Agile Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Agile Software Development
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 2 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Agile 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 22.22% 33.33% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.22% 50.00% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £633 - -
25th Percentile £681 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.93%
75th Percentile £794 - -
90th Percentile £798 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -4.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 2 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 100.00% 66.67% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 23
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £617 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 - £670
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.25%
75th Percentile £766 - £750
90th Percentile £793 - -
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £18.85 - -
25th Percentile £20.12 - -
Median hourly rate £22.24 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% - -
75th Percentile £24.36 - -
90th Percentile £25.63 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year -13.20% +7.02% +5.46%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in South Lanarkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in South Lanarkshire over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in South Lanarkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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
East Kilbride -5 4 £775 -
Agile
Scotland

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Programme Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Ceph
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) VMware