Agile Contracts in Glasgow

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 211 270 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.21% 30.54% 34.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.30% 32.41% 37.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 217 265
10th Percentile £373 £381 £325
25th Percentile £418 £419 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +12.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £626 £711 £603
Scotland median daily rate £492 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +0.92% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £26.13 £36.27 £43.20
25th Percentile £30.32 £38.18 £44.25
Median hourly rate £38.38 £41.37 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -11.99% -22.56%
75th Percentile £46.61 £44.55 £48.77
90th Percentile £50.89 £46.46 £49.23
Scotland median hourly rate £60.50 £58.87 £49.54
% change year-on-year +2.78% +18.82% -5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 773 833 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.35% 94.23% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 604 695
10th Percentile £274 £325 £258
25th Percentile £388 £410 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £538
90th Percentile £650 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 13
10th Percentile £12.11 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.70
Median hourly rate £27.88 £14.38 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +93.93% -64.05% +116.16%
75th Percentile £50.55 £32.19 £43.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £58.93 £49.23
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.86 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.71% -57.86% -0.01%

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 7 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Glasgow

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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 20 (9.48%) Confluence
2 7 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.47%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Maximo
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.01%) AWS
2 20 (9.48%) Azure
3 7 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (3.32%) Serverless
4 6 (2.84%) Amazon S3
4 6 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (2.84%) IaaS
4 6 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.37%) GCP
6 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.42%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.42%) SaaS
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.95%) Catchpoint
8 2 (0.95%) npm
8 2 (0.95%) Yammer
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) DNS
2 5 (2.37%) DHCP
2 5 (2.37%) Firewall
3 4 (1.90%) ATM
4 3 (1.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.95%) IPv6
5 2 (0.95%) SSL
6 1 (0.47%) BGP
6 1 (0.47%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.47%) IPsec
6 1 (0.47%) MPLS
6 1 (0.47%) Network Security
6 1 (0.47%) OSPF
6 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) VLAN
6 1 (0.47%) VoIP
6 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.16%) Relational Database
2 8 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (2.84%) DB2
3 6 (2.84%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.90%) Big Data
4 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.42%) Power BI
5 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.95%) GIS
6 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.47%) HBase
7 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.47%) Informix
7 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (21.80%) JIRA
2 14 (6.64%) Git
3 12 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.32%) JUnit
5 6 (2.84%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.37%) Mockito
7 3 (1.42%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.42%) GitLab
8 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.95%) Subversion
8 2 (0.95%) webpack
9 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (22.75%) Finance
2 41 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.59%) Public Sector
4 26 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.06%) Banking
6 14 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.79%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.32%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.90%) Electronics
10 4 (1.90%) Legal
10 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.42%) Law
11 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.47%) Billing
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Local Government
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (28.91%) Developer
2 33 (15.64%) Java Developer
3 20 (9.48%) Analyst
4 19 (9.00%) Senior
5 14 (6.64%) Business Analyst
5 14 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (6.64%) Lead
6 12 (5.69%) Full Stack Engineer
7 11 (5.21%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.74%) Architect
8 10 (4.74%) Java Engineer
9 9 (4.27%) IT Manager
9 9 (4.27%) Product Manager
9 9 (4.27%) Windows Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Change Manager
10 8 (3.79%) Hardware Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.79%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.79%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.54%) Spring
2 28 (13.27%) Spring Boot
3 22 (10.43%) CSS
4 20 (9.48%) HTML
5 19 (9.00%) REST
5 19 (9.00%) RESTful
6 17 (8.06%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.64%) React
8 11 (5.21%) JPA
8 11 (5.21%) Kafka
9 8 (3.79%) AWS CDK
9 8 (3.79%) PySpark
10 5 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.37%) Node.js
11 4 (1.90%) .NET
11 4 (1.90%) Middleware
11 4 (1.90%) OpenTracing
12 3 (1.42%) HTML5
12 3 (1.42%) JSON
12 3 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.90%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.95%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Replication
9 1 (0.47%) Smartcard
9 1 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.37%) Linux
2 14 (6.64%) Windows
3 13 (6.16%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.42%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (19.91%) Microservices
2 41 (19.43%) Project Management
3 39 (18.48%) DevOps
4 37 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 37 (17.54%) Software Engineering
5 34 (16.11%) SDLC
6 28 (13.27%) Roadmaps
7 26 (12.32%) Scrum
8 24 (11.37%) Full Stack Development
8 24 (11.37%) Waterfall
9 23 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (10.90%) Test Automation
9 23 (10.90%) Unit Testing
10 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (9.00%) Operational Stability
12 17 (8.06%) Change Management
13 15 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (7.11%) Community of Practice
13 15 (7.11%) Machine Learning
13 15 (7.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 56 (26.54%) Java
2 47 (22.27%) Python
3 44 (20.85%) SQL
4 21 (9.95%) TypeScript
5 15 (7.11%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.64%) Perl
7 12 (5.69%) Scala
8 10 (4.74%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.74%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.42%) Bash
11 3 (1.42%) C
11 3 (1.42%) C#
12 2 (0.95%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) COBOL
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.11%) Degree
4 3 (1.42%) CCNP
4 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.42%) OSCP
5 2 (0.95%) CCIE
5 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.47%) CCNA
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (2.84%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.84%) PMO
3 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.95%) P3O
4 2 (0.95%) QA
4 2 (0.95%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) COREP
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) FINREP
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (3.32%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) SCCM
3 6 (2.84%) Grafana
3 6 (2.84%) Terraform
4 4 (1.90%) Ansible
4 4 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.90%) Zipkin
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.95%) Packer
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.47%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (7.58%) Microsoft
1 16 (7.58%) Oracle
2 10 (4.74%) Avaloq
3 8 (3.79%) Splunk
4 5 (2.37%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.37%) SAP
5 3 (1.42%) IBM
5 3 (1.42%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.95%) Adobe
6 2 (0.95%) AppNeta
6 2 (0.95%) Arista
6 2 (0.95%) Greenplum
6 2 (0.95%) HP
6 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.95%) Sybase
6 2 (0.95%) Tufin
6 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.47%) Cadence
7 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.47%) Pega