Software Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,056 861 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 45.52% 18.18% 13.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 49.01% 19.28% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 535 482 471
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £71,875
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,324 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +10 2,484 £61,500 +11.82% 37
Edinburgh +4 368 £60,000 -13.60% 71
Aberdeen +16 76 £52,500 -19.23% 6
West Lothian -3 30 £60,000 - 5
Dundee +6 27 £48,750 -11.36% 3
Fife -4 17 £50,000 - 7
South Lanarkshire +7 9 £80,000 - 4
Aberdeenshire +6 7 £42,500 -34.62%
Scottish Borders +2 5 - -
Renfrewshire 0 4 £52,500 +28.51%
Inverclyde - 4 £50,000 -
Midlothian -3 3 - - 14
Lanarkshire -12 2 - - 10
Angus - 1 £65,000 -
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
1 615 (20.12%) Apache Spark
2 137 (4.48%) Apache
3 117 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 103 (3.37%) FileNet
5 60 (1.96%) ArcGIS
5 60 (1.96%) GeoServer
6 31 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.69%) Confluence
7 21 (0.69%) GemFire
8 20 (0.65%) Camunda
9 12 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 11 (0.36%) CICS
11 10 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.23%) Captiva
12 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.13%) JBoss
13 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
13 4 (0.13%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.065%) SAS
15 1 (0.033%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.033%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,333 (43.62%) AWS
2 248 (8.12%) Azure
3 160 (5.24%) GCP
4 122 (3.99%) Amazon S3
5 115 (3.76%) Datadog
6 77 (2.52%) Serverless
7 74 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
10 64 (2.09%) SaaS
11 59 (1.93%) GitHub
12 55 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
13 54 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
14 51 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
15 47 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
16 24 (0.79%) Google Play
17 23 (0.75%) Google Docs
17 23 (0.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.68%) Kerberos
2 61 (2.00%) Wireless
3 32 (1.05%) Network Security
4 23 (0.75%) Ethernet
5 20 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (0.59%) DSL
7 14 (0.46%) Modbus
7 14 (0.46%) RS-232
7 14 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.26%) HTTP
8 8 (0.26%) MQTT
9 6 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.065%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (22.09%) NoSQL
2 527 (17.24%) Big Data
3 260 (8.51%) Hadoop
4 172 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
5 151 (4.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 134 (4.38%) Relational Database
7 131 (4.29%) Apache Hive
8 115 (3.76%) MongoDB
9 103 (3.37%) HBase
10 68 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.13%) Metadata
12 61 (2.00%) GIS
13 60 (1.96%) Data Lake
13 60 (1.96%) QGIS
14 52 (1.70%) Electronic Patient Records
15 39 (1.28%) MySQL
16 38 (1.24%) CockroachDB
17 37 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
18 31 (1.01%) Redis
19 30 (0.98%) DB2
Development Applications
1 278 (9.10%) Jenkins
2 217 (7.10%) Git
3 211 (6.90%) JUnit
4 111 (3.63%) Jasmine
5 91 (2.98%) Cypress.io
6 86 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.29%) Bitbucket
8 69 (2.26%) Maven
9 68 (2.23%) Selenium
10 66 (2.16%) Artifactory
10 66 (2.16%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (1.96%) Protractor
11 60 (1.96%) WebDriver
12 59 (1.93%) JIRA
13 44 (1.44%) Mockito
14 33 (1.08%) GitLab
15 30 (0.98%) Gradle
16 27 (0.88%) JMeter
16 27 (0.88%) Visual Studio
17 25 (0.82%) Cucumber
General
1 2,511 (82.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,392 (78.27%) Finance
3 2,326 (76.11%) Law
4 1,234 (40.38%) Marketing
5 660 (21.60%) Legal
6 467 (15.28%) Banking
7 346 (11.32%) Investment Banking
8 278 (9.10%) Social Skills
9 250 (8.18%) Financial Institution
10 183 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
11 81 (2.65%) Private Banking
12 61 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
13 57 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 36 (1.18%) Electronics
16 30 (0.98%) Games
17 22 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
18 19 (0.62%) Public Sector
19 18 (0.59%) Front Office
19 18 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2,477 (81.05%) Software Engineer
2 812 (26.57%) Java Engineer
2 812 (26.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 732 (23.95%) Lead
4 691 (22.61%) Lead Software Engineer
5 500 (16.36%) Senior
6 412 (13.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 390 (12.76%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.76%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 343 (11.22%) Full Stack Engineer
