Software Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,198 556 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 38.57% 14.65% 17.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 43.92% 15.27% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 523 350 587
10th Percentile £38,350 £40,000 £39,837
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,822 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.34% +10.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
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 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 +13 1,679 £55,000 -4.35% 20
Edinburgh +13 338 £60,000 -8.19% 33
Aberdeen +12 63 £50,000 -23.08% 3
West Lothian -1 32 £60,000 - 1
Dundee +9 19 £47,500 -20.83%
East Ayrshire - 12 £60,000 -
Fife -5 11 £50,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire -5 9 £42,500 -34.62% 5
South Lanarkshire +4 5 £80,000 +23.08%
Midlothian - 4 £45,000 - 22
Scottish Borders 0 2 - -
Renfrewshire -2 2 - -
Inverclyde - 2 £50,000 -
South Ayrshire -3 1 £58,033 +7.97% 1
Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 13
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 331 (15.06%) Apache Spark
2 98 (4.46%) FileNet
3 70 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (2.59%) Apache
5 38 (1.73%) ArcGIS
5 38 (1.73%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.46%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.96%) GemFire
8 11 (0.50%) CICS
9 7 (0.32%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.14%) Confluence
11 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.091%) SAS
12 2 (0.091%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.045%) Tuxedo
13 1 (0.045%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.091%) Simulink
3 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.045%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.045%) SketchUp
3 1 (0.045%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 829 (37.72%) AWS
2 184 (8.37%) Azure
3 116 (5.28%) Datadog
4 106 (4.82%) Amazon S3
5 92 (4.19%) GCP
6 55 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 52 (2.37%) GitHub
8 47 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
9 43 (1.96%) Serverless
10 36 (1.64%) SaaS
11 33 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
11 33 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
11 33 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
12 32 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
14 26 (1.18%) Power Platform
15 25 (1.14%) Google Play
16 7 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.78%) Kerberos
2 47 (2.14%) Network Security
3 38 (1.73%) Wireless
4 17 (0.77%) Ethernet
5 16 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (0.59%) RS-232
7 6 (0.27%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.14%) ZigBee
10 2 (0.091%) HTTP
10 2 (0.091%) Modbus
10 2 (0.091%) RS-485
11 1 (0.045%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (20.70%) NoSQL
2 286 (13.01%) Big Data
3 136 (6.19%) Apache Cassandra
4 134 (6.10%) Hadoop
5 130 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 77 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 74 (3.37%) Apache Hive
8 60 (2.73%) HBase
9 51 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
10 48 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 44 (2.00%) Metadata
12 39 (1.77%) Data Lake
12 39 (1.77%) GIS
13 38 (1.73%) CockroachDB
13 38 (1.73%) QGIS
14 35 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
15 29 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
16 26 (1.18%) Power BI
17 24 (1.09%) MySQL
18 21 (0.96%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 192 (8.74%) JUnit
2 189 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 133 (6.05%) Git
4 105 (4.78%) Jasmine
5 84 (3.82%) Cypress.io
6 70 (3.18%) Selenium
7 60 (2.73%) Bitbucket Server
7 60 (2.73%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (2.73%) Protractor
7 60 (2.73%) WebDriver
8 49 (2.23%) Bitbucket
9 47 (2.14%) Maven
10 45 (2.05%) Mockito
11 44 (2.00%) Artifactory
12 28 (1.27%) JMeter
13 25 (1.14%) Android Studio
13 25 (1.14%) Cucumber
14 24 (1.09%) JIRA
15 21 (0.96%) Jaeger
16 19 (0.86%) GitLab
General
1 1,673 (76.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,575 (71.66%) Finance
3 1,534 (69.79%) Law
4 737 (33.53%) Marketing
5 467 (21.25%) Legal
6 296 (13.47%) Banking
7 279 (12.69%) Investment Banking
8 222 (10.10%) Social Skills
9 133 (6.05%) Financial Institution
10 96 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
12 41 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.64%) Electronics
14 31 (1.41%) Games
15 22 (1.00%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.82%) Automotive
17 18 (0.82%) Publishing
18 12 (0.55%) Tech for Good
19 11 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,757 (79.94%) Software Engineer
2 557 (25.34%) Java Engineer
2 557 (25.34%) Java Software Engineer
3 498 (22.66%) Lead
4 457 (20.79%) Lead Software Engineer
5 348 (15.83%) Senior
6 272 (12.37%) Senior Software Engineer
7 242 (11.01%) Big Data Engineer
7 242 (11.01%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 221 (10.05%) Full Stack Engineer
9 220 (10.01%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 217 (9.87%) Python Engineer
11 216 (9.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 196 (8.92%) Lead Java Engineer
13 194 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
14 193 (8.78%) AWS Software Engineer
15 178 (8.10%) Data Engineer
16 145 (6.60%) Engineering Manager
16 145 (6.60%) Software Engineering Manager
17 135 (6.14%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (21.57%) Spring
2 424 (19.29%) React
3 290 (13.19%) Kafka
4 283 (12.88%) AngularJS
5 226 (10.28%) CSS
6 221 (10.05%) J2EE
7 211 (9.60%) Spring Boot
8 210 (9.55%) HTML
9 200 (9.10%) Node.js
10 193 (8.78%) Hibernate
11 181 (8.23%) JSON
12 162 (7.37%) JMS
13 157 (7.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 140 (6.37%) .NET
15 134 (6.10%) jQuery
16 119 (5.41%) GraphQL
17 117 (5.32%) RESTful
18 115 (5.23%) PySpark
19 108 (4.91%) Web Services
20 100 (4.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 619 (28.16%) Cloud Native
2 566 (25.75%) Algorithms
3 136 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 118 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 99 (4.50%) Data Structures
6 85 (3.87%) Reference Data
7 79 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 61 (2.78%) Market Risk
9 49 (2.23%) Credit Risk
10 47 (2.14%) Distributed Applications
11 44 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 37 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 35 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (0.96%) Legacy Code
14 21 (0.96%) Replication
15 17 (0.77%) Private Cloud
16 16 (0.73%) IoT
17 12 (0.55%) Mainframe
18 11 (0.50%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 151 (6.87%) Linux
2 94 (4.28%) Unix
3 29 (1.32%) Android
4 14 (0.64%) Windows
5 11 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.091%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,550 (70.52%) Agile
2 1,384 (62.97%) SDLC
3 1,294 (58.87%) CI/CD
4 1,204 (54.78%) Operational Stability
5 958 (43.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 947 (43.08%) Machine Learning
7 883 (40.17%) Community of Practice
8 587 (26.71%) Visualisation
9 557 (25.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 488 (22.20%) Risk Management
11 362 (16.47%) Decision-Making
12 342 (15.56%) Computer Science
13 325 (14.79%) Microservices
14 308 (14.01%) Continuous Delivery
15 272 (12.37%) Full Stack Development
16 267 (12.15%) Architectural Design
17 259 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
18 251 (11.42%) Information Architecture
19 224 (10.19%) Mathematics
20 192 (8.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,145 (52.09%) Java
2 725 (32.98%) SQL
3 675 (30.71%) Python
4 300 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 205 (9.33%) TypeScript
6 186 (8.46%) Scala
7 159 (7.23%) C#
8 146 (6.64%) C
9 107 (4.87%) C++
10 91 (4.14%) PL/SQL
11 62 (2.82%) Embedded C
12 59 (2.68%) Go
13 44 (2.00%) Prolog
13 44 (2.00%) SPARQL
14 37 (1.68%) Groovy
15 35 (1.59%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.77%) Bash
17 15 (0.68%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 115 (5.23%) Degree
2 51 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 47 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 37 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (0.32%) PhD
7 1 (0.045%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.045%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.045%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.045%) HNC
7 1 (0.045%) HND
7 1 (0.045%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.045%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.05%) QA
2 22 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.68%) SLA
4 11 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.18%) DICOM
5 4 (0.18%) HL7
5 4 (0.18%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.091%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.045%) GDPR
7 1 (0.045%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 67 (3.05%) Docker
2 60 (2.73%) HDFS
3 44 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 40 (1.82%) Firmware
5 11 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.091%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 283 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 190 (8.64%) Terraform
3 149 (6.78%) Grafana
4 81 (3.69%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.96%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.96%) Kibana
6 21 (0.96%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.32%) Graphite
8 4 (0.18%) Istio
9 3 (0.14%) Ansible
10 1 (0.045%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 254 (11.56%) Oracle
2 165 (7.51%) Splunk
3 148 (6.73%) Databricks
4 140 (6.37%) Dynatrace
5 70 (3.18%) Google
6 60 (2.73%) Informatica
7 38 (1.73%) ESRI
8 35 (1.59%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.36%) Cloudera
9 30 (1.36%) Microsoft
10 10 (0.45%) SaltStack
11 9 (0.41%) TOWER Software
12 6 (0.27%) CA
12 6 (0.27%) Sybase
12 6 (0.27%) Twitter
13 5 (0.23%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.18%) Avaloq
14 4 (0.18%) Dell
14 4 (0.18%) IBM
15 2 (0.091%) Sitecore