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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing JIRA 51 63 67
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.90% 9.03% 8.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.72% 58.33% 44.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 45
10th Percentile £334 £325 £388
25th Percentile £409 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -25.00% +4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £513 £700
90th Percentile £575 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £533
% change year-on-year - -10.88% +14.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £15.96 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00

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 184 108 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.90% 15.47% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 74 108
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £410 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £564 £500 £588
90th Percentile £634 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £468 £490
% change year-on-year +1.60% -4.59% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £15.96 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £59.52
% change year-on-year - - +13.99%

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 19 October 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 17 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) AWS
2 16 (31.37%) Azure
3 15 (29.41%) GitHub
4 13 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (11.76%) SaaS
8 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 4 (7.84%) Slack
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.88%) Metadata
1 3 (5.88%) MSDE
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (29.41%) Git
4 14 (27.45%) IntelliJ
4 14 (27.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 13 (25.49%) PyCharm
5 13 (25.49%) Visual Studio
6 4 (7.84%) Terragrunt
7 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.92%) GitLab
General
1 34 (66.67%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Project Manager
3 8 (15.69%) Python Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Python Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (9.80%) Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Senior
6 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Scrum Master
7 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Agile Project Manager
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Node.js
2 2 (3.92%) REST
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) SOAP
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) J2EE
3 1 (1.96%) JSON
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) OAuth
3 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.96%) Spring
3 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Public Cloud
2 6 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Linux
2 14 (27.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) Agile
2 21 (41.18%) DevOps
3 16 (31.37%) SDLC
4 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 12 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 8 (15.69%) Build Automation
9 7 (13.73%) Issue Tracking
9 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.76%) Scrum
11 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis
11 5 (9.80%) Data Protection
11 5 (9.80%) ITIL
11 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
11 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
11 5 (9.80%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) Python
2 24 (47.06%) Java
3 14 (27.45%) C#
3 14 (27.45%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.76%) SQL
5 3 (5.88%) Perl
5 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.88%) Ruby
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.96%) R
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (7.84%) Degree
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) CBAP
5 1 (1.96%) HNC
5 1 (1.96%) HND
5 1 (1.96%) IIBA
5 1 (1.96%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.96%) PMP
5 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) PMO
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (35.29%) Terraform
3 14 (27.45%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Argo
4 4 (7.84%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.96%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.96%) Kronos
4 1 (1.96%) Pega
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Workday
7 JIRA jobs in Glasgow