Agile Job Trends in Glasgow

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 189 121 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 23.05% 12.53% 20.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.35% 14.47% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 25 57 100
10th Percentile £39,200 £42,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £52,000 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +7.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £83,600 £73,000
Scotland median annual salary £66,250 £60,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +10.42% -7.79% +8.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 691 836 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.27% 86.54% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 338 446 481
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,388 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,195 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Agile
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Glasgow over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 19 (10.05%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.76%) Apache
3 6 (3.17%) Camunda
3 6 (3.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Civil 3D
1 4 (2.12%) Navisworks
1 4 (2.12%) Revit
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (36.51%) AWS
2 20 (10.58%) Azure
3 13 (6.88%) GitHub
4 12 (6.35%) GCP
5 10 (5.29%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.23%) Serverless
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.70%) SaaS
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.17%) npm
8 6 (3.17%) Yarn
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (1.59%) Dagster
10 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.59%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) NoSQL
2 19 (10.05%) Big Data
3 14 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.88%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.70%) Apache Hive
7 7 (3.70%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.17%) KDB
8 6 (3.17%) Kdb+
9 5 (2.65%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.12%) HBase
10 4 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.59%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) Jenkins
1 12 (6.35%) JUnit
1 12 (6.35%) Maven
2 11 (5.82%) JIRA
3 8 (4.23%) Git
4 7 (3.70%) webpack
5 6 (3.17%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.17%) Vite
6 4 (2.12%) Gradle
7 3 (1.59%) Subversion
8 2 (1.06%) Selenium
9 1 (0.53%) Ant
9 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.53%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.53%) Protractor
9 1 (0.53%) TestNG
9 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 156 (82.54%) Finance
2 145 (76.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (73.02%) Law
4 73 (38.62%) Banking
5 59 (31.22%) Marketing
6 31 (16.40%) Social Skills
7 20 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (7.41%) Legal
9 13 (6.88%) Investment Banking
10 10 (5.29%) Private Banking
11 6 (3.17%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.59%) Local Government
13 3 (1.59%) Publishing
13 3 (1.59%) Retail
14 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.53%) Aviation
15 1 (0.53%) Games
15 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 137 (72.49%) Software Engineer
2 78 (41.27%) Java Engineer
3 77 (40.74%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (21.16%) Lead
5 39 (20.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 37 (19.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 34 (17.99%) Lead Software Engineer
8 25 (13.23%) Developer
9 21 (11.11%) Python Engineer
9 21 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 20 (10.58%) Java Developer
10 20 (10.58%) Senior
11 18 (9.52%) Lead Java Engineer
12 14 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (7.41%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (5.82%) Software Developer
15 10 (5.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 10 (5.29%) Java Software Developer
15 10 (5.29%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.10%) Spring
2 52 (27.51%) React
3 51 (26.98%) Kafka
4 38 (20.11%) Spring Boot
5 27 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.64%) RESTful
7 19 (10.05%) REST
8 11 (5.82%) HTML
8 11 (5.82%) PySpark
8 11 (5.82%) Web Services
9 10 (5.29%) Hibernate
10 9 (4.76%) CSS
11 7 (3.70%) JPA
11 7 (3.70%) Pandas
12 6 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (3.17%) JDBC
12 6 (3.17%) Jest
12 6 (3.17%) OpenAPI
12 6 (3.17%) Swagger
12 6 (3.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (29.10%) Algorithms
2 40 (21.16%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.23%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.23%) Reference Data
4 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.59%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.59%) Derivative
6 3 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.59%) Equities
6 3 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.59%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.12%) Unix
2 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (74.60%) Software Engineering
2 124 (65.61%) SDLC
3 117 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 114 (60.32%) Operational Stability
5 88 (46.56%) AI
6 82 (43.39%) Machine Learning
7 79 (41.80%) Community of Practice
8 59 (31.22%) Visualisation
9 56 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (24.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 45 (23.81%) Decision-Making
12 39 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (15.87%) Risk Management
14 27 (14.29%) Architectural Design
15 26 (13.76%) Information Architecture
16 19 (10.05%) DevOps
16 19 (10.05%) TDD
16 19 (10.05%) Test Automation
17 18 (9.52%) Analytics
18 17 (8.99%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 115 (60.85%) Java
2 53 (28.04%) SQL
3 41 (21.69%) Python
4 23 (12.17%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.35%) C#
7 7 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.65%) Go
9 3 (1.59%) R
9 3 (1.59%) Scala
9 3 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (5.29%) Degree
2 6 (3.17%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.65%) CRISC
4 4 (2.12%) ACCA
5 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.59%) GAAP
3 3 (1.59%) IFRS
4 1 (0.53%) GRC
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.35%) Terraform
3 7 (3.70%) Grafana
4 3 (1.59%) Ansible
4 3 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.59%) Netcool
4 3 (1.59%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (1.59%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 30 (15.87%) Oracle
2 13 (6.88%) Dynatrace
2 13 (6.88%) Splunk
3 10 (5.29%) Databricks
4 7 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.17%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.65%) Facebook
6 5 (2.65%) Google
7 4 (2.12%) Autodesk
7 4 (2.12%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.12%) IBM
8 3 (1.59%) Murex
9 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce