JIRA Contracts in Edinburgh

Atlassian JIRA
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 38 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 49 40 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.49% 4.58% 6.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.16% 36.70% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 48
10th Percentile £322 £256 £304
25th Percentile £413 £303 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +1.62% -2.63%
75th Percentile £559 £519 £538
90th Percentile £644 £609 £583
Scotland median daily rate £450 £487 £475
% change year-on-year -7.60% +2.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -56.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £64.38
% change year-on-year -57.39% -36.40% +106.00%

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 122 109 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.65% 12.49% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 74 202
10th Percentile £330 £323 £374
25th Percentile £413 £411 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% -0.16%
75th Percentile £538 £571 £527
90th Percentile £589 £634 £573
Scotland median daily rate £469 £475 £479
% change year-on-year -1.32% -0.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £60.75 £26.90 -
25th Percentile £61.88 £28.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.11% -49.17% +14.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £32.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £34.10 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -57.39% -32.39% +11.10%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Edinburgh

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Edinburgh

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Edinburgh

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Edinburgh

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 27 (55.10%) Confluence
2 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.08%) Camunda
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (24.49%) MS Visio
2 4 (8.16%) Trello
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) AWS
2 5 (10.20%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.16%) SaaS
4 3 (6.12%) Alation
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) IaaS
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.08%) Figma
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) PaaS
5 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.04%) Asana
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) SNA
1 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.08%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.12%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (6.12%) Power BI
3 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.08%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.12%) Selenium
3 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.08%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) Postman
3 2 (4.08%) Subversion
3 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.08%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (2.04%) TestRail
4 1 (2.04%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (2.04%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (55.10%) Finance
2 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.45%) Banking
4 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
5 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Automotive
6 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Analyst
2 8 (16.33%) Project Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
5 5 (10.20%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Data Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Data Governance Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Data Governance Manager
7 3 (6.12%) ETL Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Governance Manager
7 3 (6.12%) PMO Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Project Governance Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Re-Platforming Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Designer
8 2 (4.08%) Mainframe Specialist
8 2 (4.08%) Project Officer
8 2 (4.08%) Support Officer
8 2 (4.08%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) .NET
2 2 (4.08%) LDAP
2 2 (4.08%) RESTful
2 2 (4.08%) Spring
2 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) ADO
3 1 (2.04%) Middleware
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Life Science
2 3 (6.12%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.08%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
1 3 (6.12%) zOS
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) AIX
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (24.49%) DevOps
4 9 (18.37%) Business Analysis
4 9 (18.37%) ETL
4 9 (18.37%) Migration
4 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (18.37%) Project Management
5 8 (16.33%) Change Management
5 8 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (12.24%) Data Protection
6 6 (12.24%) Process Improvement
6 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.24%) SDLC
7 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.20%) Data Modelling
7 5 (10.20%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (10.20%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (10.20%) Software Delivery
8 4 (8.16%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) SQL
2 4 (8.16%) Java
2 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
3 3 (6.12%) C++
3 3 (6.12%) JCL
4 2 (4.08%) C#
4 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.08%) Python
4 2 (4.08%) VBA
4 2 (4.08%) VBScript
5 1 (2.04%) C
5 1 (2.04%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) ISEB
2 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 5 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.20%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) MISRA
3 1 (2.04%) MISRA C
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Tivoli NetView
2 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) IBM
2 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) Informatica
3 4 (8.16%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) Hitachi
4 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.12%) StreamSets
5 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) Apple
6 1 (2.04%) Pega
6 1 (2.04%) Planview
6 1 (2.04%) Workday