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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 39 30 54
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.64% 4.84% 5.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.51% 29.13% 36.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 31
10th Percentile £373 £295 £280
25th Percentile £393 £381 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -5.56% +3.21%
75th Percentile £500 £490 £500
90th Percentile £600 £529 £588
Scotland median daily rate £456 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +14.06% -27.27% +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 113 103 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.25% 16.61% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 103
10th Percentile £373 £381 £390
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -1.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £508 £524 £543
90th Percentile £557 £538 £588
Scotland median daily rate £470 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +2.62% -8.40% +7.53%
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 £58.11 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Edinburgh

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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

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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 18 (46.15%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) CICS
3 1 (2.56%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Trello
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
3 4 (10.26%) OCI
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Figma
5 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Subversion
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Postman
3 1 (2.56%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Banking
3 10 (25.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (17.95%) Retail Banking
5 6 (15.38%) Legal
6 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (12.82%) Retail
7 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (7.69%) Billing
8 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (17.95%) Project Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Implementation Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Implementation Project Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Implementation Specialist
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Project Implementation Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Project Officer
4 4 (10.26%) Project Support Officer
4 4 (10.26%) Support Officer
5 3 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Product Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) SOAP
1 2 (5.13%) Spring
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Security
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (5.13%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (5.13%) Web Services
1 2 (5.13%) XML
2 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 12 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (25.64%) Scrum
7 8 (20.51%) Migration
7 8 (20.51%) Project Management
8 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
9 5 (12.82%) Data Analysis
9 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
9 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
9 5 (12.82%) Runbook
9 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
10 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
10 4 (10.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Java
1 4 (10.26%) SQL
2 3 (7.69%) C++
2 3 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.56%) ISEB
1 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) COBIT
2 3 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.56%) MISRA
3 1 (2.56%) MISRA C
3 1 (2.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
1 4 (10.26%) Dell
1 4 (10.26%) Dynatrace
1 4 (10.26%) F5
1 4 (10.26%) HP
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (7.69%) Spotify
3 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Planview
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Workday
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