Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 210 251
Rank change year-on-year +102 +41 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 213 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.18% 0.26% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% 0.29% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £62,500 £78,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,875 £85,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +52.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - £79,000 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% -14.29% +35.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,500 4,102 5,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.88% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,220 3,006
10th Percentile £27,975 £31,363 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,234 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in Scotland

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in Scotland

Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +38 213 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Software Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 213 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 212 (99.53%) Law
2 212 (99.53%) Finance
2 212 (99.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 180 (84.51%) Marketing
4 168 (78.87%) Agile
4 168 (78.87%) Financial Institution
4 168 (78.87%) CI/CD
5 167 (78.40%) SDLC
6 159 (74.65%) Mathematics
6 159 (74.65%) Computer Science
7 156 (73.24%) Cloud Native
8 132 (61.97%) Java
9 118 (55.40%) SQL
9 118 (55.40%) Continuous Delivery
10 112 (52.58%) NoSQL
11 102 (47.89%) AWS
12 98 (46.01%) Coaching
13 62 (29.11%) Python
14 59 (27.70%) NumPy
14 59 (27.70%) Market Risk
14 59 (27.70%) Pandas
15 56 (26.29%) Microservices
15 56 (26.29%) Spring Boot
15 56 (26.29%) Spring
16 55 (25.82%) Analytics
17 53 (24.88%) Scala
17 53 (24.88%) Big Data
17 53 (24.88%) Performance Tuning
17 53 (24.88%) Apache Spark

Software Engineering 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 53 (24.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 102 (47.89%) AWS
2 6 (2.82%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (52.58%) NoSQL
2 53 (24.88%) Big Data
3 6 (2.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) JUnit
General
1 212 (99.53%) Finance
1 212 (99.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 212 (99.53%) Law
2 180 (84.51%) Marketing
3 168 (78.87%) Financial Institution
4 53 (24.88%) Influencing Skills
5 33 (15.49%) Banking
6 27 (12.68%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.82%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.70%) NumPy
1 59 (27.70%) Pandas
2 56 (26.29%) Spring
2 56 (26.29%) Spring Boot
3 49 (23.00%) RESTful
4 6 (2.82%) REST
5 1 (0.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 156 (73.24%) Cloud Native
2 59 (27.70%) Market Risk
3 49 (23.00%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Android
1 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 168 (78.87%) Agile
2 168 (78.87%) CI/CD
3 167 (78.40%) SDLC
4 159 (74.65%) Computer Science
4 159 (74.65%) Mathematics
5 118 (55.40%) Continuous Delivery
6 98 (46.01%) Coaching
7 56 (26.29%) Microservices
8 55 (25.82%) Analytics
9 53 (24.88%) Mentoring
9 53 (24.88%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (8.45%) Observability
11 7 (3.29%) Asset Management
11 7 (3.29%) Line Management
11 7 (3.29%) Scrum
12 6 (2.82%) Investment Management
12 6 (2.82%) Performance Testing
12 6 (2.82%) Unit Testing
12 6 (2.82%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (61.97%) Java
2 118 (55.40%) SQL
3 62 (29.11%) Python
4 53 (24.88%) Scala
5 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Systems Management
1 6 (2.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (2.82%) Dynatrace
1 6 (2.82%) Splunk