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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 39 68 79
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.90% 9.16% 9.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.23% 51.52% 47.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 49
10th Percentile £310 £349 £342
25th Percentile £358 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £392 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -25.43% +18.24%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £588
90th Percentile £575 £575 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £419 £500
% change year-on-year +7.46% -16.25% +11.11%

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 129 132 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.52% 17.79% 19.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 109
10th Percentile £333 £348 £363
25th Percentile £402 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -9.55% +2.05%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £580
90th Percentile £594 £551 £700
Scotland median daily rate £467 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +2.64% -9.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.11 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

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 23 January 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 9 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) Camunda
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 9 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (23.08%) Serverless
4 8 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (17.95%) Amazon MSK
6 5 (12.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) GitHub
8 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.69%) Metadata
2 3 (7.69%) MSDE
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Bitbucket
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.51%) Git
2 8 (20.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 3 (7.69%) PyCharm
4 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (74.36%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 13 (33.33%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.69%) Legal
7 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Project Manager
2 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Scrum Master
4 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Change Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (7.69%) CMDB
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
2 15 (38.46%) DevOps
2 15 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (25.64%) Scrum
4 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 9 (23.08%) Microservices
5 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.82%) AI
6 5 (12.82%) Data Governance
6 5 (12.82%) Project Management
6 5 (12.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (10.26%) Data Lineage
7 4 (10.26%) Kanban
7 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.26%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.26%) SDLC
8 3 (7.69%) Generative AI
8 3 (7.69%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Java
2 11 (28.21%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) Perl
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.95%) Ruby
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.69%) PMP
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) CBAP
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) FFIEC
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) PMO
1 2 (5.13%) QA
1 2 (5.13%) SLA
2 1 (2.56%) Basel III
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle
1 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.13%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Kronos
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Workday