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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,956 715 905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 42.66% 16.54% 14.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 47.36% 17.49% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 586 419 515
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £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 £70,750 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,297 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year -12.14% +1.71% +14.71%

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 6,241 4,087 5,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.07% 94.54% 91.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,541 2,057 2,887
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,828 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
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 7 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 7 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 +8 2,368 £60,000 +4.35% 52
Edinburgh +6 368 £60,000 -13.60% 61
Aberdeen +13 83 £52,500 -19.23% 14
West Lothian -3 36 £60,000 - 1
Dundee +7 26 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Fife -4 17 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire +5 9 £42,500 -34.62% 8
South Lanarkshire - 7 £80,000 - 1
Scottish Borders +1 4 - -
Renfrewshire 0 4 £52,500 +28.51%
East Ayrshire - 4 £60,000 - 2
Inverclyde - 4 £50,000 -
Midlothian - 3 - - 26
Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 20
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
1 556 (18.81%) Apache Spark
2 123 (4.16%) Apache
3 112 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (3.45%) FileNet
5 60 (2.03%) ArcGIS
5 60 (2.03%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.71%) GemFire
8 16 (0.54%) Camunda
9 11 (0.37%) CICS
10 10 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.30%) Confluence
11 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.14%) Captiva
13 4 (0.14%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.068%) SAS
15 1 (0.034%) Tuxedo
15 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.034%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (41.68%) AWS
2 233 (7.88%) Azure
3 129 (4.36%) GCP
4 116 (3.92%) Amazon S3
4 116 (3.92%) Datadog
5 65 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (2.17%) Serverless
7 62 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
9 56 (1.89%) GitHub
10 55 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
14 44 (1.49%) BlazeMeter
14 44 (1.49%) SaaS
15 25 (0.85%) Google Play
16 23 (0.78%) Power Platform
17 14 (0.47%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.77%) Kerberos
2 58 (1.96%) Wireless
3 44 (1.49%) Network Security
4 22 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (0.71%) Ethernet
6 16 (0.54%) RS-232
7 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.47%) DSL
9 13 (0.44%) Modbus
10 7 (0.24%) Bluetooth
11 6 (0.20%) HTTP
11 6 (0.20%) MQTT
12 3 (0.10%) ZigBee
13 2 (0.068%) Internet
13 2 (0.068%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 637 (21.55%) NoSQL
2 467 (15.80%) Big Data
3 232 (7.85%) Hadoop
4 161 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (5.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 117 (3.96%) Apache Hive
7 112 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 102 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 94 (3.18%) HBase
10 70 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.20%) Metadata
12 61 (2.06%) GIS
13 60 (2.03%) QGIS
14 57 (1.93%) Data Lake
15 48 (1.62%) Electronic Patient Records
16 39 (1.32%) MySQL
16 39 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
17 38 (1.29%) CockroachDB
18 26 (0.88%) DB2
19 23 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 257 (8.69%) Jenkins
2 208 (7.04%) JUnit
3 195 (6.60%) Git
4 111 (3.76%) Jasmine
5 92 (3.11%) Cypress.io
6 82 (2.77%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.37%) Bitbucket
8 68 (2.30%) Selenium
9 67 (2.27%) Maven
10 66 (2.23%) Artifactory
10 66 (2.23%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (2.03%) Protractor
11 60 (2.03%) WebDriver
12 45 (1.52%) Mockito
13 43 (1.45%) JIRA
14 28 (0.95%) GitLab
14 28 (0.95%) JMeter
15 27 (0.91%) Gradle
16 25 (0.85%) Android Studio
16 25 (0.85%) Cucumber
General
1 2,373 (80.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,251 (76.15%) Finance
3 2,199 (74.39%) Law
4 1,150 (38.90%) Marketing
5 632 (21.38%) Legal
6 421 (14.24%) Banking
7 335 (11.33%) Investment Banking
8 254 (8.59%) Social Skills
9 231 (7.81%) Financial Institution
10 165 (5.58%) Influencing Skills
11 67 (2.27%) Private Banking
12 62 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
13 55 (1.86%) Manufacturing
14 50 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (1.49%) Electronics
16 31 (1.05%) Games
17 22 (0.74%) Prime Brokerage
18 18 (0.61%) Automotive
18 18 (0.61%) Front Office
18 18 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2,390 (80.85%) Software Engineer
2 772 (26.12%) Java Engineer
2 772 (26.12%) Java Software Engineer
3 700 (23.68%) Lead
4 661 (22.36%) Lead Software Engineer
5 484 (16.37%) Senior
6 395 (13.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 360 (12.18%) Big Data Engineer
