Software Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 2 6 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,995 719 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.80% 16.52% 14.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 48.27% 17.52% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 563 417 500
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,736 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,305 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.34% +15.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +10 2,430 £60,000 +9.09% 43
Edinburgh +6 350 £60,000 -13.60% 61
Aberdeen +13 80 £52,500 -19.23% 8
West Lothian -3 34 £60,000 - 2
Dundee +6 26 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Fife -2 17 £50,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire +5 9 £42,500 -34.62% 5
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 -
Scottish Borders +1 4 - -
Renfrewshire 0 4 £52,500 +28.51%
Inverclyde - 4 £50,000 -
East Ayrshire - 3 £60,000 - 2
Midlothian - 3 - - 23
Lanarkshire -9 2 - - 16
Angus - 1 £65,000 -
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 580 (19.37%) Apache Spark
2 131 (4.37%) Apache
3 114 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (3.41%) FileNet
5 60 (2.00%) ArcGIS
5 60 (2.00%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.70%) GemFire
8 18 (0.60%) Camunda
9 12 (0.40%) Confluence
10 11 (0.37%) CICS
11 10 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.13%) Captiva
14 4 (0.13%) SharePoint
15 2 (0.067%) SAS
16 1 (0.033%) Tuxedo
16 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.033%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.033%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,279 (42.70%) AWS
2 240 (8.01%) Azure
3 137 (4.57%) GCP
4 116 (3.87%) Amazon S3
4 116 (3.87%) Datadog
5 67 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
5 67 (2.24%) Serverless
6 66 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
8 57 (1.90%) GitHub
9 55 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 53 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
13 46 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
14 44 (1.47%) SaaS
15 25 (0.83%) Google Play
16 23 (0.77%) Power Platform
17 14 (0.47%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.74%) Kerberos
2 57 (1.90%) Wireless
3 38 (1.27%) Network Security
4 21 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 16 (0.53%) DSL
7 15 (0.50%) RS-232
8 14 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.43%) Modbus
10 7 (0.23%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.23%) HTTP
10 7 (0.23%) MQTT
11 2 (0.067%) Internet
11 2 (0.067%) ZigBee
12 1 (0.033%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 657 (21.94%) NoSQL
2 489 (16.33%) Big Data
3 241 (8.05%) Hadoop
4 163 (5.44%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 123 (4.11%) Apache Hive
7 121 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 108 (3.61%) MongoDB
9 98 (3.27%) HBase
10 70 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.17%) Metadata
12 61 (2.04%) GIS
13 60 (2.00%) QGIS
14 59 (1.97%) Data Lake
15 50 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
16 39 (1.30%) MySQL
16 39 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
17 38 (1.27%) CockroachDB
18 28 (0.93%) DB2
19 23 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 264 (8.81%) Jenkins
2 210 (7.01%) JUnit
3 199 (6.64%) Git
4 111 (3.71%) Jasmine
5 92 (3.07%) Cypress.io
6 84 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.34%) Bitbucket
7 70 (2.34%) Maven
8 69 (2.30%) Selenium
9 66 (2.20%) Artifactory
9 66 (2.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (2.00%) Protractor
10 60 (2.00%) WebDriver
11 46 (1.54%) JIRA
12 45 (1.50%) Mockito
13 29 (0.97%) Gradle
14 28 (0.93%) GitLab
14 28 (0.93%) JMeter
15 25 (0.83%) Android Studio
15 25 (0.83%) Cucumber
General
1 2,444 (81.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,322 (77.53%) Finance
3 2,270 (75.79%) Law
4 1,195 (39.90%) Marketing
5 648 (21.64%) Legal
6 438 (14.62%) Banking
7 343 (11.45%) Investment Banking
8 259 (8.65%) Social Skills
9 242 (8.08%) Financial Institution
10 173 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
11 74 (2.47%) Private Banking
12 63 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
13 56 (1.87%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.40%) Electronics
16 31 (1.04%) Games
17 22 (0.73%) Prime Brokerage
18 18 (0.60%) Front Office
18 18 (0.60%) Publishing
19 17 (0.57%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2,421 (80.83%) Software Engineer
2 796 (26.58%) Java Engineer
2 796 (26.58%) Java Software Engineer
3 718 (23.97%) Lead
4 679 (22.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 484 (16.16%) Senior
6 398 (13.29%) Senior Software Engineer
7 372 (12.42%) Big Data Engineer
7 372 (12.42%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 332 (11.09%) Full Stack Engineer
8 332 (11.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 324 (10.82%) Python Engineer
9 324 (10.82%) Python Software Engineer
10 294 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
11 289 (9.65%) AWS Software Engineer
12 270 (9.02%) Lead Java Engineer
13 234 (7.81%) Data Engineer
14 220 (7.35%) Scala Engineer
14 220 (7.35%) Scala Software Engineer
15 210 (7.01%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (22.30%) Spring
2 590 (19.70%) React
3 417 (13.92%) AngularJS
4 367 (12.25%) Kafka
5 337 (11.25%) Spring Boot
6 308 (10.28%) CSS
7 287 (9.58%) HTML
8 248 (8.28%) J2EE
9 214 (7.15%) Node.js
10 206 (6.88%) JSON
11 198 (6.61%) Hibernate
12 191 (6.38%) RESTful
13 175 (5.84%) .NET
14 171 (5.71%) PySpark
15 170 (5.68%) JMS
16 165 (5.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 146 (4.87%) jQuery
18 140 (4.67%) Web Services
19 137 (4.57%) GraphQL
20 112 (3.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 870 (29.05%) Cloud Native
2 803 (26.81%) Algorithms
3 271 (9.05%) Public Cloud
4 156 (5.21%) Onboarding
5 126 (4.21%) Reference Data
6 122 (4.07%) Management Information System
7 119 (3.97%) Data Structures
8 92 (3.07%) Product Ownership
9 91 (3.04%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (1.70%) Credit Risk
12 41 (1.37%) Legacy Code
13 35 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 32 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 31 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (0.70%) Replication
17 19 (0.63%) Taxonomies
18 14 (0.47%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 184 (6.14%) Linux
2 133 (4.44%) Unix
3 26 (0.87%) Android
4 21 (0.70%) Windows
5 14 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.033%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,293 (76.56%) Agile
2 2,017 (67.35%) SDLC
3 1,907 (63.67%) CI/CD
4 1,792 (59.83%) Operational Stability
5 1,365 (45.58%) Machine Learning
6 1,353 (45.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,269 (42.37%) Community of Practice
8 813 (27.15%) Visualisation
9 791 (26.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 673 (22.47%) Risk Management
11 535 (17.86%) Decision-Making
12 507 (16.93%) Microservices
13 470 (15.69%) Computer Science
14 460 (15.36%) Continuous Delivery
15 405 (13.52%) Architectural Design
16 400 (13.36%) Full Stack Development
17 394 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
18 381 (12.72%) Information Architecture
19 306 (10.22%) Mathematics
20 277 (9.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,717 (57.33%) Java
2 1,090 (36.39%) SQL
3 1,069 (35.69%) Python
4 410 (13.69%) JavaScript
5 316 (10.55%) Scala
6 256 (8.55%) TypeScript
7 223 (7.45%) C#
8 183 (6.11%) C
9 144 (4.81%) PL/SQL
10 124 (4.14%) C++
11 101 (3.37%) Go
12 83 (2.77%) Embedded C
13 65 (2.17%) Prolog
13 65 (2.17%) SPARQL
14 47 (1.57%) Ruby
15 37 (1.24%) Groovy
16 31 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 27 (0.90%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.83%) Bash
19 15 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 170 (5.68%) Degree
2 74 (2.47%) Security Cleared
3 71 (2.37%) SC Cleared
4 65 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 18 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.33%) PhD
8 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.033%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.033%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.033%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (1.87%) SLA
2 53 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.97%) QA
5 18 (0.60%) PMO
6 6 (0.20%) WAI
7 4 (0.13%) DICOM
7 4 (0.13%) GDPR
7 4 (0.13%) HL7
7 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.033%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.033%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 98 (3.27%) HDFS
2 74 (2.47%) Docker
3 65 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 64 (2.14%) Firmware
5 22 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 365 (12.19%) Kubernetes
2 254 (8.48%) Terraform
3 172 (5.74%) Grafana
4 80 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.70%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.70%) Kibana
6 21 (0.70%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.23%) Graphite
8 4 (0.13%) Istio
9 2 (0.067%) Ansible
9 2 (0.067%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.067%) Puppet
10 1 (0.033%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 351 (11.72%) Oracle
2 250 (8.35%) Databricks
3 186 (6.21%) Splunk
4 164 (5.48%) Dynatrace
5 85 (2.84%) Google
5 85 (2.84%) Informatica
6 68 (2.27%) Cloudera
7 60 (2.00%) ESRI
8 55 (1.84%) Alteryx
9 29 (0.97%) Microsoft
10 22 (0.73%) Pega
11 21 (0.70%) Sybase
12 18 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 18 (0.60%) SaltStack
13 16 (0.53%) Cognos
14 14 (0.47%) Dell
15 11 (0.37%) IBM
15 11 (0.37%) SAP
16 9 (0.30%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.30%) Twitter