Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £61,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 67 45
Rank change year-on-year +60 -22 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,021 59 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.72% 3.93% 6.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 51.69% 4.58% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 61 33 26
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,500 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.88% +25.26%

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 3,910 1,288 1,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.12% 85.75% 97.52%
Number of salaries quoted 923 629 861
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,833 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +13.40% +7.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Glasgow

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,021 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1,947 (96.34%) Agile
3 1,920 (95.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,911 (94.56%) Finance
4 1,911 (94.56%) Law
5 1,788 (88.47%) SDLC
6 1,711 (84.66%) Operational Stability
7 1,677 (82.98%) CI/CD
8 1,386 (68.58%) Java
9 1,263 (62.49%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,243 (61.50%) Machine Learning
11 1,226 (60.66%) Community of Practice
12 1,000 (49.48%) AWS
13 883 (43.69%) SQL
14 869 (43.00%) Marketing
15 775 (38.35%) Visualisation
16 767 (37.95%) Python
17 766 (37.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 755 (37.36%) Algorithms
19 670 (33.15%) Risk Management
20 638 (31.57%) Legal
21 597 (29.54%) Cloud Native
22 563 (27.86%) Spring
23 539 (26.67%) NoSQL
24 486 (24.05%) Apache Spark
24 486 (24.05%) React
25 405 (20.04%) Decision-Making
26 404 (19.99%) Microservices
27 395 (19.54%) Big Data
28 383 (18.95%) Architectural Design

