Agile Contracts in Edinburgh

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 175 176 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.18% 21.49% 39.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.51% 24.68% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 113 399
10th Percentile £363 £305 £363
25th Percentile £413 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -1.16% -
75th Percentile £538 £530 £538
90th Percentile £625 £608 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £490 £484
% change year-on-year -5.61% +1.29% +1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £60.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -37.94% -13.57% +43.19%

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 593 713 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.49% 87.06% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 421 836
10th Percentile £240 £219 £246
25th Percentile £404 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £547
90th Percentile £625 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 8
10th Percentile - £13.48 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.59 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +5.22% -27.24%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £45.80 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year +2.41% +20.00% -56.59%

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 16 May 2025.

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 11 (6.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.14%) Camunda
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.57%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) iTrent
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.29%) AWS
2 30 (17.14%) Azure
3 20 (11.43%) Amazon S3
4 18 (10.29%) Serverless
5 17 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.86%) SaaS
9 11 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (5.14%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.14%) PaaS
12 8 (4.57%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (4.00%) IaaS
14 6 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (2.86%) Figma
15 5 (2.86%) PowerApps
16 4 (2.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 4 (2.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Firewall
1 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.71%) SNA
3 2 (1.14%) DNS
3 2 (1.14%) SMS
3 2 (1.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) ATM
4 1 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) Internet
4 1 (0.57%) Intranet
4 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.43%) Power BI
4 5 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.29%) GIS
5 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.71%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.71%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.14%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.14%) Metadata
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (13.71%) JIRA
2 16 (9.14%) Git
3 14 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.71%) GitLab
5 7 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.86%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.86%) Selenium
7 4 (2.29%) Postman
8 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.71%) Subversion
8 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.71%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.57%) JUnit
10 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.57%) NUnit
10 1 (0.57%) Toad
General
1 68 (38.86%) Public Sector
2 64 (36.57%) Social Skills
3 46 (26.29%) Finance
4 28 (16.00%) Banking
5 22 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.29%) Back Office
8 4 (2.29%) Marketing
8 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Retail
9 3 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Games
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (20.57%) Developer
2 29 (16.57%) Senior
3 28 (16.00%) Analyst
4 20 (11.43%) Business Analyst
4 20 (11.43%) Lead
5 15 (8.57%) Architect
6 10 (5.71%) Designer
7 8 (4.57%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.00%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (2.86%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.86%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (2.86%) Product Owner
9 5 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (2.86%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.29%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (2.29%) Release Manager
10 4 (2.29%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.71%) AWS CDK
2 15 (8.57%) REST
3 14 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.86%) React
4 12 (6.86%) Spring
5 11 (6.29%) CSS
5 11 (6.29%) HTML
6 9 (5.14%) .NET
6 9 (5.14%) Node.js
7 8 (4.57%) JSON
7 8 (4.57%) XML
8 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.43%) PostGIS
8 6 (3.43%) RESTful
9 5 (2.86%) Middleware
10 3 (1.71%) Kafka
10 3 (1.71%) Next.js
10 3 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.14%) Entity Framework
11 2 (1.14%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.57%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 5 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.29%) CMDB
5 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.71%) Replication
7 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 2 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.14%) Equities
7 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) PKI
7 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.43%) Windows
2 12 (6.86%) Linux
3 6 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.86%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.71%) AIX
5 3 (1.71%) HPUX
5 3 (1.71%) Solaris
5 3 (1.71%) Unix
5 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.71%) zOS
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.00%) DevOps
2 34 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (18.86%) CI/CD
4 25 (14.29%) Scrum
5 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (13.71%) Roadmaps
6 22 (12.57%) Kanban
6 22 (12.57%) Project Management
7 20 (11.43%) Project Delivery
7 20 (11.43%) User Experience
8 19 (10.86%) Test Automation
8 19 (10.86%) Waterfall
9 18 (10.29%) Analytics
9 18 (10.29%) Migration
10 17 (9.71%) Coaching
11 16 (9.14%) Business Analysis
11 16 (9.14%) TDD
12 14 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (8.00%) Risk Management
12 14 (8.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.86%) JavaScript
2 25 (14.29%) Java
3 22 (12.57%) SQL
4 21 (12.00%) Python
5 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.14%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.57%) C#
8 7 (4.00%) Bash
9 6 (3.43%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.29%) Groovy
11 3 (1.71%) C++
11 3 (1.71%) JCL
11 3 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.71%) VBA
11 3 (1.71%) VBScript
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) REXX
12 1 (0.57%) Swift
12 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (6.86%) Degree
2 6 (3.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.71%) IIBA
5 3 (1.71%) ISEB
5 3 (1.71%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.14%) MCSE
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) OCP
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (4.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.86%) QA
4 4 (2.29%) PMO
5 3 (1.71%) GRC
6 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) NCSC
6 2 (1.14%) P3O
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.14%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (5.71%) Grafana
1 10 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.00%) Ansible
2 7 (4.00%) SCCM
3 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.86%) Terraform
4 3 (1.71%) Kibana
4 3 (1.71%) Tivoli NetView
5 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.57%) Nagios
6 1 (0.57%) Podman
6 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (8.00%) Oracle
2 13 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.29%) IBM
3 11 (6.29%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.43%) HP
5 4 (2.29%) Databricks
5 4 (2.29%) StreamSets
6 3 (1.71%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.71%) Sun
6 3 (1.71%) Unisys
6 3 (1.71%) VMware
7 2 (1.14%) Adobe
7 2 (1.14%) Fiserv
7 2 (1.14%) Informatica
7 2 (1.14%) Pega
7 2 (1.14%) Reuters
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
8 1 (0.57%) Imperva
8 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto