Software Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 346 430 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.32% 21.60% 19.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.17% 22.57% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 255 274 339
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,033 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,056 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,322 1,905 2,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.08% 95.68% 93.83%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,098 1,452
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,274 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 30 (8.67%) ArcGIS
1 30 (8.67%) GeoServer
2 20 (5.78%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.45%) Captiva
3 5 (1.45%) FileNet
3 5 (1.45%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.58%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.48%) AWS
2 74 (21.39%) Azure
3 50 (14.45%) GCP
3 50 (14.45%) SaaS
4 23 (6.65%) Amazon S3
5 20 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
5 20 (5.78%) Google Docs
5 20 (5.78%) Lucidchart
5 20 (5.78%) Miro
5 20 (5.78%) Slack
6 14 (4.05%) GitHub
7 7 (2.02%) Serverless
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.87%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Azure API Management
9 2 (0.58%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.58%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.54%) Network Security
2 18 (5.20%) Wireless
3 6 (1.73%) Bluetooth
3 6 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.87%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.67%) GIS
2 30 (8.67%) QGIS
3 26 (7.51%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (6.07%) Hadoop
5 20 (5.78%) Big Data
5 20 (5.78%) Redis
5 20 (5.78%) Scylla
6 10 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.60%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.87%) MySQL
11 2 (0.58%) Power BI
11 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 19 (5.49%) Git
2 12 (3.47%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (2.89%) JIRA
4 9 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.60%) Selenium
5 8 (2.31%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.16%) Maven
7 3 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.87%) webpack
8 2 (0.58%) Appium
8 2 (0.58%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.58%) JUnit
8 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.58%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.29%) Gradle
9 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
General
1 80 (23.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 63 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.98%) Finance
4 24 (6.94%) Banking
5 10 (2.89%) Legal
6 7 (2.02%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.73%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.16%) Games
10 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.58%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 274 (79.19%) Software Engineer
2 116 (33.53%) Senior
3 98 (28.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (9.54%) Embedded Engineer
5 31 (8.96%) Principal Engineer
5 31 (8.96%) Principal Software Engineer
6 24 (6.94%) C Software Engineer
7 22 (6.36%) Java Engineer
7 22 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
7 22 (6.36%) Lead
8 21 (6.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (5.49%) C++ Software Engineer
9 19 (5.49%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 17 (4.91%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 17 (4.91%) Senior C Software Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) .NET Software Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) Developer
12 13 (3.76%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.47%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.83%) React
2 69 (19.94%) .NET
3 45 (13.01%) CSS
4 40 (11.56%) .NET Core
5 30 (8.67%) Kafka
5 30 (8.67%) Leaflet
5 30 (8.67%) OpenLayers
5 30 (8.67%) PostGIS
6 21 (6.07%) Node.js
7 20 (5.78%) AngularJS
7 20 (5.78%) GraphQL
8 17 (4.91%) ASP.NET
8 17 (4.91%) HTML
9 16 (4.62%) Spring
10 15 (4.34%) WebGL
11 14 (4.05%) Spring Boot
12 13 (3.76%) RESTful
13 12 (3.47%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (3.47%) Playwright
14 11 (3.18%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.67%) Algorithms
2 20 (5.78%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.73%) IoT
6 5 (1.45%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.45%) DataPower
6 5 (1.45%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.58%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.29%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.74%) Linux
2 5 (1.45%) Unix
3 4 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.16%) Windows
4 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (30.64%) Agile
2 76 (21.97%) DevOps
3 62 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (17.63%) Computer Science
5 37 (10.69%) Test Automation
6 36 (10.40%) Mentoring
7 34 (9.83%) Mathematics
8 33 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (9.25%) Data Science
9 32 (9.25%) Microservices
9 32 (9.25%) Web Development
10 28 (8.09%) Full Stack Development
10 28 (8.09%) SDLC
11 27 (7.80%) Physics
12 25 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (6.94%) Computer Security
13 24 (6.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 24 (6.94%) Threat Intelligence
14 23 (6.65%) High Availability
14 23 (6.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.32%) Python
2 94 (27.17%) Java
3 69 (19.94%) JavaScript
4 66 (19.08%) C
5 55 (15.90%) C#
6 41 (11.85%) TypeScript
7 39 (11.27%) C++
7 39 (11.27%) SQL
8 32 (9.25%) Bash
9 27 (7.80%) Go
10 25 (7.23%) Embedded C
11 20 (5.78%) Scala
12 15 (4.34%) GLSL
12 15 (4.34%) Rust
13 9 (2.60%) Ruby
14 6 (1.73%) Haskell
15 4 (1.16%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.58%) Perl
16 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (11.27%) Degree
2 31 (8.96%) SC Cleared
2 31 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.02%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.73%) PhD
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.20%) QA
2 5 (1.45%) GDPR
3 4 (1.16%) DICOM
3 4 (1.16%) HL7
3 4 (1.16%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 19 (5.49%) Docker
2 12 (3.47%) Firmware
3 5 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.16%) Istio
2 4 (1.16%) Terraform
3 2 (0.58%) Ansible
3 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 30 (8.67%) ESRI
1 30 (8.67%) Google
2 24 (6.94%) Dell
3 14 (4.05%) Oracle
4 12 (3.47%) IBM
5 5 (1.45%) Kofax
5 5 (1.45%) Pega
5 5 (1.45%) SAP
5 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.29%) CA
8 1 (0.29%) Splunk