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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 30 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 72 52 65
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.98% 6.93% 9.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.03% 26.40% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 48
10th Percentile £322 £374 £324
25th Percentile £350 £417 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +8.11% -19.57%
75th Percentile £453 £550 £531
90th Percentile £584 £575 £674
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 232 197 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.25% 26.27% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 106 79
10th Percentile £305 £359 £325
25th Percentile £359 £414 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +10.67% -5.76%
75th Percentile £484 £564 £519
90th Percentile £584 £630 £601
Scotland median daily rate £438 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -11.79% +4.42% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 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 October 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 47 (65.28%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (20.83%) MS Visio
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 13 (18.06%) AWS
3 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.72%) GCP
5 3 (4.17%) Miro
6 2 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub
6 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.78%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) Slack
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.39%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.39%) IaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) DNS
1 3 (4.17%) HTTPS
1 3 (4.17%) SSH
1 3 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (1.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) HTTP
2 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.56%) Metadata
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.78%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 2 (2.78%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Git
2 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.72%) Maven
4 4 (5.56%) Subversion
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (4.17%) PVCS
6 2 (2.78%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.39%) Ant
7 1 (1.39%) Bundler
7 1 (1.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.39%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (1.39%) Gerrit
7 1 (1.39%) GoCD
7 1 (1.39%) JProfiler
7 1 (1.39%) JUnit
7 1 (1.39%) Leiningen
7 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.39%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.39%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.17%) Finance
3 16 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (19.44%) Public Sector
5 11 (15.28%) Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Legal
9 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (31.94%) Analyst
2 14 (19.44%) Senior
3 12 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 11 (15.28%) Business Systems Analyst
5 9 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
6 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 8 (11.11%) Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.94%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Lead
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Systems Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) Data Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) JSON
2 7 (9.72%) React
2 7 (9.72%) Spring
3 6 (8.33%) REST
3 6 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.33%) Web Services
4 5 (6.94%) CSS
4 5 (6.94%) CSS3
4 5 (6.94%) FreeMarker
4 5 (6.94%) HTML
4 5 (6.94%) HTML5
4 5 (6.94%) JDBC
4 5 (6.94%) JPA
4 5 (6.94%) JSF
4 5 (6.94%) JSP
4 5 (6.94%) Node.js
4 5 (6.94%) Redux
4 5 (6.94%) Sass
4 5 (6.94%) Servlets
4 5 (6.94%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Taxonomies
3 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.39%) BBC
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
4 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (73.61%) Agile
2 38 (52.78%) Scrum
3 19 (26.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (22.22%) DevOps
7 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (16.67%) Project Delivery
9 11 (15.28%) Data Analysis
9 11 (15.28%) Project Management
10 10 (13.89%) User Stories
11 9 (12.50%) Business Analysis
11 9 (12.50%) Data Mapping
11 9 (12.50%) Kanban
11 9 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (12.50%) Service Management
11 9 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (11.11%) CI/CD
12 8 (11.11%) Migration
12 8 (11.11%) Sequence Diagram
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.00%) SQL
2 11 (15.28%) PL/SQL
3 9 (12.50%) Java
4 7 (9.72%) Python
5 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.56%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.39%) Groovy
8 1 (1.39%) Ruby
8 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.17%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.39%) IIBA
5 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.56%) PMO
4 3 (4.17%) QA
5 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.39%) NIST
5 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
1 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.78%) Ceph
2 2 (2.78%) Squid
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Ansible
2 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Argo
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Istio
3 1 (1.39%) logstash
3 1 (1.39%) Podman
3 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Oracle
2 12 (16.67%) MuleSoft
3 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.94%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.56%) VMware
6 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.78%) Splunk
47 JIRA jobs in Glasgow