Agile Contracts in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 401 556 1,000
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 24.85% 25.05% 34.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.57% 28.27% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 383 808
10th Percentile £325 £357 £384
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £565
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £25.46 £40.09 £40.09
25th Percentile £25.79 £55.75 £47.73
Median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% -6.92% +31.21%
75th Percentile £44.19 £60.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.68 £63.65 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -4 200 £450 -10.00% 109
Edinburgh -1 173 £470 +2.17% 119
Aberdeen +5 7 £375 -16.67% 7
Perthshire 0 7 £375 -25.00%
Stirling - 3 £400 - 2
Argyll and Bute - 2 £400 -
Lanarkshire -6 1 £525 +6.33% 14
Perth and Kinross - 1 £600 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £463 -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 28 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.99%) Confluence
3 3 (0.75%) Camunda
4 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.25%) TPMS
5 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.24%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (1.00%) iTrent
4 3 (0.75%) Primavera
5 2 (0.50%) Finacle
5 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.25%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 89 (22.19%) Azure
2 56 (13.97%) AWS
3 41 (10.22%) Power Platform
4 37 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.99%) Serverless
7 22 (5.49%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.49%) IaaS
7 22 (5.49%) SaaS
8 20 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.99%) OpenShift
11 15 (3.74%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (3.24%) PaaS
13 13 (3.24%) Power Automate
13 13 (3.24%) Yammer
14 11 (2.74%) GitHub
15 10 (2.49%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.49%) Firewall
2 6 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (1.00%) DHCP
3 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.75%) SNA
4 3 (0.75%) SSL
5 2 (0.50%) Intranet
6 1 (0.25%) ATM
6 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) HTTP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.97%) Relational Database
2 40 (9.98%) MongoDB
3 36 (8.98%) DB2
4 22 (5.49%) Power BI
5 20 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (4.24%) RDBMS
7 11 (2.74%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.49%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.24%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.75%) GIS
12 3 (0.75%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.75%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.75%) OLAP
13 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (15.46%) JIRA
2 44 (10.97%) Git
3 40 (9.98%) JUnit
4 26 (6.48%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.74%) GitLab
6 11 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.50%) Mockito
8 6 (1.50%) Oracle APEX
8 6 (1.50%) Selenium
9 5 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.00%) Postman
10 4 (1.00%) Subversion
10 4 (1.00%) Toad
11 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.75%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.75%) Xcode
12 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.50%) SoapUI
General
1 163 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 151 (37.66%) Finance
3 102 (25.44%) Public Sector
4 90 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (17.96%) Banking
6 31 (7.73%) Investment Banking
7 23 (5.74%) Front Office
8 18 (4.49%) Back Office
9 16 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.75%) Marketing
14 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.50%) Publishing
15 4 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.75%) Retail
17 2 (0.50%) Games
17 2 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 113 (28.18%) Developer
2 74 (18.45%) Analyst
3 52 (12.97%) Java Developer
4 38 (9.48%) Senior
5 36 (8.98%) Business Analyst
6 31 (7.73%) Lead
7 28 (6.98%) Architect
8 27 (6.73%) Project Manager
9 17 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.49%) Designer
11 13 (3.24%) Change Analyst
11 13 (3.24%) Scrum Master
12 11 (2.74%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.49%) Python Developer
14 9 (2.24%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.24%) Release Manager
14 9 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (2.24%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.24%) ServiceNow Developer
14 9 (2.24%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.96%) Spring
2 36 (8.98%) Kafka
3 33 (8.23%) REST
4 30 (7.48%) Spring Boot
5 27 (6.73%) JMS
6 24 (5.99%) React
7 23 (5.74%) CSS
8 20 (4.99%) HTML
9 19 (4.74%) AWS CDK
10 17 (4.24%) Node.js
11 15 (3.74%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.74%) Middleware
12 12 (2.99%) XML
13 11 (2.74%) .NET
13 11 (2.74%) JSON
14 10 (2.49%) RESTful
14 10 (2.49%) SOAP
15 5 (1.25%) PostGIS
16 4 (1.00%) J2EE
16 4 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.98%) Data Structures
2 27 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.49%) Equities
4 18 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (4.49%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.49%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.49%) CMDB
6 10 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.75%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.50%) Derivative
11 5 (1.25%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (1.25%) PKI
11 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.21%) Linux
2 27 (6.73%) Windows
3 17 (4.24%) Unix
4 7 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.00%) Android
7 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.75%) AIX
8 3 (0.75%) HPUX
8 3 (0.75%) Solaris
8 3 (0.75%) zOS
9 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (23.44%) DevOps
3 72 (17.96%) CI/CD
4 71 (17.71%) Waterfall
5 68 (16.96%) Project Management
6 67 (16.71%) SDLC
7 63 (15.71%) Scrum
8 47 (11.72%) Test Automation
9 45 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (10.47%) Project Delivery
11 38 (9.48%) Kanban
12 37 (9.23%) Software Engineering
13 33 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (8.23%) Microservices
13 33 (8.23%) Roadmaps
14 29 (7.23%) Multithreading
15 28 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (6.73%) Migration
16 27 (6.73%) TDD
16 27 (6.73%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.95%) Java
2 87 (21.70%) SQL
3 78 (19.45%) Python
4 49 (12.22%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.98%) Shell Script
6 29 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.24%) PL/SQL
8 17 (4.24%) C#
9 9 (2.24%) Bash
10 8 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.75%) Perl
12 5 (1.25%) C++
12 5 (1.25%) Erlang
12 5 (1.25%) Groovy
12 5 (1.25%) Prolog
13 4 (1.00%) Swift
14 3 (0.75%) JCL
14 3 (0.75%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.75%) VBA
14 3 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (7.48%) Degree
2 12 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.75%) PMI Certification
3 7 (1.75%) PMP
3 7 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.25%) ISEB
4 5 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.75%) IIBA
6 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.50%) CISM
7 2 (0.50%) CISSP
7 2 (0.50%) MCSE
8 1 (0.25%) CBAP
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 20 (4.99%) QA
3 17 (4.24%) PMO
4 13 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.50%) GDPR
5 6 (1.50%) GRC
6 3 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.50%) NCSC
7 2 (0.50%) P3O
7 2 (0.50%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (3.99%) Docker
2 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.25%) GPFS
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.74%) Terraform
3 15 (3.74%) Grafana
4 14 (3.49%) Ansible
5 10 (2.49%) SCCM
6 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.75%) Kibana
8 3 (0.75%) Tivoli NetView
9 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.25%) Nagios
10 1 (0.25%) Podman
10 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 54 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.98%) Oracle
3 32 (7.98%) ServiceNow
4 29 (7.23%) Sybase
5 12 (2.99%) IBM
6 11 (2.74%) VMware
7 10 (2.49%) Splunk
8 6 (1.50%) Databricks
8 6 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.50%) HP
8 6 (1.50%) Pega
9 4 (1.00%) DocuSign
9 4 (1.00%) Veritas
10 3 (0.75%) Adobe
10 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.75%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.75%) Avaloq
10 3 (0.75%) Google
10 3 (0.75%) Sun
10 3 (0.75%) Unisys