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
1 486 (24.05%) Apache Spark
2 114 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (5.05%) Apache
4 98 (4.85%) FileNet
5 32 (1.58%) Cloud Foundry
6 30 (1.48%) ArcGIS
6 30 (1.48%) GeoServer
7 21 (1.04%) GemFire
8 18 (0.89%) Camunda
9 11 (0.54%) CICS
10 10 (0.49%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.049%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (49.48%) AWS
2 133 (6.58%) Azure
3 101 (5.00%) Datadog
4 99 (4.90%) Amazon S3
5 90 (4.45%) GCP
6 66 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 53 (2.62%) Serverless
9 52 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
11 49 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (2.23%) GitHub
13 42 (2.08%) BlazeMeter
14 40 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (1.24%) Google Play
16 7 (0.35%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
17 4 (0.20%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.06%) Kerberos
2 13 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.59%) Modbus
4 1 (0.049%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 539 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 395 (19.54%) Big Data
3 221 (10.94%) Hadoop
4 152 (7.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 143 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
6 123 (6.09%) Apache Hive
7 98 (4.85%) HBase
7 98 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 84 (4.16%) MongoDB
9 65 (3.22%) Metadata
10 49 (2.42%) Electronic Patient Records
11 43 (2.13%) Data Lake
12 39 (1.93%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (1.88%) CockroachDB
14 35 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (1.48%) GIS
15 30 (1.48%) QGIS
16 28 (1.39%) MySQL
17 21 (1.04%) Hazelcast
18 18 (0.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 240 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 204 (10.09%) JUnit
3 173 (8.56%) Git
4 111 (5.49%) Jasmine
5 84 (4.16%) Bitbucket Server
5 84 (4.16%) Cypress.io
6 70 (3.46%) Bitbucket
7 66 (3.27%) Artifactory
7 66 (3.27%) Karma Test Runner
8 61 (3.02%) Maven
9 60 (2.97%) Protractor
9 60 (2.97%) Selenium
9 60 (2.97%) WebDriver
10 45 (2.23%) Mockito
11 28 (1.39%) Gradle
12 27 (1.34%) JMeter
13 26 (1.29%) JIRA
14 25 (1.24%) Android Studio
15 24 (1.19%) Cucumber
16 21 (1.04%) Jaeger
General
1 1,920 (95.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,911 (94.56%) Finance
2 1,911 (94.56%) Law
3 869 (43.00%) Marketing
4 638 (31.57%) Legal
5 364 (18.01%) Banking
6 296 (14.65%) Investment Banking
7 132 (6.53%) Social Skills
8 122 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
9 68 (3.36%) Private Banking
10 56 (2.77%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
13 21 (1.04%) Games
14 18 (0.89%) Front Office
15 15 (0.74%) Publishing
16 9 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
17 5 (0.25%) Electronics
17 5 (0.25%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 563 (27.86%) Spring
2 486 (24.05%) React
3 361 (17.86%) AngularJS
4 328 (16.23%) Kafka
5 251 (12.42%) HTML
6 244 (12.07%) CSS
7 242 (11.97%) J2EE
8 241 (11.92%) Spring Boot
9 202 (10.00%) JSON
10 192 (9.50%) Hibernate
11 183 (9.05%) Node.js
12 171 (8.46%) PySpark
13 170 (8.41%) JMS
14 163 (8.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 144 (7.13%) jQuery
16 134 (6.63%) Web Services
17 129 (6.38%) RESTful
18 123 (6.09%) GraphQL
19 110 (5.44%) XML
20 100 (4.95%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 755 (37.36%) Algorithms
2 597 (29.54%) Cloud Native
3 221 (10.94%) Public Cloud
4 152 (7.52%) Onboarding
5 125 (6.19%) Reference Data
6 105 (5.20%) Management Information System
7 90 (4.45%) Data Structures
8 65 (3.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 41 (2.03%) Legacy Code
10 28 (1.39%) Private Cloud
11 27 (1.34%) Market Risk
12 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.09%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.04%) Replication
15 20 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
16 16 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
17 11 (0.54%) Mainframe
17 11 (0.54%) VSAM
18 8 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.23%) Unix
2 101 (5.00%) Linux
3 25 (1.24%) Android
4 12 (0.59%) Windows
5 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,021 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1,947 (96.34%) Agile
3 1,788 (88.47%) SDLC
4 1,711 (84.66%) Operational Stability
5 1,677 (82.98%) CI/CD
6 1,263 (62.49%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,243 (61.50%) Machine Learning
8 1,226 (60.66%) Community of Practice
9 775 (38.35%) Visualisation
10 766 (37.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 670 (33.15%) Risk Management
12 405 (20.04%) Decision-Making
13 404 (19.99%) Microservices
14 383 (18.95%) Architectural Design
15 365 (18.06%) Information Architecture
16 346 (17.12%) Full Stack Development
17 315 (15.59%) Continuous Delivery
18 265 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
19 225 (11.13%) Test Automation
20 207 (10.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,386 (68.58%) Java
2 883 (43.69%) SQL
3 767 (37.95%) Python
4 320 (15.83%) JavaScript
5 235 (11.63%) Scala
6 196 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 124 (6.14%) PL/SQL
8 81 (4.01%) C#
9 80 (3.96%) Go
10 65 (3.22%) Prolog
10 65 (3.22%) SPARQL
11 37 (1.83%) Groovy
12 28 (1.39%) Kotlin
13 27 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 26 (1.29%) C++
15 20 (0.99%) Ruby
16 11 (0.54%) COBOL
16 11 (0.54%) JCL
17 10 (0.49%) C
17 10 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (2.57%) Degree
2 41 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (1.63%) Security Cleared
4 32 (1.58%) Master's Degree
5 30 (1.48%) SC Cleared
6 17 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.049%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.049%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.049%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (2.62%) Accessibility
2 39 (1.93%) SLA
3 32 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.89%) PMO
5 9 (0.45%) QA
6 6 (0.30%) WAI
7 1 (0.049%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.049%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 98 (4.85%) HDFS
2 65 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.68%) Docker
4 11 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 291 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 234 (11.58%) Terraform
3 153 (7.57%) Grafana
4 63 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.04%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.04%) Kibana
6 21 (1.04%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.35%) Graphite
Vendors
1 320 (15.83%) Oracle
2 205 (10.14%) Databricks
3 164 (8.11%) Splunk
4 141 (6.98%) Dynatrace
5 85 (4.21%) Informatica
6 68 (3.36%) Cloudera
7 47 (2.33%) Google
8 39 (1.93%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.48%) ESRI
10 18 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 18 (0.89%) Pega
10 18 (0.89%) SaltStack
11 9 (0.45%) Microsoft
11 9 (0.45%) TOWER Software
12 5 (0.25%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.25%) CA
12 5 (0.25%) Sybase
13 2 (0.099%) IBM
14 1 (0.049%) Coverity
14 1 (0.049%) Thales