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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,106 1,160 1,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 36.96% 30.57% 31.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 42.09% 31.87% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 303 668 1,163
10th Percentile £38,250 £39,294 £37,885
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,306 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +3.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £71,841 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +3.17% +5.00%

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 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 1,707 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Edinburgh -1 308 £60,000 -7.14% 46
West Lothian -2 22 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Aberdeen -22 14 £50,000 - 3
Fife -1 11 £46,600 -11.24% 2
Lanarkshire -3 9 - - 27
Dundee 0 7 £42,500 -24.54%
Renfrewshire 0 4 - -
Inverclyde - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Scottish Borders +1 2 - -
South Lanarkshire +1 2 £65,000 -
Aberdeenshire -7 2 £57,500 +139.58% 6
East Lothian - 2 - -
Dunbartonshire - 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
1 325 (15.43%) Apache Spark
2 98 (4.65%) FileNet
3 70 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 61 (2.90%) Apache
5 60 (2.85%) Confluence
6 38 (1.80%) ArcGIS
6 38 (1.80%) GeoServer
7 32 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
8 21 (1.00%) GemFire
9 11 (0.52%) CICS
9 11 (0.52%) SAS
10 8 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.38%) WildFly
11 7 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.24%) WordPress
13 3 (0.14%) CMS
14 1 (0.047%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 27 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.71%) Sketch
4 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.33%) UserZoom
5 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.14%) InVision
8 2 (0.095%) Trello
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.047%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.047%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.047%) iTrent
6 1 (0.047%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 832 (39.51%) AWS
2 233 (11.06%) Azure
3 112 (5.32%) GCP
4 103 (4.89%) Amazon S3
5 101 (4.80%) Datadog
6 55 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 50 (2.37%) GitHub
8 48 (2.28%) SaaS
9 44 (2.09%) Serverless
10 40 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (1.90%) Figma
11 37 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
13 34 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
15 29 (1.38%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (1.23%) Power Platform
17 25 (1.19%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.90%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.85%) Broadband
3 16 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.43%) SSL
5 8 (0.38%) BGP
5 8 (0.38%) DNS
6 5 (0.24%) Internet
6 5 (0.24%) RS-232
6 5 (0.24%) Wireless
7 4 (0.19%) LAN
7 4 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) VLAN
9 2 (0.095%) Firewall
9 2 (0.095%) Modbus
10 1 (0.047%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.047%) SNMP
10 1 (0.047%) VPN
10 1 (0.047%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (21.56%) NoSQL
2 283 (13.44%) Big Data
3 137 (6.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 128 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 122 (5.79%) Hadoop
6 74 (3.51%) Apache Hive
7 72 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 60 (2.85%) HBase
9 53 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (2.09%) Metadata
11 43 (2.04%) Data Lake
12 40 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 38 (1.80%) CockroachDB
13 38 (1.80%) GIS
13 38 (1.80%) QGIS
14 35 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
15 33 (1.57%) MySQL
16 29 (1.38%) Electronic Patient Records
17 26 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
17 26 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 197 (9.35%) Jenkins
2 193 (9.16%) JUnit
3 155 (7.36%) Git
4 124 (5.89%) JIRA
5 105 (4.99%) Jasmine
6 91 (4.32%) Cypress.io
7 71 (3.37%) Selenium
8 68 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 61 (2.90%) WebDriver
10 60 (2.85%) Bitbucket Server
10 60 (2.85%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (2.85%) Protractor
11 50 (2.37%) Maven
12 46 (2.18%) Mockito
13 45 (2.14%) Artifactory
14 33 (1.57%) Cucumber
15 29 (1.38%) JMeter
16 25 (1.19%) Android Studio
17 21 (1.00%) Jaeger
18 12 (0.57%) CircleCI
General
1 1,602 (76.07%) Finance
2 1,546 (73.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,488 (70.66%) Law
4 710 (33.71%) Marketing
5 473 (22.46%) Legal
6 317 (15.05%) Banking
7 297 (14.10%) Social Skills
8 263 (12.49%) Investment Banking
9 129 (6.13%) Financial Institution
10 106 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
11 85 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
12 38 (1.80%) Games
12 38 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 33 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.04%) Prime Brokerage
15 19 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.76%) Publishing
17 14 (0.66%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.52%) General Ledger
18 11 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,395 (66.24%) Software Engineer
2 525 (24.93%) Java Engineer
3 517 (24.55%) Java Software Engineer
4 498 (23.65%) Lead
5 438 (20.80%) Lead Software Engineer
6 288 (13.68%) Senior
7 242 (11.49%) Big Data Engineer
7 242 (11.49%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 214 (10.16%) Python Engineer
8 214 (10.16%) Python Software Engineer
9 196 (9.31%) Full Stack Engineer
9 196 (9.31%) Lead Java Engineer
10 195 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (9.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 192 (9.12%) AWS Software Engineer
12 179 (8.50%) Data Engineer
13 175 (8.31%) Senior Software Engineer
14 148 (7.03%) Developer
15 135 (6.41%) Scala Engineer
15 135 (6.41%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 489 (23.22%) Spring
2 429 (20.37%) React
3 289 (13.72%) Kafka
4 282 (13.39%) AngularJS
5 239 (11.35%) CSS
6 224 (10.64%) HTML
7 218 (10.35%) J2EE
8 217 (10.30%) Spring Boot
9 196 (9.31%) Hibernate
10 194 (9.21%) Node.js
11 184 (8.74%) JSON
12 166 (7.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 162 (7.69%) JMS
14 134 (6.36%) jQuery
15 117 (5.56%) GraphQL
15 117 (5.56%) RESTful
16 115 (5.46%) PySpark
17 106 (5.03%) Web Services
18 102 (4.84%) Spring Integration
19 101 (4.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 555 (26.35%) Cloud Native
2 534 (25.36%) Algorithms
3 127 (6.03%) Public Cloud
4 126 (5.98%) Onboarding
5 108 (5.13%) Management Information System
6 83 (3.94%) Data Structures
7 77 (3.66%) Reference Data
8 72 (3.42%) Market Risk
9 60 (2.85%) Product Ownership
10 47 (2.23%) Distributed Applications
11 44 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 29 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (1.04%) Replication
16 21 (1.00%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.00%) Legacy Code
17 20 (0.95%) Private Cloud
17 20 (0.95%) Social Media
18 19 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 112 (5.32%) Unix
2 95 (4.51%) Linux
3 33 (1.57%) Android
4 19 (0.90%) Windows
5 14 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.095%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.047%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,550 (73.60%) Software Engineering
2 1,401 (66.52%) SDLC
3 1,342 (63.72%) CI/CD
4 1,153 (54.75%) Operational Stability
5 944 (44.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 910 (43.21%) Machine Learning
7 872 (41.41%) Community of Practice
8 616 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 602 (28.58%) Visualisation
10 496 (23.55%) Risk Management
11 336 (15.95%) Decision-Making
12 326 (15.48%) Microservices
13 324 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
14 315 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
15 266 (12.63%) Information Architecture
16 265 (12.58%) Architectural Design
16 265 (12.58%) Full Stack Development
17 243 (11.54%) Computer Science
18 237 (11.25%) DevOps
19 217 (10.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (49.76%) Java
2 723 (34.33%) SQL
3 567 (26.92%) Python
4 330 (15.67%) JavaScript
5 188 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 186 (8.83%) Scala
7 109 (5.18%) C#
8 93 (4.42%) PL/SQL
9 56 (2.66%) Go
10 44 (2.09%) Prolog
10 44 (2.09%) SPARQL
11 42 (1.99%) Groovy
12 35 (1.66%) Kotlin
13 20 (0.95%) C++
14 18 (0.85%) JCL
15 17 (0.81%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.71%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.57%) C
17 12 (0.57%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 139 (6.60%) Degree
2 117 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 104 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 47 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 13 (0.62%) ACCA
6 13 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.52%) CIMA
8 10 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.43%) CISA
10 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 7 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.24%) HND
12 5 (0.24%) PMP
13 3 (0.14%) MAPM
13 3 (0.14%) MBCS
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.13%) QA
2 51 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.76%) ISO 9001
4 15 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.71%) SLA
5 12 (0.57%) PMO
6 11 (0.52%) GDPR
7 10 (0.47%) GAAP
7 10 (0.47%) IFRS
7 10 (0.47%) Solvency II
8 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.43%) ITGC
9 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.24%) WCAG
11 4 (0.19%) DICOM
11 4 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.19%) HL7
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (2.85%) HDFS
2 58 (2.75%) Docker
3 55 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
5 7 (0.33%) RACF
6 3 (0.14%) Firmware
6 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.095%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 278 (13.20%) Kubernetes
2 180 (8.55%) Terraform
3 135 (6.41%) Grafana
4 65 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (1.04%) Kibana
7 21 (1.00%) HAProxy
7 21 (1.00%) Zipkin
8 16 (0.76%) Ansible
9 7 (0.33%) Graphite
10 5 (0.24%) CA Endevor
10 5 (0.24%) Istio
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.19%) Puppet
12 3 (0.14%) Fortio
12 3 (0.14%) Kiali
13 2 (0.095%) zSecure
14 1 (0.047%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 274 (13.01%) Oracle
2 151 (7.17%) Databricks
3 144 (6.84%) Splunk
4 122 (5.79%) Dynatrace
5 78 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 74 (3.51%) Google
7 60 (2.85%) Informatica
8 38 (1.80%) ESRI
9 35 (1.66%) Alteryx
10 31 (1.47%) SAP
11 30 (1.42%) Cloudera
12 24 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.00%) CA
14 12 (0.57%) Sparx
15 10 (0.47%) SaltStack
16 9 (0.43%) Sage
16 9 (0.43%) Sybase
16 9 (0.43%) TOWER Software
17 7 (0.33%) IBM
17 7 (0.33%) Qualtrics