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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 57 67 71
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.43% 8.39% 10.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.49% 32.06% 55.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 49
10th Percentile £322 £300 £354
25th Percentile £333 £349 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +5.26% -8.74%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £725
Scotland median daily rate £493 £469 £487
% change year-on-year +5.07% -3.75% -2.60%
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 181 209 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.24% 26.16% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 123 86
10th Percentile £305 £319 £356
25th Percentile £325 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% - -
75th Percentile £513 £550 £528
90th Percentile £588 £585 £656
Scotland median daily rate £429 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -9.74% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 8
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -36.40%
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
% change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -32.08%

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 3 August 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 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) JBoss
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (21.05%) MS Visio
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) AWS
3 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.51%) Miro
5 2 (3.51%) Slack
6 1 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.75%) Collibra
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.75%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) DNS
1 4 (7.02%) HTTPS
1 4 (7.02%) SSH
1 4 (7.02%) SSL
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) Internet
3 1 (1.75%) LAN
3 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 8 (14.04%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.02%) MariaDB
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (5.26%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.75%) Big Data
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Git
2 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) Maven
3 4 (7.02%) Subversion
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (5.26%) PVCS
5 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
5 2 (3.51%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.75%) Ant
6 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.75%) Bundler
6 1 (1.75%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.75%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (1.75%) GoCD
6 1 (1.75%) Gradle
6 1 (1.75%) JProfiler
6 1 (1.75%) JUnit
6 1 (1.75%) Leiningen
6 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.58%) Finance
3 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (21.05%) Banking
5 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.26%) Legal
8 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Analyst
2 13 (22.81%) Senior
3 11 (19.30%) Business Systems Analyst
4 9 (15.79%) Systems Analyst
5 8 (14.04%) Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Lead
6 6 (10.53%) Business Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Scrum Master
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (8.77%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Lead Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Project Manager
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Systems Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Service Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) JSON
2 5 (8.77%) React
2 5 (8.77%) Spring
2 5 (8.77%) Web Services
3 4 (7.02%) CSS
3 4 (7.02%) CSS3
3 4 (7.02%) FreeMarker
3 4 (7.02%) HTML
3 4 (7.02%) HTML5
3 4 (7.02%) JDBC
3 4 (7.02%) JPA
3 4 (7.02%) JSF
3 4 (7.02%) JSP
3 4 (7.02%) Node.js
3 4 (7.02%) Redux
3 4 (7.02%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) Sass
3 4 (7.02%) Servlets
3 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.02%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.84%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) Agile
2 37 (64.91%) Scrum
3 18 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (29.82%) DevOps
5 16 (28.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (19.30%) Kanban
8 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
8 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
8 10 (17.54%) Migration
9 9 (15.79%) User Stories
10 8 (14.04%) Data Analysis
10 8 (14.04%) Project Delivery
10 8 (14.04%) Sequence Diagram
11 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
11 7 (12.28%) Service Delivery
11 7 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
12 6 (10.53%) Backlog Refinement
12 6 (10.53%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) SQL
2 11 (19.30%) PL/SQL
3 9 (15.79%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Python
5 5 (8.77%) Bash
5 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.26%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.75%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) IIBA
5 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.26%) PMO
2 3 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) SLA
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Ceph
1 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
1 4 (7.02%) Squid
1 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) 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
2 11 (19.30%) MuleSoft
3 10 (17.54%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.02%) VMware
6 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco