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

 6 months to
27 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 53 64 74
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.90% 8.67% 8.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.78% 58.72% 45.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 44 46
10th Percentile £317 £332 £378
25th Percentile £408 £356 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £396 £578
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -31.47% +6.10%
75th Percentile £547 £476 £700
90th Percentile £576 £521 -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £425 £565
% change year-on-year +10.59% -24.78% +25.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.47 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 178 109 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.18% 14.77% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 76 109
10th Percentile £358 £348 £373
25th Percentile £408 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £422 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -15.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £572 £497 £635
90th Percentile £635 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - £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 27 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%) Camunda
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 13 (24.53%) GitHub
4 11 (20.75%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (15.09%) Serverless
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (13.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (7.55%) SaaS
8 4 (7.55%) Slack
8 4 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.66%) Metadata
2 3 (5.66%) MSDE
3 1 (1.89%) DB2
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Bitbucket
2 18 (33.96%) Jenkins
3 17 (32.08%) Git
4 12 (22.64%) IntelliJ
4 12 (22.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 11 (20.75%) PyCharm
5 11 (20.75%) Visual Studio
6 7 (13.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (7.55%) GitLab
7 4 (7.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (73.58%) Finance
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 13 (24.53%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Developer
2 9 (16.98%) Project Manager
3 7 (13.21%) Python Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Python Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Senior
5 4 (7.55%) Scrum Master
6 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Agile Project Manager
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) 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 11 (20.75%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.55%) Virtual Team
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 24 (45.28%) Linux
2 12 (22.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (69.81%) Agile
2 25 (47.17%) DevOps
3 17 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 14 (26.42%) SDLC
4 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.87%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (16.98%) Microservices
7 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (13.21%) Issue Tracking
8 7 (13.21%) Migration
8 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Build Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (9.43%) AI
10 5 (9.43%) Data Governance
10 5 (9.43%) Data Protection
10 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) Java
1 26 (49.06%) Python
2 12 (22.64%) C#
2 12 (22.64%) TypeScript
3 6 (11.32%) Perl
3 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.32%) Ruby
4 4 (7.55%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.89%) R
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) 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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) PMO
2 2 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (43.40%) Kubernetes
2 16 (30.19%) Terraform
3 12 (22.64%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Argo
4 4 (7.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) ServiceNow
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
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
5 JIRA jobs in Glasgow