Agile Contracts in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 502 883 1,200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 23.43% 32.98% 35.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.86% 35.71% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 695 907
10th Percentile £330 £378 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +1.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £618 £623
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £40.09 £40.09 £32.56
25th Percentile £55.75 £47.73 £42.41
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +48.94% -10.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £85.00 £54.14
90th Percentile £63.65 £86.50 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% +25.00% +15.56%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,473 3,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.21% 92.38% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,727 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.09
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +1 212 £500 - 76
Edinburgh -1 176 £465 -2.11% 83
South Lanarkshire +12 24 £575 +27.78%
West Lothian +2 12 £575 -4.17% 2
Perthshire 0 9 £500 -5.21% 2
Lanarkshire 0 8 £488 +2.09% 40
Dundee -2 6 £288 -32.35% 2
Aberdeen -4 3 £450 -5.26% 12
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 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 53 (10.56%) Confluence
2 17 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.59%) CMS
5 7 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.40%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.40%) JBoss
7 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.40%) WildFly
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
Applications
1 12 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.99%) Maximo
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 117 (23.31%) AWS
2 77 (15.34%) Azure
3 41 (8.17%) Amazon S3
3 41 (8.17%) Serverless
4 40 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (4.98%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.78%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (1.59%) GCP
14 8 (1.59%) Yammer
15 6 (1.20%) Textract
16 5 (1.00%) Amazon SageMaker
16 5 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.19%) Firewall
2 7 (1.39%) SSL
3 6 (1.20%) VPN
4 5 (1.00%) ATM
5 4 (0.80%) DNS
5 4 (0.80%) Internet
5 4 (0.80%) LAN
5 4 (0.80%) VSAN
6 3 (0.60%) WAN
7 2 (0.40%) DHCP
7 2 (0.40%) FabricPath
7 2 (0.40%) IPv6
7 2 (0.40%) Modbus
7 2 (0.40%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) BGP
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) OSPF
8 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.79%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.19%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.59%) GIS
8 7 (1.39%) Power BI
9 6 (1.20%) InfluxDB
9 6 (1.20%) Informix
9 6 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.80%) Big Data
10 4 (0.80%) Metadata
10 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.60%) DB2
11 3 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 114 (22.71%) JIRA
2 27 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.98%) Git
4 14 (2.79%) Cucumber
5 13 (2.59%) GitLab
5 13 (2.59%) JUnit
6 8 (1.59%) Maven
7 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.20%) Mockito
7 6 (1.20%) Selenium
7 6 (1.20%) Subversion
8 5 (1.00%) Postman
9 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.80%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.60%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.60%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.40%) Gradle
11 2 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 162 (32.27%) Public Sector
2 134 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 82 (16.33%) Finance
4 53 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.18%) Banking
6 27 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.79%) Publishing
10 9 (1.79%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.59%) Electronics
11 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.20%) Legal
14 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Marketing
16 3 (0.60%) Back Office
16 3 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 113 (22.51%) Developer
2 77 (15.34%) Analyst
3 57 (11.35%) Senior
4 49 (9.76%) Java Developer
5 41 (8.17%) Business Analyst
6 40 (7.97%) Lead
7 39 (7.77%) Project Manager
8 22 (4.38%) Consultant
8 22 (4.38%) Designer
9 21 (4.18%) Architect
10 19 (3.78%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
12 16 (3.19%) Senior Manager
12 16 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.99%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 12 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (2.39%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.39%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.75%) Spring
2 49 (9.76%) Spring Boot
3 42 (8.37%) AWS CDK
3 42 (8.37%) REST
4 34 (6.77%) React
5 33 (6.57%) CSS
6 27 (5.38%) HTML
7 24 (4.78%) RESTful
8 21 (4.18%) Kafka
9 19 (3.78%) AngularJS
10 15 (2.99%) .NET
11 13 (2.59%) JPA
12 11 (2.19%) Node.js
12 11 (2.19%) PySpark
12 11 (2.19%) Web Services
13 8 (1.59%) Middleware
14 7 (1.39%) OAuth
14 7 (1.39%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.39%) SpaCy
15 6 (1.20%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.58%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.39%) Public Cloud
3 16 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (1.59%) Replication
7 7 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.20%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.00%) PKI
9 5 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.17%) Linux
2 27 (5.38%) Windows
3 24 (4.78%) Unix
4 10 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.80%) VxWorks
8 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.40%) Android
9 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (22.91%) Scrum
2 96 (19.12%) DevOps
3 83 (16.53%) Project Management
4 75 (14.94%) CI/CD
5 66 (13.15%) Roadmaps
6 58 (11.55%) Coaching
7 57 (11.35%) User Stories
8 55 (10.96%) Waterfall
9 54 (10.76%) Microservices
9 54 (10.76%) SDLC
10 52 (10.36%) Software Engineering
11 50 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (8.96%) User Experience
14 43 (8.57%) User Research
15 42 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
16 41 (8.17%) Kanban
17 37 (7.37%) Epics
17 37 (7.37%) Test Automation
18 36 (7.17%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 94 (18.73%) Java
2 86 (17.13%) SQL
3 77 (15.34%) Python
4 44 (8.76%) TypeScript
5 31 (6.18%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.18%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.99%) C#
8 15 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.59%) Scala
10 12 (2.39%) Perl
11 9 (1.79%) C
11 9 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.59%) Bash
13 6 (1.20%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.80%) Groovy
14 4 (0.80%) VB
14 4 (0.80%) VB6
15 2 (0.40%) Ruby
15 2 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 47 (9.36%) Degree
3 44 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.39%) MCSE
5 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.80%) ISEB
9 3 (0.60%) CCNP
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.60%) OSCP
10 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.40%) CCIE
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.97%) Disclosure Scotland
2 31 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.19%) PMO
4 15 (2.99%) QA
5 8 (1.59%) SLA
6 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.80%) MISRA
7 4 (0.80%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.40%) GDPR
8 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.40%) NCSC
8 2 (0.40%) P3O
9 1 (0.20%) Basel III
9 1 (0.20%) COREP
9 1 (0.20%) FINREP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (6.97%) Docker
2 13 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.20%) Firmware
3 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.80%) vSphere
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (6.57%) Grafana
2 22 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.79%) Ansible
4 12 (2.39%) SCCM
5 11 (2.19%) Kibana
6 10 (1.99%) Terraform
7 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.00%) VxRail
7 5 (1.00%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.20%) Argo
11 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.20%) Istio
11 1 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 47 (9.36%) Oracle
2 35 (6.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.39%) Atlassian
4 10 (1.99%) Avaloq
4 10 (1.99%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.59%) Splunk
5 8 (1.59%) VMware
6 7 (1.39%) Cadence
6 7 (1.39%) Databricks
7 6 (1.20%) Cisco
7 6 (1.20%) Dell
8 5 (1.00%) IBM
8 5 (1.00%) SAP
9 4 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.80%) Commvault
9 4 (0.80%) Infragistics
9 4 (0.80%) Intel
10 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.60%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.60%) Red Hat