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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 47 27
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 38 29 69
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.13% 3.82% 6.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.89% 31.87% 42.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £358 £329 £313
25th Percentile £406 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +3.24% +2.78%
75th Percentile £525 £519 £500
90th Percentile £600 £542 £594
Scotland median daily rate £475 £455 £520
% change year-on-year +4.40% -12.50% +13.66%
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

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 123 91 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.84% 11.99% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 103
10th Percentile £397 £374 £374
25th Percentile £431 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -4.74% +1.06%
75th Percentile £530 £514 £528
90th Percentile £578 £538 £585
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.97% -7.18% +2.63%
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
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £69.69 - £62.50
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £59.52
% change year-on-year - - +13.99%

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 October 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 27 October 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 16 (42.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.63%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Trello
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 6 (15.79%) GCP
4 4 (10.53%) OCI
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.63%) Figma
6 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.26%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Subversion
2 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.26%) ER Studio
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Banking
4 6 (15.79%) Legal
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.79%) Retail Banking
5 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Retail
6 3 (7.89%) Automotive
6 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Analyst
1 7 (18.42%) Delivery Manager
1 7 (18.42%) Lead
1 7 (18.42%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (10.53%) Implementation Project Manager
2 4 (10.53%) Implementation Specialist
2 4 (10.53%) Project Implementation Manager
3 2 (5.26%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
3 2 (5.26%) Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Product Analyst
3 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
3 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
3 2 (5.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) SOAP
2 2 (5.26%) Spring
2 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.26%) Spring Security
2 2 (5.26%) Spring Web Flow
2 2 (5.26%) Thymeleaf
2 2 (5.26%) Web Services
2 2 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (13.16%) Virtual Team
3 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Life Science
5 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Derivative
6 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (2.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (26.32%) Migration
4 9 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (23.68%) DevOps
5 8 (21.05%) Change Management
5 8 (21.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 8 (21.05%) Scrum
6 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.79%) Configuration Management
6 6 (15.79%) Process Improvement
6 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.79%) Project Management
7 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
7 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
7 5 (13.16%) Incident Management
7 5 (13.16%) Release Train
7 5 (13.16%) Runbook
7 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) C++
2 4 (10.53%) Java
2 4 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) C
3 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
1 1 (2.63%) ISEB
1 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) COBIT
2 3 (7.89%) PMO
3 2 (5.26%) MISRA
3 2 (5.26%) MISRA C
3 2 (5.26%) QA
4 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) IBM
3 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.53%) Dell
3 4 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.53%) F5
3 4 (10.53%) HP
4 3 (7.89%) Hitachi
4 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.63%) Apple
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) Planview
6 1 (2.63%) Workday