Software Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Software Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,056 811 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 45.56% 17.66% 14.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 49.43% 18.72% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 534 450 486
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69,938 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,290 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.80% +15.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,183 4,333 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.19% 94.34% 91.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,156 2,833
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +10 2,504 £60,750 +3.40% 44
Edinburgh +4 349 £60,000 -11.29% 64
Aberdeen +12 76 £52,500 -19.23% 7
West Lothian -3 30 £60,000 - 1
Dundee +5 26 £47,500 -20.83% 5
Fife -3 17 £50,000 - 7
South Lanarkshire +9 9 £80,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire +6 8 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Scottish Borders +2 5 - -
Renfrewshire 0 4 £52,500 +28.51%
Inverclyde - 4 £50,000 -
Midlothian -1 3 - - 15
Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 16
Angus - 1 £65,000 -
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 613 (20.06%) Apache Spark
2 137 (4.48%) Apache
3 117 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 104 (3.40%) FileNet
5 60 (1.96%) ArcGIS
5 60 (1.96%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.69%) GemFire
8 20 (0.65%) Camunda
9 12 (0.39%) Confluence
10 11 (0.36%) CICS
10 11 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 10 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (0.20%) Captiva
14 4 (0.13%) SharePoint
15 2 (0.065%) JBoss
15 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Fuse
15 2 (0.065%) SAS
16 1 (0.033%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.033%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,342 (43.91%) AWS
2 251 (8.21%) Azure
3 157 (5.14%) GCP
4 123 (4.02%) Amazon S3
5 117 (3.83%) Datadog
6 75 (2.45%) Serverless
7 73 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
10 61 (2.00%) GitHub
10 61 (2.00%) SaaS
11 56 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
12 54 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
14 51 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
15 48 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
16 25 (0.82%) Google Play
17 23 (0.75%) Power Platform
18 22 (0.72%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.68%) Kerberos
2 55 (1.80%) Wireless
3 32 (1.05%) Network Security
4 21 (0.69%) Ethernet
5 19 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (0.59%) DSL
7 13 (0.43%) Modbus
7 13 (0.43%) RS-232
7 13 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) MQTT
9 6 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.065%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (22.19%) NoSQL
2 525 (17.18%) Big Data
3 258 (8.44%) Hadoop
4 176 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 135 (4.42%) Relational Database
7 131 (4.29%) Apache Hive
8 116 (3.80%) MongoDB
9 102 (3.34%) HBase
10 69 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.13%) Metadata
12 62 (2.03%) Data Lake
13 61 (2.00%) GIS
14 60 (1.96%) QGIS
15 52 (1.70%) Electronic Patient Records
16 39 (1.28%) MySQL
16 39 (1.28%) Qlik Sense
17 38 (1.24%) CockroachDB
18 30 (0.98%) DB2
18 30 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 272 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 212 (6.94%) JUnit
3 210 (6.87%) Git
4 112 (3.66%) Jasmine
5 92 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 86 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 73 (2.39%) Maven
8 71 (2.32%) Selenium
9 70 (2.29%) Bitbucket
10 66 (2.16%) Artifactory
10 66 (2.16%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (1.96%) Protractor
11 60 (1.96%) WebDriver
12 47 (1.54%) JIRA
13 45 (1.47%) Mockito
14 30 (0.98%) Gradle
15 28 (0.92%) GitLab
15 28 (0.92%) JMeter
16 25 (0.82%) Android Studio
16 25 (0.82%) Cucumber
General
1 2,528 (82.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,407 (78.76%) Finance
3 2,351 (76.93%) Law
4 1,247 (40.80%) Marketing
5 665 (21.76%) Legal
6 460 (15.05%) Banking
7 351 (11.49%) Investment Banking
8 269 (8.80%) Social Skills
9 253 (8.28%) Financial Institution
10 181 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
11 82 (2.68%) Private Banking
12 62 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
13 58 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 37 (1.21%) Electronics
16 31 (1.01%) Games
17 22 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
18 18 (0.59%) Front Office
18 18 (0.59%) Publishing
19 16 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2,480 (81.15%) Software Engineer
2 819 (26.80%) Java Engineer
2 819 (26.80%) Java Software Engineer
3 737 (24.12%) Lead
4 700 (22.91%) Lead Software Engineer
5 497 (16.26%) Senior
6 412 (13.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 390 (12.76%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.76%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 347 (11.35%) Full Stack Engineer
8 347 (11.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 335 (10.96%) Python Engineer
9 335 (10.96%) Python Software Engineer
10 306 (10.01%) AWS Engineer
11 301 (9.85%) AWS Software Engineer
12 278 (9.10%) Lead Java Engineer
13 241 (7.89%) Data Engineer
14 228 (7.46%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (7.46%) Scala Software Engineer
15 214 (7.00%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (22.64%) Spring
2 612 (20.03%) React
3 437 (14.30%) AngularJS
4 386 (12.63%) Kafka
5 354 (11.58%) Spring Boot
6 312 (10.21%) CSS
7 291 (9.52%) HTML
8 252 (8.25%) J2EE
9 222 (7.26%) Node.js
10 211 (6.90%) JSON
11 203 (6.64%) Hibernate
12 200 (6.54%) RESTful
13 176 (5.76%) .NET
14 174 (5.69%) PySpark
15 171 (5.60%) JMS
16 165 (5.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 147 (4.81%) GraphQL
17 147 (4.81%) jQuery
17 147 (4.81%) Web Services
18 115 (3.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 904 (29.58%) Cloud Native
2 833 (27.26%) Algorithms
3 292 (9.55%) Public Cloud
4 159 (5.20%) Onboarding
5 130 (4.25%) Reference Data
6 129 (4.22%) Data Structures
7 126 (4.12%) Management Information System
8 100 (3.27%) Product Ownership
9 93 (3.04%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (1.67%) Credit Risk
12 43 (1.41%) Legacy Code
13 36 (1.18%) Private Cloud
14 35 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
15 33 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 21 (0.69%) Replication
16 21 (0.69%) Taxonomies
17 15 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 187 (6.12%) Linux
2 138 (4.52%) Unix
3 26 (0.85%) Android
4 23 (0.75%) Windows
5 13 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.098%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.033%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,383 (77.98%) Agile
2 2,089 (68.36%) SDLC
3 1,973 (64.56%) CI/CD
4 1,860 (60.86%) Operational Stability
5 1,413 (46.24%) Machine Learning
6 1,397 (45.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,305 (42.70%) Community of Practice
8 829 (27.13%) Visualisation
9 813 (26.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 691 (22.61%) Risk Management
11 561 (18.36%) Decision-Making
12 529 (17.31%) Microservices
13 479 (15.67%) Continuous Delivery
14 476 (15.58%) Computer Science
15 421 (13.78%) Architectural Design
15 421 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
16 417 (13.65%) Full Stack Development
17 397 (12.99%) Information Architecture
18 309 (10.11%) Mathematics
19 292 (9.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,799 (58.87%) Java
2 1,137 (37.21%) SQL
3 1,120 (36.65%) Python
4 422 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 341 (11.16%) Scala
6 258 (8.44%) TypeScript
7 223 (7.30%) C#
8 178 (5.82%) C
9 152 (4.97%) PL/SQL
10 119 (3.89%) Go
11 117 (3.83%) C++
12 80 (2.62%) Embedded C
13 65 (2.13%) Prolog
13 65 (2.13%) SPARQL
14 56 (1.83%) Ruby
15 39 (1.28%) Bash
16 37 (1.21%) Groovy
17 31 (1.01%) Kotlin
18 28 (0.92%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 174 (5.69%) Degree
2 77 (2.52%) Security Cleared
3 74 (2.42%) SC Cleared
4 64 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 20 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 11 (0.36%) PhD
8 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.033%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.033%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.03%) SLA
2 57 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.15%) QA
4 34 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.65%) PMO
6 6 (0.20%) GDPR
6 6 (0.20%) WAI
7 4 (0.13%) DICOM
7 4 (0.13%) HL7
7 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.033%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.033%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 102 (3.34%) HDFS
2 79 (2.59%) Docker
3 65 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 61 (2.00%) Firmware
5 23 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.065%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 387 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 261 (8.54%) Terraform
3 175 (5.73%) Grafana
4 81 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.69%) Kibana
6 21 (0.69%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.23%) Graphite
8 4 (0.13%) Istio
9 2 (0.065%) Ansible
9 2 (0.065%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.065%) Puppet
10 1 (0.033%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 373 (12.21%) Oracle
2 263 (8.61%) Databricks
3 185 (6.05%) Splunk
4 166 (5.43%) Dynatrace
5 96 (3.14%) Google
6 87 (2.85%) Informatica
7 72 (2.36%) Cloudera
8 60 (1.96%) ESRI
9 57 (1.87%) Alteryx
10 30 (0.98%) Microsoft
11 27 (0.88%) Dell
12 26 (0.85%) Pega
13 23 (0.75%) Sybase
14 20 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.59%) Cognos
15 18 (0.59%) SaltStack
16 17 (0.56%) IBM
17 13 (0.43%) SAP
18 9 (0.29%) TOWER Software
18 9 (0.29%) Twitter