Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £61,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 98 107
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 245 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.25% 1.74% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.37% 2.02% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33 18 0
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,625 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £56,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 -
90th Percentile - £72,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £58,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% -6.80% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,845 1,287 1,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.04% 85.97% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 962 630 862
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,063 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,431
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.27% +7.46%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 Glasgow region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 245 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 220 (89.80%) Agile
3 187 (76.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 183 (74.69%) SDLC
5 181 (73.88%) Operational Stability
5 181 (73.88%) Finance
5 181 (73.88%) Law
6 167 (68.16%) Marketing
7 151 (61.63%) Java
8 139 (56.73%) Tech Ops
8 139 (56.73%) Problem-Solving
9 116 (47.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 115 (46.94%) Machine Learning
11 96 (39.18%) SQL
12 93 (37.96%) AWS
13 91 (37.14%) Decision-Making
14 75 (30.61%) Apache Spark
15 74 (30.20%) CI/CD
16 67 (27.35%) Python
17 64 (26.12%) NoSQL
18 60 (24.49%) JSON
19 59 (24.08%) Kerberos
20 57 (23.27%) Azure
21 52 (21.22%) Microservices
22 49 (20.00%) Cloud Native
22 49 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
23 46 (18.78%) Scala
23 46 (18.78%) Big Data
23 46 (18.78%) Performance Tuning
23 46 (18.78%) CSS

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 75 (30.61%) Apache Spark
2 19 (7.76%) ArcGIS
2 19 (7.76%) GeoServer
3 18 (7.35%) FileNet
4 17 (6.94%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 93 (37.96%) AWS
2 57 (23.27%) Azure
3 29 (11.84%) GCP
4 18 (7.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.41%) IaaS
5 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.08%) Kerberos
2 12 (4.90%) Modbus
2 12 (4.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.12%) NoSQL
2 46 (18.78%) Big Data
3 42 (17.14%) Metadata
4 20 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.76%) GIS
5 19 (7.76%) QGIS
6 18 (7.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (6.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (6.94%) CockroachDB
8 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (17.14%) Artifactory
1 42 (17.14%) Bitbucket
1 42 (17.14%) Git
1 42 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.35%) JUnit
3 12 (4.90%) GitLab
3 12 (4.90%) JIRA
3 12 (4.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.82%) Maven
5 1 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 187 (76.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 181 (73.88%) Finance
2 181 (73.88%) Law
3 167 (68.16%) Marketing
4 49 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (5.71%) Banking
6 12 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.82%) Private Banking
7 2 (0.82%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.49%) JSON
2 46 (18.78%) CSS
3 42 (17.14%) JSON-LD
3 42 (17.14%) LDAP
3 42 (17.14%) OpenID
3 42 (17.14%) RESTful
3 42 (17.14%) SAML
3 42 (17.14%) Web Services
3 42 (17.14%) XML
4 37 (15.10%) Kafka
4 37 (15.10%) React
4 37 (15.10%) Spring
5 35 (14.29%) GraphQL
6 30 (12.24%) HTML
7 29 (11.84%) .NET
7 29 (11.84%) PySpark
8 19 (7.76%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.76%) Leaflet
8 19 (7.76%) OpenLayers
8 19 (7.76%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 42 (17.14%) Enterprise Cloud
2 42 (17.14%) Management Information System
2 42 (17.14%) Reference Data
3 26 (10.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
4 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.90%) Windows
2 6 (2.45%) Linux
3 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 220 (89.80%) Agile
3 183 (74.69%) SDLC
4 181 (73.88%) Operational Stability
5 139 (56.73%) Problem-Solving
5 139 (56.73%) Tech Ops
6 116 (47.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 115 (46.94%) Machine Learning
8 91 (37.14%) Decision-Making
9 74 (30.20%) CI/CD
10 52 (21.22%) Microservices
11 46 (18.78%) Performance Tuning
12 43 (17.55%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (17.55%) Test Automation
13 42 (17.14%) Architectural Design
13 42 (17.14%) Community of Practice
13 42 (17.14%) Data Transformation
13 42 (17.14%) Information Architecture
13 42 (17.14%) Roadmaps
13 42 (17.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 151 (61.63%) Java
2 96 (39.18%) SQL
3 67 (27.35%) Python
4 46 (18.78%) Scala
5 43 (17.55%) Go
6 42 (17.14%) Prolog
6 42 (17.14%) SPARQL
7 38 (15.51%) C#
8 37 (15.10%) JavaScript
9 18 (7.35%) C++
9 18 (7.35%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.82%) C
10 2 (0.82%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.41%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 42 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.22%) Firmware
3 2 (0.82%) Docker
4 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (15.51%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (8.16%) Oracle
2 19 (7.76%) ESRI
3 17 (6.94%) Google
4 4 (1.63%) Databricks
5 1 (0.41%) Coverity
5 1 (0.41%) Klocwork
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.41%) Thales