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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 66 61 63
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.96% 8.33% 9.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.17% 30.20% 54.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 42
10th Percentile £322 £313 £328
25th Percentile £360 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +5.26% -14.10%
75th Percentile £499 £550 £550
90th Percentile £586 £575 £725
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £17.45 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £17.45 -

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 199 202 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.96% 27.60% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 114 77
10th Percentile £313 £358 £350
25th Percentile £362 £421 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.08% -0.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £494 £547 £538
90th Percentile £588 £575 £672
Scotland median daily rate £430 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -9.47% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 -
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 -
% change year-on-year +249.15% - -

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 2 September 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 43 (65.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (4.55%) Miro
5 3 (4.55%) Slack
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.52%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) DNS
1 5 (7.58%) HTTPS
1 5 (7.58%) SSH
1 5 (7.58%) SSL
2 1 (1.52%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) HTTP
2 1 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.52%) LAN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.06%) MariaDB
3 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (4.55%) SQLPlus
5 2 (3.03%) Power BI
6 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.61%) Maven
4 4 (6.06%) Subversion
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (4.55%) PVCS
6 2 (3.03%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.03%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.52%) Ant
7 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.52%) Bundler
7 1 (1.52%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.52%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (1.52%) GoCD
7 1 (1.52%) Gradle
7 1 (1.52%) JProfiler
7 1 (1.52%) JUnit
7 1 (1.52%) Leiningen
7 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Finance
3 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.21%) Public Sector
5 9 (13.64%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Analyst
2 14 (21.21%) Senior
3 11 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 9 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Business Analyst
6 7 (10.61%) Lead
7 6 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Scrum Master
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Systems Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) JSON
2 6 (9.09%) React
2 6 (9.09%) Spring
3 5 (7.58%) CSS
3 5 (7.58%) CSS3
3 5 (7.58%) FreeMarker
3 5 (7.58%) HTML
3 5 (7.58%) HTML5
3 5 (7.58%) JDBC
3 5 (7.58%) JPA
3 5 (7.58%) JSF
3 5 (7.58%) JSP
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
3 5 (7.58%) Redux
3 5 (7.58%) REST
3 5 (7.58%) Sass
3 5 (7.58%) Servlets
3 5 (7.58%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.58%) Spring MVC
3 5 (7.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.52%) BBC
3 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.52%) IoT
3 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) Agile
2 38 (57.58%) Scrum
3 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (25.76%) DevOps
4 16 (24.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (15.15%) Project Delivery
7 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 9 (13.64%) Kanban
7 9 (13.64%) Migration
7 9 (13.64%) Project Management
8 8 (12.12%) Sequence Diagram
8 8 (12.12%) User Stories
9 7 (10.61%) Business Analysis
9 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.61%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (9.09%) AI
10 6 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) SQL
2 11 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 9 (13.64%) Java
3 9 (13.64%) Python
4 6 (9.09%) Bash
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.52%) Groovy
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.55%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.52%) IIBA
6 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.06%) PMO
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
1 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.06%) Ceph
2 4 (6.06%) Squid
3 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Ansible
2 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.03%) Argo
3 2 (3.03%) Istio
4 1 (1.52%) Grafana
4 1 (1.52%) logstash
4 1 (1.52%) Podman
4 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Oracle
2 12 (18.18%) MuleSoft
3 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.09%) VMware
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.03%) Splunk