Agile Contracts in Edinburgh

Agile Software Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 176 440 694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.23% 37.23% 36.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.82% 39.60% 38.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 348 510
10th Percentile £296 £363 £391
25th Percentile £415 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -2.06% +8.99%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £550
90th Percentile £595 £590 £623
Scotland median daily rate £475 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -1.55% +1.58% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - £17.91
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £18.90
75th Percentile £60.75 - £19.90
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -13.57% +48.94% -10.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Edinburgh

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 8 (4.55%) CMS
2 7 (3.98%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) JBoss
4 2 (1.14%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.14%) WildFly
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.70%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.16%) AWS
2 38 (21.59%) Azure
3 26 (14.77%) Amazon S3
3 26 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (14.77%) Serverless
4 23 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.39%) OpenShift
6 13 (7.39%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.98%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.84%) PaaS
12 3 (1.70%) IaaS
12 3 (1.70%) SaaS
12 3 (1.70%) Textract
13 2 (1.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.68%) Firewall
2 5 (2.84%) SSL
3 4 (2.27%) Internet
3 4 (2.27%) LAN
3 4 (2.27%) VSAN
4 2 (1.14%) FabricPath
4 2 (1.14%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.14%) VPN
4 2 (1.14%) WAN
5 1 (0.57%) ATM
5 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.27%) Informix
4 4 (2.27%) Metadata
4 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.27%) Power BI
5 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.70%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.14%) GIS
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) JIRA
2 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.55%) GitLab
4 7 (3.98%) Git
5 4 (2.27%) Maven
5 4 (2.27%) Subversion
6 3 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.14%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Selenium
7 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.57%) Capybara
8 1 (0.57%) Gradle
General
1 90 (51.14%) Public Sector
2 67 (38.07%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.20%) Finance
4 23 (13.07%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (9.09%) Banking
6 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.11%) Retail Banking
8 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Electronics
9 4 (2.27%) Publishing
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (17.05%) Analyst
2 24 (13.64%) Developer
3 21 (11.93%) Senior
4 18 (10.23%) Designer
4 18 (10.23%) Lead
5 17 (9.66%) Project Manager
6 15 (8.52%) Business Analyst
7 13 (7.39%) Consultant
8 10 (5.68%) Architect
8 10 (5.68%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Content Designer
9 8 (4.55%) Senior Designer
9 8 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.55%) UX Designer
10 7 (3.98%) Senior Content Designer
11 6 (3.41%) Automation Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 6 (3.41%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.20%) AWS CDK
2 11 (6.25%) React
2 11 (6.25%) Spring
3 8 (4.55%) REST
3 8 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.41%) CSS
5 5 (2.84%) .NET
5 5 (2.84%) SpaCy
5 5 (2.84%) Web Services
6 4 (2.27%) HTML
6 4 (2.27%) Middleware
6 4 (2.27%) Node.js
6 4 (2.27%) OAuth
6 4 (2.27%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.27%) PostGIS
6 4 (2.27%) RESTful
7 3 (1.70%) Java EE
7 3 (1.70%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.70%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.84%) PKI
5 5 (2.84%) Replication
5 5 (2.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.27%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.27%) IoT
6 4 (2.27%) PCIe
6 4 (2.27%) Verilog
6 4 (2.27%) VHDL
7 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Equities
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.52%) Linux
2 7 (3.98%) Windows
3 5 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (2.27%) Unix
4 4 (2.27%) VxWorks
5 3 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.41%) Scrum
2 36 (20.45%) Coaching
2 36 (20.45%) DevOps
3 28 (15.91%) CI/CD
3 28 (15.91%) Roadmaps
3 28 (15.91%) User Stories
4 26 (14.77%) Kanban
5 25 (14.20%) User Research
6 24 (13.64%) User Experience
7 23 (13.07%) Migration
8 21 (11.93%) Service Design
8 21 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (10.23%) Project Management
11 17 (9.66%) Business Analysis
11 17 (9.66%) Project Delivery
12 16 (9.09%) Data Protection
13 15 (8.52%) Community of Practice
14 14 (7.95%) Software Delivery
14 14 (7.95%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.20%) Python
2 20 (11.36%) SQL
3 19 (10.80%) TypeScript
4 18 (10.23%) Java
5 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.27%) Bash
6 4 (2.27%) C
6 4 (2.27%) C#
6 4 (2.27%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.70%) Perl
7 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.14%) C++
8 2 (1.14%) Groovy
8 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.14%) VBA
8 2 (1.14%) VBScript
9 1 (0.57%) Ruby
9 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (10.80%) Degree
2 8 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (3.98%) MCSE
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.27%) ISEB
5 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CCSA
7 1 (0.57%) CCSE
7 1 (0.57%) IIBA
7 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 20 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.55%) PMO
4 7 (3.98%) QA
5 5 (2.84%) SLA
6 4 (2.27%) MISRA
6 4 (2.27%) MISRA C
7 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.57%) GDPR
8 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.82%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.27%) Firmware
5 4 (2.27%) vSphere
6 2 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (9.66%) Grafana
2 8 (4.55%) Ansible
3 7 (3.98%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.84%) SCCM
4 5 (2.84%) VxRail
5 4 (2.27%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.70%) Kibana
6 3 (1.70%) Terraform
7 2 (1.14%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.11%) Oracle
3 8 (4.55%) VMware
4 7 (3.98%) Cadence
5 6 (3.41%) Databricks
5 6 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.84%) Cisco
6 5 (2.84%) Dell
7 4 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.27%) Intel
8 3 (1.70%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.70%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.70%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.14%) Commvault
9 2 (1.14%) Google
9 2 (1.14%) IDERA
9 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.57%) Citrix
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) Informatica