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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 42 31
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 46 31 61
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.44% 4.42% 6.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.70% 31.31% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 32
10th Percentile £285 £291 £326
25th Percentile £387 £381 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +3.93%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £593 £540 £593
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +4.44% -18.18% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £57.19 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £60.00
75th Percentile £69.69 - £62.50
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 99 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.74% 14.10% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 61 104
10th Percentile £344 £380 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +2.37%
75th Percentile £518 £513 £526
90th Percentile £556 £538 £584
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £55.13 - £37.25
25th Percentile £57.19 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £69.69 - £55.63
90th Percentile £71.38 - £59.75
Scotland median hourly rate £37.47 - £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 21 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in Edinburgh

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 21 (45.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
3 1 (2.17%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Trello
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) OCI
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Figma
6 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Subversion
2 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.35%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.17%) Postman
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
3 1 (2.17%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (39.13%) Finance
3 11 (23.91%) Public Sector
4 10 (21.74%) Banking
5 7 (15.22%) Retail Banking
6 6 (13.04%) Legal
7 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (10.87%) Retail
8 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (6.52%) Automotive
9 3 (6.52%) Billing
9 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
10 1 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
2 7 (15.22%) Project Manager
3 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Implementation Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Implementation Project Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Implementation Specialist
4 4 (8.70%) Project Implementation Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Project Officer
4 4 (8.70%) Project Support Officer
4 4 (8.70%) Support Officer
5 3 (6.52%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (6.52%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.35%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Support Team Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) SOAP
1 2 (4.35%) Spring
1 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
1 2 (4.35%) Spring Security
1 2 (4.35%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (4.35%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (4.35%) Web Services
1 2 (4.35%) XML
2 1 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.87%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Team
3 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.52%) Life Science
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.17%) Derivative
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps
3 13 (28.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (26.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (23.91%) Scrum
6 10 (21.74%) Project Management
7 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (17.39%) Migration
9 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.04%) Change Management
10 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
10 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
10 6 (13.04%) Process Improvement
10 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
11 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
11 5 (10.87%) Incident Management
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.70%) C++
1 4 (8.70%) Java
2 3 (6.52%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) SQL
3 2 (4.35%) C
3 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
1 1 (2.17%) ISEB
1 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) COBIT
2 3 (6.52%) PMO
3 2 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.35%) MISRA
3 2 (4.35%) MISRA C
3 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Ansible
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle
2 4 (8.70%) CheckPoint
2 4 (8.70%) Dell
2 4 (8.70%) Dynatrace
2 4 (8.70%) F5
2 4 (8.70%) HP
3 3 (6.52%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (6.52%) Hitachi
3 3 (6.52%) IBM
3 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.52%) Spotify
4 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) Apple
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) Planview
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Workday
22 JIRA jobs in Edinburgh