) RESTful
6 47 (11.27%) .NET Core
6 47 (11.27%) HTML
7 46 (11.03%) Web Services
7 46 (11.03%) XML
8 44 (10.55%) Kafka
8 44 (10.55%) Spring
9 42 (10.07%) JSON-LD
9 42 (10.07%) LDAP
9 42 (10.07%) OpenID
9 42 (10.07%) SAML
10 40 (9.59%) Leaflet
10 40 (9.59%) OpenLayers
10 40 (9.59%) PostGIS
11 39 (9.35%) AngularJS
12 35 (8.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 59 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.07%) Enterprise Cloud
2 42 (10.07%) Management Information System
2 42 (10.07%) Reference Data
3 33 (7.91%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.36%) Device Driver
6 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.48%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.24%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.24%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.99%) Linux
2 22 (5.28%) Windows
3 14 (3.36%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (1.92%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 300 (71.94%) Agile
3 200 (47.96%) SDLC
4 198 (47.48%) Operational Stability
5 164 (39.33%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (37.17%) Tech Ops
7 136 (32.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 132 (31.65%) Machine Learning
9 101 (24.22%) Decision-Making
10 84 (20.14%) Microservices
11 74 (17.75%) CI/CD
12 57 (13.67%) Test Automation
13 52 (12.47%) DevOps
14 51 (12.23%) Computer Science
14 51 (12.23%) Performance Tuning
15 44 (10.55%) Actionable Insight
16 43 (10.31%) Continuous Delivery
16 43 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (10.07%) Architectural Design
17 42 (10.07%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 182 (43.65%) Java
2 113 (27.10%) SQL
3 104 (24.94%) Python
4 91 (21.82%) C#
5 73 (17.51%) JavaScript
6 56 (13.43%) C
7 52 (12.47%) C++
8 51 (12.23%) Scala
9 44 (10.55%) Go
10 42 (10.07%) Prolog
10 42 (10.07%) SPARQL
11 23 (5.52%) Embedded C
12 21 (5.04%) TypeScript
13 12 (2.88%) Ruby
14 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.24%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.88%) Degree
4 8 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.96%) DICOM
2 4 (0.96%) HL7
2 4 (0.96%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 42 (10.07%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.88%) Docker
3 7 (1.68%) Firmware
4 4 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (9.59%) ESRI
2 20 (4.80%) Oracle
3 17 (4.08%) Google
4 8 (1.92%) Dell
5 4 (0.96%) Databricks
6 1 (0.24%) Coverity
6 1 (0.24%) Klocwork
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.24%) Thales