Agile Job Trends in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 292 507 2,904
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.94% 24.93% 45.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.59% 26.70% 50.06%
Number of salaries quoted 114 144 441
10th Percentile £35,500 £47,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.05% -2.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

All Process & 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 2,320 1,899 5,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.03% 93.36% 91.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 880 2,378
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Agile job vacancy trend in Scotland

Agile
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

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 21 May 2026. 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 -7 122 £55,000 -24.14% 43
Glasgow -25 41 £55,000 -18.52% 33
West Lothian +4 29 £65,000 - 1
South Lanarkshire 0 16 £60,000 - 1
West Dunbartonshire +2 14 - -
Stirling -1 14 £54,500 -
North Lanarkshire -6 13 - -
Fife -5 8 - - 3
Lanarkshire -5 8 - - 10
Renfrewshire -6 6 - -
East Ayrshire -2 4 £80,800 +39.31%
Banffshire - 4 £35,000 -
Midlothian +1 2 - - 19
Ayrshire +1 2 - -
North Ayrshire -1 2 - -
Aberdeen -22 2 - - 2
Perth and Kinross - 1 £127,500 -
Perthshire - 1 £127,500 -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (3.08%) Confluence
2 6 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) WildFly
Applications
1 36 (12.33%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (11.30%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (6.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.34%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (4.11%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.37%) Markit EDM
3 3 (1.03%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.68%) Alphatax
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (28.77%) Azure
2 59 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (14.04%) GitHub
4 29 (9.93%) Snowflake
5 28 (9.59%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (8.22%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.53%) AWS
8 20 (6.85%) dbt
9 19 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (5.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (5.82%) GCP
11 12 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (4.11%) OCI
12 9 (3.08%) SaaS
13 7 (2.40%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.05%) Salesforce Einstein
14 6 (2.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (2.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 5 (1.71%) Azure AI
16 4 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 49 (16.78%) Broadband
2 14 (4.79%) Ethernet
2 14 (4.79%) RS-232
3 2 (0.68%) DHCP
3 2 (0.68%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) Mobile Broadband
3 2 (0.68%) Softphone
3 2 (0.68%) VLAN
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.22%) Power BI
2 14 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.40%) Metadata
3 7 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.05%) Tableau
5 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Big Data
7 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 46 (15.75%) Jenkins
2 32 (10.96%) GitLab
2 32 (10.96%) SonarQube
3 26 (8.90%) JIRA
4 12 (4.11%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (2.74%) Git
6 4 (1.37%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.37%) ERwin
6 4 (1.37%) Postman
7 3 (1.03%) fastlane
8 2 (0.68%) Appium
8 2 (0.68%) Xcode
9 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.34%) Gradle
9 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.34%) jMock
9 1 (0.34%) JUnit
9 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 94 (32.19%) Finance
3 58 (19.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (14.38%) Games
5 41 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (13.36%) Marketing
7 21 (7.19%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.79%) Legal
9 12 (4.11%) Billing
10 11 (3.77%) Banking
11 7 (2.40%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Local Government
13 2 (0.68%) Retail
14 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 103 (35.27%) Senior
2 48 (16.44%) Architect
3 42 (14.38%) Analyst
3 42 (14.38%) Project Manager
3 42 (14.38%) Senior Manager
4 35 (11.99%) Senior Project Manager
5 31 (10.62%) Salesforce Architect
6 23 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 22 (7.53%) Applications Engineer
7 22 (7.53%) Business Analyst
8 19 (6.51%) Technical Architect
9 18 (6.16%) Developer
9 18 (6.16%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 17 (5.82%) Lead
11 16 (5.48%) Applications Support
11 16 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.12%) SOAP
2 48 (16.44%) REST
3 44 (15.07%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (10.96%) Visualforce
5 18 (6.16%) RESTful
6 14 (4.79%) Yocto
7 13 (4.45%) AWS CDK
7 13 (4.45%) OAuth
7 13 (4.45%) React
8 11 (3.77%) .NET
9 9 (3.08%) React Native
10 7 (2.40%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.05%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.05%) JSON
11 6 (2.05%) OpenAPI
11 6 (2.05%) SAML
11 6 (2.05%) Swagger
11 6 (2.05%) XML
11 6 (2.05%) YAML
12 5 (1.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 78 (26.71%) Product Ownership
2 44 (15.07%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.53%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.79%) Device Driver
4 14 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.11%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.05%) NHS
7 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.71%) Social Media
9 4 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) BBC
11 2 (0.68%) iPhone
12 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.34%) PMI
12 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.14%) Linux
2 14 (4.79%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (3.08%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.40%) Windows
5 4 (1.37%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (42.12%) DevOps
2 109 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 108 (36.99%) Coaching
4 85 (29.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (22.26%) Scrum
6 62 (21.23%) Asset Management
7 60 (20.55%) Roadmaps
7 60 (20.55%) Software Engineering
8 50 (17.12%) Mentoring
9 48 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (16.10%) Observability
11 46 (15.75%) Project Management
12 45 (15.41%) Test Automation
13 44 (15.07%) PRINCE2
13 44 (15.07%) Technology Roadmap
14 42 (14.38%) Event-Driven
14 42 (14.38%) OO
14 42 (14.38%) Project Delivery
15 41 (14.04%) AI
15 41 (14.04%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 60 (20.55%) SQL
2 44 (15.07%) Apex Code
3 41 (14.04%) Python
4 32 (10.96%) SOQL
4 32 (10.96%) SOSL
5 22 (7.53%) Java
6 19 (6.51%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.51%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.82%) C#
7 17 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.79%) C
8 14 (4.79%) C++
8 14 (4.79%) Embedded C
9 12 (4.11%) PL/SQL
9 12 (4.11%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (19.18%) Degree
2 33 (11.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 12 (4.11%) HND
4 11 (3.77%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.77%) PMP
5 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.68%) CSPO
7 1 (0.34%) ACCA
7 1 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) CIMA
7 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.11%) SLA
3 7 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.71%) QA
5 4 (1.37%) GDPR
6 3 (1.03%) NCSC
6 3 (1.03%) WCAG
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.34%) GRC
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 13 (4.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.68%) BitLocker
2 2 (0.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (12.33%) Terraform
2 12 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (2.40%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.41%) Salesforce
3 32 (10.96%) Splunk
4 23 (7.88%) Google
5 15 (5.14%) Oracle
6 13 (4.45%) Adobe
7 12 (4.11%) Freshdesk
7 12 (4.11%) Nintex
8 9 (3.08%) Pega
9 8 (2.74%) IBM
10 6 (2.05%) Okta
11 4 (1.37%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.37%) Anaplan
11 4 (1.37%) Databricks
11 4 (1.37%) SAP
12 3 (1.03%) Apple
12 3 (1.03%) Foundry
12 3 (1.03%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.68%) Bomgar
13 2 (0.68%) Facebook