Agile Jobs in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,005 1,665 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.94% 33.77% 32.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.21% 36.02% 35.11%
Number of salaries quoted 536 974 908
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,208 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.68% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £80,303 £77,715 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £90,000 £80,225
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,854 4,623 4,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 96.39% 93.75% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,750 2,545 2,715
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,760 £29,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,075 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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
Edinburgh 0 558 £70,576 +8.58% 81
Glasgow +1 374 £59,778 +4.87% 61
Aberdeen +8 20 £52,500 +16.67% 19
Dundee +3 17 £47,557 +18.09% 4
West Lothian -5 8 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Fife +16 6 £42,500 -22.73% 5
Scottish Borders - 4 - -
South Lanarkshire +4 3 £65,000 -40.91%
Lanarkshire +13 1 £46,000 -12.38% 19
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 64 (6.37%) Confluence
2 57 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.49%) Apache
4 15 (1.49%) JBoss
5 14 (1.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 14 (1.39%) SAS
6 11 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.60%) CMS
7 6 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.40%) Camunda
9 4 (0.40%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.30%) Captiva
10 3 (0.30%) FileNet
10 3 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.20%) IIS
11 2 (0.20%) Jetty
Applications
1 24 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.40%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.100%) EViews
6 1 (0.100%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.100%) Sketch
6 1 (0.100%) SPSS
6 1 (0.100%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.30%) Primavera
3 3 (0.30%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 278 (27.66%) Azure
2 237 (23.58%) AWS
3 155 (15.42%) GCP
4 139 (13.83%) Power Platform
5 129 (12.84%) SaaS
6 103 (10.25%) PaaS
7 80 (7.96%) IaaS
8 78 (7.76%) Dynamics 365
9 66 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (5.67%) Serverless
11 52 (5.17%) GitHub
12 46 (4.58%) Azure Functions
13 18 (1.79%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 12 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (0.80%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.49%) Firewall
2 12 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.09%) DNS
4 8 (0.80%) DHCP
5 7 (0.70%) HTTP
5 7 (0.70%) VPN
6 6 (0.60%) Network Security
6 6 (0.60%) SAN
7 4 (0.40%) DSL
7 4 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.40%) Internet
8 3 (0.30%) Modbus
9 2 (0.20%) DMZ
9 2 (0.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.100%) Intranet
10 1 (0.100%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.36%) NoSQL
2 82 (8.16%) Big Data
3 71 (7.06%) Power BI
4 51 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (4.18%) SQL Server
6 31 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 31 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.79%) MySQL
9 26 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (2.39%) Hadoop
11 19 (1.89%) BigQuery
11 19 (1.89%) Tableau
12 18 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.39%) Apache Hive
13 14 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.29%) DB2
14 13 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.90%) Looker
16 8 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 108 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 93 (9.25%) JIRA
3 64 (6.37%) Git
4 32 (3.18%) Maven
5 22 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.09%) IBM UrbanCode
6 21 (2.09%) Selenium
7 20 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 17 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.59%) GitLab
10 14 (1.39%) IntelliJ
11 11 (1.09%) Spinnaker
12 9 (0.90%) Gradle
12 9 (0.90%) JUnit
12 9 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
12 9 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (0.70%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.70%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.70%) Postman
14 6 (0.60%) Mocha
General
1 628 (62.49%) Finance
2 385 (38.31%) Banking
3 235 (23.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 229 (22.79%) Social Skills
5 161 (16.02%) Law
6 129 (12.84%) Marketing
7 83 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
8 74 (7.36%) Retail
9 62 (6.17%) Legal
10 46 (4.58%) Public Sector
11 43 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.49%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (1.99%) Retail Banking
15 19 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.89%) Private Banking
16 18 (1.79%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.69%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 261 (25.97%) Software Engineer
2 248 (24.68%) Architect
3 185 (18.41%) Senior
4 137 (13.63%) Solutions Architect
5 108 (10.75%) Developer
6 98 (9.75%) Lead
7 71 (7.06%) Java Engineer
8 70 (6.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 66 (6.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 64 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 62 (6.17%) Analyst
