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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 37 73 90
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.44% 9.58% 9.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.33% 51.41% 50.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 49 59
10th Percentile £310 £350 £395
25th Percentile £358 £356 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -26.27% +21.91%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £588
90th Percentile £515 £535 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +9.69% -17.95% +11.11%

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 122 142 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.94% 18.64% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 116
10th Percentile £313 £348 £369
25th Percentile £391 £363 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -11.00% -
75th Percentile £537 £500 £588
90th Percentile £606 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £57.36 - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £60.28 - -
75th Percentile £61.53 - -
90th Percentile £61.71 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.28 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 2 February 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 13 (35.14%) Confluence
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.70%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (21.62%) Serverless
4 7 (18.92%) Amazon MSK
5 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.11%) Collibra
7 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (16.22%) Metadata
3 3 (8.11%) Big Data
3 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) MSDE
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 9 (24.32%) Bitbucket
2 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (13.51%) GitLab
5 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.70%) PyCharm
5 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (72.97%) Finance
2 13 (35.14%) Banking
2 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Legal
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Project Manager
2 8 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Scrum Master
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Agile Project Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Service Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Release Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Service Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) CMDB
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Reference Data
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.70%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (43.24%) DevOps
4 14 (37.84%) Scrum
5 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
6 9 (24.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 8 (21.62%) Data Governance
7 8 (21.62%) Kanban
7 8 (21.62%) Microservices
8 7 (18.92%) Data Lineage
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
9 6 (16.22%) Migration
10 5 (13.51%) AI
10 5 (13.51%) Change Management
10 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
10 5 (13.51%) Project Management
11 4 (10.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Java
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) Perl
3 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.92%) Ruby
4 1 (2.70%) C#
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 3 (8.11%) PMP
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CBAP
5 1 (2.70%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) PMO
3 2 (5.41%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) Basel III
4 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
1 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks