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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 42 31
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 51 31 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.98% 3.76% 7.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.23% 35.23% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 43
10th Percentile £382 £266 £328
25th Percentile £403 £381 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £559 £525 £501
90th Percentile £596 £540 £595
Scotland median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.40% - +7.53%
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 - £64.38

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 137 88 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.44% 10.68% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 54 147
10th Percentile £400 £363 £386
25th Percentile £450 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +0.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £534 £512
90th Percentile £563 £600 £571
Scotland median daily rate £494 £482 £476
% change year-on-year +2.60% +1.10% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 - £62.50
90th Percentile £70.25 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.09%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA 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 18 September 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 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in Edinburgh

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (47.06%) Confluence
2 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.96%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (15.69%) MS Visio
2 6 (11.76%) Trello
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) AWS
2 8 (15.69%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) GCP
4 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.84%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Alation
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.88%) OCI
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (3.92%) Figma
6 2 (3.92%) GitHub
6 2 (3.92%) IaaS
6 2 (3.92%) PaaS
6 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.96%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.88%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.92%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Subversion
2 4 (7.84%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) GitLab
3 3 (5.88%) Selenium
4 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.92%) ER Studio
4 2 (3.92%) Postman
4 2 (3.92%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (3.92%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.92%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.96%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (1.96%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (47.06%) Finance
2 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Banking
4 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Retail Banking
6 5 (9.80%) Legal
6 5 (9.80%) Retail
7 3 (5.88%) Automotive
7 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Analyst
2 10 (19.61%) Project Manager
3 8 (15.69%) Lead
4 7 (13.73%) Business Analyst
4 7 (13.73%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Data Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Data Governance Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Data Governance Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Governance Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Implementation Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Implementation Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Implementation Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) PMO Lead
6 3 (5.88%) Project Governance Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Project Implementation Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Designer
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Kafka
2 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) SOAP
2 2 (3.92%) Spring
2 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.92%) Spring Security
2 2 (3.92%) Spring Web Flow
2 2 (3.92%) Thymeleaf
2 2 (3.92%) Web Services
2 2 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (9.80%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.88%) Life Science
5 2 (3.92%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 4 (7.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) Agile
2 19 (37.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (27.45%) Migration
4 13 (25.49%) DevOps
5 11 (21.57%) Project Management
6 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 8 (15.69%) Change Management
8 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (15.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (15.69%) Scrum
9 7 (13.73%) Data Protection
9 7 (13.73%) Project Delivery
9 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 6 (11.76%) Business Analysis
10 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
10 6 (11.76%) Process Improvement
10 6 (11.76%) Software Delivery
11 5 (9.80%) ETL
11 5 (9.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 6 (11.76%) C++
2 6 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.84%) Python
3 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.92%) C
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.92%) VBA
4 2 (3.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) ISEB
2 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) PMO
3 3 (5.88%) COBIT
4 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.92%) MISRA
4 2 (3.92%) MISRA C
5 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Ansible
1 5 (9.80%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) IBM
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) Informatica
5 3 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.88%) Dell
5 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 3 (5.88%) F5
5 3 (5.88%) Hitachi
5 3 (5.88%) HP
5 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.88%) StreamSets
6 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.92%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) Adobe
7 1 (1.96%) Apple
7 1 (1.96%) Planview
7 1 (1.96%) Workday