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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 8 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 460 982 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 16.11% 19.45% 13.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.73% 20.72% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 251 556 397
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,456 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +11.74% +15.79%
75th Percentile £77,715 £76,385 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £83,932
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

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 2,750 4,739 4,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 96.32% 93.88% 93.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 2,596 2,715
10th Percentile £25,000 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,900 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,919 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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
Edinburgh -9 200 £69,447 +6.84% 74
Glasgow +8 153 £60,750 +5.74% 42
Aberdeen +5 29 £57,500 +43.75% 11
West Lothian 0 21 £40,000 -30.43% 2
Dundee 0 5 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Scottish Borders +8 4 - -
South Ayrshire - 3 £55,000 -
South Lanarkshire +4 2 £65,000 - 5
Aberdeenshire +1 2 £26,500 -60.74% 3
Fife -4 1 - - 5
Lanarkshire -6 1 - - 15
Roxburghshire - 1 £47,500 -
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 28 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.13%) Confluence
3 15 (3.26%) JBoss
4 14 (3.04%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (1.30%) Apache
5 6 (1.30%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.65%) Captiva
6 3 (0.65%) FileNet
6 3 (0.65%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) SAP GRC
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 102 (22.17%) AWS
2 59 (12.83%) GCP
3 53 (11.52%) Serverless
4 42 (9.13%) Azure
5 34 (7.39%) SaaS
6 12 (2.61%) GitHub
7 11 (2.39%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 11 (2.39%) OpenShift
8 10 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.96%) Google Docs
9 9 (1.96%) Lucidchart
9 9 (1.96%) Miro
9 9 (1.96%) Slack
10 5 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.00%) Wireless
2 15 (3.26%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.30%) RS-232
3 6 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.87%) Network Security
5 3 (0.65%) HTTP
5 3 (0.65%) Modbus
5 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.43%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.52%) Big Data
2 25 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.78%) Oracle Database
3 22 (4.78%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.91%) Hadoop
4 18 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (3.26%) RDBMS
5 15 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.61%) Redis
7 11 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.96%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.96%) Scylla
8 9 (1.96%) SQLite
9 6 (1.30%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.30%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.09%) MySQL
11 4 (0.87%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 4 (0.87%) DB2
11 4 (0.87%) HBase
Development Applications
1 70 (15.22%) Git
2 37 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 30 (6.52%) JIRA
4 14 (3.04%) IntelliJ
5 12 (2.61%) GitLab
5 12 (2.61%) Maven
6 9 (1.96%) JUnit
6 9 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (1.74%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.30%) IBM UrbanCode
9 6 (1.30%) Selenium
10 4 (0.87%) JDeveloper
10 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.87%) Subversion
11 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.65%) NUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.43%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.43%) Mockito
General
1 159 (34.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 131 (28.48%) Finance
3 108 (23.48%) Social Skills
4 74 (16.09%) Banking
5 51 (11.09%) Law
6 38 (8.26%) Marketing
7 27 (5.87%) Police
8 24 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 21 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.70%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.04%) Automotive
11 14 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.61%) Legal
13 9 (1.96%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.52%) Retail
15 6 (1.30%) Electronics
15 6 (1.30%) Private Banking
15 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 332 (72.17%) Software Engineer
2 121 (26.30%) Senior
3 105 (22.83%) Senior Software Engineer
4 61 (13.26%) Lead
5 60 (13.04%) Java Engineer
5 60 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
6 39 (8.48%) Lead Software Engineer
7 38 (8.26%) Developer
7 38 (8.26%) Embedded Engineer
8 31 (6.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 24 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (5.00%) Architect
11 20 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
12 19 (4.13%) C# Software Engineer
12 19 (4.13%) Ruby Engineer
13 17 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
13 17 (3.70%) Junior
14 15 (3.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 15 (3.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 15 (3.26%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (23.91%) React
2 73 (15.87%) Spring
3 69 (15.00%) .NET
4 50 (10.87%) AngularJS
5 45 (9.78%) Node.js
6 44 (9.57%) HTML
7 40 (8.70%) CSS
8 38 (8.26%) Spring Boot
9 37 (8.04%) REST
10 31 (6.74%) .NET Framework
11 30 (6.52%) RESTful
12 29 (6.30%) J2EE
13 28 (6.09%) Kafka
14 26 (5.65%) Hibernate
14 26 (5.65%) JSON
15 24 (5.22%) Ruby on Rails
16 23 (5.00%) Web Services
17 20 (4.35%) ASP.NET
17 20 (4.35%) SOAP
18 19 (4.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.17%) Algorithms
3 32 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.48%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.04%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.30%) Device Driver
9 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.09%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.65%) DataPower
12 3 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.65%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.43%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.35%) Linux
2 43 (9.35%) Windows
3 9 (1.96%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.96%) Unix
4 6 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.87%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.65%) zOS
7 2 (0.43%) HPUX
7 2 (0.43%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (50.43%) Agile
2 124 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (25.22%) Microservices
4 98 (21.30%) DevOps
5 95 (20.65%) Mentoring
6 91 (19.78%) SDLC
7 87 (18.91%) Actionable Insight
8 78 (16.96%) CI/CD
9 65 (14.13%) Design Patterns
10 61 (13.26%) Coaching
10 61 (13.26%) Computer Science
10 61 (13.26%) Continuous Integration
11 56 (12.17%) Containerisation
12 50 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (10.65%) Unit Testing
14 48 (10.43%) Full Stack Development
15 47 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
16 43 (9.35%) Scrum
17 42 (9.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 222 (48.26%) Java
2 147 (31.96%) Python
3 107 (23.26%) C#
4 97 (21.09%) SQL
5 73 (15.87%) JavaScript
6 66 (14.35%) C++
7 49 (10.65%) C
7 49 (10.65%) Ruby
8 33 (7.17%) Go
9 32 (6.96%) Embedded C
10 30 (6.52%) TypeScript
11 29 (6.30%) Bash
12 23 (5.00%) Scala
13 13 (2.83%) Perl
14 10 (2.17%) Embedded C++
15 9 (1.96%) PowerShell
16 6 (1.30%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.65%) COBOL
18 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.17%) Degree
3 52 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.00%) QA
2 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.65%) GDPR
2 3 (0.65%) SLA
3 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (7.83%) Docker
2 32 (6.96%) Firmware
3 22 (4.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.65%) HDFS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 64 (13.91%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.87%) Terraform
3 7 (1.52%) Ansible
4 6 (1.30%) Grafana
5 4 (0.87%) Istio
5 4 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.87%) vRealize
5 4 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (7.17%) Oracle
2 23 (5.00%) Dell
3 22 (4.78%) Google
4 18 (3.91%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.04%) SAP
6 12 (2.61%) IBM
7 10 (2.17%) Databricks
8 6 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.30%) Splunk
9 5 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.87%) Pega
11 3 (0.65%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.65%) Kofax
11 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.43%) ESRI
12 2 (0.43%) HP
12 2 (0.43%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.43%) Sun
12 2 (0.43%) Unisys