Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 27 32
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,345 377 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.06% 8.75% 7.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 35.11% 9.76% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 403 244 226
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,384 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £59,513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.86% +25.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £72,243
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,085 £77,515
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,679 3,864 5,995
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.69% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,894 2,098 3,095
10th Percentile £27,825 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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 +53 1,925 £61,500 +14.42% 28
Edinburgh +15 287 £60,000 -9.91% 32
Aberdeen +14 48 £60,000 -7.69% 7
West Lothian -2 36 £60,000 - 1
Fife -8 11 £50,000 -4.76%
Dundee -5 8 £50,000 -23.08%
Scottish Borders +4 4 - -
East Ayrshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +3 3 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Angus - 3 £65,000 -
Inverclyde - 3 £50,000 -
South Lanarkshire - 3 £65,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 13
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,343 (99.91%) Software Engineering
2 1,938 (82.64%) Agile
3 1,903 (81.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,838 (78.38%) Finance
5 1,810 (77.19%) Law
6 1,710 (72.92%) SDLC
7 1,614 (68.83%) Operational Stability
8 1,599 (68.19%) CI/CD
9 1,389 (59.23%) Java
10 1,202 (51.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,191 (50.79%) Machine Learning
12 1,172 (49.98%) Community of Practice
13 997 (42.52%) AWS
14 865 (36.89%) SQL
15 825 (35.18%) Python
16 812 (34.63%) Marketing
17 751 (32.03%) Visualisation
18 745 (31.77%) Algorithms
19 735 (31.34%) Continuous Improvement
20 636 (27.12%) Risk Management
21 617 (26.31%) Legal
22 577 (24.61%) Cloud Native
23 548 (23.37%) Spring
24 531 (22.64%) React
25 518 (22.09%) NoSQL
26 465 (19.83%) Apache Spark
27 411 (17.53%) Microservices
28 381 (16.25%) Decision-Making
29 379 (16.16%) Big Data
30 375 (15.99%) AngularJS

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 465 (19.83%) Apache Spark
2 109 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (4.35%) FileNet
4 94 (4.01%) Apache
5 58 (2.47%) ArcGIS
5 58 (2.47%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.90%) GemFire
8 14 (0.60%) Camunda
9 11 (0.47%) CICS
10 10 (0.43%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.38%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.17%) Captiva
13 4 (0.17%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.043%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 997 (42.52%) AWS
2 176 (7.51%) Azure
3 115 (4.90%) Amazon S3
4 109 (4.65%) GCP
5 101 (4.31%) Datadog
6 58 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
6 58 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
7 55 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 55 (2.35%) Serverless
8 54 (2.30%) GitHub
9 49 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
12 42 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
13 37 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (1.32%) SaaS
15 25 (1.07%) Google Play
16 13 (0.55%) Lucidchart
16 13 (0.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.50%) Kerberos
2 44 (1.88%) Network Security
3 23 (0.98%) Wireless
4 22 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (0.90%) Ethernet
6 16 (0.68%) RS-232
7 15 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.55%) Modbus
9 7 (0.30%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.13%) ZigBee
11 2 (0.085%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (22.09%) NoSQL
2 379 (16.16%) Big Data
3 219 (9.34%) Hadoop
4 159 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (6.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 113 (4.82%) Apache Hive
7 93 (3.97%) Relational Database
8 91 (3.88%) HBase
9 83 (3.54%) MongoDB
10 65 (2.77%) Metadata
11 64 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
12 58 (2.47%) GIS
12 58 (2.47%) QGIS
13 45 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
14 43 (1.83%) Data Lake
15 39 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (1.62%) CockroachDB
17 29 (1.24%) MySQL
18 21 (0.90%) Hazelcast
19 20 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 232 (9.89%) Jenkins
2 204 (8.70%) JUnit
3 180 (7.68%) Git
4 111 (4.73%) Jasmine
5 84 (3.58%) Cypress.io
6 81 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.99%) Bitbucket
8 66 (2.81%) Artifactory
8 66 (2.81%) Karma Test Runner
9 61 (2.60%) Selenium
10 60 (2.56%) Protractor
10 60 (2.56%) WebDriver
11 59 (2.52%) Maven
12 45 (1.92%) Mockito
13 30 (1.28%) JIRA
14 27 (1.15%) JMeter
15 25 (1.07%) Android Studio
15 25 (1.07%) Gradle
16 24 (1.02%) Cucumber
17 21 (0.90%) Jaeger
General
