Software Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 352 442 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.64% 21.96% 19.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.41% 22.94% 20.47%
Number of salaries quoted 257 282 326
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,033 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +12.61% +20.00%
75th Percentile £91,934 £84,056 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,483 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,333 1,927 2,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.52% 95.73% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 935 1,121 1,423
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,033 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 30 (8.52%) ArcGIS
1 30 (8.52%) GeoServer
2 23 (6.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.70%) Captiva
3 6 (1.70%) FileNet
3 6 (1.70%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.85%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 107 (30.40%) AWS
2 79 (22.44%) Azure
3 58 (16.48%) SaaS
4 57 (16.19%) GCP
5 26 (7.39%) Amazon S3
6 23 (6.53%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (6.53%) Google Docs
6 23 (6.53%) Lucidchart
6 23 (6.53%) Miro
6 23 (6.53%) Slack
7 16 (4.55%) GitHub
8 9 (2.56%) Serverless
9 4 (1.14%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.85%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.57%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.57%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.09%) Network Security
2 19 (5.40%) Wireless
3 6 (1.70%) Bluetooth
3 6 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.85%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.52%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (8.52%) GIS
2 30 (8.52%) QGIS
3 23 (6.53%) Big Data
3 23 (6.53%) Hadoop
3 23 (6.53%) Redis
3 23 (6.53%) Scylla
4 11 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.85%) MySQL
7 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.57%) Power BI
9 1 (0.28%) DB2
Development Applications
1 21 (5.97%) Git
2 14 (3.98%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (3.13%) JIRA
4 10 (2.84%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.56%) Selenium
6 8 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.14%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (1.14%) Maven
8 3 (0.85%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.85%) webpack
9 2 (0.57%) Appium
9 2 (0.57%) JUnit
9 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.57%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 84 (23.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 40 (11.36%) Finance
4 27 (7.67%) Banking
5 10 (2.84%) Legal
6 7 (1.99%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.70%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.14%) Games
10 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 282 (80.11%) Software Engineer
2 120 (34.09%) Senior
3 102 (28.98%) Senior Software Engineer
4 37 (10.51%) Principal Engineer
4 37 (10.51%) Principal Software Engineer
5 34 (9.66%) Embedded Engineer
6 24 (6.82%) C Software Engineer
7 22 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 21 (5.97%) Java Engineer
8 21 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 20 (5.68%) Lead
10 19 (5.40%) C++ Software Engineer
10 19 (5.40%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 17 (4.83%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 17 (4.83%) Senior C Software Engineer
12 15 (4.26%) Developer
13 14 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
14 13 (3.69%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.41%) Senior Software Developer
15 12 (3.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (23.30%) React
2 70 (19.89%) .NET
3 46 (13.07%) CSS
4 42 (11.93%) .NET Core
5 35 (9.94%) Kafka
6 30 (8.52%) Leaflet
6 30 (8.52%) OpenLayers
6 30 (8.52%) PostGIS
7 23 (6.53%) GraphQL
8 22 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 22 (6.25%) Node.js
9 18 (5.11%) ASP.NET
9 18 (5.11%) HTML
10 17 (4.83%) Spring
11 15 (4.26%) RESTful
11 15 (4.26%) Spring Boot
11 15 (4.26%) WebGL
12 13 (3.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 13 (3.69%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (3.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.94%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.53%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.70%) DataPower
8 6 (1.70%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.42%) IoT
10 4 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.57%) Online Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.34%) Linux
2 7 (1.99%) Mac OS
2 7 (1.99%) Windows
3 6 (1.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (31.82%) Agile
2 82 (23.30%) DevOps
3 65 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (17.33%) Computer Science
5 39 (11.08%) Test Automation
6 37 (10.51%) Data Science
7 36 (10.23%) Mentoring
7 36 (10.23%) Microservices
8 35 (9.94%) Mathematics
9 34 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
10 32 (9.09%) Web Development
11 31 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (8.52%) Computer Security
12 30 (8.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 30 (8.52%) Threat Intelligence
13 29 (8.24%) Full Stack Development
14 28 (7.95%) Physics
14 28 (7.95%) TDD
15 27 (7.67%) High Availability
16 26 (7.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 102 (28.98%) Python
2 99 (28.13%) Java
3 71 (20.17%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.32%) C
5 56 (15.91%) C#
6 41 (11.65%) C++
7 40 (11.36%) SQL
7 40 (11.36%) TypeScript
8 36 (10.23%) Bash
9 32 (9.09%) Go
10 26 (7.39%) Embedded C
11 23 (6.53%) Scala
12 16 (4.55%) Rust
13 15 (4.26%) GLSL
14 10 (2.84%) Ruby
15 7 (1.99%) Haskell
16 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.85%) Perl
18 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (11.65%) Degree
2 31 (8.81%) SC Cleared
2 31 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.99%) PhD
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.11%) QA
2 6 (1.70%) GDPR
3 4 (1.14%) DICOM
3 4 (1.14%) HL7
3 4 (1.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 21 (5.97%) Docker
2 13 (3.69%) Firmware
3 6 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Istio
2 4 (1.14%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Ansible
3 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 35 (9.94%) Google
2 30 (8.52%) Dell
2 30 (8.52%) ESRI
3 17 (4.83%) Oracle
4 15 (4.26%) IBM
5 6 (1.70%) Kofax
5 6 (1.70%) Pega
5 6 (1.70%) SAP
5 6 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.28%) CA