Agile Contracts in West Lothian

Agile Software Development
Scotland > West Lothian

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian 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 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 12 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 34.29% 26.09% 61.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.29% 27.27% 62.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 18
10th Percentile £221 £523 £356
25th Percentile £463 £525 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £500
90th Percentile £637 £700 £515
Scotland median daily rate £475 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -1.55% +1.58% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
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
West Lothian

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 West Lothian with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34 44 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 97.14% 95.65% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 28
10th Percentile £55 £120 £260
25th Percentile £149 £130 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £488 £416
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +17.12% +11.00%
75th Percentile £463 £614 £482
90th Percentile £578 £650 £500
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £24.83 £35.45 -
25th Percentile £28.69 £65.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £37.25 £76.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.99% +289.74% +38.99%
75th Percentile £43.69 £85.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £46.28 £86.50 -
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 West Lothian

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in West Lothian

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in West Lothian

Agile
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Livingston +2 12 £575 -4.17%
Agile
Scotland

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) JUnit
2 4 (33.33%) Maven
2 4 (33.33%) Postman
3 3 (25.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (8.33%) Capybara
4 1 (8.33%) Gradle
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum Master
5 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 7 (58.33%) REST
2 7 (58.33%) Spring
3 4 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 4 (33.33%) J2EE
3 4 (33.33%) Kafka
3 4 (33.33%) React
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Coaching
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (25.00%) MVC
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (16.67%) Component Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Sprint Backlog
5 2 (16.67%) Storytelling
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Value Proposition
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle