Software Engineering Job Trends in Lanarkshire

Software Engineering
Scotland > Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lanarkshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 21 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lanarkshire 24.14% 10.34% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.92% 10.71% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £57,000 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile £82,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lanarkshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Lanarkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 56 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lanarkshire 89.66% 96.55% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 19
10th Percentile - £44,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £69,000 £74,000 £74,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lanarkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Lanarkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Lanarkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lanarkshire citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lanarkshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Lanarkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Lanarkshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Lanarkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lanarkshire 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 18 (85.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) AWS
1 19 (90.48%) Azure
1 19 (90.48%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (85.71%) Bitbucket
1 18 (85.71%) Cucumber
1 18 (85.71%) GitLab
1 18 (85.71%) JIRA
1 18 (85.71%) Maven
1 18 (85.71%) Selenium
1 18 (85.71%) SonarQube
1 18 (85.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (90.48%) Banking
1 19 (90.48%) Finance
2 18 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Software Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Senior
2 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Senior Systems Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Software Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) CSS
1 19 (90.48%) HTML
2 18 (85.71%) Hibernate
2 18 (85.71%) JPA
2 18 (85.71%) Kafka
2 18 (85.71%) React
2 18 (85.71%) Redux
2 18 (85.71%) Spring
2 18 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (85.71%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (85.71%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Agile
1 19 (90.48%) Containerisation
1 19 (90.48%) Full-Stack Development
1 19 (90.48%) Microservices
2 18 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 18 (85.71%) Clean Code
2 18 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (85.71%) DevOps
2 18 (85.71%) Front End Development
2 18 (85.71%) Performance Optimisation
2 18 (85.71%) SDLC
2 18 (85.71%) TDD
2 18 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis
3 1 (4.76%) Multithreading
3 1 (4.76%) OO
3 1 (4.76%) Product Strategy
3 1 (4.76%) RBAC
3 1 (4.76%) SOA
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Java
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 18 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) C
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (85.71%) QA
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Solace
2 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity