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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 350 373 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.95% 20.09% 19.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.12% 21.06% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 264 248 347
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,241
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £82,548 £84,056 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 1,340 1,771 2,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.87% 95.37% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,043 1,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.80% +14.50%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 (8.57%) ArcGIS
1 30 (8.57%) GeoServer
2 14 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.14%) Captiva
3 4 (1.14%) FileNet
3 4 (1.14%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.86%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 96 (27.43%) AWS
2 73 (20.86%) Azure
3 43 (12.29%) GCP
4 39 (11.14%) SaaS
5 17 (4.86%) Amazon S3
6 14 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (4.00%) Google Docs
6 14 (4.00%) Lucidchart
6 14 (4.00%) Miro
6 14 (4.00%) Slack
7 12 (3.43%) GitHub
8 5 (1.43%) Serverless
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.57%) Azure API Management
10 2 (0.57%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.57%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.86%) Network Security
2 20 (5.71%) Wireless
3 8 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.00%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.86%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
6 2 (0.57%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.29%) RS-232
7 1 (0.29%) RS-485
7 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.57%) GIS
2 30 (8.57%) QGIS
3 20 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (4.86%) Hadoop
5 14 (4.00%) Big Data
5 14 (4.00%) Redis
5 14 (4.00%) Scylla
6 10 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.71%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.86%) MySQL
10 2 (0.57%) Power BI
11 1 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 16 (4.57%) Git
2 10 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (2.57%) JIRA
4 8 (2.29%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.29%) Selenium
5 3 (0.86%) Maven
5 3 (0.86%) webpack
6 2 (0.57%) Appium
6 2 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.57%) JUnit
6 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.57%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
General
1 77 (22.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 57 (16.29%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.57%) Finance
4 21 (6.00%) Banking
5 10 (2.86%) Legal
6 7 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.71%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.14%) Games
10 3 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Aviation
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 275 (78.57%) Software Engineer
2 113 (32.29%) Senior
3 94 (26.86%) Senior Software Engineer
4 35 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 25 (7.14%) Lead
6 24 (6.86%) C Software Engineer
7 23 (6.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 22 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 22 (6.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
9 21 (6.00%) Principal Software Engineer
10 19 (5.43%) C++ Software Engineer
10 19 (5.43%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 17 (4.86%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 17 (4.86%) Senior C Software Engineer
12 16 (4.57%) .NET Software Engineer
13 15 (4.29%) Developer
14 13 (3.71%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.43%) Senior Software Developer
15 12 (3.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.00%) React
2 70 (20.00%) .NET
3 47 (13.43%) CSS
4 40 (11.43%) .NET Core
5 30 (8.57%) Leaflet
5 30 (8.57%) OpenLayers
5 30 (8.57%) PostGIS
6 23 (6.57%) Kafka
7 19 (5.43%) AngularJS
7 19 (5.43%) HTML
7 19 (5.43%) Node.js
8 17 (4.86%) ASP.NET
9 15 (4.29%) WebGL
10 14 (4.00%) GraphQL
10 14 (4.00%) Spring
11 13 (3.71%) Spring Boot
12 12 (3.43%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (3.43%) Playwright
13 11 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (3.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.86%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.57%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.00%) IoT
6 4 (1.14%) DataPower
6 4 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.57%) Online Banking
7 2 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.29%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.29%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.29%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.00%) Linux
2 5 (1.43%) Unix
3 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.00%) Agile
2 71 (20.29%) DevOps
3 62 (17.71%) Computer Science
4 55 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (10.00%) Mathematics
6 33 (9.43%) Mentoring
7 32 (9.14%) Test Automation
7 32 (9.14%) Web Development
8 30 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
9 29 (8.29%) Microservices
10 28 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
10 28 (8.00%) SDLC
11 27 (7.71%) Physics
12 23 (6.57%) Data Science
13 22 (6.29%) Software Testing
14 20 (5.71%) Coaching
15 18 (5.14%) MVC
15 18 (5.14%) TDD
16 16 (4.57%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (4.57%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 94 (26.86%) Python
2 84 (24.00%) Java
3 70 (20.00%) C
4 69 (19.71%) JavaScript
5 56 (16.00%) C#
6 43 (12.29%) TypeScript
7 41 (11.71%) C++
8 38 (10.86%) SQL
9 26 (7.43%) Embedded C
10 24 (6.86%) Bash
11 19 (5.43%) Go
12 15 (4.29%) GLSL
12 15 (4.29%) Rust
13 14 (4.00%) Scala
14 7 (2.00%) Ruby
15 6 (1.71%) Haskell
16 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.57%) R
18 1 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 39 (11.14%) Degree
2 30 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 30 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.71%) PhD
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.57%) QA
2 4 (1.14%) DICOM
2 4 (1.14%) GDPR
2 4 (1.14%) HL7
2 4 (1.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 18 (5.14%) Docker
2 14 (4.00%) Firmware
3 6 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.43%) Terraform
3 4 (1.14%) Istio
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 30 (8.57%) ESRI
2 23 (6.57%) Google
3 14 (4.00%) Dell
4 10 (2.86%) Oracle
5 9 (2.57%) IBM
6 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.14%) Kofax
6 4 (1.14%) Pega
6 4 (1.14%) SAP
6 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.86%) Splunk
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.29%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.29%) CA