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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing JIRA 53 65 71
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.06% 8.98% 8.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.11% 57.52% 44.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 46 46
10th Percentile £344 £325 £378
25th Percentile £410 £355 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £578
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -30.74% +5.96%
75th Percentile £547 £500 £700
90th Percentile £575 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £474 £459 £542
% change year-on-year +3.32% -15.32% +17.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £15.96 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00

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 176 113 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.44% 15.61% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 79 111
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £424 £490
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -13.47% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £580
90th Percentile £638 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £493 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +9.56% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £15.96 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +13.06%

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 6 November 2025.

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 16 (30.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) AWS
2 18 (33.96%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) GitHub
4 13 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (11.32%) SaaS
8 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.55%) Serverless
8 4 (7.55%) Slack
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.66%) Metadata
1 3 (5.66%) MSDE
2 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.89%) DB2
2 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Power BI
2 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Bitbucket
2 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
3 15 (28.30%) Git
4 14 (26.42%) IntelliJ
4 14 (26.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 13 (24.53%) PyCharm
5 13 (24.53%) Visual Studio
6 4 (7.55%) Terragrunt
7 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.77%) GitLab
General
1 36 (67.92%) Finance
2 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Developer
3 9 (16.98%) Project Manager
4 8 (15.09%) Python Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Python Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (9.43%) Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Senior
7 4 (7.55%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.55%) Scrum Master
8 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Agile Project Manager
9 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 2 (3.77%) REST
2 2 (3.77%) RESTful
2 2 (3.77%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) HTML
3 1 (1.89%) J2EE
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) Kafka
3 1 (1.89%) OAuth
3 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Public Cloud
2 6 (11.32%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.66%) CMDB
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (41.51%) Linux
2 14 (26.42%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (73.58%) Agile
2 23 (43.40%) DevOps
3 17 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 16 (30.19%) SDLC
5 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (22.64%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
8 8 (15.09%) Build Automation
8 8 (15.09%) ITIL
9 7 (13.21%) Issue Tracking
9 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (11.32%) Migration
10 6 (11.32%) Scrum
11 5 (9.43%) Data Protection
11 5 (9.43%) Problem Management
11 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery
11 5 (9.43%) Project Management
11 5 (9.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Python
2 24 (45.28%) Java
3 14 (26.42%) C#
3 14 (26.42%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 3 (5.66%) Perl
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.66%) Ruby
6 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.89%) R
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) PMP
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.89%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) CBAP
4 1 (1.89%) HNC
4 1 (1.89%) HND
4 1 (1.89%) IIBA
4 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.89%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) PMO
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 18 (33.96%) Terraform
3 14 (26.42%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Argo
4 4 (7.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.89%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.89%) Kronos
4 1 (1.89%) Pega
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Workday