Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,410 380 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.88% 8.78% 7.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 35.95% 9.80% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 396 245 223
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.84% +25.32%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £71,985
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,328 £77,530
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 6,703 3,878 5,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.56% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,851 2,115 3,085
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,622 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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 +60 1,996 £61,500 +14.42% 29
Edinburgh +15 283 £60,000 -9.91% 30
Aberdeen +11 46 £60,000 -7.69% 8
West Lothian -2 36 £60,000 - 1
Fife -6 11 £50,000 -4.76%
Dundee -5 8 £50,000 -23.08%
Scottish Borders +4 4 - -
East Ayrshire - 4 £60,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire +2 3 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Angus - 3 £65,000 -
Inverclyde - 3 £50,000 -
South Lanarkshire - 3 £65,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 14
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Scotland region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,408 (99.92%) Software Engineering
2 2,014 (83.57%) Agile
3 1,977 (82.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,912 (79.34%) Finance
5 1,883 (78.13%) Law
6 1,779 (73.82%) SDLC
7 1,683 (69.83%) Operational Stability
8 1,659 (68.84%) CI/CD
9 1,454 (60.33%) Java
10 1,250 (51.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,239 (51.41%) Machine Learning
12 1,211 (50.25%) Community of Practice
13 1,051 (43.61%) AWS
14 906 (37.59%) SQL
15 864 (35.85%) Python
16 852 (35.35%) Marketing
17 777 (32.24%) Visualisation
18 770 (31.95%) Algorithms
19 759 (31.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 661 (27.43%) Risk Management
21 640 (26.56%) Legal
22 591 (24.52%) Cloud Native
23 570 (23.65%) Spring
24 547 (22.70%) React
25 539 (22.37%) NoSQL
26 491 (20.37%) Apache Spark
27 427 (17.72%) Microservices
28 401 (16.64%) Big Data
28 401 (16.64%) Decision-Making
29 388 (16.10%) AngularJS

Software Engineer 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
1 491 (20.37%) Apache Spark
2 113 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (4.23%) FileNet
4 100 (4.15%) Apache
5 60 (2.49%) ArcGIS
5 60 (2.49%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.87%) GemFire
8 17 (0.71%) Camunda
9 11 (0.46%) CICS
10 10 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.17%) Captiva
13 4 (0.17%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.041%) Confluence
14 1 (0.041%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (43.61%) AWS
2 187 (7.76%) Azure
3 119 (4.94%) GCP
4 116 (4.81%) Amazon S3
5 101 (4.19%) Datadog
6 64 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
8 58 (2.41%) Serverless
9 55 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (2.24%) GitHub
11 52 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
11 52 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
14 42 (1.74%) BlazeMeter
15 39 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
16 32 (1.33%) SaaS
17 25 (1.04%) Google Play
18 14 (0.58%) Google Docs
18 14 (0.58%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.40%) Kerberos
2 42 (1.74%) Network Security
3 22 (0.91%) Wireless
4 21 (0.87%) Ethernet
4 21 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (0.62%) RS-232
6 14 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.54%) Modbus
8 7 (0.29%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.083%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.041%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 539 (22.37%) NoSQL
2 401 (16.64%) Big Data
3 234 (9.71%) Hadoop
4 162 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (6.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 120 (4.98%) Apache Hive
7 98 (4.07%) Relational Database
8 96 (3.98%) HBase
9 88 (3.65%) MongoDB
10 66 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.70%) Metadata
12 60 (2.49%) GIS
12 60 (2.49%) QGIS
13 48 (1.99%) Electronic Patient Records
14 43 (1.78%) Data Lake
15 39 (1.62%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (1.58%) CockroachDB
17 29 (1.20%) MySQL
18 21 (0.87%) Hazelcast
18 21 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 240 (9.96%) Jenkins
2 204 (8.46%) JUnit
3 182 (7.55%) Git
4 111 (4.61%) Jasmine
5 84 (3.49%) Cypress.io
6 83 (3.44%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 66 (2.74%) Artifactory
8 66 (2.74%) Karma Test Runner
9 62 (2.57%) Maven
10 61 (2.53%) Selenium
11 60 (2.49%) Protractor
11 60 (2.49%) WebDriver
12 45 (1.87%) Mockito
13 31 (1.29%) JIRA
14 28 (1.16%) Gradle
15 27 (1.12%) JMeter
16 25 (1.04%) Android Studio
17 24 (1.00%) Cucumber
18 21 (0.87%) Jaeger
General
