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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 118 251 227
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 7.97% 31.77% 19.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.44% 35.01% 23.02%
Number of salaries quoted 46 29 74
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,531 £51,250 £49,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £64,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% +1.18% +10.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £78,750 £76,500
90th Percentile - £87,100 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% +5.83% -1.44%

All Process & 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 1,130 717 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 76.30% 90.76% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 682 299 501
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,988 £32,851 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

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 8 October 2026.

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 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.49%) AWS
2 15 (12.71%) Azure
3 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.08%) Azure AI
5 5 (4.24%) GCP
5 5 (4.24%) GitHub
6 3 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.69%) Serverless
8 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.85%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.08%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.24%) Tableau
5 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.69%) Chroma
7 2 (1.69%) Parquet
7 2 (1.69%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.85%) Big Data
8 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.85%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Git
2 7 (5.93%) JIRA
3 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.54%) Maven
5 2 (1.69%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) JUnit
5 2 (1.69%) Mockito
5 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 54 (45.76%) Finance
2 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Marketing
5 11 (9.32%) Financial Institution
5 11 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.32%) Law
6 6 (5.08%) Games
7 2 (1.69%) Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (44.07%) Lead
2 49 (41.53%) Software Engineer
3 25 (21.19%) Lead Software Engineer
4 19 (16.10%) Senior
5 14 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Technical Leader
7 11 (9.32%) Developer
8 10 (8.47%) Customer Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Architect
10 8 (6.78%) Lead Architect
11 7 (5.93%) Senior Architect
12 6 (5.08%) .NET Developer
12 6 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (4.24%) Business Analyst
13 5 (4.24%) Risk Manager
13 5 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.24%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.95%) React
2 11 (9.32%) RESTful
3 9 (7.63%) Jakarta EE
3 9 (7.63%) JSP
4 8 (6.78%) Next.js
5 6 (5.08%) .NET
5 6 (5.08%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.08%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (5.08%) Blazor
5 6 (5.08%) ML.NET
6 4 (3.39%) HTML
6 4 (3.39%) HTML5
6 4 (3.39%) PySpark
6 4 (3.39%) Spring
6 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.54%) CSS
7 3 (2.54%) CSS3
7 3 (2.54%) REST
7 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.08%) BBC
2 6 (5.08%) Social Media
3 5 (4.24%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Android
2 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (64.41%) Software Engineering
2 28 (23.73%) DevOps
3 25 (21.19%) CI/CD
4 23 (19.49%) AI
5 22 (18.64%) SDLC
6 19 (16.10%) KYC
7 18 (15.25%) Code Quality
8 17 (14.41%) Data Engineering
9 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
10 14 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (10.17%) Analytics
12 12 (10.17%) Fintech
13 11 (9.32%) Machine Learning
13 11 (9.32%) Validation
14 10 (8.47%) Decision-Making
14 10 (8.47%) Microservices
14 10 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.95%) Java
2 19 (16.10%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.17%) Python
3 12 (10.17%) TypeScript
4 10 (8.47%) SQL
5 6 (5.08%) C#
6 3 (2.54%) Go
7 2 (1.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.24%) Degree
3 2 (1.69%) CSPO
3 2 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.85%) CAPM
4 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) Google
3 6 (5.08%) Alteryx
3 6 (5.08%) Apple
3 6 (5.08%) Facebook
3 6 (5.08%) Sony
3 6 (5.08%) Yahoo!
4 4 (3.39%) Databricks
5 3 (2.54%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.69%) Mistral
7 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk