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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,088 1,588 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 45.99% 33.54% 31.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 49.49% 35.59% 34.12%
Number of salaries quoted 482 841 996
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,527
25th Percentile £46,063 £48,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,456 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +11.74% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,852 £78,108 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

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 6,240 4,462 5,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.93% 94.23% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,247 2,772
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 April 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 April 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 -2 2,535 £60,000 +4.35% 63
Edinburgh 0 424 £60,743 -9.43% 81
Aberdeen -8 33 £50,000 +11.11% 18
Fife +5 21 £42,850 -14.30% 1
West Lothian +6 20 £61,250 +36.11% 3
Dundee -5 10 £46,250 +23.33% 2
Lanarkshire -5 10 £46,000 +2.22% 19
South Lanarkshire - 6 £65,000 - 1
Scottish Borders +6 5 - -
Aberdeenshire -5 3 £50,000 +35.14% 4
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Inverclyde -2 2 £52,500 +23.53%
Renfrewshire -4 2 - -
Argyll and Bute -7 2 - -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
Angus - 1 £40,000 -
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
1 580 (18.78%) Apache Spark
2 116 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (3.50%) Apache
4 103 (3.34%) FileNet
5 88 (2.85%) Confluence
6 60 (1.94%) ArcGIS
6 60 (1.94%) GeoServer
7 31 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
8 21 (0.68%) GemFire
9 20 (0.65%) Camunda
10 15 (0.49%) SharePoint
11 12 (0.39%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.36%) CICS
13 10 (0.32%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.26%) SAS
14 8 (0.26%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.23%) Captiva
16 5 (0.16%) WordPress
17 4 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 34 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 34 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 32 (1.04%) UserZoom
3 19 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.49%) Sketch
5 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.097%) InVision
8 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.032%) EViews
8 1 (0.032%) Revit
8 1 (0.032%) Simulink
8 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.097%) Primavera
6 2 (0.065%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.032%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1,310 (42.42%) AWS
2 329 (10.65%) Azure
3 195 (6.31%) GCP
4 100 (3.24%) Amazon S3
4 100 (3.24%) Datadog
5 78 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (2.49%) SaaS
7 64 (2.07%) GitHub
8 62 (2.01%) Serverless
9 61 (1.98%) Figma
10 59 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
10 59 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 55 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
11 55 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
13 49 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
14 47 (1.52%) BlazeMeter
15 43 (1.39%) Power Platform
15 43 (1.39%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.66%) Kerberos
2 22 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.58%) Broadband
3 18 (0.58%) DSL
4 13 (0.42%) Modbus
5 11 (0.36%) Internet
6 8 (0.26%) BGP
6 8 (0.26%) DNS
6 8 (0.26%) Network Security
6 8 (0.26%) SSL
7 5 (0.16%) Wireless
8 4 (0.13%) LAN
8 4 (0.13%) WAN
9 3 (0.097%) Firewall
9 3 (0.097%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.097%) VLAN
9 3 (0.097%) VPN
10 2 (0.065%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.065%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.032%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (21.96%) NoSQL
2 510 (16.52%) Big Data
3 234 (7.58%) Hadoop
4 156 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
5 151 (4.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 131 (4.24%) Apache Hive
7 130 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 102 (3.30%) HBase
9 98 (3.17%) MongoDB
10 86 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
11 66 (2.14%) Data Lake
12 65 (2.10%) Metadata
13 60 (1.94%) GIS
13 60 (1.94%) QGIS
14 52 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
15 51 (1.65%) MySQL
16 49 (1.59%) SQL Server
17 44 (1.42%) DB2
18 40 (1.30%) Power BI
19 38 (1.23%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 329 (10.65%) Jenkins
2 235 (7.61%) Git
3 214 (6.93%) JUnit
4 186 (6.02%) JIRA
5 119 (3.85%) Jasmine
6 101 (3.27%) Cypress.io
7 91 (2.95%) Bitbucket
8 86 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
9 78 (2.53%) Maven
10 75 (2.43%) Karma Test Runner
11 74 (2.40%) Selenium
12 66 (2.14%) Artifactory
13 64 (2.07%) WebDriver
14 61 (1.98%) Protractor
15 47 (1.52%) Mockito
16 32 (1.04%) Cucumber
17 31 (1.00%) CircleCI
17 31 (1.00%) GitLab
17 31 (1.00%) Gradle
18 28 (0.91%) JMeter
General
1 2,508 (81.22%) Finance
2 2,364 (76.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,302 (74.55%) Law
4 1,216 (39.38%) Marketing
5 675 (21.86%) Legal
6 583 (18.88%) Banking
7 383 (12.40%) Social Skills
8 333 (10.78%) Investment Banking
9 252 (8.16%) Financial Institution
10 189 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
11 125 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
12 91 (2.95%) Private Banking
13 73 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (1.75%) Public Sector
15 38 (1.23%) Games
16 22 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
17 21 (0.68%) Retail
18 18 (0.58%) Front Office
19 16 (0.52%) Publishing
20 15 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2,129 (68.94%) Software Engineer
2 779 (25.23%) Java Engineer
3 772 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 755 (24.45%) Lead
5 684 (22.15%) Lead Software Engineer
6 446 (14.44%) Senior
7 389 (12.60%) Big Data Engineer
7 389 (12.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 328 (10.62%) Python Engineer
8 328 (10.62%) Python Software Engineer
9 306 (9.91%) Full Stack Engineer
10 302 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
11 301 (9.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 299 (9.68%) AWS Software Engineer
12 299 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 274 (8.87%) Lead Java Engineer
14 251 (8.13%) Data Engineer
15 234 (7.58%) Developer
16 228 (7.38%) Scala Engineer
16 228 (7.38%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (22.90%) Spring
2 593 (19.20%) React
3 431 (13.96%) AngularJS
4 382 (12.37%) Kafka
5 369 (11.95%) Spring Boot
6 332 (10.75%) CSS
7 312 (10.10%) HTML
8 246 (7.97%) J2EE
9 230 (7.45%) JSON
10 227 (7.35%) Node.js
11 223 (7.22%) RESTful
12 207 (6.70%) Hibernate
13 179 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 174 (5.63%) .NET
15 171 (5.54%) PySpark
16 170 (5.51%) JMS
17 155 (5.02%) jQuery
18 153 (4.95%) Web Services
19 141 (4.57%) REST
20 132 (4.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 811 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 774 (25.06%) Algorithms
3 296 (9.59%) Public Cloud
4 168 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 150 (4.86%) Management Information System
6 119 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 113 (3.66%) Reference Data
8 105 (3.40%) Data Structures
9 102 (3.30%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 64 (2.07%) Distributed Applications
12 43 (1.39%) Legacy Code
13 42 (1.36%) Private Cloud
14 31 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 28 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
17 25 (0.81%) Credit Risk
18 24 (0.78%) Social Media
19 22 (0.71%) Replication
19 22 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (5.63%) Linux
2 168 (5.44%) Unix
3 50 (1.62%) Windows
4 33 (1.07%) Android
5 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.032%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.032%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.032%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,383 (77.17%) Software Engineering
2 2,126 (68.85%) SDLC
3 1,992 (64.51%) CI/CD
4 1,762 (57.06%) Operational Stability
5 1,358 (43.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,328 (43.01%) Machine Learning
7 1,272 (41.19%) Community of Practice
8 896 (29.02%) Visualisation
9 894 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 709 (22.96%) Risk Management
11 550 (17.81%) Microservices
12 520 (16.84%) Decision-Making
13 496 (16.06%) Continuous Delivery
14 461 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
15 416 (13.47%) Architectural Design
16 411 (13.31%) Information Architecture
17 398 (12.89%) Full Stack Development
18 349 (11.30%) DevOps
19 342 (11.08%) Test Automation
20 315 (10.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,661 (53.79%) Java
2 1,149 (37.21%) SQL
3 964 (31.22%) Python
4 462 (14.96%) JavaScript
5 323 (10.46%) Scala
6 255 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 196 (6.35%) C#
8 152 (4.92%) PL/SQL
9 90 (2.91%) Go
10 65 (2.10%) Prolog
10 65 (2.10%) SPARQL
11 44 (1.42%) Groovy
12 42 (1.36%) C++
13 40 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 34 (1.10%) Kotlin
15 27 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.74%) Ruby
17 17 (0.55%) C
18 15 (0.49%) Bash
19 12 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 236 (7.64%) Degree
2 147 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 138 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 46 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 29 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 13 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 13 (0.42%) CISA
7 11 (0.36%) ACCA
7 11 (0.36%) CIMA
8 10 (0.32%) PMP
9 8 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.19%) OCP
11 6 (0.19%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.16%) HND
12 5 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (3.14%) Accessibility
2 70 (2.27%) QA
3 62 (2.01%) SLA
4 43 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 37 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 36 (1.17%) PMO
7 17 (0.55%) GDPR
8 16 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 15 (0.49%) WAI
10 13 (0.42%) ITGC
11 8 (0.26%) SEPA
12 5 (0.16%) WCAG
13 4 (0.13%) DICOM
13 4 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.13%) HL7
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
13 4 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.097%) CRD IV
15 2 (0.065%) IFRS
15 2 (0.065%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 102 (3.30%) HDFS
2 92 (2.98%) Docker
3 68 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.097%) Firmware
5 3 (0.097%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.032%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 387 (12.53%) Kubernetes
2 265 (8.58%) Terraform
3 163 (5.28%) Grafana
4 67 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
6 23 (0.74%) Kibana
7 21 (0.68%) Ansible
7 21 (0.68%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.68%) Zipkin
8 7 (0.23%) Graphite
9 4 (0.13%) Istio
9 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.13%) vRealize
9 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (0.065%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.065%) Puppet
10 2 (0.065%) Rancher
11 1 (0.032%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.032%) Nagios
Vendors
1 382 (12.37%) Oracle
2 236 (7.64%) Databricks
3 169 (5.47%) Splunk
4 148 (4.79%) Dynatrace
5 108 (3.50%) Google
6 104 (3.37%) Microsoft
7 87 (2.82%) Informatica
8 72 (2.33%) Cloudera
9 60 (1.94%) ESRI
10 55 (1.78%) Alteryx
11 44 (1.42%) SAP
12 37 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 36 (1.17%) Atlassian
14 32 (1.04%) Qualtrics
15 27 (0.87%) Pega
16 23 (0.74%) IBM
16 23 (0.74%) Sybase
17 18 (0.58%) Cognos
17 18 (0.58%) SaltStack
18 17 (0.55%) CA