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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 40 70 110
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.59% 8.37% 11.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.10% 39.33% 55.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 53 68
10th Percentile £310 £303 £400
25th Percentile £356 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £582 £575 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.65% -15.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Median hourly rate - £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - -51.56% -40.45%
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.83 £40.94
% change year-on-year - -51.56% -32.47%

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 105 178 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.66% 21.29% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 125 121
10th Percentile £310 £346 £400
25th Percentile £358 £383 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -9.55% +3.65%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £580
90th Percentile £606 £575 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £50.30 - -
25th Percentile £59.90 £19.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +207.16% -51.56% -36.67%
75th Percentile £61.84 £19.92 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £39.92 £40.94
% change year-on-year +52.60% -2.50% -31.53%

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 8 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 (35.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.50%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (20.00%) Serverless
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (10.00%) Collibra
8 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.00%) GCP
9 2 (5.00%) Miro
9 2 (5.00%) Slack
10 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) WAN
3 3 (7.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.00%) DNS
4 2 (5.00%) HTTPS
4 2 (5.00%) SSH
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) Internet
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.00%) Big Data
2 4 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Git
2 8 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (57.50%) Finance
2 17 (42.50%) Banking
3 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Legal
5 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 4 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (7.50%) CMDB
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Agile
2 22 (55.00%) DevOps
3 20 (50.00%) Scrum
4 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (22.50%) Kanban
8 9 (22.50%) Migration
9 8 (20.00%) Change Management
9 8 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (20.00%) Microservices
9 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (20.00%) User Stories
10 7 (17.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 6 (15.00%) Coaching
11 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
11 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.00%) Servant Leadership
12 5 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Java
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 7 (17.50%) Perl
2 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.50%) Ruby
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) AWS Certification
2 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) PMP
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.50%) CBAP
6 1 (2.50%) FFIEC
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
2 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) GDPR
3 3 (7.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Basel III
4 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.00%) Ceph
4 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.00%) Squid
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Argo
3 2 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) IBM
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks