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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 37 67 87
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.51% 9.31% 10.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.62% 54.92% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 55
10th Percentile £310 £348 £360
25th Percentile £358 £356 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £392 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -31.91% +29.50%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £688
90th Percentile £575 £565 £700
Scotland median daily rate £447 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +11.75% -27.27% +22.22%

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 139 122 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.68% 16.94% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 82 114
10th Percentile £353 £348 £363
25th Percentile £402 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -11.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile £604 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +2.20% -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 11 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 (24.32%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) Camunda
3 1 (2.70%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Serverless
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.92%) Amazon MSK
5 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (10.81%) GitHub
7 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.11%) Metadata
2 3 (8.11%) MSDE
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Bitbucket
1 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) IntelliJ
4 3 (8.11%) PyCharm
4 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio
4 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (75.68%) Finance
2 13 (35.14%) Banking
2 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Project Manager
2 8 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Scrum Master
4 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Change Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 1 (2.70%) Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) SOAP
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.11%) CMDB
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) DevOps
2 14 (37.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
3 9 (24.32%) Microservices
4 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Scrum
5 5 (13.51%) AI
5 5 (13.51%) Project Management
5 5 (13.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (10.81%) Data Governance
6 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) SDLC
7 3 (8.11%) Asset Management
7 3 (8.11%) Investment Management
7 3 (8.11%) Kanban
7 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.11%) Metadata Management
7 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (8.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Java
2 11 (29.73%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) Perl
3 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.92%) Ruby
4 3 (8.11%) C#
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.11%) PMP
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.70%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CBAP
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) IBM
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.70%) Kronos
4 1 (2.70%) Pega
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Workday