JIRA Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Atlassian JIRA
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 36 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 40 32 59
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.87% 5.00% 6.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.90% 30.77% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 33
10th Percentile £263 £299 £280
25th Percentile £381 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -5.56% +3.21%
75th Percentile £500 £496 £500
90th Percentile £600 £539 £580
Scotland median daily rate £450 £404 £550
% change year-on-year +11.39% -26.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 118 104 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.27% 16.25% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 99
10th Percentile £349 £381 £386
25th Percentile £412 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £514 £524 £534
90th Percentile £555 £541 £588
Scotland median daily rate £470 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +3.35% -9.00% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Edinburgh

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (47.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) CICS
3 1 (2.50%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Trello
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) OCI
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Figma
6 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Subversion
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (2.50%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Finance
3 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (17.50%) Retail Banking
5 6 (15.00%) Legal
6 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (12.50%) Retail
7 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (7.50%) Billing
9 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (17.50%) Project Manager
3 6 (15.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Implementation Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Implementation Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Project Implementation Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Project Officer
4 4 (10.00%) Project Support Officer
4 4 (10.00%) Support Officer
5 3 (7.50%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (7.50%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Product Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) SOAP
1 2 (5.00%) Spring
1 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (5.00%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (5.00%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (5.00%) Web Services
1 2 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Derivative
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (22.50%) Project Management
7 8 (20.00%) Migration
8 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
9 6 (15.00%) Data Analysis
10 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 5 (12.50%) Incident Management
10 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 5 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) Java
2 3 (7.50%) C++
2 3 (7.50%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.50%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
1 1 (2.50%) ISEB
1 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) COBIT
2 2 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) MISRA
3 1 (2.50%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Ansible
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (10.00%) Dell
1 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (10.00%) F5
1 4 (10.00%) HP
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (7.50%) Spotify
3 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) Planview
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Workday