Agile Contract Job Trends in West Lothian

Agile Software Development
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Lothian 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 6 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Lothian 20.51% - 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% - 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £425 - £118
25th Percentile £439 - £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £356
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.14%
75th Percentile £484 - £522
90th Percentile £486 - £614
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -4.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32 13 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 82.05% 61.90% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £258 £126 £59
25th Percentile £313 £143 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £188 £178
Median % change year-on-year +121.33% +5.49% -61.25%
75th Percentile £459 £291 £513
90th Percentile £483 £400 £578
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.29 £13.15
25th Percentile - £16.34 £14.13
Median hourly rate - £17.63 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.82% -78.29%
75th Percentile - £18.84 £24.00
90th Percentile - £18.86 £28.05
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 West Lothian

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

Agile job vacancy trend in West Lothian

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in West Lothian

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Agile

Agile
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Lothian 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
Livingston - 8 £475 - 2
Agile
Scotland

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Figma
2 2 (25.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Service Owner
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Social Media
2 3 (37.50%) AI Agents
3 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Conversational AI
2 3 (37.50%) Conversational UI
2 3 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
2 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) LLM
2 3 (37.50%) Prompt Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
273 Agile jobs in Scotland