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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 103 108
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 235 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.17% 1.74% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.29% 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 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 3,734 1,286 1,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.08% 86.08% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 971 630 840
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,450 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,893
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.24% +7.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +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 12 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 12 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.

1 235 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 209 (88.94%) Agile
3 177 (75.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 173 (73.62%) SDLC
5 171 (72.77%) Operational Stability
5 171 (72.77%) Finance
5 171 (72.77%) Law
6 157 (66.81%) Marketing
7 141 (60.00%) Java
8 129 (54.89%) Problem-Solving
8 129 (54.89%) Tech Ops
9 106 (45.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 105 (44.68%) Machine Learning
11 92 (39.15%) SQL
12 86 (36.60%) AWS
13 85 (36.17%) Decision-Making
14 74 (31.49%) CI/CD
15 68 (28.94%) Apache Spark
16 63 (26.81%) Python
17 60 (25.53%) NoSQL
17 60 (25.53%) JSON
18 59 (25.11%) Kerberos
19 54 (22.98%) Azure
20 49 (20.85%) Microservices
20 49 (20.85%) Cloud Native
21 46 (19.57%) CSS
22 45 (19.15%) Influencing Skills
23 43 (18.30%) Data Pipeline
23 43 (18.30%) Test Automation
23 43 (18.30%) Go

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 68 (28.94%) Apache Spark
2 18 (7.66%) ArcGIS
2 18 (7.66%) FileNet
2 18 (7.66%) GeoServer
3 17 (7.23%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.60%) AWS
2 54 (22.98%) Azure
3 26 (11.06%) GCP
4 18 (7.66%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.43%) IaaS
5 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (25.11%) Kerberos
2 12 (5.11%) Modbus
2 12 (5.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (25.53%) NoSQL
2 42 (17.87%) Big Data
2 42 (17.87%) Metadata
3 20 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (7.66%) Apache Cassandra
5 18 (7.66%) GIS
5 18 (7.66%) QGIS
6 17 (7.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (7.23%) CockroachDB
7 4 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (17.87%) Artifactory
1 42 (17.87%) Bitbucket
1 42 (17.87%) Git
1 42 (17.87%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.66%) JUnit
3 12 (5.11%) GitLab
3 12 (5.11%) JIRA
3 12 (5.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 177 (75.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 171 (72.77%) Finance
2 171 (72.77%) Law
3 157 (66.81%) Marketing
4 45 (19.15%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (5.96%) Banking
6 12 (5.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
7 2 (0.85%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.53%) JSON
2 46 (19.57%) CSS
3 42 (17.87%) JSON-LD
3 42 (17.87%) LDAP
3 42 (17.87%) OpenID
3 42 (17.87%) RESTful
3 42 (17.87%) SAML
3 42 (17.87%) Web Services
3 42 (17.87%) XML
4 37 (15.74%) Kafka
4 37 (15.74%) Spring
5 36 (15.32%) React
6 35 (14.89%) GraphQL
7 30 (12.77%) .NET
7 30 (12.77%) HTML
8 26 (11.06%) PySpark
9 19 (8.09%) AngularJS
10 18 (7.66%) Leaflet
10 18 (7.66%) Spring Integration
10 18 (7.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.85%) Cloud Native
2 42 (17.87%) Enterprise Cloud
2 42 (17.87%) Management Information System
2 42 (17.87%) Reference Data
3 23 (9.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
4 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.43%) IoT
5 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.11%) Windows
2 5 (2.13%) Linux
3 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 209 (88.94%) Agile
3 173 (73.62%) SDLC
4 171 (72.77%) Operational Stability
5 129 (54.89%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (54.89%) Tech Ops
6 106 (45.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 105 (44.68%) Machine Learning
8 85 (36.17%) Decision-Making
9 74 (31.49%) CI/CD
10 49 (20.85%) Microservices
11 43 (18.30%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (18.30%) Test Automation
12 42 (17.87%) Architectural Design
12 42 (17.87%) Community of Practice
12 42 (17.87%) Data Modelling
12 42 (17.87%) Information Architecture
12 42 (17.87%) Ontologies
12 42 (17.87%) RDF
12 42 (17.87%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 141 (60.00%) Java
2 92 (39.15%) SQL
3 63 (26.81%) Python
4 43 (18.30%) Go
5 42 (17.87%) Prolog
5 42 (17.87%) Scala
5 42 (17.87%) SPARQL
6 40 (17.02%) C#
7 36 (15.32%) JavaScript
8 18 (7.66%) C++
8 18 (7.66%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.85%) C
9 2 (0.85%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.66%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.43%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 42 (17.87%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.28%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (16.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (8.51%) Oracle
2 18 (7.66%) ESRI
3 17 (7.23%) Google
4 4 (1.70%) Databricks
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.43%) Coverity
6 1 (0.43%) Klocwork
6 1 (0.43%) Thales