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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 43 28 50
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.39% 4.70% 5.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.44% 28.00% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 33
10th Percentile £373 £381 £280
25th Percentile £405 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -5.56% +3.03%
75th Percentile £550 £486 £500
90th Percentile £669 £511 £525
Scotland median daily rate £450 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +11.11%
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 118 100 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.27% 16.78% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 107
10th Percentile £377 £381 £395
25th Percentile £419 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -3.65% +6.08%
75th Percentile £541 £518 £543
90th Percentile £625 £538 £588
Scotland median daily rate £470 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +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 19 January 2026.

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 22 (51.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.33%) CICS
3 1 (2.33%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.65%) Trello
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (23.26%) AWS
4 4 (9.30%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub
4 4 (9.30%) OCI
5 3 (6.98%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.98%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
1 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.30%) Subversion
2 3 (6.98%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) Snyk
3 2 (4.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
4 9 (20.93%) Banking
5 6 (13.95%) Retail Banking
6 5 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (11.63%) Legal
7 4 (9.30%) Retail
8 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (6.98%) Billing
9 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Implementation Specialist
4 4 (9.30%) Lead
4 4 (9.30%) Project Officer
4 4 (9.30%) Project Support Officer
4 4 (9.30%) Support Officer
5 3 (6.98%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Design Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Implementation Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Implementation Project Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Project Implementation Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Report Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Scrum Master
5 3 (6.98%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) SLSA
1 2 (4.65%) SOAP
1 2 (4.65%) Spring
1 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
1 2 (4.65%) Spring Security
1 2 (4.65%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (4.65%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (4.65%) Web Services
1 2 (4.65%) XML
2 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) Derivative
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) Agile
2 21 (48.84%) DevOps
3 15 (34.88%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (30.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (20.93%) Migration
6 9 (20.93%) Scrum
7 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
8 6 (13.95%) Project Management
9 5 (11.63%) Data Analysis
9 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
9 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
9 5 (11.63%) Runbook
9 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.30%) Issue Tracking
10 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.30%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 4 (9.30%) Java
3 3 (6.98%) C++
3 3 (6.98%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.33%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) CISM
1 3 (6.98%) CISSP
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
1 3 (6.98%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.33%) ISEB
2 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) COBIT
2 3 (6.98%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.65%) NIST
4 1 (2.33%) MISRA
4 1 (2.33%) MISRA C
4 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Ansible
1 6 (13.95%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) CheckPoint
2 4 (9.30%) Dell
2 4 (9.30%) Dynatrace
2 4 (9.30%) F5
2 4 (9.30%) HP
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (6.98%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (6.98%) Spotify
4 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.65%) Black Duck
4 2 (4.65%) Checkmarx
4 2 (4.65%) IBM
4 2 (4.65%) Tenable
5 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
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