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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 37 30
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 44 31 54
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.15% 4.98% 6.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.29% 32.63% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 34
10th Percentile £318 £262 £261
25th Percentile £432 £395 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -2.78% +1.98%
75th Percentile £547 £519 £497
90th Percentile £686 £630 £548
Scotland median daily rate £450 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -18.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £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 112 95 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.21% 15.25% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 65 116
10th Percentile £358 £317 £400
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -6.15% +3.68%
75th Percentile £569 £519 £550
90th Percentile £686 £549 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.80
25th Percentile - - £30.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.84 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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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 18 February 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 24 (54.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Superset
2 1 (2.27%) CICS
2 1 (2.27%) FileNet
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.27%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (59.09%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.18%) AWS
4 5 (11.36%) GitHub
5 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.82%) Figma
6 3 (6.82%) GCP
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.82%) OCI
6 3 (6.82%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.55%) SaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.27%) Datadog
8 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.27%) IaaS
8 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (2.27%) IPsec
3 1 (2.27%) SSH
3 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.82%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) Snyk
4 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.27%) git-flow
5 1 (2.27%) Postman
5 1 (2.27%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.27%) Subversion
5 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (15.91%) Banking
5 5 (11.36%) Retail Banking
6 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.09%) Legal
7 3 (6.82%) Billing
7 3 (6.82%) Retail
8 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Delivery Manager
1 6 (13.64%) Project Officer
1 6 (13.64%) Project Support Officer
1 6 (13.64%) Support Officer
2 5 (11.36%) Design Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
2 5 (11.36%) Security Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Agile Scrum Master
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Designer
4 3 (6.82%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Implementation Project Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Implementation Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Project Implementation Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Report Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Scrum Master
4 3 (6.82%) Security Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) React
1 3 (6.82%) SLSA
2 2 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) CSS
2 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.27%) Express.js
3 1 (2.27%) Google Maps API
3 1 (2.27%) Jest
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) NestJS
3 1 (2.27%) Node.js
3 1 (2.27%) Redux
3 1 (2.27%) RESTful
3 1 (2.27%) Swagger
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) Agile
2 21 (47.73%) DevOps
3 13 (29.55%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 7 (15.91%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
7 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (15.91%) Project Management
8 6 (13.64%) Issue Tracking
8 6 (13.64%) SABSA
8 6 (13.64%) TOGAF
8 6 (13.64%) UML
8 6 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (11.36%) Coaching
9 5 (11.36%) Runbook
9 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Python
2 4 (9.09%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.55%) C#
4 2 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) VBA
5 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) CISM
2 6 (13.64%) CISSP
2 6 (13.64%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.27%) ISEB
3 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) COBIT
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
2 3 (6.82%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) WCAG
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Ansible
1 4 (9.09%) Terraform
2 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) BiZZdesign
1 6 (13.64%) CheckPoint
2 3 (6.82%) Black Duck
2 3 (6.82%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (6.82%) Checkmarx
2 3 (6.82%) Dell
2 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.82%) F5
2 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
2 3 (6.82%) HP
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Spotify
2 3 (6.82%) Tenable
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
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