12 58 (5.77%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (5.47%) Enterprise Architect
14 42 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
15 41 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
16 38 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
17 36 (3.58%) CRM Architect
17 36 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM Architect
18 32 (3.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 30 (2.99%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (11.54%) Spring
2 101 (10.05%) Spring Boot
3 98 (9.75%) AngularJS
4 90 (8.96%) .NET
5 85 (8.46%) React
6 79 (7.86%) CSS
7 78 (7.76%) HTML
7 78 (7.76%) Kafka
8 63 (6.27%) REST
9 56 (5.57%) RESTful
10 50 (4.98%) Node.js
11 39 (3.88%) JSON
11 39 (3.88%) Web Services
12 33 (3.28%) Middleware
13 30 (2.99%) SOAP
14 29 (2.89%) Hibernate
15 28 (2.79%) XML
16 24 (2.39%) JPA
16 24 (2.39%) OpenID
17 22 (2.19%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 125 (12.44%) Public Cloud
2 106 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 88 (8.76%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 38 (3.78%) Blockchain
6 33 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.28%) Private Cloud
7 31 (3.08%) Virtual Team
8 29 (2.89%) Mainframe
9 27 (2.69%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.39%) Robotics
11 18 (1.79%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 14 (1.39%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.39%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
17 8 (0.80%) e-Learning
18 7 (0.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 82 (8.16%) Linux
2 67 (6.67%) Windows
3 47 (4.68%) Unix
4 16 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.70%) zOS
8 4 (0.40%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) HPUX
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 1 (0.100%) Android
11 1 (0.100%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.100%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.100%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (32.84%) Software Engineering
2 258 (25.67%) DevOps
3 224 (22.29%) SDLC
4 214 (21.29%) Actionable Insight
5 208 (20.70%) CI/CD
6 191 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (17.41%) Microservices
8 159 (15.82%) Mentoring
9 158 (15.72%) Roadmaps
10 149 (14.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 145 (14.43%) Machine Learning
12 144 (14.33%) Scrum
13 134 (13.33%) Analytics
14 128 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 125 (12.44%) Operational Stability
16 109 (10.85%) Enterprise Architecture
17 97 (9.65%) Project Management
18 91 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
19 89 (8.86%) Coaching
20 87 (8.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 289 (28.76%) Java
2 231 (22.99%) SQL
3 226 (22.49%) Python
4 104 (10.35%) JavaScript
5 92 (9.15%) C#
6 43 (4.28%) Bash
7 40 (3.98%) TypeScript
8 35 (3.48%) Scala
9 33 (3.28%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.09%) C++
12 20 (1.99%) Groovy
13 17 (1.69%) T-SQL
14 14 (1.39%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.29%) Ruby
16 10 (1.00%) Go
17 9 (0.90%) C
18 8 (0.80%) VBA
19 7 (0.70%) R
20 5 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 99 (9.85%) Degree
2 54 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 53 (5.27%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
6 15 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.70%) OCP
11 5 (0.50%) CISA
11 5 (0.50%) CISMP
11 5 (0.50%) PMP
12 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.20%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.100%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 19 (1.89%) SEPA
3 15 (1.49%) QA
4 12 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.09%) PMO
5 11 (1.09%) SLA
6 9 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.70%) GDPR
8 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.50%) GRC
10 4 (0.40%) IFRS
10 4 (0.40%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.40%) ITGC
10 4 (0.40%) WAI
11 3 (0.30%) CRD IV
11 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.20%) NIST
13 1 (0.100%) P3O
System Software
1 94 (9.35%) Docker
2 10 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.80%) HDFS
4 6 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 155 (15.42%) Kubernetes
2 110 (10.95%) Terraform
3 45 (4.48%) Ansible
4 16 (1.59%) Grafana
5 14 (1.39%) Puppet
6 13 (1.29%) Istio
7 12 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.09%) Kibana
9 6 (0.60%) Nagios
10 5 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.40%) vRealize
11 4 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.30%) Rancher
13 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.20%) logstash
14 1 (0.100%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.100%) Control-M
14 1 (0.100%) SCCM
14 1 (0.100%) WMI
Vendors
1 127 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.27%) Google
3 58 (5.77%) Oracle
4 32 (3.18%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.39%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.29%) IBM
7 21 (2.09%) Splunk
8 20 (1.99%) Databricks
9 18 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.49%) SAP
11 13 (1.29%) Dell
12 10 (1.00%) NEC
12 10 (1.00%) Teradata
12 10 (1.00%) VMware
13 9 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.80%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.80%) Pega
14 8 (0.80%) Veracode
15 7 (0.70%) HP