Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Aberdeen

Senior Software Engineer
Scotland > Aberdeen

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Aberdeen is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 34 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 12 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeen 3.08% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.17% 0.63% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £56,625 - -
25th Percentile - £62,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £65,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Aberdeen

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Aberdeen. 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 Aberdeen with a recognized job title 379 158 164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.18% 79.00% 89.62%
Number of salaries quoted 274 77 95
10th Percentile £25,900 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,600 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Aberdeen

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Aberdeen

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Aberdeen

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Aberdeen

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Aberdeen over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Aberdeen

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Senior 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 Aberdeen region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) C#
3 8 (66.67%) C
3 8 (66.67%) Data Management
4 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (25.00%) Ruby
5 2 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (8.33%) CSS
6 1 (8.33%) SOLID
6 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
6 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Azure
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (8.33%) Modbus
6 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) HTML
6 1 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (8.33%) JavaScript

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Modbus
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
4 1 (8.33%) MVC
4 1 (8.33%) SOLID
4 1 (8.33%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
2 8 (66.67%) C
3 3 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) SQL