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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 36 80 97
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.06% 9.91% 10.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.27% 50.00% 53.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 57 66
10th Percentile £310 £319 £386
25th Percentile £358 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -20.79% +6.77%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £588
90th Percentile £575 £545 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -18.40% +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 123 160 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.28% 19.83% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 111 120
10th Percentile £313 £345 £363
25th Percentile £358 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £499
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -10.78% -0.25%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £582
90th Percentile £606 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £61.84 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.84 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 16 February 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 12 (33.33%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.78%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (22.22%) Serverless
3 7 (19.44%) Amazon MSK
4 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (11.11%) Collibra
6 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (19.44%) Metadata
3 4 (11.11%) Big Data
3 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (13.89%) GitLab
General
1 25 (69.44%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Banking
3 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Scrum Master
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 2 (5.56%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.78%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 3 (8.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Agile
2 17 (47.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (44.44%) DevOps
3 16 (44.44%) Scrum
4 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
5 10 (27.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.22%) Data Lineage
7 8 (22.22%) Microservices
8 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
8 7 (19.44%) Kanban
8 7 (19.44%) Migration
9 6 (16.67%) Change Management
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) AI
10 5 (13.89%) Analytics
10 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
10 5 (13.89%) ETL
10 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) Perl
2 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 7 (19.44%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Ruby
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) AWS Certification
2 6 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) PMP
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CBAP
5 1 (2.78%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) Basel III
3 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks