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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 497 924 1,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 23.39% 34.06% 34.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.58% 36.84% 37.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 738 895
10th Percentile £333 £381 £361
25th Percentile £415 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £550
90th Percentile £619 £641 £616
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £40.09 £40.09 £42.41
25th Percentile £55.75 £47.73 £43.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £48.89
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +43.19% -6.75%
75th Percentile £60.75 £85.00 £55.82
90th Percentile £63.65 £86.50 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year -8.02% +29.01% +12.82%

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 1,870 2,508 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.00% 92.44% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,773 2,261
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +1 213 £500 - 79
Edinburgh -1 170 £470 -1.05% 80
South Lanarkshire +10 26 £575 +27.78% 1
West Lothian +2 13 £558 -3.04% 3
Perthshire 0 9 £500 -11.97% 3
Lanarkshire -1 8 £488 +2.09% 35
Dundee -1 6 £288 -32.35% 5
Aberdeen -2 3 £450 -7.69% 15
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 3
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 54 (10.87%) Confluence
2 17 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.41%) Apache
5 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.01%) CMS
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
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Maximo
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.14%) AWS
2 72 (14.49%) Azure
3 40 (8.05%) Amazon S3
4 39 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (7.65%) Serverless
6 37 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.83%) OpenShift
9 20 (4.02%) Power Platform
10 18 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (1.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 9 (1.81%) GCP
15 8 (1.61%) IaaS
15 8 (1.61%) Yammer
16 7 (1.41%) Textract
17 6 (1.21%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.42%) Firewall
2 8 (1.61%) DNS
3 7 (1.41%) SSL
4 5 (1.01%) ATM
4 5 (1.01%) VPN
4 5 (1.01%) VSAN
5 4 (0.80%) DHCP
5 4 (0.80%) Internet
5 4 (0.80%) LAN
5 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.60%) WAN
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%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) BGP
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (4.02%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.82%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.21%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.61%) GIS
7 8 (1.61%) Power BI
8 6 (1.21%) InfluxDB
8 6 (1.21%) Informix
8 6 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.01%) Big Data
10 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.60%) DB2
11 3 (0.60%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 112 (22.54%) JIRA
2 28 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.43%) Git
4 14 (2.82%) Cucumber
5 13 (2.62%) GitLab
5 13 (2.62%) JUnit
6 8 (1.61%) Maven
7 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.21%) Mockito
7 6 (1.21%) Selenium
7 6 (1.21%) Subversion
8 5 (1.01%) 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%) Capybara
11 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.40%) Gradle
General
1 158 (31.79%) Public Sector
2 130 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 86 (17.30%) Finance
4 51 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.04%) Banking
6 25 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.61%) Electronics
10 8 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.41%) Publishing
12 6 (1.21%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.21%) Legal
12 6 (1.21%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Marketing
15 3 (0.60%) Law
16 2 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 106 (21.33%) Developer
2 70 (14.08%) Analyst
3 54 (10.87%) Senior
4 46 (9.26%) Java Developer
5 41 (8.25%) Project Manager
6 39 (7.85%) Lead
7 36 (7.24%) Business Analyst
8 21 (4.23%) Consultant
9 20 (4.02%) Architect
10 19 (3.82%) Designer
10 19 (3.82%) Product Manager
11 17 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.02%) Senior Manager
12 15 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.82%) IT Manager
14 13 (2.62%) Senior Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (2.41%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.41%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.07%) Spring
2 45 (9.05%) Spring Boot
3 42 (8.45%) AWS CDK
4 38 (7.65%) REST
5 32 (6.44%) React
6 29 (5.84%) CSS
7 25 (5.03%) HTML
8 21 (4.23%) Kafka
8 21 (4.23%) RESTful
9 19 (3.82%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.62%) JPA
11 12 (2.41%) .NET
11 12 (2.41%) Node.js
12 10 (2.01%) PySpark
13 8 (1.61%) Middleware
14 7 (1.41%) SpaCy
14 7 (1.41%) Web Services
15 6 (1.21%) PostGIS
15 6 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.84%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.82%) Public Cloud
3 17 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.61%) Replication
9 7 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.01%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.01%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.01%) PKI
11 5 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.01%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.66%) Linux
2 28 (5.63%) Windows
3 24 (4.83%) Unix
4 10 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.21%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.80%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.40%) Android
10 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (22.33%) Scrum
2 91 (18.31%) DevOps
3 89 (17.91%) Project Management
4 70 (14.08%) CI/CD
5 68 (13.68%) Roadmaps
6 55 (11.07%) Coaching
7 54 (10.87%) SDLC
7 54 (10.87%) User Stories
8 53 (10.66%) Waterfall
9 52 (10.46%) Microservices
10 50 (10.06%) Software Engineering
11 46 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (9.05%) User Experience
13 43 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (8.65%) Kanban
14 42 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (8.25%) User Research
16 40 (8.05%) Test Automation
17 38 (7.65%) Project Delivery
18 35 (7.04%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 86 (17.30%) Java
2 85 (17.10%) Python
3 83 (16.70%) SQL
4 45 (9.05%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.82%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.42%) Perl
7 17 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.62%) C#
8 13 (2.62%) Scala
8 13 (2.62%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.21%) C
10 9 (1.81%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.61%) Bash
12 6 (1.21%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.80%) Groovy
13 4 (0.80%) VB
13 4 (0.80%) VB6
14 2 (0.40%) Ruby
14 2 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.66%) Degree
3 46 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.41%) MCSE
5 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.80%) ISEB
9 3 (0.60%) APMP
9 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.60%) CCNP
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.60%) OSCP
10 2 (0.40%) CCIE
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 28 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.02%) PMO
3 15 (3.02%) QA
4 10 (2.01%) SLA
5 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.80%) MISRA
6 4 (0.80%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.40%) GDPR
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.40%) NCSC
7 2 (0.40%) P3O
8 1 (0.20%) Basel III
8 1 (0.20%) COREP
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) FINREP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (6.64%) Docker
2 13 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.41%) Firmware
3 7 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.80%) vSphere
6 3 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (6.44%) Grafana
2 24 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.82%) Ansible
4 12 (2.41%) SCCM
4 12 (2.41%) Terraform
5 11 (2.21%) Kibana
6 6 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.01%) VxRail
7 5 (1.01%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.40%) Istio
11 1 (0.20%) Argo
11 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.20%) Nessus
11 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (9.05%) Oracle
2 38 (7.65%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.41%) Atlassian
4 10 (2.01%) Avaloq
4 10 (2.01%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.01%) VMware
5 8 (1.61%) Splunk
6 7 (1.41%) Cadence
6 7 (1.41%) Databricks
7 6 (1.21%) Cisco
7 6 (1.21%) Dell
8 5 (1.01%) IBM
8 5 (1.01%) SAP
9 4 (0.80%) Adobe
9 4 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.80%) Commvault
9 4 (0.80%) Google
9 4 (0.80%) Infragistics
9 4 (0.80%) Intel
10 3 (0.60%) Palo Alto