Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in Scotland is £80,000 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 120 207 245
Rank change year-on-year +87 +38 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 145 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.54% 0.079% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.62% 0.086% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile - - £73,875
25th Percentile - £72,500 £89,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -28.57% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £112,500
90th Percentile - £83,500 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +31.25%

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%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in Scotland

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in Scotland.

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in Scotland

Software Engineering Manager
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering Manager 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 +40 141 £80,000 +6.67%
Edinburgh +34 4 £80,000 +3.23% 2
Software Engineering Manager
UK

Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Software Engineering Manager 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 Software Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 145 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 134 (92.41%) Finance
2 134 (92.41%) Law
2 134 (92.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 116 (80.00%) Marketing
4 102 (70.34%) Mathematics
4 102 (70.34%) Computer Science
5 99 (68.28%) Cloud Native
6 98 (67.59%) CI/CD
6 98 (67.59%) Agile
6 98 (67.59%) Financial Institution
7 97 (66.90%) SDLC
8 79 (54.48%) Java
9 69 (47.59%) Coaching
10 66 (45.52%) NoSQL
10 66 (45.52%) SQL
10 66 (45.52%) Continuous Delivery
11 63 (43.45%) AWS
12 37 (25.52%) Python
13 34 (23.45%) Market Risk
13 34 (23.45%) NumPy
13 34 (23.45%) Pandas
14 32 (22.07%) Mentoring
14 32 (22.07%) Big Data
14 32 (22.07%) Scala
14 32 (22.07%) Performance Tuning
14 32 (22.07%) Spring
14 32 (22.07%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (22.07%) Spring Boot
14 32 (22.07%) Microservices

Software Engineering Manager 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 32 (22.07%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 63 (43.45%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (45.52%) NoSQL
2 32 (22.07%) Big Data
General
1 134 (92.41%) Finance
1 134 (92.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 134 (92.41%) Law
2 116 (80.00%) Marketing
3 98 (67.59%) Financial Institution
4 32 (22.07%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (13.10%) Banking
5 19 (13.10%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.45%) NumPy
1 34 (23.45%) Pandas
2 32 (22.07%) Spring
2 32 (22.07%) Spring Boot
3 31 (21.38%) RESTful
4 1 (0.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (68.28%) Cloud Native
2 34 (23.45%) Market Risk
3 31 (21.38%) Distributed Applications
4 7 (4.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Android
1 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 102 (70.34%) Computer Science
2 102 (70.34%) Mathematics
3 98 (67.59%) Agile
3 98 (67.59%) CI/CD
4 97 (66.90%) SDLC
5 69 (47.59%) Coaching
6 66 (45.52%) Continuous Delivery
7 32 (22.07%) Mentoring
7 32 (22.07%) Microservices
7 32 (22.07%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (21.38%) Analytics
9 18 (12.41%) Observability
10 3 (2.07%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (2.07%) Project Delivery
11 1 (0.69%) Asset Management
11 1 (0.69%) ETL
11 1 (0.69%) Kanban
11 1 (0.69%) People Management
11 1 (0.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.48%) Java
2 66 (45.52%) SQL
3 37 (25.52%) Python
4 32 (22.07%) Scala
5 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.69%) Kotlin