8 343 (11.22%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 331 (10.83%) Python Engineer
9 331 (10.83%) Python Software Engineer
10 306 (10.01%) AWS Engineer
11 299 (9.78%) AWS Software Engineer
12 274 (8.97%) Lead Java Engineer
13 237 (7.76%) Data Engineer
14 228 (7.46%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (7.46%) Scala Software Engineer
15 209 (6.84%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 688 (22.51%) Spring
2 623 (20.39%) React
3 436 (14.27%) AngularJS
4 382 (12.50%) Kafka
5 350 (11.45%) Spring Boot
6 317 (10.37%) CSS
7 297 (9.72%) HTML
8 251 (8.21%) J2EE
9 228 (7.46%) Node.js
10 214 (7.00%) JSON
11 207 (6.77%) RESTful
12 205 (6.71%) Hibernate
13 178 (5.82%) .NET
14 172 (5.63%) PySpark
15 170 (5.56%) JMS
16 164 (5.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 152 (4.97%) Web Services
18 146 (4.78%) GraphQL
18 146 (4.78%) jQuery
19 117 (3.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 903 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 827 (27.06%) Algorithms
3 289 (9.46%) Public Cloud
4 157 (5.14%) Onboarding
5 130 (4.25%) Data Structures
6 129 (4.22%) Reference Data
7 126 (4.12%) Management Information System
8 105 (3.44%) Product Ownership
9 91 (2.98%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 64 (2.09%) Distributed Applications
12 48 (1.57%) Credit Risk
13 43 (1.41%) Legacy Code
14 37 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.18%) Private Cloud
16 21 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (0.69%) Replication
16 21 (0.69%) Taxonomies
17 17 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 192 (6.28%) Linux
2 139 (4.55%) Unix
3 27 (0.88%) Windows
4 24 (0.79%) Android
5 14 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
6 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,384 (78.01%) Agile
2 2,077 (67.96%) SDLC
3 1,965 (64.30%) CI/CD
4 1,843 (60.31%) Operational Stability
5 1,399 (45.78%) Machine Learning
6 1,385 (45.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,294 (42.34%) Community of Practice
8 821 (26.87%) Visualisation
9 805 (26.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 684 (22.38%) Risk Management
11 555 (18.16%) Decision-Making
12 531 (17.38%) Microservices
13 484 (15.84%) Continuous Delivery
14 483 (15.80%) Computer Science
15 430 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
16 417 (13.65%) Architectural Design
17 415 (13.58%) Full Stack Development
18 396 (12.96%) Information Architecture
19 309 (10.11%) Mathematics
20 288 (9.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,799 (58.87%) Java
2 1,131 (37.01%) SQL
3 1,117 (36.55%) Python
4 425 (13.91%) JavaScript
5 343 (11.22%) Scala
6 259 (8.48%) TypeScript
7 230 (7.53%) C#
8 182 (5.96%) C
9 149 (4.88%) PL/SQL
10 120 (3.93%) Go
11 117 (3.83%) C++
12 84 (2.75%) Embedded C
13 65 (2.13%) Prolog
13 65 (2.13%) SPARQL
14 62 (2.03%) Ruby
15 44 (1.44%) Bash
16 37 (1.21%) Groovy
17 29 (0.95%) Kotlin
18 28 (0.92%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 184 (6.02%) Degree
2 78 (2.55%) Security Cleared
3 76 (2.49%) SC Cleared
4 68 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.44%) Master's Degree
6 19 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 11 (0.36%) PhD
8 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.033%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.03%) SLA
2 57 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.08%) QA
5 20 (0.65%) PMO
6 7 (0.23%) GDPR
7 6 (0.20%) WAI
8 4 (0.13%) DICOM
8 4 (0.13%) HL7
8 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.033%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.033%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 102 (3.34%) HDFS
2 79 (2.59%) Docker
3 66 (2.16%) Firmware
4 65 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 28 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 393 (12.86%) Kubernetes
2 265 (8.67%) Terraform
3 175 (5.73%) Grafana
4 81 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.69%) Kibana
6 21 (0.69%) Zipkin
7 8 (0.26%) Ansible
8 7 (0.23%) Graphite
9 4 (0.13%) Istio
9 4 (0.13%) vRealize
9 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (0.065%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.065%) Puppet
11 1 (0.033%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.033%) Rancher
Vendors
1 367 (12.01%) Oracle
2 263 (8.61%) Databricks
3 183 (5.99%) Splunk
4 163 (5.33%) Dynatrace
5 100 (3.27%) Google
6 87 (2.85%) Informatica
7 72 (2.36%) Cloudera
8 60 (1.96%) ESRI
9 55 (1.80%) Alteryx
10 37 (1.21%) Dell
11 29 (0.95%) Microsoft
12 27 (0.88%) Pega
13 24 (0.79%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.75%) Sybase
15 19 (0.62%) IBM
16 18 (0.59%) Cognos
16 18 (0.59%) SaltStack
17 15 (0.49%) SAP
18 9 (0.29%) TOWER Software
18 9 (0.29%) Twitter