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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 31
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 46 29 52
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.63% 4.83% 5.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.22% 28.71% 35.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 32
10th Percentile £373 £381 £280
25th Percentile £412 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% -5.56% +3.21%
75th Percentile £600 £489 £500
90th Percentile £686 £570 £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 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

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 127 101 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.06% 16.83% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 109
10th Percentile £395 £379 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% +6.08%
75th Percentile £544 £520 £543
90th Percentile £637 £539 £589
Scotland median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -10.00% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.80
25th Percentile £53.75 - £30.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 27 January 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 27 (58.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) CICS
2 1 (2.17%) FileNet
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.35%) Trello
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) Azure
2 16 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (17.39%) AWS
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) OCI
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.17%) IaaS
8 1 (2.17%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.70%) GitLab
3 3 (6.52%) Git
3 3 (6.52%) Snyk
3 3 (6.52%) Subversion
4 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.35%) Selenium
4 2 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.35%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Postman
5 1 (2.17%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (2.17%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (47.83%) Finance
2 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
3 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.04%) Retail Banking
5 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (10.87%) Legal
6 4 (8.70%) Retail
7 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.52%) Billing
8 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (15.22%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.87%) Design Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Implementation Specialist
5 4 (8.70%) Project Officer
5 4 (8.70%) Project Support Officer
5 4 (8.70%) Support Officer
6 3 (6.52%) Agile Scrum Master
6 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Implementation Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Implementation Project Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Project Implementation Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Report Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.52%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) SLSA
2 2 (4.35%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
2 2 (4.35%) React
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.87%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (10.87%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.17%) Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) Agile
2 24 (52.17%) DevOps
3 15 (32.61%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (28.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (23.91%) Scrum
6 11 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (15.22%) Migration
7 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
8 6 (13.04%) Project Management
8 6 (13.04%) Runbook
8 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 6 (13.04%) UML
9 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
9 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (10.87%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 4 (8.70%) C++
3 4 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) C#
4 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) C
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.17%) VBA
5 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) CISM
2 5 (10.87%) CISSP
2 5 (10.87%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.35%) MCP
4 1 (2.17%) ISEB
4 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) COBIT
2 3 (6.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) MISRA
3 1 (2.17%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Ansible
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) CheckPoint
2 5 (10.87%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (8.70%) Dell
3 4 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.70%) F5
3 4 (8.70%) HP
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
4 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.52%) Black Duck
4 3 (6.52%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (6.52%) Checkmarx
4 3 (6.52%) Spotify
4 3 (6.52%) Tenable
5 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.35%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow