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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 368 356 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.42% 19.59% 20.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.88% 20.53% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 276 236 361
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,285 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +12.14% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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 1,369 1,734 2,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.14% 95.43% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,013 1,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,731 £89,776 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%

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 9 June 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 29 (7.88%) ArcGIS
1 29 (7.88%) GeoServer
2 13 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.09%) Captiva
3 4 (1.09%) FileNet
3 4 (1.09%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.27%) AWS
2 73 (19.84%) Azure
3 42 (11.41%) GCP
4 39 (10.60%) SaaS
5 16 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (3.53%) Google Docs
6 13 (3.53%) Lucidchart
6 13 (3.53%) Miro
6 13 (3.53%) Slack
7 11 (2.99%) GitHub
8 4 (1.09%) Serverless
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.54%) Azure API Management
10 2 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.27%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.27%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.96%) Network Security
2 22 (5.98%) Wireless
3 9 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.90%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.82%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.54%) RS-232
6 2 (0.54%) RS-485
6 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.88%) GIS
2 29 (7.88%) QGIS
3 19 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (4.62%) Hadoop
5 13 (3.53%) Big Data
5 13 (3.53%) Redis
5 13 (3.53%) Scylla
6 10 (2.72%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.63%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.82%) MySQL
11 2 (0.54%) Power BI
12 1 (0.27%) DB2
12 1 (0.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (4.08%) Git
2 10 (2.72%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 8 (2.17%) JIRA
4 7 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.90%) Selenium
5 3 (0.82%) webpack
6 2 (0.54%) Appium
6 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.54%) JUnit
6 2 (0.54%) Maven
6 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.54%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.27%) Gradle
General
1 77 (20.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.33%) Finance
4 19 (5.16%) Banking
5 10 (2.72%) Legal
6 7 (1.90%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.63%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.09%) Games
10 3 (0.82%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.54%) Aviation
11 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.54%) Retail
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 287 (77.99%) Software Engineer
2 115 (31.25%) Senior
3 94 (25.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (10.60%) Embedded Engineer
5 29 (7.88%) Lead
6 27 (7.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 25 (6.79%) C Software Engineer
8 24 (6.52%) Java Engineer
8 24 (6.52%) Java Software Engineer
9 20 (5.43%) C++ Software Engineer
9 20 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (5.43%) Principal Software Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) .NET Software Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) C/C++ Software Engineer
12 17 (4.62%) Developer
12 17 (4.62%) Senior C Software Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.38%) React
2 74 (20.11%) .NET
3 48 (13.04%) CSS
4 41 (11.14%) .NET Core
5 29 (7.88%) Leaflet
5 29 (7.88%) OpenLayers
5 29 (7.88%) PostGIS
6 21 (5.71%) Kafka
7 20 (5.43%) AngularJS
7 20 (5.43%) HTML
8 18 (4.89%) ASP.NET
9 17 (4.62%) Node.js
10 15 (4.08%) WebGL
11 13 (3.53%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (3.53%) GraphQL
11 13 (3.53%) Spring
12 12 (3.26%) Playwright
12 12 (3.26%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (2.72%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.98%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.53%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.45%) IoT
6 5 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.09%) DataPower
7 4 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.54%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.27%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.27%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.27%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.40%) Linux
2 6 (1.63%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (26.36%) Agile
2 68 (18.48%) DevOps
3 62 (16.85%) Computer Science
4 56 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (9.51%) Mathematics
6 32 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 31 (8.42%) Test Automation
7 31 (8.42%) Web Development
8 29 (7.88%) Actionable Insight
8 29 (7.88%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (7.88%) SDLC
9 28 (7.61%) Microservices
10 27 (7.34%) Physics
11 23 (6.25%) Data Science
11 23 (6.25%) Software Testing
12 20 (5.43%) Coaching
13 19 (5.16%) MVC
14 17 (4.62%) TDD
15 16 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (4.08%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 95 (25.82%) Python
2 84 (22.83%) Java
3 74 (20.11%) C
4 68 (18.48%) JavaScript
5 58 (15.76%) C#
6 43 (11.68%) TypeScript
7 42 (11.41%) C++
8 39 (10.60%) SQL
9 27 (7.34%) Embedded C
10 23 (6.25%) Bash
11 17 (4.62%) Go
12 15 (4.08%) GLSL
12 15 (4.08%) Rust
13 13 (3.53%) Scala
14 7 (1.90%) Ruby
15 6 (1.63%) Haskell
16 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.54%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (10.05%) Degree
2 29 (7.88%) SC Cleared
2 29 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.63%) PhD
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.35%) QA
2 4 (1.09%) DICOM
2 4 (1.09%) GDPR
2 4 (1.09%) HL7
2 4 (1.09%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 18 (4.89%) Docker
2 17 (4.62%) Firmware
3 6 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.63%) Terraform
3 4 (1.09%) Istio
4 2 (0.54%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 29 (7.88%) ESRI
2 20 (5.43%) Google
3 13 (3.53%) Dell
4 10 (2.72%) Oracle
5 8 (2.17%) IBM
6 4 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.09%) Kofax
6 4 (1.09%) Pega
6 4 (1.09%) SAP
6 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.09%) Splunk
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.54%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.27%) CA
9 1 (0.27%) OpenAI