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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,969 1,355 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.37% 31.17% 31.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 47.82% 33.02% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 418 725 1,064
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,354 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
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 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -2 2,496 £60,000 +9.09% 81
Edinburgh -1 348 £60,000 -7.69% 83
Aberdeen -9 31 £48,750 -2.50% 12
West Lothian -2 18 - - 2
Fife +2 17 £43,200 -17.71%
Lanarkshire -6 10 - - 42
Dundee -7 9 £45,000 +2.86% 2
South Lanarkshire - 6 £65,000 -
Scottish Borders +4 4 - -
Renfrewshire -2 4 - - 2
Aberdeenshire -6 3 £50,000 +108.33% 1
Inverclyde - 3 £52,500 - 1
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Argyll and Bute -7 2 - -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Angus - 1 £40,000 - 1
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
1 554 (18.66%) Apache Spark
2 114 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (3.44%) Apache
3 102 (3.44%) FileNet
4 69 (2.32%) Confluence
5 60 (2.02%) ArcGIS
5 60 (2.02%) GeoServer
6 32 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
7 21 (0.71%) GemFire
8 18 (0.61%) Camunda
9 11 (0.37%) CICS
10 10 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.17%) WordPress
14 4 (0.13%) Captiva
15 3 (0.10%) SAS
16 2 (0.067%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (1.01%) UserZoom
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.51%) Sketch
5 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.10%) InVision
9 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.034%) Revit
9 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.034%) Endur
6 1 (0.034%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,282 (43.18%) AWS
2 330 (11.11%) Azure
3 168 (5.66%) GCP
4 103 (3.47%) Amazon S3
5 101 (3.40%) Datadog
6 74 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (2.09%) Figma
7 62 (2.09%) Serverless
8 60 (2.02%) SaaS
9 58 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (1.95%) GitHub
10 57 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
11 55 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 53 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
14 50 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
15 49 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
16 46 (1.55%) BlazeMeter
17 41 (1.38%) SurveyMonkey
18 38 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.76%) Kerberos
2 25 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.61%) Broadband
4 16 (0.54%) DSL
5 12 (0.40%) Internet
5 12 (0.40%) Modbus
6 8 (0.27%) BGP
6 8 (0.27%) DNS
6 8 (0.27%) SSL
7 5 (0.17%) Wireless
8 4 (0.13%) LAN
8 4 (0.13%) Network Security
8 4 (0.13%) RS-232
8 4 (0.13%) WAN
9 3 (0.10%) Firewall
9 3 (0.10%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.10%) VLAN
10 2 (0.067%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.067%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.034%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 655 (22.06%) NoSQL
2 474 (15.96%) Big Data
3 222 (7.48%) Hadoop
4 156 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
5 153 (5.15%) Apache Cassandra
6 123 (4.14%) Apache Hive
7 121 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 98 (3.30%) HBase
9 87 (2.93%) MongoDB
10 83 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.19%) Metadata
12 64 (2.16%) Data Lake
13 60 (2.02%) GIS
13 60 (2.02%) QGIS
14 50 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
15 48 (1.62%) SQL Server
16 45 (1.52%) MySQL
17 39 (1.31%) DB2
17 39 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
18 38 (1.28%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 307 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 220 (7.41%) Git
3 213 (7.17%) JUnit
4 160 (5.39%) JIRA
5 118 (3.97%) Jasmine
6 100 (3.37%) Cypress.io
7 90 (3.03%) Bitbucket
8 84 (2.83%) Bitbucket Server
9 77 (2.59%) Maven
10 73 (2.46%) Karma Test Runner
11 71 (2.39%) Selenium
12 66 (2.22%) Artifactory
13 64 (2.16%) WebDriver
14 60 (2.02%) Protractor
15 48 (1.62%) Mockito
16 30 (1.01%) JMeter
17 29 (0.98%) CircleCI
17 29 (0.98%) Cucumber
17 29 (0.98%) Gradle
18 25 (0.84%) Android Studio
General
1 2,388 (80.43%) Finance
2 2,304 (77.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,241 (75.48%) Law
4 1,176 (39.61%) Marketing
5 661 (22.26%) Legal
6 501 (16.87%) Banking
7 383 (12.90%) Social Skills
8 329 (11.08%) Investment Banking
9 243 (8.18%) Financial Institution
10 180 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
11 107 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
12 82 (2.76%) Private Banking
13 67 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.45%) Public Sector
15 39 (1.31%) Games
16 22 (0.74%) Prime Brokerage
17 21 (0.71%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.61%) Front Office
19 16 (0.54%) Publishing
20 14 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2,046 (68.91%) Software Engineer
2 758 (25.53%) Java Engineer
3 750 (25.26%) Java Software Engineer
4 741 (24.96%) Lead
5 667 (22.47%) Lead Software Engineer
6 412 (13.88%) Senior
7 372 (12.53%) Big Data Engineer
7 372 (12.53%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 322 (10.85%) Python Engineer
8 322 (10.85%) Python Software Engineer
9 292 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
10 291 (9.80%) Full Stack Engineer
11 289 (9.73%) AWS Software Engineer
11 289 (9.73%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 280 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 270 (9.09%) Lead Java Engineer
14 244 (8.22%) Data Engineer
15 231 (7.78%) Developer
16 220 (7.41%) Scala Engineer
16 220 (7.41%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 680 (22.90%) Spring
2 575 (19.37%) React
3 407 (13.71%) AngularJS
4 366 (12.33%) Kafka
5 342 (11.52%) Spring Boot
6 318 (10.71%) CSS
7 297 (10.00%) HTML
8 243 (8.18%) J2EE
9 223 (7.51%) Node.js
10 220 (7.41%) JSON
11 204 (6.87%) RESTful
12 199 (6.70%) Hibernate
13 181 (6.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 171 (5.76%) PySpark
15 170 (5.73%) JMS
16 169 (5.69%) .NET
17 153 (5.15%) jQuery
18 142 (4.78%) Web Services
19 132 (4.45%) GraphQL
20 124 (4.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 779 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 760 (25.60%) Algorithms
3 268 (9.03%) Public Cloud
4 166 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 151 (5.09%) Management Information System
6 114 (3.84%) Product Ownership
7 109 (3.67%) Reference Data
8 102 (3.44%) Market Risk
9 99 (3.33%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.19%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 41 (1.38%) Legacy Code
12 36 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.21%) Private Cloud
13 30 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (0.81%) Credit Risk
15 24 (0.81%) Social Media
16 21 (0.71%) Replication
17 15 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 156 (5.25%) Unix
2 148 (4.98%) Linux
3 35 (1.18%) Android
4 32 (1.08%) Windows
5 15 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.034%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,293 (77.23%) Software Engineering
2 2,050 (69.05%) SDLC
3 1,938 (65.27%) CI/CD
4 1,711 (57.63%) Operational Stability
5 1,321 (44.49%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,291 (43.48%) Machine Learning
7 1,249 (42.07%) Community of Practice
8 876 (29.50%) Visualisation
9 871 (29.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 691 (23.27%) Risk Management
11 516 (17.38%) Microservices
12 489 (16.47%) Decision-Making
13 472 (15.90%) Continuous Delivery
14 443 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
15 401 (13.51%) Architectural Design
16 396 (13.34%) Information Architecture
17 382 (12.87%) Full Stack Development
18 344 (11.59%) DevOps
19 321 (10.81%) Test Automation
20 311 (10.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,582 (53.28%) Java
2 1,089 (36.68%) SQL
3 923 (31.09%) Python
4 450 (15.16%) JavaScript
5 306 (10.31%) Scala
6 249 (8.39%) TypeScript
7 187 (6.30%) C#
8 144 (4.85%) PL/SQL
9 88 (2.96%) Go
10 65 (2.19%) Prolog
10 65 (2.19%) SPARQL
11 41 (1.38%) Groovy
12 37 (1.25%) C++
12 37 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 19 (0.64%) Ruby
16 14 (0.47%) C
16 14 (0.47%) PowerShell
17 13 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 221 (7.44%) Degree
2 147 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 137 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 45 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 27 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.44%) ACCA
9 11 (0.37%) CIMA
9 11 (0.37%) CISA
10 9 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.27%) PMP
11 8 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.17%) HND
14 4 (0.13%) ISEB
14 4 (0.13%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.10%) PhD
16 2 (0.067%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 74 (2.49%) QA
3 56 (1.89%) SLA
4 39 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 32 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 31 (1.04%) PMO
7 16 (0.54%) ISO 9001
8 14 (0.47%) GDPR
9 13 (0.44%) WAI
10 11 (0.37%) ITGC
11 5 (0.17%) 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%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.067%) GLP
13 2 (0.067%) SEPA
14 1 (0.034%) Basel III
14 1 (0.034%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 98 (3.30%) HDFS
2 74 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 73 (2.46%) Docker
4 11 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (0.17%) RACF
6 3 (0.10%) Firmware
6 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 355 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 252 (8.49%) Terraform
3 160 (5.39%) Grafana
4 65 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (0.74%) Kibana
7 21 (0.71%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.71%) Zipkin
8 17 (0.57%) Ansible
9 7 (0.24%) Graphite
10 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.067%) Istio
11 2 (0.067%) Rancher
12 1 (0.034%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.034%) Puppet
12 1 (0.034%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 366 (12.33%) Oracle
2 225 (7.58%) Databricks
3 168 (5.66%) Splunk
4 146 (4.92%) Dynatrace
5 104 (3.50%) Microsoft
6 93 (3.13%) Google
7 85 (2.86%) Informatica
8 68 (2.29%) Cloudera
9 60 (2.02%) ESRI
10 55 (1.85%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.31%) SAP
12 30 (1.01%) Qualtrics
13 28 (0.94%) ServiceNow
14 23 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 22 (0.74%) Pega
15 22 (0.74%) Sybase
16 18 (0.61%) SaltStack
17 17 (0.57%) CA
18 16 (0.54%) Cognos
19 13 (0.44%) IBM