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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +22
Contract jobs citing JIRA 45 40 45
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.22% 6.41% 5.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.67% 35.71% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 28
10th Percentile £412 £274 £246
25th Percentile £470 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £686 £556 £506
90th Percentile - £659 £569
Scotland median daily rate £496 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.76% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.83 £40.94
% change year-on-year - -51.56% -36.40%

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 108 112 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.94% 17.95% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 98
10th Percentile £400 £352 £363
25th Percentile £423 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £487
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -3.29% +2.53%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £575
90th Percentile £686 £600 £634
Scotland median daily rate £469 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +1.41% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £26.90
25th Percentile - - £28.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +96.72% -41.90%
75th Percentile - - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £34.10
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £39.92 £40.94
% change year-on-year +52.60% -2.50% -32.39%

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 6 May 2026.

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
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 25 (55.56%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Superset
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.22%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) GitHub
4 4 (8.89%) AWS
4 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.67%) Figma
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.22%) Datadog
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) IPsec
3 1 (2.22%) SSH
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) Metadata
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.22%) GIS
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.89%) GitLab
4 3 (6.67%) Snyk
4 3 (6.67%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.22%) git-flow
5 1 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (2.22%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.22%) Selenium
5 1 (2.22%) Subversion
5 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) Design Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Project Officer
2 5 (11.11%) Project Support Officer
2 5 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Support Officer
3 4 (8.89%) Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (6.67%) Designer
4 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Lead
4 3 (6.67%) Report Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Senior
5 2 (4.44%) Software Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) HTML
1 4 (8.89%) React
2 3 (6.67%) CSS
2 3 (6.67%) FastAPI
2 3 (6.67%) SLSA
3 2 (4.44%) .NET
3 2 (4.44%) ADO
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.22%) Google Maps API
4 1 (2.22%) Jest
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) NestJS
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) Redux
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (2.22%) Swagger
4 1 (2.22%) Web Services
4 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
1 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (17.78%) Data Protection
5 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
5 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.56%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.56%) Project Management
7 6 (13.33%) AI
7 6 (13.33%) SABSA
7 6 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (13.33%) Scrum
7 6 (13.33%) TOGAF
7 6 (13.33%) UML
8 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.11%) Workflow
8 5 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.44%) C#
5 2 (4.44%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) REXX
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) VBA
6 1 (2.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) CISM
2 6 (13.33%) CISSP
2 6 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 3 (6.67%) WCAG
4 2 (4.44%) PMO
5 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Nagios
2 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.67%) Black Duck
2 3 (6.67%) Checkmarx
2 3 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 3 (6.67%) Tenable
3 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) IBM
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.22%) Spotify
3 1 (2.22%) WooCommerce