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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 514 949 1,180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 23.83% 34.35% 34.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.95% 37.13% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 761 891
10th Percentile £350 £384 £360
25th Percentile £418 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +1.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £550
90th Percentile £622 £650 £619
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £40.09 £40.09 £42.41
25th Percentile £55.75 £47.73 £43.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £48.89
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +43.19% -6.75%
75th Percentile £60.75 £85.00 £55.82
90th Percentile £63.65 £86.50 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.25 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.28% +28.52% +12.82%

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 1,907 2,556 3,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.41% 92.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,817 2,272
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £652 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 55 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £18.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -2.46%
75th Percentile £48.00 £50.74 £49.76
90th Percentile £61.10 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 0 215 £500 - 72
Edinburgh -1 168 £470 -1.16% 66
South Lanarkshire +11 29 £575 +27.78%
West Lothian +4 24 £525 -8.70% 3
Perthshire 0 10 £513 -9.77% 2
Lanarkshire 0 8 £500 +4.71% 31
Dundee -1 6 £288 -32.35% 2
Aberdeen -2 3 £450 -7.69% 17
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 5
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 65 (12.65%) Confluence
2 17 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.56%) Apache
4 8 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.17%) CMS
7 3 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.39%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.39%) JBoss
8 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.39%) WildFly
9 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Maximo
2 3 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (21.40%) AWS
2 70 (13.62%) Azure
3 35 (6.81%) Amazon S3
3 35 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (6.61%) Serverless
5 33 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.09%) OpenShift
8 18 (3.50%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (1.75%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (1.75%) GCP
13 9 (1.75%) IaaS
14 8 (1.56%) Yammer
15 7 (1.36%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.11%) Firewall
2 9 (1.75%) DNS
3 5 (0.97%) 5G
3 5 (0.97%) ATM
3 5 (0.97%) DHCP
3 5 (0.97%) SSL
3 5 (0.97%) VPN
3 5 (0.97%) VSAN
4 4 (0.78%) Internet
4 4 (0.78%) LAN
4 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.58%) WAN
6 2 (0.39%) FabricPath
6 2 (0.39%) IPv6
6 2 (0.39%) Modbus
6 2 (0.39%) Network Security
6 2 (0.39%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.39%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (3.89%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.72%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.56%) GIS
6 8 (1.56%) Power BI
7 6 (1.17%) Big Data
7 6 (1.17%) InfluxDB
7 6 (1.17%) Informix
7 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.97%) DB2
8 5 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.58%) MySQL
9 3 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 122 (23.74%) JIRA
2 37 (7.20%) Git
2 37 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.89%) Cucumber
4 19 (3.70%) JUnit
5 14 (2.72%) GitLab
6 13 (2.53%) Postman
7 9 (1.75%) IntelliJ
8 8 (1.56%) Maven
9 7 (1.36%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.17%) Mockito
10 6 (1.17%) Selenium
10 6 (1.17%) Subversion
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.58%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 154 (29.96%) Public Sector
2 148 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 84 (16.34%) Finance
4 52 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.81%) Banking
6 26 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.56%) Electronics
10 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.36%) Publishing
12 6 (1.17%) Legal
12 6 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Marketing
15 3 (0.58%) Billing
15 3 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 105 (20.43%) Developer
2 69 (13.42%) Analyst
3 61 (11.87%) Senior
4 52 (10.12%) Java Developer
5 46 (8.95%) Project Manager
6 39 (7.59%) Lead
7 35 (6.81%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.28%) Architect
9 20 (3.89%) Consultant
10 19 (3.70%) Designer
10 19 (3.70%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (3.31%) IT Manager
12 17 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.11%) Change Manager
13 16 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 15 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (2.92%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (2.92%) Senior Manager
15 14 (2.72%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (12.06%) Spring
2 50 (9.73%) Spring Boot
3 45 (8.75%) REST
4 38 (7.39%) AWS CDK
5 34 (6.61%) React
6 32 (6.23%) CSS
7 29 (5.64%) HTML
8 27 (5.25%) Kafka
9 21 (4.09%) RESTful
10 20 (3.89%) AngularJS
11 15 (2.92%) Node.js
12 13 (2.53%) JPA
13 12 (2.33%) .NET
14 11 (2.14%) J2EE
15 10 (1.95%) Apache Camel
16 9 (1.75%) PySpark
17 8 (1.56%) Middleware
17 8 (1.56%) Playwright
18 7 (1.36%) Web Services
19 6 (1.17%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.89%) Public Cloud
3 18 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.92%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.56%) Replication
10 7 (1.36%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.97%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.97%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.12%) Linux
2 27 (5.25%) Windows
3 20 (3.89%) Unix
4 10 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.78%) VxWorks
8 3 (0.58%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (21.40%) Scrum
2 97 (18.87%) Project Management
3 93 (18.09%) DevOps
4 70 (13.62%) CI/CD
5 69 (13.42%) Roadmaps
6 60 (11.67%) Waterfall
7 58 (11.28%) Coaching
8 53 (10.31%) Microservices
8 53 (10.31%) User Stories
9 51 (9.92%) SDLC
10 47 (9.14%) Software Engineering
10 47 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 44 (8.56%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (8.37%) User Experience
13 42 (8.17%) Test Automation
14 41 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (7.98%) Kanban
14 41 (7.98%) User Research
15 40 (7.78%) Change Management
16 39 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.68%) Java
2 87 (16.93%) SQL
3 82 (15.95%) Python
4 42 (8.17%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.23%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 19 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.50%) Perl
8 13 (2.53%) C#
8 13 (2.53%) Scala
9 11 (2.14%) C
10 10 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.56%) Bash
13 6 (1.17%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.97%) Groovy
15 4 (0.78%) VB
15 4 (0.78%) VB6
16 2 (0.39%) Ruby
16 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.73%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.95%) Degree
4 9 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.97%) MCSE
7 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.78%) ISEB
9 3 (0.58%) APMP
9 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.58%) CCNP
9 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.58%) OSCP
10 2 (0.39%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 26 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.92%) PMO
3 15 (2.92%) QA
4 11 (2.14%) SLA
5 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.78%) MISRA
6 4 (0.78%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.39%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) NCSC
7 2 (0.39%) P3O
8 1 (0.19%) Basel III
8 1 (0.19%) COREP
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) FINREP
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (7.00%) Docker
2 11 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.56%) Firmware
4 7 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.78%) vSphere
6 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (5.64%) Grafana
2 23 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.11%) Kibana
4 14 (2.72%) Ansible
5 12 (2.33%) Terraform
6 10 (1.95%) SCCM
7 6 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.97%) VxRail
8 5 (0.97%) Zipkin
9 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.58%) Packer
11 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.39%) Istio
12 1 (0.19%) Argo
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.19%) Nessus
12 1 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (8.95%) Oracle
2 37 (7.20%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 10 (1.95%) Avaloq
4 10 (1.95%) ServiceNow
4 10 (1.95%) VMware
5 9 (1.75%) Splunk
6 7 (1.36%) Cadence
6 7 (1.36%) Databricks
7 6 (1.17%) Cisco
7 6 (1.17%) Dell
7 6 (1.17%) SAP
8 5 (0.97%) IBM
9 4 (0.78%) Commvault
9 4 (0.78%) Google
9 4 (0.78%) Infragistics
9 4 (0.78%) Intel
10 3 (0.58%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.58%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.58%) Red Hat