Agile Job Trends in Edinburgh

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 265 268 425
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 23.04% 24.84% 34.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.35% 25.55% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37 82 346
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,855 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £70,996 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% +0.60% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,052 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,500 £93,400 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.00% -3.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 969 1,049 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.26% 97.22% 90.94%
Number of salaries quoted 437 404 890
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,125 £30,883
25th Percentile £29,500 £45,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -2.15%
75th Percentile £74,066 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Agile job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Agile
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 2 - -
Agile
Scotland

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 17 (6.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (6.04%) Confluence
3 10 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) CICS
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.51%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 45 (16.98%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (6.79%) Workday HCM
3 8 (3.02%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (3.02%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (3.02%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (3.02%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (3.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.51%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (1.51%) Markit EDM
5 3 (1.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 197 (74.34%) Azure
2 134 (50.57%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (34.72%) GitHub
4 73 (27.55%) Snowflake
5 72 (27.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 48 (18.11%) Entra ID
7 43 (16.23%) dbt
8 41 (15.47%) OCI
9 38 (14.34%) Power Platform
10 32 (12.08%) AWS
11 29 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (10.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (7.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 15 (5.66%) SaaS
15 12 (4.53%) Salesforce Einstein
16 10 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (3.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 10 (3.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 10 (3.77%) SuccessFactors
17 9 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) BGP
1 3 (1.13%) Firewall
1 3 (1.13%) LAN
1 3 (1.13%) MPLS
1 3 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (1.13%) WAN
1 3 (1.13%) Wireless
2 2 (0.75%) Broadband
3 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (14.34%) Power BI
3 29 (10.94%) Tableau
4 14 (5.28%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (4.15%) Metadata
6 7 (2.64%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.51%) Essbase
7 4 (1.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.38%) DB2
9 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 64 (24.15%) JIRA
2 55 (20.75%) Oracle Forms
3 39 (14.72%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.79%) Git
5 12 (4.53%) ER Studio
5 12 (4.53%) ERwin
6 2 (0.75%) GitLab
6 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.38%) JMeter
7 1 (0.38%) jMock
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Locust
General
1 220 (83.02%) Finance
2 83 (31.32%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (27.55%) Social Skills
4 24 (9.06%) Marketing
5 13 (4.91%) Legal
6 8 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.89%) Games
7 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.51%) Banking
8 4 (1.51%) Front Office
9 3 (1.13%) Retail
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (38.11%) Senior
2 49 (18.49%) Analyst
3 48 (18.11%) Applications Engineer
4 37 (13.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (8.68%) Business Analyst
6 20 (7.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 19 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.91%) Senior Analyst
8 13 (4.91%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.53%) Data Modeller
10 9 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) Oracle Analyst
11 8 (3.02%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 8 (3.02%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (3.02%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (2.64%) Architect
12 7 (2.64%) Change Analyst
13 6 (2.26%) Engineering Manager
14 5 (1.89%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.62%) SOAP
2 40 (15.09%) RESTful
3 32 (12.08%) REST
4 28 (10.57%) OAuth
5 25 (9.43%) SAML
6 24 (9.06%) Lightning Web Components
7 20 (7.55%) JSON
7 20 (7.55%) XML
8 17 (6.42%) OAuth2
9 11 (4.15%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.15%) OpenAPI
9 11 (4.15%) Swagger
10 10 (3.77%) Web Services
11 8 (3.02%) YAML
12 7 (2.64%) .NET
13 5 (1.89%) React
14 3 (1.13%) CSS
14 3 (1.13%) HTML
14 3 (1.13%) Kafka
15 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (37.74%) Product Ownership
2 68 (25.66%) Cloud Native
3 37 (13.96%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (5.28%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (4.53%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.02%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.02%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.51%) NHS
10 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.53%) Windows
2 2 (0.75%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (79.25%) Asset Management
2 207 (78.11%) Coaching
3 168 (63.40%) DevOps
4 135 (50.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 126 (47.55%) CI/CD
6 111 (41.89%) AI
7 99 (37.36%) Test Automation
8 79 (29.81%) Analytics
9 77 (29.06%) Mentoring
10 72 (27.17%) Data Modelling
11 69 (26.04%) Roadmaps
12 64 (24.15%) Observability
13 58 (21.89%) Clean Code
13 58 (21.89%) Sprint Planning
14 57 (21.51%) Sprint Retrospective
15 47 (17.74%) Migration
16 45 (16.98%) ERP
16 45 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (16.60%) Data Governance
18 41 (15.47%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 116 (43.77%) Python
1 116 (43.77%) SQL
2 62 (23.40%) PowerShell
3 49 (18.49%) Java
4 37 (13.96%) PL/SQL
4 37 (13.96%) Shell Script
5 24 (9.06%) Apex Code
6 18 (6.79%) Bash
7 16 (6.04%) C#
8 12 (4.53%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.64%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.51%) Groovy
11 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.75%) SOQL
11 2 (0.75%) SOSL
11 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (3.02%) Degree
2 7 (2.64%) PMI Certification
2 7 (2.64%) PMP
3 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.38%) CISA
4 1 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.15%) GDPR
3 7 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.13%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) P3O
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (12.83%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.51%) Docker
5 1 (0.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 79 (29.81%) Terraform
2 45 (16.98%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (6.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.02%) SCCM
5 5 (1.89%) Grafana
6 4 (1.51%) Ansible
7 3 (1.13%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 66 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 58 (21.89%) Oracle
3 24 (9.06%) Salesforce
4 20 (7.55%) Okta
5 18 (6.79%) Workday
6 13 (4.91%) SAP
7 12 (4.53%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.02%) IBM
8 8 (3.02%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.64%) Databricks
9 7 (2.64%) Hyperion
10 6 (2.26%) Splunk
11 4 (1.51%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.51%) Anaplan
11 4 (1.51%) Charles River
12 3 (1.13%) F5
12 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds
13 1 (0.38%) Broadcom