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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -21
Contract jobs citing JIRA 42 47 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.72% 5.77% 5.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.18% 35.07% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 46
10th Percentile £298 £250 £333
25th Percentile £395 £368 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £448
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.59% +2.29%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £534
90th Percentile £651 £561 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -15.00% +12.36% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -50.48% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £64.38
% change year-on-year -51.56% -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 110 134 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.60% 16.44% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 101 264
10th Percentile £344 £363 £403
25th Percentile £413 £415 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.68% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £523
90th Percentile £588 £634 £557
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.80 -
25th Percentile - £30.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -33.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%

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 1 May 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 23 (54.76%) Confluence
2 6 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.76%) Camunda
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (28.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) SaaS
3 6 (14.29%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) Figma
4 4 (9.52%) IaaS
5 3 (7.14%) Alation
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (7.14%) PaaS
5 3 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) Asana
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) SNA
1 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.14%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) Selenium
3 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) Postman
3 3 (7.14%) Subversion
3 3 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.14%) WebDriver
4 2 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) TestRail
5 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Business Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Designer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) UX Designer
5 3 (7.14%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Data Governance Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Data Governance Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 3 (7.14%) ETL Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Governance Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Project Governance Manager
5 3 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) UI Designer
5 3 (7.14%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (4.76%) LDAP
2 2 (4.76%) RESTful
2 2 (4.76%) Spring
2 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.38%) ADO
3 1 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) zOS
2 1 (2.38%) AIX
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (30.95%) DevOps
4 9 (21.43%) Business Analysis
4 9 (21.43%) ETL
5 8 (19.05%) Migration
5 8 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
6 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.29%) Project Management
7 6 (14.29%) SDLC
7 6 (14.29%) Software Delivery
8 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.90%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.52%) Data Migration
9 4 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (9.52%) User Experience
9 4 (9.52%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (11.90%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.14%) C#
4 3 (7.14%) C++
4 3 (7.14%) JCL
4 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.14%) VBA
4 3 (7.14%) VBScript
5 1 (2.38%) Python
5 1 (2.38%) REXX
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) ISEB
2 3 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.76%) PMO
4 1 (2.38%) Basel III
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Tivoli NetView
2 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) IBM
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Informatica
4 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.38%) Adobe
5 1 (2.38%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Pega
5 1 (2.38%) Planview
5 1 (2.38%) StreamSets