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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 233 122 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 27.57% 12.77% 20.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.44% 14.88% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 26 53 99
10th Percentile £39,625 £42,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +4.94% +8.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £65,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £80,000 £73,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +9.20%

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 741 820 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.69% 85.86% 96.70%
Number of salaries quoted 331 436 475
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,676 £38,375 £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 £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +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 13 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 25 (10.73%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.58%) Apache
3 8 (3.43%) Camunda
3 8 (3.43%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Civil 3D
1 4 (1.72%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.72%) Revit
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (38.63%) AWS
2 24 (10.30%) Azure
3 15 (6.44%) GCP
4 14 (6.01%) Amazon S3
4 14 (6.01%) GitHub
5 11 (4.72%) Serverless
6 10 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.00%) npm
8 7 (3.00%) Yarn
9 6 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.58%) SaaS
10 5 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.72%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.16%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.73%) Big Data
3 18 (7.73%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.87%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (5.58%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.86%) Apache Hive
7 9 (3.86%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.86%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.43%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.43%) KDB
8 8 (3.43%) Kdb+
9 7 (3.00%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.58%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.15%) HBase
11 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (6.87%) JUnit
2 15 (6.44%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.44%) Maven
3 12 (5.15%) JIRA
4 11 (4.72%) Git
5 8 (3.43%) webpack
6 7 (3.00%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.00%) Vite
7 5 (2.15%) Gradle
8 4 (1.72%) Subversion
9 2 (0.86%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) Ant
10 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.43%) Protractor
10 1 (0.43%) TestNG
10 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 198 (84.98%) Finance
2 187 (80.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 180 (77.25%) Law
4 97 (41.63%) Banking
5 74 (31.76%) Marketing
6 38 (16.31%) Social Skills
7 25 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (8.15%) Legal
9 17 (7.30%) Investment Banking
10 11 (4.72%) Private Banking
11 6 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.72%) Publishing
13 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.29%) Local Government
13 3 (1.29%) Retail
14 2 (0.86%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.43%) Aviation
15 1 (0.43%) Games
15 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 178 (76.39%) Software Engineer
2 101 (43.35%) Java Engineer
3 100 (42.92%) Java Software Engineer
4 50 (21.46%) Lead
5 49 (21.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 47 (20.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 45 (19.31%) Lead Software Engineer
8 29 (12.45%) Developer
8 29 (12.45%) Python Engineer
9 28 (12.02%) Python Software Engineer
10 25 (10.73%) Senior
11 24 (10.30%) Java Developer
11 24 (10.30%) Lead Java Engineer
12 19 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (8.15%) AWS Software Engineer
13 16 (6.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (6.44%) Software Developer
15 14 (6.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 13 (5.58%) Java Software Developer
17 12 (5.15%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (40.34%) Spring
2 67 (28.76%) Kafka
3 64 (27.47%) React
4 51 (21.89%) Spring Boot
5 33 (14.16%) AngularJS
6 27 (11.59%) RESTful
7 24 (10.30%) REST
8 14 (6.01%) PySpark
8 14 (6.01%) Web Services
9 13 (5.58%) HTML
10 12 (5.15%) Hibernate
11 10 (4.29%) CSS
11 10 (4.29%) Pandas
12 9 (3.86%) JPA
13 8 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (3.43%) JDBC
13 8 (3.43%) OpenAPI
13 8 (3.43%) Swagger
13 8 (3.43%) WSDL
14 7 (3.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 74 (31.76%) Algorithms
2 52 (22.32%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.58%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.72%) Reference Data
5 8 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.43%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.72%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.72%) Derivative
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.72%) Equities
7 4 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.29%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.15%) Unix
2 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.86%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (78.11%) Software Engineering
2 160 (68.67%) SDLC
3 150 (64.38%) Operational Stability
4 147 (63.09%) CI/CD
5 114 (48.93%) AI
6 108 (46.35%) Machine Learning
7 104 (44.64%) Community of Practice
8 79 (33.91%) Visualisation
9 73 (31.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (24.03%) Decision-Making
10 56 (24.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 51 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (15.45%) Risk Management
13 33 (14.16%) Architectural Design
14 32 (13.73%) Information Architecture
15 24 (10.30%) TDD
16 23 (9.87%) Analytics
16 23 (9.87%) Data Engineering
17 22 (9.44%) Test Automation
18 20 (8.58%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 148 (63.52%) Java
2 65 (27.90%) SQL
3 55 (23.61%) Python
4 28 (12.02%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.30%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.01%) C#
7 8 (3.43%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.58%) Go
9 4 (1.72%) Scala
9 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.29%) R
11 2 (0.86%) C
11 2 (0.86%) C++
11 2 (0.86%) Swift
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 11 (4.72%) Degree
2 7 (3.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.15%) CRISC
4 4 (1.72%) ACCA
5 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.86%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
6 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.29%) GAAP
3 3 (1.29%) IFRS
4 1 (0.43%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.58%) Docker
2 5 (2.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.73%) Terraform
3 10 (4.29%) Grafana
4 4 (1.72%) Ansible
4 4 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.72%) Netcool
4 4 (1.72%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (1.72%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (18.03%) Oracle
2 18 (7.73%) Splunk
3 17 (7.30%) Dynatrace
4 14 (6.01%) Databricks
5 9 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.00%) Google
6 7 (3.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.58%) Facebook
8 5 (2.15%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.15%) IBM
9 4 (1.72%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.29%) Murex
11 2 (0.86%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.43%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.43%) Sybase