1 1,903 (81.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,838 (78.38%) Finance
3 1,810 (77.19%) Law
4 812 (34.63%) Marketing
5 617 (26.31%) Legal
6 360 (15.35%) Banking
7 285 (12.15%) Investment Banking
8 172 (7.33%) Social Skills
9 110 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
10 61 (2.60%) Private Banking
11 52 (2.22%) Financial Institution
12 33 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.02%) Games
15 22 (0.94%) Electronics
15 22 (0.94%) Prime Brokerage
16 19 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
16 19 (0.81%) Automotive
17 18 (0.77%) Front Office
17 18 (0.77%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (23.37%) Spring
2 531 (22.64%) React
3 375 (15.99%) AngularJS
4 341 (14.54%) Kafka
5 287 (12.24%) CSS
6 266 (11.34%) HTML
7 241 (10.28%) J2EE
8 230 (9.81%) Spring Boot
9 203 (8.66%) JSON
10 197 (8.40%) Hibernate
11 194 (8.27%) Node.js
12 166 (7.08%) JMS
12 166 (7.08%) PySpark
13 163 (6.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 144 (6.14%) jQuery
15 139 (5.93%) .NET
16 136 (5.80%) GraphQL
17 133 (5.67%) RESTful
18 132 (5.63%) Web Services
19 108 (4.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 745 (31.77%) Algorithms
2 577 (24.61%) Cloud Native
3 200 (8.53%) Public Cloud
4 141 (6.01%) Onboarding
5 120 (5.12%) Reference Data
6 102 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 100 (4.26%) Data Structures
8 65 (2.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 37 (1.58%) Legacy Code
10 31 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 27 (1.15%) Market Risk
13 22 (0.94%) Credit Risk
13 22 (0.94%) Product Ownership
14 21 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (0.90%) Replication
15 16 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
16 14 (0.60%) Device Driver
17 12 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 181 (7.72%) Linux
2 125 (5.33%) Unix
3 25 (1.07%) Android
4 20 (0.85%) Windows
5 14 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.043%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,343 (99.91%) Software Engineering
2 1,938 (82.64%) Agile
3 1,710 (72.92%) SDLC
4 1,614 (68.83%) Operational Stability
5 1,599 (68.19%) CI/CD
6 1,202 (51.26%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,191 (50.79%) Machine Learning
8 1,172 (49.98%) Community of Practice
9 751 (32.03%) Visualisation
10 735 (31.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 636 (27.12%) Risk Management
12 411 (17.53%) Microservices
13 381 (16.25%) Decision-Making
14 368 (15.69%) Architectural Design
15 361 (15.39%) Full Stack Development
16 345 (14.71%) Information Architecture
17 324 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
18 301 (12.84%) Continuous Delivery
19 232 (9.89%) Test Automation
20 221 (9.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,389 (59.23%) Java
2 865 (36.89%) SQL
3 825 (35.18%) Python
4 370 (15.78%) JavaScript
5 232 (9.89%) Scala
6 227 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 181 (7.72%) C#
8 124 (5.29%) PL/SQL
9 122 (5.20%) C
10 98 (4.18%) C++
11 93 (3.97%) Go
12 65 (2.77%) Prolog
12 65 (2.77%) SPARQL
13 46 (1.96%) Embedded C
14 37 (1.58%) Groovy
15 29 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.15%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.98%) Ruby
18 22 (0.94%) Bash
19 15 (0.64%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 76 (3.24%) Degree
2 67 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 64 (2.73%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 14 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.30%) PhD
8 1 (0.043%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.043%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 35 (1.49%) SLA
3 28 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.64%) PMO
5 12 (0.51%) QA
6 6 (0.26%) WAI
7 4 (0.17%) DICOM
7 4 (0.17%) GDPR
7 4 (0.17%) HL7
7 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.043%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 91 (3.88%) HDFS
2 65 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.96%) Docker
4 16 (0.68%) Firmware
5 11 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.085%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 315 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 221 (9.42%) Terraform
3 150 (6.40%) Grafana
4 63 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.90%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.90%) Kibana
6 21 (0.90%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.30%) Graphite
8 2 (0.085%) Istio
9 1 (0.043%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 317 (13.52%) Oracle
2 195 (8.32%) Databricks
3 165 (7.04%) Splunk
4 142 (6.06%) Dynatrace
5 82 (3.50%) Informatica
6 62 (2.64%) Google
7 61 (2.60%) Cloudera
8 58 (2.47%) ESRI
9 39 (1.66%) Alteryx
10 18 (0.77%) Pega
10 18 (0.77%) SaltStack
11 15 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.55%) Dell
12 13 (0.55%) Microsoft
13 10 (0.43%) IBM
14 9 (0.38%) TOWER Software
14 9 (0.38%) Twitter
15 6 (0.26%) CA
16 5 (0.21%) AppDynamics
16 5 (0.21%) Sybase