Agile Contracts in Glasgow

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 201 236 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.19% 26.91% 30.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.91% 29.28% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 175 225
10th Percentile £350 £392 £382
25th Percentile £404 £421 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.76%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £613
90th Percentile £589 £675 £748
Scotland median daily rate £459 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -8.30% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £26.13 £36.27
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.32 £38.18
Median hourly rate £26.50 £38.38 £41.37
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% -7.22% -11.99%
75th Percentile £27.75 £46.61 £44.55
90th Percentile - £50.89 £46.46
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -54.79% -6.92% +31.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 14 (6.97%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Camunda
3 1 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (12.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.48%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.99%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Finacle
1 2 (1.00%) Primavera
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.39%) Azure
2 23 (11.44%) AWS
3 20 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.46%) IaaS
5 13 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (6.47%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.48%) GitHub
6 7 (3.48%) Yammer
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.99%) SaaS
8 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.49%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.99%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.99%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.99%) Serverless
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.49%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.00%) Asana
11 2 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) DHCP
1 4 (1.99%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.50%) FTP
3 1 (0.50%) Intranet
3 1 (0.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.50%) SAN
3 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.90%) Relational Database
2 36 (17.91%) MongoDB
3 35 (17.41%) DB2
4 10 (4.98%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.98%) Power BI
7 5 (2.49%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.00%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.00%) MySQL
10 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.50%) KDB
10 1 (0.50%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.50%) OLAP
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 39 (19.40%) JUnit
2 35 (17.41%) JIRA
3 21 (10.45%) Git
4 13 (6.47%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.98%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.99%) Mockito
7 4 (1.99%) GitLab
8 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.49%) Toad
8 3 (1.49%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Gradle
9 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.50%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.50%) Subversion
9 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (50.25%) Finance
2 89 (44.28%) Social Skills
3 60 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (23.38%) Banking
5 29 (14.43%) Investment Banking
6 22 (10.95%) Front Office
7 21 (10.45%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.48%) Back Office
8 9 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.98%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.00%) Legal
13 2 (1.00%) Marketing
13 2 (1.00%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (36.32%) Developer
2 46 (22.89%) Java Developer
3 37 (18.41%) Analyst
4 18 (8.96%) Business Analyst
5 16 (7.96%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.97%) Architect
7 11 (5.47%) Lead
7 11 (5.47%) Scrum Master
7 11 (5.47%) Senior
8 10 (4.98%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.48%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.98%) SQL Developer
11 7 (3.48%) Change Analyst
11 7 (3.48%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 7 (3.48%) Sybase Developer
12 6 (2.99%) PMO Analyst
13 4 (1.99%) Business Change Analyst
13 4 (1.99%) Linux Engineer
13 4 (1.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.88%) Spring
2 36 (17.91%) Kafka
3 25 (12.44%) JMS
4 16 (7.96%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.97%) REST
6 10 (4.98%) Middleware
6 10 (4.98%) React
7 9 (4.48%) CSS
8 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.48%) SOAP
9 6 (2.99%) HTML
9 6 (2.99%) Node.js
10 4 (1.99%) J2EE
10 4 (1.99%) RESTful
11 3 (1.49%) Express.js
11 3 (1.49%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.49%) Loki
11 3 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) SwiftUI
11 3 (1.49%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.41%) Data Structures
2 21 (10.45%) Equities
3 17 (8.46%) Virtual Team
4 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.98%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.99%) CMDB
6 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.49%) Derivative
7 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.49%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.49%) iPad
9 3 (1.49%) iPhone
9 3 (1.49%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.36%) Linux
2 14 (6.97%) Unix
3 10 (4.98%) Windows
4 3 (1.49%) Android
4 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.32%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (27.36%) SDLC
3 44 (21.89%) Waterfall
4 43 (21.39%) DevOps
5 36 (17.91%) Project Management
6 32 (15.92%) Scrum
7 30 (14.93%) CI/CD
7 30 (14.93%) Multithreading
8 29 (14.43%) Software Engineering
9 26 (12.94%) Test Automation
10 24 (11.94%) Open Source
11 23 (11.44%) Microservices
12 22 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (10.45%) Wealth Management
14 20 (9.95%) Project Delivery
15 19 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
16 18 (8.96%) Database Tuning
17 17 (8.46%) Investment Management
18 16 (7.96%) Cybersecurity
18 16 (7.96%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.34%) Java
2 58 (28.86%) SQL
3 55 (27.36%) Python
4 30 (14.93%) Shell Script
5 15 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.97%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.98%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.99%) Perl
9 5 (2.49%) C#
9 5 (2.49%) Erlang
9 5 (2.49%) Prolog
10 3 (1.49%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.49%) Swift
11 2 (1.00%) C++
11 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) Groovy
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (5.97%) Degree
2 5 (2.49%) PMI Certification
2 5 (2.49%) PMP
3 4 (1.99%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) CISM
5 2 (1.00%) CISSP
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.50%) CBAP
6 1 (0.50%) ISEB
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (4.98%) QA
3 8 (3.98%) PMO
4 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.49%) GDPR
6 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.00%) GRC
7 2 (1.00%) NIST
7 2 (1.00%) WCAG
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (3.48%) Docker
1 7 (3.48%) Virtual Servers
2 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.50%) GPFS
5 1 (0.50%) NFS
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.46%) Kubernetes
1 15 (7.46%) Terraform
2 7 (3.48%) Ansible
3 6 (2.99%) Grafana
4 3 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.50%) Podman
5 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 29 (14.43%) Sybase
2 28 (13.93%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.95%) ServiceNow
4 16 (7.96%) Oracle
5 8 (3.98%) Splunk
5 8 (3.98%) VMware
6 4 (1.99%) DocuSign
6 4 (1.99%) Pega
6 4 (1.99%) Veritas
7 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.49%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.00%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.00%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.00%) Databricks
8 2 (1.00%) Google
8 2 (1.00%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.00%) Symantec
8 2 (1.00%) Temenos