Agile Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 243 142 199
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 32.62% 20.82% 24.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 36.05% 23.43% 26.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 121 159
10th Percentile £313 £341 £412
25th Percentile £390 £370 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -16.19% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £625
90th Percentile £575 £600 £728
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £18.83 - -
25th Percentile £24.44 £23.34 £57.50
Median hourly rate £35.05 £24.26 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.49% -59.58% +26.32%
75th Percentile £46.90 £25.17 £62.50
90th Percentile £53.26 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.05 £24.26 £60.00
% change year-on-year +44.49% -59.58% +80.72%

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 674 606 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.47% 88.86% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 423 506
10th Percentile £300 £268 £350
25th Percentile £381 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £652 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 21
10th Percentile £14.40 £15.56 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 £25.17 £17.72
90th Percentile £54.37 £40.90 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 18 (7.41%) Confluence
2 8 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.06%) Apache
6 4 (1.65%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.23%) JBoss
7 3 (1.23%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.23%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.41%) Drupal
9 1 (0.41%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.41%) Mule
9 1 (0.41%) nginx
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.41%) SAS
9 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 66 (27.16%) AWS
2 45 (18.52%) Azure
3 19 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.41%) GitHub
5 12 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.29%) IaaS
7 8 (3.29%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.29%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.88%) BlazeMeter
8 7 (2.88%) GCP
8 7 (2.88%) SaaS
9 6 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.47%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.47%) Viva Engage
10 5 (2.06%) Serverless
11 4 (1.65%) Apigee
11 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.06%) DHCP
1 5 (2.06%) DNS
1 5 (2.06%) Firewall
1 5 (2.06%) HTTP
2 4 (1.65%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.65%) SSL
2 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) AMQP
3 1 (0.41%) DSL
3 1 (0.41%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.41%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.41%) SAN
3 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.05%) MongoDB
2 38 (15.64%) Relational Database
3 28 (11.52%) DB2
4 21 (8.64%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (3.70%) Big Data
7 8 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.47%) Power BI
9 5 (2.06%) Redis
9 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.65%) Metadata
10 4 (1.65%) NewSQL
10 4 (1.65%) OLTP
10 4 (1.65%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.23%) MSDE
11 3 (1.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (18.11%) Jenkins
2 41 (16.87%) JIRA
3 40 (16.46%) Git
4 38 (15.64%) JUnit
5 23 (9.47%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.76%) IntelliJ
6 14 (5.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 13 (5.35%) PyCharm
7 13 (5.35%) Visual Studio
8 6 (2.47%) GitLab
8 6 (2.47%) Xcode
9 5 (2.06%) Maven
9 5 (2.06%) Mockito
10 4 (1.65%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.65%) Gradle
10 4 (1.65%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.23%) Vite
12 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 132 (54.32%) Finance
2 107 (44.03%) Social Skills
3 61 (25.10%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (21.40%) Banking
5 35 (14.40%) Investment Banking
6 22 (9.05%) Public Sector
7 21 (8.64%) Front Office
8 16 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.82%) Legal
13 1 (0.41%) Back Office
13 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.41%) Military
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (31.28%) Developer
2 53 (21.81%) Java Developer
3 37 (15.23%) Analyst
4 23 (9.47%) Python Engineer
5 18 (7.41%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 18 (7.41%) SQL Developer
5 18 (7.41%) Sybase Developer
6 17 (7.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (6.58%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (5.76%) Senior
9 13 (5.35%) Data Analyst
10 12 (4.94%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.94%) Python Developer
11 11 (4.53%) Scrum Master
12 10 (4.12%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.70%) Agile Coach
14 8 (3.29%) Lead
14 8 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (21.40%) Spring
2 43 (17.70%) Kafka
3 27 (11.11%) RESTful
4 23 (9.47%) JMS
5 22 (9.05%) AngularJS
6 21 (8.64%) React
7 20 (8.23%) Spring Boot
8 19 (7.82%) REST
9 15 (6.17%) OAuth
10 13 (5.35%) CSS
11 12 (4.94%) SOAP
12 10 (4.12%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (3.29%) FastAPI
14 7 (2.88%) HTML
14 7 (2.88%) OpenID
14 7 (2.88%) SAML
15 6 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.47%) SwiftUI
15 6 (2.47%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.52%) Virtual Team
2 24 (9.88%) Data Structures
3 21 (8.64%) Equities
3 21 (8.64%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.35%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.94%) Cloud Native
7 11 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.29%) Algorithms
8 8 (3.29%) CMDB
8 8 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.88%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.88%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.47%) iPad
10 6 (2.47%) iPhone
10 6 (2.47%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 71 (29.22%) Linux
2 24 (9.88%) Unix
3 21 (8.64%) Windows
4 6 (2.47%) Android
4 6 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.06%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (34.57%) CI/CD
2 73 (30.04%) SDLC
3 68 (27.98%) DevOps
4 65 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (18.93%) Scrum
6 43 (17.70%) Software Engineering
7 40 (16.46%) Microservices
8 36 (14.81%) Test Automation
9 35 (14.40%) Performance Tuning
10 33 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.35%) Multithreading
12 28 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (10.29%) Decision-Making
13 25 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (10.29%) Observability
13 25 (10.29%) Waterfall
14 24 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (9.88%) Visualisation
15 23 (9.47%) Open Source
16 22 (9.05%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 95 (39.09%) Python
2 92 (37.86%) Java
3 72 (29.63%) SQL
4 25 (10.29%) Shell Script
5 23 (9.47%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.64%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.41%) C#
8 12 (4.94%) Perl
9 7 (2.88%) Bash
10 6 (2.47%) Erlang
10 6 (2.47%) Go
10 6 (2.47%) Objective-C
10 6 (2.47%) Prolog
10 6 (2.47%) Swift
11 4 (1.65%) ANSI SQL
11 4 (1.65%) PromQL
12 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (11.11%) Degree
2 13 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.88%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.65%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.82%) PMP
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.41%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.41%) CISA
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) HNC
9 1 (0.41%) HND
9 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.76%) QA
2 7 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.65%) PMO
4 3 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) Basel III
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) COREP
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) FINREP
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (9.05%) Docker
2 6 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) GPFS
3 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 54 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 40 (16.46%) Terraform
3 20 (8.23%) Grafana
4 18 (7.41%) Ansible
5 11 (4.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.65%) Argo
6 4 (1.65%) Istio
6 4 (1.65%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.23%) SCCM
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.41%) Podman
9 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.41%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 38 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.88%) Sybase
3 17 (7.00%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.58%) Splunk
5 13 (5.35%) Oracle
6 8 (3.29%) Databricks
7 7 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.47%) VMware
9 5 (2.06%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.06%) F5
9 5 (2.06%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.06%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.65%) Google
10 4 (1.65%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.23%) IBM
12 2 (0.82%) Proofpoint
12 2 (0.82%) Remedy
12 2 (0.82%) SAP
12 2 (0.82%) Symantec
12 2 (0.82%) Teradata