JIRA Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Atlassian JIRA
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 57 70 84
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.85% 8.86% 10.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.50% 35.35% 57.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 51 63
10th Percentile £312 £300 £397
25th Percentile £352 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £447 £480
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -6.88% -1.54%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £579
90th Percentile £600 £575 £640
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 8
Median hourly rate - £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - -57.39% -38.49%
Scotland median hourly rate - £17.45 £40.94
% change year-on-year - -57.39% -36.40%

All Development Application Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 152 198 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.61% 25.06% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 120 101
10th Percentile £307 £312 £363
25th Percentile £328 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -2.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £575 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile - £16.14 -
25th Percentile - £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -36.40%
75th Percentile - £18.05 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £18.80 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
% change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -32.39%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Glasgow

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Glasgow

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 34 (59.65%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.75%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) JBoss
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (22.81%) MS Visio
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) Azure
2 15 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (21.05%) AWS
4 6 (10.53%) GCP
5 4 (7.02%) Collibra
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) Miro
6 2 (3.51%) Slack
7 1 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.75%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
1 4 (7.02%) WAN
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 3 (5.26%) SSH
2 3 (5.26%) SSL
3 1 (1.75%) Internet
3 1 (1.75%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) MongoDB
2 8 (14.04%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.02%) Big Data
3 4 (7.02%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.02%) Metadata
4 3 (5.26%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.51%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Subversion
3 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.26%) Maven
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (5.26%) PVCS
4 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
4 2 (3.51%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.75%) Ant
5 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.75%) Bundler
5 1 (1.75%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.75%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (1.75%) GoCD
5 1 (1.75%) Gradle
5 1 (1.75%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.75%) JUnit
5 1 (1.75%) Leiningen
5 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (38.60%) Finance
2 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (28.07%) Banking
4 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.53%) Legal
7 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
7 4 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Analyst
2 11 (19.30%) Business Systems Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
4 9 (15.79%) Lead
4 9 (15.79%) Systems Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Scrum Master
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Lead Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Systems Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Service Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Service Delivery Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) JSON
2 5 (8.77%) Web Services
3 2 (3.51%) Kafka
3 2 (3.51%) React
3 2 (3.51%) Spring
4 1 (1.75%) CSS3
4 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.75%) FreeMarker
4 1 (1.75%) HTML5
4 1 (1.75%) Java EE
4 1 (1.75%) JPA
4 1 (1.75%) JSF
4 1 (1.75%) Node.js
4 1 (1.75%) Redux
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) Sass
4 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.75%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.75%) Tapestry
4 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (43.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.02%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.75%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.75%) Derivative
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
1 7 (12.28%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (82.46%) Agile
2 40 (70.18%) Scrum
3 21 (36.84%) DevOps
4 18 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (26.32%) Kanban
5 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (24.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (22.81%) Migration
8 12 (21.05%) User Stories
9 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
10 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 8 (14.04%) Data Analysis
11 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
11 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
11 8 (14.04%) Project Delivery
11 8 (14.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (14.04%) Sequence Diagram
11 8 (14.04%) Servant Leadership
11 8 (14.04%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) SQL
2 11 (19.30%) PL/SQL
3 6 (10.53%) Java
3 6 (10.53%) Python
4 4 (7.02%) Bash
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.26%) Postgraduate
6 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) FFIEC
7 1 (1.75%) IIBA
7 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.77%) QA
1 5 (8.77%) SLA
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) Basel III
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.26%) Ceph
1 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.26%) Squid
1 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Ansible
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Argo
3 2 (3.51%) Istio
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) Podman
4 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Oracle
1 13 (22.81%) ServiceNow
2 8 (14.04%) MuleSoft
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco
4 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.75%) Databricks