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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 145 126 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 18.24% 13.71% 24.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.21% 15.52% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23 58 99
10th Percentile £38,350 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £52,500 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +2.08% +7.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,125 £66,875
90th Percentile - £86,675 £73,000
Scotland median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +14.58% -8.19% +8.92%

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 653 812 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.14% 88.36% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 337 419 469
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £32,851 £39,250 £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 £71,063 £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 30 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 13 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.14%) Apache
3 4 (2.76%) Camunda
3 4 (2.76%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Civil 3D
1 2 (1.38%) Navisworks
1 2 (1.38%) Revit
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.55%) AWS
2 16 (11.03%) Azure
3 10 (6.90%) GCP
3 10 (6.90%) GitHub
4 7 (4.83%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.14%) SaaS
5 6 (4.14%) Serverless
6 5 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.76%) npm
7 4 (2.76%) Yarn
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.38%) Dagster
9 2 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.38%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 13 (8.97%) Big Data
3 11 (7.59%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.45%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.45%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.76%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.76%) KDB
8 4 (2.76%) Kdb+
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.07%) HBase
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.38%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 10 (6.90%) JIRA
1 10 (6.90%) Maven
2 9 (6.21%) JUnit
3 7 (4.83%) Git
4 5 (3.45%) webpack
5 4 (2.76%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.76%) Vite
6 3 (2.07%) Gradle
6 3 (2.07%) Subversion
7 2 (1.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Ant
8 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.69%) Protractor
8 1 (0.69%) TestNG
8 1 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 114 (78.62%) Finance
2 104 (71.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 99 (68.28%) Law
4 54 (37.24%) Banking
5 42 (28.97%) Marketing
6 26 (17.93%) Social Skills
7 16 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (6.90%) Legal
9 9 (6.21%) Investment Banking
9 9 (6.21%) Private Banking
10 6 (4.14%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.07%) Local Government
13 2 (1.38%) Publishing
13 2 (1.38%) Retail
13 2 (1.38%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.69%) Aviation
14 1 (0.69%) Games
14 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (66.90%) Software Engineer
2 56 (38.62%) Java Engineer
3 55 (37.93%) Java Software Engineer
4 30 (20.69%) Lead
5 27 (18.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 25 (17.24%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 23 (15.86%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (13.79%) Developer
9 16 (11.03%) Java Developer
10 15 (10.34%) Python Engineer
10 15 (10.34%) Python Software Engineer
11 14 (9.66%) Senior
12 12 (8.28%) Lead Java Engineer
13 10 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (6.90%) AWS Software Engineer
14 8 (5.52%) Kafka Developer
14 8 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (5.52%) Software Developer
15 7 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 7 (4.83%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (35.86%) Spring
2 38 (26.21%) React
3 37 (25.52%) Kafka
4 26 (17.93%) Spring Boot
5 20 (13.79%) AngularJS
6 16 (11.03%) RESTful
7 14 (9.66%) REST
8 9 (6.21%) Hibernate
8 9 (6.21%) PySpark
9 8 (5.52%) HTML
9 8 (5.52%) Web Services
10 7 (4.83%) CSS
11 6 (4.14%) JPA
12 5 (3.45%) .NET
12 5 (3.45%) Pandas
12 5 (3.45%) Vue
13 4 (2.76%) Jest
13 4 (2.76%) OAuth2
13 4 (2.76%) OpenAPI
13 4 (2.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.90%) Algorithms
2 28 (19.31%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.45%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.76%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.07%) Equities
5 3 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.38%) Derivative
6 2 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.07%) Unix
2 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (69.66%) Software Engineering
2 89 (61.38%) SDLC
3 86 (59.31%) CI/CD
4 79 (54.48%) Operational Stability
5 64 (44.14%) AI
6 58 (40.00%) Machine Learning
7 56 (38.62%) Community of Practice
8 42 (28.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (28.97%) Visualisation
9 34 (23.45%) Decision-Making
9 34 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.55%) Risk Management
12 19 (13.10%) Architectural Design
13 18 (12.41%) Information Architecture
14 16 (11.03%) DevOps
14 16 (11.03%) Test Automation
15 15 (10.34%) TDD
16 14 (9.66%) Analytics
17 13 (8.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (57.93%) Java
2 38 (26.21%) SQL
3 30 (20.69%) Python
4 17 (11.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.21%) C#
7 5 (3.45%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.76%) Go
9 2 (1.38%) R
9 2 (1.38%) Scala
9 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (6.21%) Degree
2 6 (4.14%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.45%) CRISC
4 4 (2.76%) ACCA
5 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) PMP
6 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.07%) GAAP
2 3 (2.07%) IFRS
3 1 (0.69%) GRC
3 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 5 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (1.38%) Ansible
4 2 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.38%) Netcool
4 2 (1.38%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 2 (1.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Oracle
2 9 (6.21%) Dynatrace
2 9 (6.21%) Splunk
3 7 (4.83%) Databricks
4 5 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.76%) Facebook
5 4 (2.76%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.07%) IBM
7 2 (1.38%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.38%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.38%) Murex
8 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft