Agile Contracts in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 570 994 1,203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 25.49% 34.73% 34.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.79% 37.50% 36.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 807 913
10th Percentile £360 £383 £356
25th Percentile £425 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £618
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £40.09 £40.09 £42.43
25th Percentile £55.75 £47.73 £44.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +31.21% -5.50%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £54.14
90th Percentile £63.65 £79.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £59.45 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -8.53% +30.65% +10.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 0 245 £500 - 68
Edinburgh -2 180 £450 -5.26% 97
South Lanarkshire +9 39 £600 +33.33% 1
West Lothian 0 24 £525 -3.45% 5
Perthshire 0 11 £513 -6.82%
Lanarkshire 0 9 £494 +2.07% 23
Dundee -1 6 £288 -42.50% 2
Aberdeen -4 2 £575 +17.95% 19
Renfrewshire -4 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 3
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 78 (13.68%) Confluence
2 22 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.40%) CMS
5 7 (1.23%) Apache
5 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.88%) IIS
7 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.35%) WildFly
9 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Maximo
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 129 (22.63%) AWS
2 64 (11.23%) Azure
3 44 (7.72%) Amazon S3
3 44 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 44 (7.72%) Serverless
4 41 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (5.09%) OpenShift
6 26 (4.56%) Power Platform
7 24 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.75%) IaaS
10 10 (1.75%) SaaS
11 9 (1.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (1.58%) AWS CodePipeline
11 9 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.58%) GCP
12 7 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (1.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.63%) DNS
1 15 (2.63%) Firewall
2 6 (1.05%) DHCP
2 6 (1.05%) SSL
3 5 (0.88%) 5G
3 5 (0.88%) ATM
3 5 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.88%) VPN
3 5 (0.88%) VSAN
4 4 (0.70%) Internet
4 4 (0.70%) LAN
5 3 (0.53%) WAN
6 2 (0.35%) FabricPath
6 2 (0.35%) HTTP
6 2 (0.35%) IPv6
6 2 (0.35%) Network Security
6 2 (0.35%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.35%) VLAN
7 1 (0.18%) MPLS
7 1 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (5.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (2.81%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.46%) Oracle Database
5 12 (2.11%) Power BI
6 11 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.58%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.40%) GIS
9 7 (1.23%) DB2
10 6 (1.05%) InfluxDB
10 6 (1.05%) Informix
10 6 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.70%) Big Data
11 4 (0.70%) Metadata
11 4 (0.70%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 136 (23.86%) JIRA
2 44 (7.72%) Jenkins
3 38 (6.67%) Git
4 22 (3.86%) Cucumber
5 19 (3.33%) GitLab
5 19 (3.33%) JUnit
6 15 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.28%) Postman
8 9 (1.58%) IntelliJ
9 8 (1.40%) Maven
9 8 (1.40%) Selenium
10 6 (1.05%) Subversion
11 5 (0.88%) Mockito
11 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.70%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.53%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.35%) Capybara
14 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 172 (30.18%) Public Sector
2 161 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.19%) Finance
4 56 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.96%) Banking
6 26 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.58%) Electronics
11 9 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.05%) Legal
13 6 (1.05%) Publishing
14 4 (0.70%) Billing
14 4 (0.70%) Marketing
15 3 (0.53%) Law
15 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (21.40%) Developer
2 73 (12.81%) Analyst
3 71 (12.46%) Senior
4 54 (9.47%) Java Developer
5 52 (9.12%) Project Manager
6 46 (8.07%) Lead
7 40 (7.02%) Business Analyst
8 35 (6.14%) Architect
9 24 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.51%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (3.33%) Designer
12 19 (3.33%) Product Manager
12 19 (3.33%) Senior Manager
13 17 (2.98%) Consultant
13 17 (2.98%) IT Manager
13 17 (2.98%) Senior Developer
14 16 (2.81%) Change Manager
14 16 (2.81%) Senior Delivery Manager
14 16 (2.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.93%) Spring
2 54 (9.47%) REST
3 51 (8.95%) Spring Boot
4 49 (8.60%) React
5 47 (8.25%) AWS CDK
6 42 (7.37%) CSS
7 40 (7.02%) HTML
8 26 (4.56%) Kafka
9 22 (3.86%) AngularJS
9 22 (3.86%) RESTful
10 18 (3.16%) Node.js
11 16 (2.81%) JPA
12 13 (2.28%) JSON
13 11 (1.93%) J2EE
14 10 (1.75%) .NET
14 10 (1.75%) Apache Camel
14 10 (1.75%) Web Services
15 8 (1.40%) Middleware
15 8 (1.40%) PySpark
15 8 (1.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.96%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.86%) Management Information System
2 22 (3.86%) Public Cloud
3 19 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.75%) Operational Technology
8 9 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.40%) Replication
10 7 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.88%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.88%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 4 (0.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.82%) Linux
2 29 (5.09%) Windows
3 18 (3.16%) Unix
4 11 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.70%) VxWorks
8 3 (0.53%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (20.53%) Project Management
2 111 (19.47%) Scrum
3 104 (18.25%) DevOps
4 80 (14.04%) CI/CD
4 80 (14.04%) Roadmaps
5 71 (12.46%) Waterfall
6 65 (11.40%) Coaching
7 63 (11.05%) Microservices
8 54 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (9.12%) User Experience
10 50 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 49 (8.60%) User Stories
12 48 (8.42%) Project Delivery
13 47 (8.25%) Test Automation
14 46 (8.07%) PRINCE2
15 45 (7.89%) Software Engineering
16 44 (7.72%) Kanban
17 43 (7.54%) SDLC
18 42 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 113 (19.82%) Java
2 93 (16.32%) Python
3 85 (14.91%) SQL
4 54 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 53 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.39%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.51%) Perl
8 19 (3.33%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.11%) Scala
10 11 (1.93%) C
11 9 (1.58%) Bash
11 9 (1.58%) C#
12 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.05%) Embedded C
13 6 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.88%) Groovy
15 3 (0.53%) C++
16 2 (0.35%) Ruby
16 2 (0.35%) VBA
16 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.42%) Degree
4 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.23%) PMP
5 7 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.70%) ISEB
7 4 (0.70%) MCSE
7 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.53%) APMP
8 3 (0.53%) CCNP
8 3 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.53%) OSCP
9 2 (0.35%) IIBA
9 2 (0.35%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.19%) Disclosure Scotland
2 39 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.51%) PMO
4 17 (2.98%) QA
5 12 (2.11%) SLA
6 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.70%) MISRA
7 4 (0.70%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
8 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.35%) GDPR
8 2 (0.35%) P3O
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) COREP
9 1 (0.18%) FINREP
9 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (6.49%) Docker
2 16 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.40%) Firmware
4 7 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.70%) vSphere
6 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (6.14%) Grafana
2 19 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.81%) Ansible
3 16 (2.81%) Kibana
4 15 (2.63%) Terraform
5 10 (1.75%) SCCM
6 6 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.88%) VxRail
8 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.70%) Packer
8 4 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.35%) Istio
9 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.37%) Oracle
3 20 (3.51%) Atlassian
4 10 (1.75%) Avaloq
4 10 (1.75%) VMware
5 9 (1.58%) Databricks
5 9 (1.58%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.40%) Splunk
7 7 (1.23%) Cadence
8 6 (1.05%) Cisco
8 6 (1.05%) Dell
9 5 (0.88%) Google
9 5 (0.88%) IBM
9 5 (0.88%) SAP
10 4 (0.70%) Commvault
10 4 (0.70%) Intel
10 4 (0.70%) Pega
11 3 (0.53%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.53%) Sybase