7 360 (12.18%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 320 (10.83%) Full Stack Engineer
8 320 (10.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 319 (10.79%) Python Engineer
10 318 (10.76%) Python Software Engineer
11 281 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
12 277 (9.37%) AWS Software Engineer
13 264 (8.93%) Lead Java Engineer
14 231 (7.81%) Data Engineer
15 212 (7.17%) Scala Engineer
15 212 (7.17%) Scala Software Engineer
16 208 (7.04%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 646 (21.85%) Spring
2 577 (19.52%) React
3 406 (13.73%) AngularJS
4 359 (12.14%) Kafka
5 321 (10.86%) Spring Boot
6 304 (10.28%) CSS
7 283 (9.57%) HTML
8 244 (8.25%) J2EE
9 214 (7.24%) Node.js
10 205 (6.94%) JSON
11 197 (6.66%) Hibernate
12 186 (6.29%) RESTful
13 178 (6.02%) .NET
14 169 (5.72%) PySpark
15 168 (5.68%) JMS
16 165 (5.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 146 (4.94%) jQuery
18 137 (4.63%) GraphQL
19 135 (4.57%) Web Services
20 110 (3.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 848 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 783 (26.49%) Algorithms
3 252 (8.53%) Public Cloud
4 150 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 123 (4.16%) Reference Data
6 118 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 117 (3.96%) Data Structures
8 87 (2.94%) Market Risk
9 86 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 65 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
11 50 (1.69%) Credit Risk
12 39 (1.32%) Legacy Code
13 36 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 31 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.01%) Private Cloud
16 21 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (0.71%) Replication
17 17 (0.58%) Taxonomies
18 15 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 189 (6.39%) Linux
2 130 (4.40%) Unix
3 26 (0.88%) Android
4 22 (0.74%) Windows
5 14 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.034%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,223 (75.20%) Agile
2 1,957 (66.20%) SDLC
3 1,852 (62.65%) CI/CD
4 1,733 (58.63%) Operational Stability
5 1,319 (44.62%) Machine Learning
6 1,309 (44.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,235 (41.78%) Community of Practice
8 795 (26.89%) Visualisation
9 770 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 655 (22.16%) Risk Management
11 515 (17.42%) Decision-Making
12 490 (16.58%) Microservices
13 461 (15.60%) Computer Science
14 443 (14.99%) Continuous Delivery
15 391 (13.23%) Architectural Design
16 388 (13.13%) Full Stack Development
17 382 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
18 367 (12.42%) Information Architecture
19 300 (10.15%) Mathematics
20 268 (9.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,660 (56.16%) Java
2 1,051 (35.55%) SQL
3 1,037 (35.08%) Python
4 406 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 304 (10.28%) Scala
6 252 (8.53%) TypeScript
7 222 (7.51%) C#
8 189 (6.39%) C
9 140 (4.74%) PL/SQL
10 126 (4.26%) C++
11 98 (3.32%) Go
12 84 (2.84%) Embedded C
13 65 (2.20%) Prolog
13 65 (2.20%) SPARQL
14 45 (1.52%) Ruby
15 37 (1.25%) Groovy
16 32 (1.08%) Kotlin
17 27 (0.91%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.85%) Bash
19 15 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 161 (5.45%) Degree
2 74 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 71 (2.40%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 16 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.34%) PhD
8 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.034%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.034%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.034%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (1.76%) SLA
2 49 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.98%) QA
5 16 (0.54%) PMO
6 6 (0.20%) WAI
7 4 (0.14%) DICOM
7 4 (0.14%) GDPR
7 4 (0.14%) HL7
7 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.034%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.034%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 94 (3.18%) HDFS
2 73 (2.47%) Docker
3 66 (2.23%) Firmware
4 65 (2.20%) Active Directory
5 21 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.068%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 359 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 245 (8.29%) Terraform
3 168 (5.68%) Grafana
4 80 (2.71%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.71%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.71%) Kibana
6 21 (0.71%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.24%) Graphite
8 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 2 (0.068%) Ansible
9 2 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.068%) Puppet
10 1 (0.034%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 342 (11.57%) Oracle
2 238 (8.05%) Databricks
3 183 (6.19%) Splunk
4 160 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 83 (2.81%) Google
5 83 (2.81%) Informatica
6 64 (2.17%) Cloudera
7 60 (2.03%) ESRI
8 53 (1.79%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.01%) Microsoft
10 20 (0.68%) Pega
11 19 (0.64%) Sybase
12 18 (0.61%) SaltStack
13 16 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.47%) Cognos
14 14 (0.47%) Dell
15 10 (0.34%) IBM
15 10 (0.34%) SAP
16 9 (0.30%) TOWER Software
16 9 (0.30%) Twitter