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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 241 136 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 30.28% 13.89% 21.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.99% 16.15% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 26 62 104
10th Percentile £39,625 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £49,129 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £65,063
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 709 842 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.07% 86.01% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 304 461 504
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,500 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 30 October 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 (10.37%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.39%) Apache
3 8 (3.32%) Camunda
3 8 (3.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.66%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.66%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Civil 3D
1 4 (1.66%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.66%) Revit
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (37.76%) AWS
2 25 (10.37%) Azure
3 15 (6.22%) GCP
4 14 (5.81%) Amazon S3
4 14 (5.81%) GitHub
5 11 (4.56%) Serverless
6 10 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.90%) npm
8 7 (2.90%) SaaS
8 7 (2.90%) Yarn
9 6 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.66%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.66%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.79%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.37%) Big Data
3 19 (7.88%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.64%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.73%) Apache Hive
7 9 (3.73%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.73%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.32%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.32%) KDB
8 8 (3.32%) Kdb+
9 7 (2.90%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.49%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.49%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.07%) HBase
Development Applications
1 16 (6.64%) JUnit
1 16 (6.64%) Maven
2 15 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.39%) JIRA
4 11 (4.56%) Git
5 8 (3.32%) webpack
6 7 (2.90%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.90%) Vite
7 5 (2.07%) Gradle
8 4 (1.66%) Subversion
9 3 (1.24%) Selenium
10 2 (0.83%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.41%) Ant
11 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.41%) TestNG
11 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 205 (85.06%) Finance
2 187 (77.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 180 (74.69%) Law
4 99 (41.08%) Banking
5 74 (30.71%) Marketing
6 38 (15.77%) Social Skills
7 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (7.88%) Legal
9 17 (7.05%) Investment Banking
10 10 (4.15%) Private Banking
11 8 (3.32%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.90%) Local Government
13 6 (2.49%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.66%) Publishing
15 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.24%) Retail
16 1 (0.41%) Aviation
16 1 (0.41%) Games
16 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 179 (74.27%) Software Engineer
2 102 (42.32%) Java Engineer
3 100 (41.49%) Java Software Engineer
4 49 (20.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 49 (20.33%) Lead
5 47 (19.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 45 (18.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 31 (12.86%) Developer
7 31 (12.86%) Senior
8 30 (12.45%) Python Engineer
9 28 (11.62%) Python Software Engineer
10 25 (10.37%) Java Developer
11 24 (9.96%) Lead Java Engineer
12 19 (7.88%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (7.88%) AWS Software Engineer
13 16 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (6.22%) Software Developer
15 14 (5.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 13 (5.39%) Java Software Developer
17 12 (4.98%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (39.83%) Spring
2 68 (28.22%) Kafka
3 65 (26.97%) React
4 53 (21.99%) Spring Boot
5 33 (13.69%) AngularJS
6 27 (11.20%) RESTful
7 24 (9.96%) REST
8 14 (5.81%) HTML
8 14 (5.81%) PySpark
8 14 (5.81%) Web Services
9 13 (5.39%) Hibernate
10 11 (4.56%) CSS
11 10 (4.15%) JPA
11 10 (4.15%) Pandas
12 8 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (3.32%) JDBC
12 8 (3.32%) OpenAPI
12 8 (3.32%) Swagger
12 8 (3.32%) WSDL
13 7 (2.90%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 74 (30.71%) Algorithms
2 51 (21.16%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.39%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.56%) Reference Data
5 8 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.32%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.66%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.66%) Derivative
7 4 (1.66%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.66%) Equities
7 4 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.24%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.07%) Unix
2 4 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.83%) Android
3 2 (0.83%) Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (75.93%) Software Engineering
2 161 (66.80%) SDLC
3 150 (62.24%) Operational Stability
4 149 (61.83%) CI/CD
5 114 (47.30%) AI
6 107 (44.40%) Machine Learning
7 104 (43.15%) Community of Practice
8 79 (32.78%) Visualisation
9 74 (30.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (24.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 55 (22.82%) Decision-Making
12 51 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (14.94%) Risk Management
14 33 (13.69%) Architectural Design
15 32 (13.28%) Information Architecture
16 24 (9.96%) TDD
16 24 (9.96%) Test Automation
17 22 (9.13%) Analytics
17 22 (9.13%) Data Engineering
18 21 (8.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 150 (62.24%) Java
2 68 (28.22%) SQL
3 56 (23.24%) Python
4 29 (12.03%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.96%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.81%) C#
7 8 (3.32%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.49%) Go
9 4 (1.66%) Scala
9 4 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.24%) C
10 3 (1.24%) R
11 2 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) Swift
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 11 (4.56%) Degree
2 8 (3.32%) ACCA
3 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.07%) CRISC
6 3 (1.24%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) APMG
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.90%) GAAP
2 7 (2.90%) IFRS
3 1 (0.41%) GRC
3 1 (0.41%) P3O
3 1 (0.41%) PMO
3 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.81%) Docker
2 5 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.88%) Terraform
3 10 (4.15%) Grafana
4 5 (2.07%) Ansible
5 4 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.66%) Netcool
5 4 (1.66%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (1.66%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (17.43%) Oracle
2 18 (7.47%) Splunk
3 17 (7.05%) Dynatrace
4 14 (5.81%) Databricks
5 9 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.90%) Google
6 7 (2.90%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.49%) Facebook
8 5 (2.07%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.07%) IBM
9 4 (1.66%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.24%) Murex
11 2 (0.83%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.41%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.41%) Solace
12 1 (0.41%) Sybase