Agile Contracts in Edinburgh

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 174 526 690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.51% 40.49% 35.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.37% 42.56% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 434 508
10th Percentile £282 £368 £362
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £508 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £623
Scotland median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £49.54
% change year-on-year -6.92% +31.21% -5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 1,236 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.26% 95.15% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 881 1,249
10th Percentile £227 £253 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £565
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
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 8 (4.60%) Confluence
2 7 (4.02%) CMS
3 4 (2.30%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.15%) JBoss
4 2 (1.15%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.15%) WildFly
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.71%) AWS
2 27 (15.52%) Amazon S3
2 27 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (14.94%) Azure
3 26 (14.94%) Serverless
4 24 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (8.62%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.02%) AWS CodePipeline
7 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.30%) GCP
10 4 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.30%) SaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.72%) IaaS
11 3 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.60%) Firewall
2 4 (2.30%) Internet
2 4 (2.30%) LAN
2 4 (2.30%) VSAN
3 3 (1.72%) SSL
4 2 (1.15%) FabricPath
4 2 (1.15%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.15%) VPN
4 2 (1.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.57%) ATM
5 1 (0.57%) HTTP
5 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.30%) Informix
4 4 (2.30%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.72%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.15%) GIS
6 2 (1.15%) Metadata
6 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.15%) Power BI
6 2 (1.15%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.57%) Flink
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (17.82%) JIRA
2 13 (7.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.32%) GitLab
4 8 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.60%) Git
5 4 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.30%) Maven
5 4 (2.30%) Subversion
6 3 (1.72%) JUnit
6 3 (1.72%) Selenium
7 2 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.15%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.57%) Capybara
8 1 (0.57%) Gradle
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 91 (52.30%) Public Sector
2 68 (39.08%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.09%) Finance
4 18 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (8.62%) Banking
6 12 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Electronics
9 3 (1.72%) Billing
9 3 (1.72%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Publishing
10 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (17.82%) Analyst
2 27 (15.52%) Developer
3 20 (11.49%) Lead
4 18 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 17 (9.77%) Senior
6 16 (9.20%) Project Manager
7 15 (8.62%) Designer
8 11 (6.32%) Architect
9 10 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Consultant
10 8 (4.60%) UX Designer
11 7 (4.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.45%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.87%) Content Designer
13 5 (2.87%) Functional Analyst
13 5 (2.87%) Senior Designer
13 5 (2.87%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.30%) Senior Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.52%) AWS CDK
2 17 (9.77%) React
3 12 (6.90%) REST
3 12 (6.90%) Spring
4 9 (5.17%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.60%) CSS
5 8 (4.60%) HTML
6 4 (2.30%) JSP
6 4 (2.30%) Kafka
6 4 (2.30%) Middleware
6 4 (2.30%) Node.js
6 4 (2.30%) OAuth
6 4 (2.30%) PostGIS
6 4 (2.30%) Spring Security
7 3 (1.72%) .NET
7 3 (1.72%) Java EE
7 3 (1.72%) JSON
7 3 (1.72%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.72%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.72%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.32%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.02%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.87%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.87%) Replication
4 5 (2.87%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 4 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.30%) Device Driver
5 4 (2.30%) IoT
5 4 (2.30%) PCIe
5 4 (2.30%) Verilog
5 4 (2.30%) VHDL
6 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.72%) PKI
7 2 (1.15%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.62%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.30%) Unix
3 4 (2.30%) VxWorks
4 3 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) AIX
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.41%) Scrum
2 32 (18.39%) DevOps
2 32 (18.39%) Roadmaps
3 29 (16.67%) Coaching
4 27 (15.52%) User Experience
5 26 (14.94%) CI/CD
5 26 (14.94%) Kanban
5 26 (14.94%) Project Management
6 25 (14.37%) Business Analysis
7 22 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (12.64%) User Research
8 20 (11.49%) Service Design
8 20 (11.49%) User Stories
9 19 (10.92%) Project Delivery
10 18 (10.34%) Migration
10 18 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.77%) Data Protection
12 14 (8.05%) Workshop Facilitation
13 13 (7.47%) Product Management
13 13 (7.47%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.94%) Java
1 26 (14.94%) Python
2 21 (12.07%) TypeScript
3 19 (10.92%) JavaScript
3 19 (10.92%) SQL
4 4 (2.30%) Bash
4 4 (2.30%) C
4 4 (2.30%) Embedded C
5 3 (1.72%) C#
5 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.15%) C++
6 2 (1.15%) Groovy
6 2 (1.15%) Perl
6 2 (1.15%) VBA
6 2 (1.15%) VBScript
7 1 (0.57%) Go
7 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (9.20%) Degree
2 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (2.30%) ISEB
3 4 (2.30%) MCSE
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.72%) APMP
4 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.15%) IIBA
5 2 (1.15%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.57%) CCSA
6 1 (0.57%) CCSE
6 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 21 (12.07%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.75%) QA
4 8 (4.60%) SLA
5 7 (4.02%) PMO
6 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.30%) MISRA
6 4 (2.30%) MISRA C
7 2 (1.15%) NCSC
7 2 (1.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.57%) GDPR
8 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.47%) Docker
2 6 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.30%) Firmware
3 4 (2.30%) vSphere
4 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (10.34%) Grafana
2 8 (4.60%) Ansible
3 6 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.87%) VxRail
5 4 (2.30%) Kibana
5 4 (2.30%) Terraform
5 4 (2.30%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.72%) SCCM
7 2 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.57%) Istio
8 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.32%) Oracle
3 8 (4.60%) VMware
4 6 (3.45%) Cadence
4 6 (3.45%) Databricks
5 5 (2.87%) Cisco
5 5 (2.87%) Dell
5 5 (2.87%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.30%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.30%) Google
6 4 (2.30%) Intel
7 3 (1.72%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.15%) Commvault
8 2 (1.15%) Confluent
8 2 (1.15%) IBM
8 2 (1.15%) IDERA
8 2 (1.15%) Pega
8 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.57%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.57%) Workday