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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 760 2,679 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.85% 38.86% 31.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.57% 43.77% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 192 395 699
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,859
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -3.40% +3.52%
75th Percentile £75,360 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,778 £91,161 £87,500
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 2,757 6,120 4,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.16% 88.77% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 2,608 2,024
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,175 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +1 291 £65,000 +8.33% 513
Edinburgh -1 202 £70,750 +17.92% 401
Lanarkshire +6 61 £80,000 - 10
Fife +4 32 £47,683 +10.38% 16
East Ayrshire -5 28 £47,683 +61.64%
South Ayrshire - 24 £47,683 -
Moray - 24 £47,683 -
North Lanarkshire - 24 £51,000 - 5
West Lothian +5 15 - - 22
South Lanarkshire +1 11 - - 5
Renfrewshire -4 10 - - 16
Midlothian - 7 - - 37
Stirling - 7 - - 2
Falkirk - 3 - - 1
Aberdeen +8 2 £50,000 +2.56% 139
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Dundee +11 1 £52,500 +16.67% 27
Clackmannanshire +1 1 - -
Inverclyde -9 1 - - 3
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 1 - - 3
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 (7.63%) Confluence
2 27 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.24%) Apache
4 15 (1.97%) Oracle Application Server
5 8 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.05%) Camunda
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.53%) CICS
6 4 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.53%) 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 (0.53%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (24.74%) AWS
2 117 (15.39%) Azure
3 97 (12.76%) GCP
4 22 (2.89%) SaaS
5 20 (2.63%) GitHub
6 19 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 16 (2.11%) Serverless
8 15 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.05%) npm
12 8 (1.05%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (0.92%) Yarn
14 6 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (0.53%) Firewall
2 4 (0.53%) 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 (9.34%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.61%) NoSQL
3 26 (3.42%) Big Data
4 25 (3.29%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.45%) RDBMS
11 10 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.32%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.18%) Apache Hive
12 9 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (1.05%) KDB
13 8 (1.05%) Kdb+
14 7 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (10.13%) JIRA
2 66 (8.68%) Maven
3 55 (7.24%) GitLab
4 51 (6.71%) Selenium
4 51 (6.71%) SonarQube
5 49 (6.45%) Bitbucket
5 49 (6.45%) Cucumber
5 49 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 29 (3.82%) Git
7 27 (3.55%) Jenkins
8 20 (2.63%) JUnit
9 11 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.45%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.05%) webpack
11 7 (0.92%) Gradle
11 7 (0.92%) Vite
12 5 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.66%) Subversion
13 3 (0.39%) Xcode
13 3 (0.39%) XCUITest
General
1 470 (61.84%) Finance
2 290 (38.16%) Banking
3 241 (31.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 184 (24.21%) Law
5 132 (17.37%) Social Skills
6 87 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (11.45%) Presentation Skills
7 85 (11.18%) Marketing
8 40 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 36 (4.74%) Local Government
10 21 (2.76%) Legal
10 21 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.11%) Military
13 13 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.32%) Games
15 8 (1.05%) Private Banking
16 7 (0.92%) Publishing
17 4 (0.53%) Electronics
17 4 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 275 (36.18%) Software Engineer
2 204 (26.84%) Senior
3 102 (13.42%) Java Engineer
4 100 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
5 87 (11.45%) Systems Engineer
6 83 (10.92%) Designer
7 81 (10.66%) Senior Designer
7 81 (10.66%) UX Designer
8 80 (10.53%) Senior UX Designer
9 77 (10.13%) Lead
10 73 (9.61%) Developer
11 48 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 47 (6.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 47 (6.18%) Lead Software Engineer
13 44 (5.79%) Senior Manager
14 37 (4.87%) Audit Manager
14 37 (4.87%) Senior Audit Manager
14 37 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 36 (4.74%) Analyst
16 35 (4.61%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (21.05%) Spring
2 140 (18.42%) React
3 129 (16.97%) Kafka
4 118 (15.53%) Spring Boot
5 77 (10.13%) HTML
6 74 (9.74%) CSS
7 63 (8.29%) Hibernate
8 60 (7.89%) JPA
9 51 (6.71%) Redux
10 45 (5.92%) AngularJS
11 33 (4.34%) RESTful
12 31 (4.08%) REST
13 27 (3.55%) .NET
14 18 (2.37%) Web Services
15 14 (1.84%) PySpark
16 11 (1.45%) Pandas
17 9 (1.18%) .NET Core
17 9 (1.18%) .NET Framework
17 9 (1.18%) J2EE
18 8 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 81 (10.66%) Algorithms
3 60 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 54 (7.11%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.89%) Public Cloud
6 15 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (1.97%) Private Cloud
7 11 (1.45%) 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 (0.66%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.63%) Linux
2 11 (1.45%) Unix
3 10 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.66%) Android
4 5 (0.66%) Windows
5 4 (0.53%) 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
1 312 (41.05%) Software Engineering
2 257 (33.82%) CI/CD
3 228 (30.00%) SDLC
4 172 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 170 (22.37%) Operational Stability
6 150 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (19.74%) DevOps
7 130 (17.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 126 (16.58%) Project Management
9 121 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (15.00%) Prototyping
10 114 (15.00%) User Experience
11 112 (14.74%) Machine Learning
12 107 (14.08%) Microservices
13 106 (13.95%) Community of Practice
14 103 (13.55%) Test Automation
14 103 (13.55%) UX Design
15 102 (13.42%) Design Thinking
16 100 (13.16%) User Research
16 100 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 253 (33.29%) Java
2 153 (20.13%) SQL
3 99 (13.03%) JavaScript
3 99 (13.03%) Python
4 83 (10.92%) MATLAB
5 51 (6.71%) TypeScript
6 35 (4.61%) C#
7 20 (2.63%) C++
8 15 (1.97%) C
9 9 (1.18%) Go
10 8 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.05%) Rust
11 7 (0.92%) Scala
11 7 (0.92%) Swift
12 6 (0.79%) Bash
13 4 (0.53%) PHP
13 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.53%) VBA
14 3 (0.39%) R
15 2 (0.26%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 116 (15.26%) Degree
2 89 (11.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 33 (4.34%) ACCA
4 15 (1.97%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.53%) CBAP
6 4 (0.53%) CCA
6 4 (0.53%) CISA
6 4 (0.53%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) PMP
7 3 (0.39%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) APMG
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.82%) Accessibility
2 62 (8.16%) QA
3 33 (4.34%) GAAP
3 33 (4.34%) IFRS
4 15 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.79%) SEPA
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.39%) PMO
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 89 (11.71%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) 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
1 124 (16.32%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.08%) Terraform
3 18 (2.37%) Grafana
4 15 (1.97%) Ansible
5 4 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.53%) Netcool
5 4 (0.53%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (0.53%) 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 (9.47%) Oracle
2 49 (6.45%) Solace
3 31 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 25 (3.29%) Splunk
5 24 (3.16%) Google
6 22 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.63%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.97%) IBM
9 14 (1.84%) Databricks
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Facebook
12 5 (0.66%) Cisco
12 5 (0.66%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.53%) Adobe
13 4 (0.53%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.53%) Blue Prism
13 4 (0.53%) IBM Sterling
13 4 (0.53%) Sybase
13 4 (0.53%) UiPath
14 3 (0.39%) Workday