Agile Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 202 166 264
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 32.48% 22.40% 26.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.30% 26.14% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 95 190
10th Percentile £401 £375 £381
25th Percentile £443 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £528 £500 £538
90th Percentile £562 £543 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £29.26 -
25th Percentile £56.88 £36.89 £60.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.59 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.99% -18.70% +222.75%
75th Percentile £66.88 £62.30 £61.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £69.92 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £49.59 £60.50
% change year-on-year -73.79% -18.03% +72.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 589 635 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.69% 85.70% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 331 559
10th Percentile £263 £230 £204
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £539 £525 £543
90th Percentile £611 £600 £610
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 9
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.04 £12.95
25th Percentile - £19.28 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -32.60% +85.19%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £65.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.57% +14.38% +6.67%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Agile job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (10.40%) Confluence
2 5 (2.48%) Apache
2 5 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) FileNet
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.49%) Trello
4 2 (0.99%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 65 (32.18%) AWS
2 46 (22.77%) Azure
3 26 (12.87%) Amazon S3
4 24 (11.88%) Serverless
5 19 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (9.41%) Power Platform
6 18 (8.91%) GCP
7 17 (8.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (6.44%) OpenShift
10 12 (5.94%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.95%) Power Automate
13 9 (4.46%) PowerApps
14 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) VPN
3 2 (0.99%) SMS
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.94%) Power BI
2 11 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.48%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.48%) Metadata
4 5 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.49%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.99%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.99%) Looker
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.50%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (17.82%) JIRA
2 20 (9.90%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.44%) Git
4 9 (4.46%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.47%) GitLab
6 5 (2.48%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.98%) Subversion
8 3 (1.49%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.99%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.99%) MLflow
9 2 (0.99%) Postman
9 2 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.99%) Selenium
9 2 (0.99%) Snyk
9 2 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.99%) webpack
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 84 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 70 (34.65%) Public Sector
3 51 (25.25%) Finance
4 34 (16.83%) Banking
5 25 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.43%) Retail Banking
7 11 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (5.45%) Retail
8 8 (3.96%) Legal
9 6 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.99%) Back Office
12 2 (0.99%) Billing
13 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.50%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (11.39%) Analyst
2 22 (10.89%) Developer
3 19 (9.41%) Senior
3 19 (9.41%) Software Engineer
4 16 (7.92%) Lead
5 14 (6.93%) Project Manager
6 13 (6.44%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.94%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Python Engineer
9 10 (4.95%) Architect
10 9 (4.46%) Designer
11 7 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.97%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (2.48%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.48%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.48%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.40%) AWS CDK
2 14 (6.93%) FastAPI
2 14 (6.93%) PyTorch
2 14 (6.93%) React
2 14 (6.93%) REST
3 11 (5.45%) .NET
3 11 (5.45%) CSS
3 11 (5.45%) HTML
4 10 (4.95%) OAuth
4 10 (4.95%) Pandas
5 9 (4.46%) Kafka
5 9 (4.46%) NumPy
5 9 (4.46%) OpenCV
5 9 (4.46%) RESTful
5 9 (4.46%) Spring
5 9 (4.46%) SQLAlchemy
6 8 (3.96%) Hugging Face
6 8 (3.96%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.97%) boto
8 4 (1.98%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.39%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.93%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.46%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.47%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.97%) Web Conferencing
7 5 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.98%) Derivative
8 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.98%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.49%) EPoS
9 3 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.99%) Equities
10 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.41%) Linux
2 14 (6.93%) Unix
3 10 (4.95%) Windows
4 7 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) AIX
6 1 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.72%) DevOps
2 50 (24.75%) CI/CD
3 40 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (14.85%) Software Engineering
7 29 (14.36%) Scrum
8 27 (13.37%) AI
8 27 (13.37%) Mentoring
8 27 (13.37%) Project Management
9 23 (11.39%) Containerisation
10 22 (10.89%) Machine Learning
11 21 (10.40%) Migration
11 21 (10.40%) Test Automation
12 20 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (8.91%) SDLC
14 17 (8.42%) Coaching
14 17 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (7.92%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 52 (25.74%) Python
2 23 (11.39%) JavaScript
3 22 (10.89%) TypeScript
4 20 (9.90%) Java
5 18 (8.91%) SQL
6 16 (7.92%) C#
7 13 (6.44%) Shell Script
8 11 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.96%) Bash
10 7 (3.47%) Perl
11 6 (2.97%) C++
12 4 (1.98%) Go
13 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.99%) C
14 2 (0.99%) Groovy
15 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.50%) COBOL
15 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (7.43%) Degree
2 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.48%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.48%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.49%) HND
5 3 (1.49%) MCP
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) CISA
6 2 (0.99%) CISM
6 2 (0.99%) ISEB
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.50%) APMG
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.40%) Accessibility
2 18 (8.91%) Disclosure Scotland
3 10 (4.95%) GDPR
4 7 (3.47%) PMO
5 6 (2.97%) QA
6 4 (1.98%) COBIT
7 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.99%) MISRA
8 2 (0.99%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.99%) NCSC
9 1 (0.50%) DICOM
9 1 (0.50%) HL7
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.50%) NIST
9 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.50%) P3O
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (10.89%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) KVM
Systems Management
1 34 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.86%) Terraform
3 27 (13.37%) Grafana
4 22 (10.89%) Ansible
5 10 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.98%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.99%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.99%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.99%) Nagios
7 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.50%) linkerd
8 1 (0.50%) Podman
8 1 (0.50%) vRealize
8 1 (0.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 7 (3.47%) Google
4 5 (2.48%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.48%) IBM
5 4 (1.98%) CheckPoint
5 4 (1.98%) Dell
5 4 (1.98%) F5
5 4 (1.98%) HP
5 4 (1.98%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.98%) VMware
6 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.49%) Commvault
6 3 (1.49%) ForgeRock
6 3 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.99%) Reuters
7 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.99%) Spotify