Software Manager Jobs in Scotland

Software Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Software Manager salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 260 208
Rank change year-on-year +105 -52 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 6 20 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.20% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.31% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 13
10th Percentile £71,300 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,875 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,950 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +13.77% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - £89,862 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% -6.25%

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 2,658 6,478 4,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 96.90% 90.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 2,615 2,282
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,868
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.68% +8.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in Scotland

Software Manager
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in Scotland

Software 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 Manager within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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 +181 3 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Edinburgh +14 2 £75,000 -3.23% 1
Aberdeen - 1 £71,000 -
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Software 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 Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) React
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Swift
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Contract Management
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Signage
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS

Software 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Signage
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Contract Management
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Demand Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Development
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft