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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,085 1,499 1,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 46.13% 32.36% 31.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 49.81% 34.36% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 459 791 1,019
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,818 £78,108 £68,275
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,746 £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 6,194 4,363 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.63% 94.19% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,187 2,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +8.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 2,560 £60,000 +4.35% 75
Edinburgh 0 396 £60,125 -8.00% 72
Aberdeen -10 33 £50,000 +11.11% 14
Fife +4 21 £42,850 -14.30% 1
West Lothian +3 20 £61,250 +31.72% 3
Lanarkshire -2 10 £46,000 +2.22% 30
Dundee -4 10 £46,250 +23.33% 2
South Lanarkshire - 6 £65,000 -
Scottish Borders +6 5 - -
Aberdeenshire -2 3 £50,000 +108.33% 4
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Renfrewshire -4 2 - -
Argyll and Bute -7 2 - -
Inverclyde - 2 £52,500 -
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
1 581 (18.83%) Apache Spark
2 117 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (3.50%) Apache
4 105 (3.40%) FileNet
5 77 (2.50%) Confluence
6 60 (1.94%) ArcGIS
6 60 (1.94%) GeoServer
7 32 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
8 21 (0.68%) GemFire
9 20 (0.65%) Camunda
10 12 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.39%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.36%) CICS
12 10 (0.32%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.26%) SAS
13 8 (0.26%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.23%) Captiva
15 5 (0.16%) WordPress
16 4 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 32 (1.04%) UserZoom
2 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.52%) 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 12 (0.39%) 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 1,322 (42.85%) AWS
2 332 (10.76%) Azure
3 197 (6.39%) GCP
4 102 (3.31%) Amazon S3
4 102 (3.31%) Datadog
5 78 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (2.40%) SaaS
7 63 (2.04%) GitHub
7 63 (2.04%) Serverless
8 62 (2.01%) Figma
9 59 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
9 59 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 55 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
11 55 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
13 50 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 48 (1.56%) BlazeMeter
15 43 (1.39%) SurveyMonkey
16 40 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.66%) Kerberos
2 24 (0.78%) 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%) SSL
7 5 (0.16%) Wireless
8 4 (0.13%) LAN
8 4 (0.13%) Network Security
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%) RS-232
10 2 (0.065%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 681 (22.07%) NoSQL
2 506 (16.40%) Big Data
3 234 (7.59%) Hadoop
4 161 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
5 153 (4.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 131 (4.25%) Apache Hive
7 130 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 102 (3.31%) HBase
9 96 (3.11%) MongoDB
10 83 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
11 70 (2.27%) Data Lake
12 65 (2.11%) Metadata
13 60 (1.94%) GIS
13 60 (1.94%) QGIS
14 52 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
15 50 (1.62%) SQL Server
16 48 (1.56%) MySQL
17 42 (1.36%) DB2
18 39 (1.26%) Qlik Sense
19 38 (1.23%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 322 (10.44%) Jenkins
2 230 (7.46%) Git
3 216 (7.00%) JUnit
4 172 (5.58%) JIRA
5 120 (3.89%) Jasmine
6 100 (3.24%) Cypress.io
7 90 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 86 (2.79%) Bitbucket Server
9 78 (2.53%) Maven
10 75 (2.43%) Karma Test Runner
11 73 (2.37%) Selenium
12 66 (2.14%) Artifactory
13 64 (2.07%) WebDriver
14 61 (1.98%) Protractor
15 48 (1.56%) Mockito
16 31 (1.00%) CircleCI
16 31 (1.00%) GitLab
16 31 (1.00%) Gradle
17 29 (0.94%) Cucumber
17 29 (0.94%) JMeter
General
1 2,502 (81.10%) Finance
2 2,389 (77.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,325 (75.36%) Law
4 1,228 (39.81%) Marketing
5 674 (21.85%) Legal
6 562 (18.22%) Banking
7 382 (12.38%) Social Skills
8 337 (10.92%) Investment Banking
9 255 (8.27%) Financial Institution
10 188 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
11 115 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
12 92 (2.98%) Private Banking
13 74 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (1.69%) Public Sector
15 39 (1.26%) Games
16 22 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
17 20 (0.65%) Retail
18 18 (0.58%) Front Office
19 16 (0.52%) Manufacturing
19 16 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2,140 (69.37%) Software Engineer
2 787 (25.51%) Java Engineer
3 780 (25.28%) Java Software Engineer
4 763 (24.73%) Lead
5 690 (22.37%) Lead Software Engineer
6 437 (14.17%) Senior
7 390 (12.64%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.64%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 333 (10.79%) Python Engineer
8 333 (10.79%) Python Software Engineer
9 307 (9.95%) Full Stack Engineer
10 304 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
10 304 (9.85%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 302 (9.79%) Senior Software Engineer
12 301 (9.76%) AWS Software Engineer
13 278 (9.01%) Lead Java Engineer
14 256 (8.30%) Data Engineer
15 232 (7.52%) Developer
16 228 (7.39%) Scala Engineer
16 228 (7.39%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 705 (22.85%) Spring
2 589 (19.09%) React
3 427 (13.84%) AngularJS
4 382 (12.38%) Kafka
5 360 (11.67%) Spring Boot
6 331 (10.73%) CSS
7 310 (10.05%) HTML
8 248 (8.04%) J2EE
9 228 (7.39%) JSON
10 220 (7.13%) Node.js
10 220 (7.13%) RESTful
11 207 (6.71%) Hibernate
12 180 (5.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 174 (5.64%) PySpark
14 172 (5.58%) .NET
15 171 (5.54%) JMS
16 156 (5.06%) jQuery
17 153 (4.96%) Web Services
18 138 (4.47%) REST
19 134 (4.34%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 819 (26.55%) Cloud Native
2 781 (25.32%) Algorithms
3 295 (9.56%) Public Cloud
4 170 (5.51%) Onboarding
5 150 (4.86%) Management Information System
6 118 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 113 (3.66%) Reference Data
8 105 (3.40%) Data Structures
9 104 (3.37%) Market Risk
10 65 (2.11%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
11 43 (1.39%) Legacy Code
11 43 (1.39%) Private Cloud
12 32 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 29 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 28 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (0.78%) Social Media
16 22 (0.71%) Replication
17 20 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (5.64%) Linux
2 166 (5.38%) Unix
3 48 (1.56%) Windows
4 34 (1.10%) Android
5 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.032%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.032%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.032%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,393 (77.57%) Software Engineering
2 2,134 (69.17%) SDLC
3 2,001 (64.86%) CI/CD
4 1,779 (57.67%) Operational Stability
5 1,370 (44.41%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,342 (43.50%) Machine Learning
7 1,284 (41.62%) Community of Practice
8 905 (29.34%) Visualisation
9 899 (29.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 715 (23.18%) Risk Management
11 542 (17.57%) Microservices
12 522 (16.92%) Decision-Making
13 490 (15.88%) Continuous Delivery
14 459 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
15 417 (13.52%) Architectural Design
16 412 (13.35%) Information Architecture
17 396 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
18 345 (11.18%) DevOps
19 342 (11.09%) Test Automation
20 317 (10.28%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,658 (53.74%) Java
2 1,151 (37.31%) SQL
3 970 (31.44%) Python
4 458 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 323 (10.47%) Scala
6 254 (8.23%) TypeScript
7 195 (6.32%) C#
8 152 (4.93%) PL/SQL
9 91 (2.95%) Go
10 65 (2.11%) Prolog
10 65 (2.11%) SPARQL
11 44 (1.43%) Groovy
12 41 (1.33%) C++
13 40 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 35 (1.13%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.75%) Ruby
17 17 (0.55%) C
18 14 (0.45%) Bash
19 12 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 231 (7.49%) Degree
2 147 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 138 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 43 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 29 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 13 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.36%) ACCA
7 11 (0.36%) CIMA
7 11 (0.36%) CISA
8 10 (0.32%) PMP
9 8 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.19%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.16%) HND
11 5 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.13%) ISEB
12 4 (0.13%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (3.14%) Accessibility
2 70 (2.27%) QA
3 62 (2.01%) SLA
4 42 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 35 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 33 (1.07%) PMO
7 17 (0.55%) GDPR
8 16 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 15 (0.49%) WAI
10 11 (0.36%) ITGC
11 5 (0.16%) WCAG
12 4 (0.13%) DICOM
12 4 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.13%) HL7
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
12 4 (0.13%) SEPA
12 4 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.097%) CRD IV
14 2 (0.065%) IFRS
14 2 (0.065%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 102 (3.31%) HDFS
2 83 (2.69%) Docker
3 69 (2.24%) 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 2 (0.065%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.032%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 376 (12.19%) Kubernetes
2 262 (8.49%) Terraform
3 165 (5.35%) Grafana
4 68 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (0.71%) Kibana
7 21 (0.68%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.68%) Zipkin
8 17 (0.55%) Ansible
9 7 (0.23%) Graphite
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
10 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.097%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.065%) CA Endevor
12 2 (0.065%) Rancher
13 1 (0.032%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.032%) Puppet
13 1 (0.032%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 383 (12.41%) Oracle
2 236 (7.65%) Databricks
3 170 (5.51%) Splunk
4 148 (4.80%) Dynatrace
5 107 (3.47%) Google
6 99 (3.21%) Microsoft
7 87 (2.82%) Informatica
8 72 (2.33%) Cloudera
9 60 (1.94%) ESRI
10 57 (1.85%) Alteryx
11 42 (1.36%) SAP
12 35 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 32 (1.04%) Qualtrics
14 28 (0.91%) Atlassian
15 27 (0.88%) Pega
16 23 (0.75%) IBM
16 23 (0.75%) Sybase
17 18 (0.58%) Cognos
17 18 (0.58%) SaltStack
18 17 (0.55%) CA