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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 48 67 81
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.55% 8.98% 9.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.63% 54.92% 46.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 49
10th Percentile £312 £332 £342
25th Percentile £404 £356 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £390 £543
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% -28.20% +21.91%
75th Percentile £544 £475 £700
90th Percentile £575 £518 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £404 £542
% change year-on-year +11.39% -25.42% +20.38%

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 162 122 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.10% 16.35% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 83 114
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £408 £361 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £498
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -14.57% +4.74%
75th Percentile £559 £500 £625
90th Percentile £629 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +3.87% -9.50% +6.95%

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 15 December 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 15 (31.25%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Camunda
2 1 (2.08%) nginx
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 11 (22.92%) GitHub
4 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (16.67%) Serverless
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (6.25%) Slack
12 2 (4.17%) SaaS
13 1 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
13 1 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
13 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.25%) Metadata
2 3 (6.25%) MSDE
3 1 (2.08%) DB2
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) Bitbucket
2 16 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (29.17%) Git
4 10 (20.83%) IntelliJ
4 10 (20.83%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (18.75%) PyCharm
5 9 (18.75%) Visual Studio
6 7 (14.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (8.33%) GitLab
8 3 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (77.08%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (27.08%) Banking
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 8 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Scrum Master
7 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Agile Project Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Node.js
2 2 (4.17%) REST
2 2 (4.17%) RESTful
2 2 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) J2EE
3 1 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) OAuth
3 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.08%) Spring
3 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.25%) CMDB
4 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Linux
2 10 (20.83%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) Agile
2 22 (45.83%) DevOps
3 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (25.00%) SDLC
5 9 (18.75%) Microservices
6 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (14.58%) Issue Tracking
8 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.50%) Migration
8 6 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (10.42%) AI
9 5 (10.42%) Data Protection
9 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.42%) Project Management
9 5 (10.42%) Scrum
9 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (10.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
1 23 (47.92%) Python
2 10 (20.83%) C#
2 10 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 6 (12.50%) Perl
3 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.50%) Ruby
4 4 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.08%) R
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) PMP
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) CBAP
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (27.08%) Terraform
3 10 (20.83%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Argo
4 3 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.17%) IBM
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.08%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.08%) Kronos
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Workday