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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 262 782 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.03% 43.09% 22.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 38.70% 47.48% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 31 88 134
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,118
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.05% +3.85%
75th Percentile £74,250 £75,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £73,000
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%

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 677 1,647 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.51% 90.74% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 274 564 583
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £33,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,938 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in Glasgow

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (9.54%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.96%) Apache
3 8 (3.05%) Camunda
3 8 (3.05%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.53%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Civil 3D
1 4 (1.53%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.53%) Revit
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (33.97%) AWS
2 32 (12.21%) Azure
3 18 (6.87%) GCP
4 15 (5.73%) GitHub
5 14 (5.34%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.20%) Serverless
7 10 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.05%) SaaS
9 7 (2.67%) npm
9 7 (2.67%) Yarn
10 6 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.29%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.69%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.54%) Big Data
3 22 (8.40%) MongoDB
4 19 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.73%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.44%) Apache Hive
8 9 (3.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (3.44%) RDBMS
9 8 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.05%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.05%) KDB
9 8 (3.05%) Kdb+
9 8 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.67%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.29%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.91%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (6.87%) JUnit
1 18 (6.87%) Maven
2 17 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.34%) JIRA
4 13 (4.96%) Git
5 8 (3.05%) webpack
6 7 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.67%) Gradle
6 7 (2.67%) Vite
7 4 (1.53%) Subversion
8 3 (1.15%) GitLab
8 3 (1.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.76%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.76%) Mockito
10 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.38%) TestNG
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 217 (82.82%) Finance
2 188 (71.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 182 (69.47%) Law
4 101 (38.55%) Banking
5 75 (28.63%) Marketing
6 42 (16.03%) Social Skills
7 24 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (7.25%) Legal
9 18 (6.87%) Public Sector
10 17 (6.49%) Investment Banking
10 17 (6.49%) Local Government
11 10 (3.82%) Private Banking
12 4 (1.53%) Publishing
13 3 (1.15%) Retail
14 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Aviation
15 1 (0.38%) Games
15 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 180 (68.70%) Software Engineer
2 102 (38.93%) Java Engineer
3 100 (38.17%) Java Software Engineer
4 50 (19.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 50 (19.08%) Lead
5 48 (18.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 47 (17.94%) Senior
7 45 (17.18%) Lead Software Engineer
8 40 (15.27%) Developer
9 31 (11.83%) Java Developer
10 30 (11.45%) Python Engineer
11 28 (10.69%) Python Software Engineer
12 24 (9.16%) Lead Java Engineer
13 19 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (7.25%) AWS Software Engineer
14 18 (6.87%) Senior Manager
15 17 (6.49%) Audit Manager
15 17 (6.49%) Senior Audit Manager
15 17 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
16 16 (6.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (37.40%) Spring
2 74 (28.24%) Kafka
3 73 (27.86%) React
4 55 (20.99%) Spring Boot
5 37 (14.12%) AngularJS
6 30 (11.45%) RESTful
7 24 (9.16%) REST
8 15 (5.73%) Hibernate
9 14 (5.34%) HTML
9 14 (5.34%) PySpark
9 14 (5.34%) Web Services
10 12 (4.58%) JPA
11 11 (4.20%) CSS
12 10 (3.82%) Pandas
13 8 (3.05%) .NET
13 8 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (3.05%) JDBC
13 8 (3.05%) OpenAPI
13 8 (3.05%) Swagger
13 8 (3.05%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (28.24%) Algorithms
2 51 (19.47%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.96%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.20%) Reference Data
5 9 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.05%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.53%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.53%) Derivative
9 4 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.53%) Equities
9 4 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.91%) Unix
2 4 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.76%) Android
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (70.61%) Software Engineering
2 161 (61.45%) SDLC
3 150 (57.25%) Operational Stability
4 147 (56.11%) CI/CD
5 109 (41.60%) Artificial Intelligence
6 107 (40.84%) Machine Learning
7 104 (39.69%) Community of Practice
8 79 (30.15%) Visualisation
9 72 (27.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 53 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (19.47%) Decision-Making
13 33 (12.60%) Architectural Design
14 32 (12.21%) Information Architecture
15 31 (11.83%) Risk Management
16 23 (8.78%) TDD
17 22 (8.40%) Analytics
18 21 (8.02%) Mentoring
18 21 (8.02%) Microservices
19 20 (7.63%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 156 (59.54%) Java
2 71 (27.10%) SQL
3 56 (21.37%) Python
4 29 (11.07%) JavaScript
5 28 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.11%) C#
7 8 (3.05%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.29%) Go
9 4 (1.53%) Scala
9 4 (1.53%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.15%) C
10 3 (1.15%) R
11 2 (0.76%) C++
11 2 (0.76%) Swift
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 18 (6.87%) ACCA
2 12 (4.58%) Degree
3 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.91%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) APMG
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.49%) GAAP
1 17 (6.49%) IFRS
2 9 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) QA
5 2 (0.76%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (8.40%) Docker
2 5 (1.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.25%) Terraform
3 10 (3.82%) Grafana
4 5 (1.91%) Ansible
5 4 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.53%) Netcool
5 4 (1.53%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (1.53%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (18.32%) Oracle
2 18 (6.87%) Splunk
3 17 (6.49%) Dynatrace
4 14 (5.34%) Databricks
5 11 (4.20%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.20%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.67%) Google
7 6 (2.29%) Facebook
8 5 (1.91%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.91%) IBM
9 4 (1.53%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.15%) Murex
10 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.15%) SAP
11 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.38%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.38%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.38%) Solace
12 1 (0.38%) Sybase