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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 38 72 99
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.26% 8.98% 10.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.54% 39.34% 54.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 52 62
10th Percentile £312 £301 £400
25th Percentile £352 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £428 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -14.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £597 £575 £645
Scotland median daily rate £489 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -15.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Median hourly rate - £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - -51.56% -38.49%
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.83 £40.94
% change year-on-year - -51.56% -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 104 183 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.40% 22.82% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 125 113
10th Percentile £311 £347 £365
25th Percentile £358 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.41% +2.32%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £575
90th Percentile £606 £575 £627
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £54.68 - -
25th Percentile - £19.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +207.16% -51.56% -36.40%
75th Percentile £61.61 £19.92 -
90th Percentile £61.84 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £39.92 £40.94
% change year-on-year +52.60% -2.50% -32.39%

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 22 April 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 14 (36.84%) Confluence
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (2.63%) Camunda
4 1 (2.63%) JBoss
4 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.16%) Serverless
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (10.53%) Collibra
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Miro
7 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.26%) Slack
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) WAN
3 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.26%) DNS
4 2 (5.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (5.26%) SSH
4 2 (5.26%) SSL
5 1 (2.63%) Internet
5 1 (2.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.53%) Big Data
2 4 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 4 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
3 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.89%) GitLab
5 2 (5.26%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.63%) Ant
6 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 22 (57.89%) Finance
2 14 (36.84%) Banking
3 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Legal
5 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Scrum Master
5 3 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.53%) Reference Data
3 4 (10.53%) Virtual Team
4 3 (7.89%) CMDB
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.63%) Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Windows
3 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Agile
2 21 (55.26%) Scrum
3 20 (52.63%) DevOps
4 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 12 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (23.68%) Kanban
7 9 (23.68%) Migration
7 9 (23.68%) User Stories
8 8 (21.05%) Change Management
8 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
9 7 (18.42%) Data Governance
9 7 (18.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (15.79%) Coaching
10 6 (15.79%) Data Lineage
10 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
10 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Java
3 4 (10.53%) Perl
3 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.53%) Ruby
3 4 (10.53%) SQL
4 3 (7.89%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.26%) PMP
4 2 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.63%) CBAP
5 1 (2.63%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
2 4 (10.53%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) QA
4 1 (2.63%) Basel III
4 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) Ceph
3 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.26%) Squid
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) Terraform
4 2 (5.26%) Argo
4 2 (5.26%) Istio
5 1 (2.63%) Podman
5 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
4 2 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks