Market slice

Software Engineer jobs in Edinburgh

1,838 open Software Engineer jobs in Edinburgh. Median salary £89.5k, 5.5% remote, 93 posted this week.

Open roles

1,838

93 new this week

Median salary

£89.5k

3.1% disclose pay

Remote share

5.5%

of all openings

Median age of posting

57d

40.9% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted57d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	14.7%
Median age	57 days
Older than 60 days	40.9%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

£40k£155k

Based on 57 postings that disclose pay — 3.1% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	£70,500
Median	£89,500
75th	£111,000
90th	£136,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

173

160

147

132

119

107

Top technologies

React

72.0%

Kubernetes

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Distributed systems

58.0%

Coaching

52.6%

A/B testing

47.2%

Cross-functional leadership

41.8%

Data modelling

36.4%

Budgeting

31.0%

Forecasting

25.6%

Roadmapping

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

5.5%

Hybrid

48.6%

In Person

45.9%

Top locations

Edinburgh

34.0%

United States

30.4%

Canada

26.8%

United Kingdom

23.2%

Ireland

19.6%

Germany

16.0%

France

12.4%

Netherlands

8.8%

Employers

570

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

14.7%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

3.1%

of postings publish pay

Live openings

Latest Software Engineer jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Software Engineer

Umbra Security · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person Seniortech software it Senior 66d ago

Lead Software Engineer

Northwind Systems · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person Seniortech software it Senior 128d ago

Junior Software Engineer

Tidewater Insurance · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

Hybrid Juniortech software it Junior 136d ago

Software Engineer

Aperture Labs · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person tech software it 44d ago

Software Engineer

Meridian Software · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person tech software it 126d ago

Staff Software Engineer

Solstice Biotech · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person Seniortech software it Senior 15d ago

Lead Software Engineer

Quarry Analytics · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

Hybrid Seniortech software it Senior 12d ago Visa sponsored

Junior Software Engineer

Kestrel Health · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person Juniortech software it Junior 84d ago

Lead Software Engineer

Lakeshore Hospitality · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person Seniortech software it Senior 70d ago

Staff Software Engineer

Brightline Retail · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not disclosed

In Person Seniortech software it Senior 104d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many software engineer jobs are open in Edinburgh?

We track software engineer openings published in Edinburgh, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a software engineer earn in Edinburgh?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 1,838 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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