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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 3 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 19 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Lanarkshire 22.35% 18.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.33% 19.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 75 47 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lanarkshire 88.24% 95.92% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 19
10th Percentile - £33,275 £39,600
25th Percentile £26,250 £38,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,625 £55,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lanarkshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend 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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lanarkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (94.74%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
1 19 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (94.74%) Bitbucket
1 18 (94.74%) Cucumber
1 18 (94.74%) GitLab
1 18 (94.74%) JIRA
1 18 (94.74%) Maven
1 18 (94.74%) Selenium
1 18 (94.74%) SonarQube
1 18 (94.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (100.00%) Banking
1 19 (100.00%) Finance
2 18 (94.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (94.74%) CSS
1 18 (94.74%) Hibernate
1 18 (94.74%) HTML
1 18 (94.74%) JPA
1 18 (94.74%) Kafka
1 18 (94.74%) React
1 18 (94.74%) Redux
1 18 (94.74%) Spring
1 18 (94.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (94.74%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (94.74%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 19 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
2 18 (94.74%) Clean Code
2 18 (94.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (94.74%) DevOps
2 18 (94.74%) Front End Development
2 18 (94.74%) Microservices
2 18 (94.74%) Performance Optimisation
2 18 (94.74%) SDLC
2 18 (94.74%) TDD
2 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis
3 1 (5.26%) Low Latency
3 1 (5.26%) Product Strategy
3 1 (5.26%) RBAC
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
1 19 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (94.74%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (94.74%) QA
System Software
1 18 (94.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Solace
2 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity