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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 32 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing JIRA 45 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.90% 5.47% 6.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.06% 32.67% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 31
10th Percentile £312 £262 £280
25th Percentile £420 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £652 £523 £500
90th Percentile £686 £664 £588
Scotland median daily rate £470 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.59% -15.00% +12.49%
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% -22.02%

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 107 101 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.41% 16.75% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 102
10th Percentile £358 £322 £366
25th Percentile £413 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -6.25% +3.62%
75th Percentile £625 £519 £575
90th Percentile £686 £556 £633
Scotland median daily rate £459 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +1.94% -9.55% +4.79%
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 £61.38 £19.83 £40.94
% change year-on-year +209.51% -51.56% -27.57%

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 March 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%) CICS
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) Azure
2 17 (37.78%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) GitHub
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%) Algolia
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.22%) Asana
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.22%) Datadog
7 1 (2.22%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
1 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) IPsec
2 1 (2.22%) SSH
2 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%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) GitLab
2 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) Snyk
3 3 (6.67%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.22%) git-flow
4 1 (2.22%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) Subversion
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (48.89%) Finance
2 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Billing
5 3 (6.67%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Project Officer
1 6 (13.33%) Project Support Officer
1 6 (13.33%) Support Officer
2 5 (11.11%) Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) Design Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.89%) Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
4 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
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%) Scrum Master
4 3 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Finance Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
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
4 1 (2.22%) ADO
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.22%) Express.js
4 1 (2.22%) Google Maps API
4 1 (2.22%) Jest
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Laravel
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) Open Graph
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 6 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
6 7 (15.56%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (15.56%) Scrum
7 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 6 (13.33%) Issue Tracking
7 6 (13.33%) Project Management
7 6 (13.33%) SABSA
7 6 (13.33%) TOGAF
7 6 (13.33%) UML
7 6 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (11.11%) Data Analysis
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%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) VBA
6 1 (2.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) CISM
2 6 (13.33%) CISSP
2 6 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
2 3 (6.67%) WCAG
3 2 (4.44%) PMO
4 1 (2.22%) COBIT
4 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%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (8.89%) CheckPoint
3 3 (6.67%) Black Duck
3 3 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (6.67%) Checkmarx
3 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 3 (6.67%) Spotify
3 3 (6.67%) Tenable
4 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) F5
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) WooCommerce