Agile Contracts in West Lothian

Agile Software Development
Scotland > West Lothian

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian 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 2 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 24 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 48.00% 30.91% 60.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 51.06% 33.33% 63.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 17
10th Percentile £430 £481 £350
25th Percentile £461 £508 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £500
90th Percentile £590 £690 £520
Scotland median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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
West Lothian

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 West Lothian with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 51 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 94.00% 92.73% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 27
10th Percentile £96 £121 £243
25th Percentile £380 £139 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £564 £605 £484
90th Percentile £589 £648 £500
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.90 -
25th Percentile - £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +233.33% -
75th Percentile - £70.50 £21.75
90th Percentile - £79.60 -
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 West Lothian

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in West Lothian

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Livingston +1 24 £525 -4.55%
Agile
Scotland

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 11 (45.83%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) JIRA
2 11 (45.83%) Git
2 11 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 11 (45.83%) Postman
3 9 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 9 (37.50%) JUnit
4 7 (29.17%) IntelliJ
5 4 (16.67%) Maven
6 1 (4.17%) Capybara
6 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.17%) Gradle
General
1 19 (79.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Senior
3 10 (41.67%) Java Developer
4 7 (29.17%) Senior Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
7 2 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
7 2 (8.33%) Scrum Master
7 2 (8.33%) Telecoms Manager
7 2 (8.33%) Telecoms Project Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Broadcast Project Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Lead
8 1 (4.17%) React Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Technical Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) REST
1 13 (54.17%) Spring
2 12 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 10 (41.67%) J2EE
3 10 (41.67%) Kafka
4 9 (37.50%) Apache Camel
5 8 (33.33%) React
6 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
6 4 (16.67%) Node.js
7 3 (12.50%) CSS
7 3 (12.50%) HTML
7 3 (12.50%) Jest
7 3 (12.50%) Playwright
7 3 (12.50%) Spring Batch
7 3 (12.50%) Web Services
8 1 (4.17%) Next.js
8 1 (4.17%) Redux
8 1 (4.17%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 9 (37.50%) Coaching
4 7 (29.17%) Component Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Scenario Testing
4 7 (29.17%) TDD
5 5 (20.83%) CRM
5 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 4 (16.67%) Project Management
7 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 3 (12.50%) Community of Practice
7 3 (12.50%) MVC
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kibana
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle