Agile Jobs in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 764 2,450 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.33% 37.73% 29.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.35% 42.56% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 192 361 684
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,294
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,817 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -3.40% +3.52%
75th Percentile £75,360 £70,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £93,100 £82,548 £87,419
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,899 5,756 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.52% 88.64% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,495 2,045
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £31,425
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,342 £66,778 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in Scotland.

Salary trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +1 294 £65,000 +8.33% 157
Edinburgh -1 205 £70,750 +17.92% 137
Lanarkshire +6 60 £80,000 - 18
Fife +4 32 £47,683 +10.38% 2
East Ayrshire -7 28 £47,683 +61.64%
South Ayrshire - 24 £47,683 -
Moray - 24 £47,683 -
North Lanarkshire - 24 £51,000 -
West Lothian +2 15 - - 5
South Lanarkshire +1 11 - - 2
Renfrewshire -6 10 - - 1
Midlothian - 7 - - 46
Stirling - 7 - -
Falkirk - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +12 1 £50,000 - 5
Dundee +7 1 £52,500 +16.67% 9
Clackmannanshire +1 1 - -
Inverclyde -9 1 - - 2
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 58 (7.59%) Confluence
2 27 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.23%) Apache
4 15 (1.96%) Oracle Application Server
5 8 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.05%) Camunda
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.52%) CICS
6 4 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.26%) CMS
8 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.52%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (24.61%) AWS
2 119 (15.58%) Azure
3 96 (12.57%) GCP
4 21 (2.75%) GitHub
4 21 (2.75%) SaaS
5 19 (2.49%) Amazon S3
6 16 (2.09%) Serverless
7 15 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.57%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.18%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.18%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.05%) npm
12 7 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (0.92%) Yarn
13 6 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.39%) BGP
3 3 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.39%) FTP
3 3 (0.39%) NX-OS
3 3 (0.39%) OSPF
3 3 (0.39%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.26%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.26%) Internet
4 2 (0.26%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.26%) Modbus
4 2 (0.26%) MQTT
4 2 (0.26%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.13%) LAN
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.29%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 26 (3.40%) Big Data
3 26 (3.40%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.14%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 17 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
8 13 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.44%) RDBMS
10 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.31%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.18%) Apache Hive
11 9 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (1.05%) KDB
12 8 (1.05%) Kdb+
13 7 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (10.08%) JIRA
2 66 (8.64%) Maven
3 55 (7.20%) GitLab
4 51 (6.68%) Selenium
4 51 (6.68%) SonarQube
5 49 (6.41%) Bitbucket
5 49 (6.41%) Cucumber
5 49 (6.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 29 (3.80%) Git
7 27 (3.53%) Jenkins
8 20 (2.62%) JUnit
9 10 (1.31%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.31%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.05%) webpack
11 7 (0.92%) Gradle
11 7 (0.92%) Vite
12 5 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.65%) Subversion
13 3 (0.39%) Xcode
13 3 (0.39%) XCUITest
General
1 473 (61.91%) Finance
2 289 (37.83%) Banking
3 241 (31.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 185 (24.21%) Law
5 133 (17.41%) Social Skills
6 87 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (11.39%) Presentation Skills
7 85 (11.13%) Marketing
8 40 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 36 (4.71%) Local Government
10 21 (2.75%) Legal
10 21 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.09%) Military
13 13 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Games
14 8 (1.05%) Private Banking
15 7 (0.92%) Publishing
16 4 (0.52%) Electronics
16 4 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 273 (35.73%) Software Engineer
2 202 (26.44%) Senior
3 102 (13.35%) Java Engineer
4 100 (13.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 87 (11.39%) Systems Engineer
6 83 (10.86%) Designer
7 81 (10.60%) Senior Designer
7 81 (10.60%) UX Designer
8 80 (10.47%) Lead
8 80 (10.47%) Senior UX Designer
9 75 (9.82%) Developer
10 49 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (6.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 47 (6.15%) Lead Software Engineer
13 44 (5.76%) Senior Manager
14 39 (5.10%) Analyst
15 37 (4.84%) Audit Manager
15 37 (4.84%) Senior Audit Manager
16 36 (4.71%) Java Developer
16 36 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (20.68%) Spring
2 141 (18.46%) React
3 130 (17.02%) Kafka
4 117 (15.31%) Spring Boot
5 76 (9.95%) HTML
6 73 (9.55%) CSS
7 63 (8.25%) Hibernate
8 60 (7.85%) JPA
9 51 (6.68%) Redux
10 46 (6.02%) AngularJS
11 34 (4.45%) RESTful
12 31 (4.06%) REST
13 26 (3.40%) .NET
14 18 (2.36%) Web Services
15 14 (1.83%) PySpark
16 11 (1.44%) Pandas
17 10 (1.31%) .NET Core
18 9 (1.18%) J2EE
19 8 (1.05%) JDBC
19 8 (1.05%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.39%) Product Ownership
2 81 (10.60%) Algorithms
3 60 (7.85%) Cloud Native
4 54 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 15 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 11 (1.44%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.92%) Mainframe
9 7 (0.92%) Mobile App
9 7 (0.92%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.79%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.62%) Linux
2 11 (1.44%) Unix
3 10 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.65%) Android
4 5 (0.65%) Windows
5 4 (0.52%) zOS
6 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (40.58%) Software Engineering
2 258 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 228 (29.84%) SDLC
4 175 (22.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 170 (22.25%) Operational Stability
6 151 (19.76%) DevOps
7 150 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 129 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 129 (16.88%) Project Management
9 121 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (14.92%) Prototyping
10 114 (14.92%) User Experience
11 112 (14.66%) Machine Learning
12 106 (13.87%) Community of Practice
12 106 (13.87%) Microservices
13 103 (13.48%) UX Design
14 102 (13.35%) Design Thinking
14 102 (13.35%) Test Automation
15 100 (13.09%) User Research
15 100 (13.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 251 (32.85%) Java
2 152 (19.90%) SQL
3 98 (12.83%) Python
4 97 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 83 (10.86%) MATLAB
6 51 (6.68%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.58%) C#
8 19 (2.49%) C++
9 14 (1.83%) C
10 9 (1.18%) Go
11 8 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.05%) Rust
12 7 (0.92%) Scala
12 7 (0.92%) Swift
13 6 (0.79%) Bash
14 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.52%) VBA
15 3 (0.39%) PHP
15 3 (0.39%) R
16 2 (0.26%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 118 (15.45%) Degree
2 89 (11.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 33 (4.32%) ACCA
4 15 (1.96%) DBS Check
5 11 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.65%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.52%) CBAP
7 4 (0.52%) CCA
7 4 (0.52%) CISA
7 4 (0.52%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.39%) PMP
9 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.13%) APMG
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.13%) ISEB
10 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.74%) Accessibility
2 60 (7.85%) QA
3 36 (4.71%) GAAP
3 36 (4.71%) IFRS
4 15 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.57%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.79%) SEPA
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.26%) JTAG
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) P3O
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (11.78%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) HDFS
3 3 (0.39%) RACF
4 2 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) NDS
5 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.06%) Terraform
3 18 (2.36%) Grafana
4 15 (1.96%) Ansible
5 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.52%) Netcool
5 4 (0.52%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (0.52%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (9.42%) Oracle
2 49 (6.41%) Solace
3 32 (4.19%) Microsoft
4 25 (3.27%) Splunk
5 24 (3.14%) Google
6 22 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.62%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.96%) IBM
9 14 (1.83%) Databricks
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Facebook
12 5 (0.65%) Cisco
12 5 (0.65%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.52%) Adobe
13 4 (0.52%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.52%) Blue Prism
13 4 (0.52%) IBM Sterling
13 4 (0.52%) Sybase
13 4 (0.52%) UiPath
14 3 (0.39%) Workday