1 1,977 (82.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,912 (79.34%) Finance
3 1,883 (78.13%) Law
4 852 (35.35%) Marketing
5 640 (26.56%) Legal
6 374 (15.52%) Banking
7 293 (12.16%) Investment Banking
8 176 (7.30%) Social Skills
9 119 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (2.74%) Private Banking
11 57 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 34 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.00%) Games
15 22 (0.91%) Electronics
15 22 (0.91%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
16 18 (0.75%) Front Office
16 18 (0.75%) Publishing
17 17 (0.71%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 570 (23.65%) Spring
2 547 (22.70%) React
3 388 (16.10%) AngularJS
4 347 (14.40%) Kafka
5 292 (12.12%) CSS
6 271 (11.24%) HTML
7 246 (10.21%) J2EE
8 245 (10.17%) Spring Boot
9 203 (8.42%) JSON
10 197 (8.17%) Hibernate
11 195 (8.09%) Node.js
12 170 (7.05%) PySpark
13 169 (7.01%) JMS
14 163 (6.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 144 (5.98%) jQuery
16 139 (5.77%) .NET
17 137 (5.68%) GraphQL
17 137 (5.68%) RESTful
18 136 (5.64%) Web Services
19 111 (4.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 770 (31.95%) Algorithms
2 591 (24.52%) Cloud Native
3 220 (9.13%) Public Cloud
4 149 (6.18%) Onboarding
5 123 (5.10%) Reference Data
6 104 (4.32%) Management Information System
7 103 (4.27%) Data Structures
8 65 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
9 40 (1.66%) Legacy Code
10 31 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 27 (1.12%) Market Risk
12 24 (1.00%) Product Ownership
13 22 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 21 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (0.87%) Replication
15 16 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
16 14 (0.58%) Device Driver
17 12 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 185 (7.68%) Linux
2 129 (5.35%) Unix
3 25 (1.04%) Android
4 20 (0.83%) Windows
5 14 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,408 (99.92%) Software Engineering
2 2,014 (83.57%) Agile
3 1,779 (73.82%) SDLC
4 1,683 (69.83%) Operational Stability
5 1,659 (68.84%) CI/CD
6 1,250 (51.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,239 (51.41%) Machine Learning
8 1,211 (50.25%) Community of Practice
9 777 (32.24%) Visualisation
10 759 (31.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 661 (27.43%) Risk Management
12 427 (17.72%) Microservices
13 401 (16.64%) Decision-Making
14 382 (15.85%) Architectural Design
15 375 (15.56%) Full Stack Development
16 359 (14.90%) Information Architecture
17 337 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
18 311 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
19 240 (9.96%) Test Automation
20 225 (9.34%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,454 (60.33%) Java
2 906 (37.59%) SQL
3 864 (35.85%) Python
4 377 (15.64%) JavaScript
5 245 (10.17%) Scala
6 233 (9.67%) TypeScript
7 182 (7.55%) C#
8 127 (5.27%) PL/SQL
9 121 (5.02%) C
10 97 (4.02%) Go
11 96 (3.98%) C++
12 65 (2.70%) Prolog
12 65 (2.70%) SPARQL
13 45 (1.87%) Embedded C
14 37 (1.54%) Groovy
15 29 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 26 (1.08%) Ruby
18 23 (0.95%) Bash
19 15 (0.62%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 78 (3.24%) Degree
2 69 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 66 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 16 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.041%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.041%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.12%) Accessibility
2 38 (1.58%) SLA
3 31 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.71%) PMO
5 12 (0.50%) QA
6 6 (0.25%) WAI
7 4 (0.17%) DICOM
7 4 (0.17%) GDPR
7 4 (0.17%) HL7
7 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.041%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.041%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 96 (3.98%) HDFS
2 65 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.91%) Docker
4 14 (0.58%) Firmware
5 11 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.083%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 322 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 232 (9.63%) Terraform
3 152 (6.31%) Grafana
4 63 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.87%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.87%) Kibana
6 21 (0.87%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.29%) Graphite
8 2 (0.083%) Istio
9 1 (0.041%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 326 (13.53%) Oracle
2 202 (8.38%) Databricks
3 167 (6.93%) Splunk
4 144 (5.98%) Dynatrace
5 84 (3.49%) Informatica
6 66 (2.74%) Cloudera
7 63 (2.61%) Google
8 60 (2.49%) ESRI
9 39 (1.62%) Alteryx
10 21 (0.87%) Pega
11 18 (0.75%) SaltStack
12 17 (0.71%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.58%) Dell
14 13 (0.54%) Microsoft
15 10 (0.41%) IBM
16 9 (0.37%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.37%) Twitter
17 6 (0.25%) CA
18 5 (0.21%) AppDynamics
18 5 (0.21%) Sybase