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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 96 124 246
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 12.73% 14.12% 32.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.84% 15.88% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 22 57 97
10th Percentile £41,825 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £87,150 £73,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 606 781 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 80.37% 88.95% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 341 393 464
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,300
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £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 7 December 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 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) Camunda
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Civil 3D
1 2 (2.08%) Navisworks
1 2 (2.08%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.42%) AWS
2 12 (12.50%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) GitHub
4 7 (7.29%) GCP
5 6 (6.25%) SaaS
6 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.17%) Serverless
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.08%) npm
8 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) HTTP
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.29%) Big Data
4 5 (5.21%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.13%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.08%) HBase
6 2 (2.08%) KDB
6 2 (2.08%) Kdb+
6 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (1.04%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.21%) JUnit
2 5 (5.21%) Maven
3 4 (4.17%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) webpack
5 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.08%) Gradle
5 2 (2.08%) Selenium
5 2 (2.08%) Vite
6 1 (1.04%) Ant
6 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.04%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.04%) Protractor
6 1 (1.04%) Subversion
6 1 (1.04%) TestNG
6 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (70.83%) Finance
2 57 (59.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (55.21%) Law
4 28 (29.17%) Banking
5 23 (23.96%) Marketing
6 19 (19.79%) Social Skills
7 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (7.29%) Private Banking
9 6 (6.25%) Financial Institution
9 6 (6.25%) Legal
10 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
10 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
11 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (3.13%) Local Government
12 2 (2.08%) Retail
12 2 (2.08%) Tech for Good
13 1 (1.04%) Aviation
13 1 (1.04%) Games
13 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (53.13%) Software Engineer
2 29 (30.21%) Java Engineer
3 28 (29.17%) Java Software Engineer
4 19 (19.79%) Lead
5 16 (16.67%) Developer
5 16 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (14.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 12 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
8 11 (11.46%) Java Developer
9 10 (10.42%) Senior
10 7 (7.29%) Python Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Kafka Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Lead Java Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Software Developer
12 5 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Core Java Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Head of Risk Management
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.13%) Spring
2 22 (22.92%) React
3 20 (20.83%) Kafka
4 12 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.46%) RESTful
5 11 (11.46%) Spring Boot
6 8 (8.33%) REST
7 6 (6.25%) .NET
7 6 (6.25%) Hibernate
8 5 (5.21%) PySpark
8 5 (5.21%) Web Services
9 4 (4.17%) CSS
9 4 (4.17%) HTML
9 4 (4.17%) Vue
10 3 (3.13%) Blazor
10 3 (3.13%) JPA
10 3 (3.13%) Pandas
11 2 (2.08%) OAuth2
11 2 (2.08%) OpenAPI
11 2 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Algorithms
2 15 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Derivative
5 1 (1.04%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.04%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Equities
5 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (57.29%) Software Engineering
2 49 (51.04%) CI/CD
3 47 (48.96%) SDLC
4 40 (41.67%) Operational Stability
5 38 (39.58%) AI
6 32 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 29 (30.21%) Community of Practice
8 25 (26.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (23.96%) Visualisation
10 21 (21.88%) Decision-Making
11 20 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (18.75%) Risk Management
14 13 (13.54%) DevOps
15 12 (12.50%) Test Automation
16 10 (10.42%) Project Management
16 10 (10.42%) TDD
17 9 (9.38%) Analytics
17 9 (9.38%) Information Architecture
17 9 (9.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 47 (48.96%) Java
2 22 (22.92%) SQL
3 17 (17.71%) Python
4 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.33%) C#
6 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.08%) Go
8 2 (2.08%) R
9 1 (1.04%) Groovy
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.04%) Swift
9 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.29%) Degree
2 6 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.21%) CRISC
4 4 (4.17%) ACCA
4 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) PMP
6 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.13%) GAAP
1 3 (3.13%) IFRS
2 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) GRC
3 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) Terraform
3 3 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (1.04%) Ansible
4 1 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.04%) Netcool
4 1 (1.04%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (1.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Oracle
2 5 (5.21%) Dynatrace
2 5 (5.21%) Splunk
3 4 (4.17%) Databricks
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.08%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.08%) Autodesk
5 2 (2.08%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.08%) Facebook
5 2 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Murex