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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 55 63 72
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.05% 8.63% 8.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.05% 58.88% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 44 46
10th Percentile £358 £332 £378
25th Percentile £408 £356 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £578
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -30.74% +5.48%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £700
90th Percentile £575 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +4.44% -18.18% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £15.79 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 183 107 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.46% 14.66% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 75 113
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £408 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £424 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -15.20% +4.49%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £580
90th Percentile £635 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £15.79 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

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 13 November 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 16 (29.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 14 (25.45%) GitHub
4 12 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (12.73%) Serverless
8 6 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (9.09%) SaaS
10 4 (7.27%) Slack
10 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.45%) Metadata
2 3 (5.45%) MSDE
3 1 (1.82%) DB2
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (34.55%) Bitbucket
2 18 (32.73%) Jenkins
3 17 (30.91%) Git
4 13 (23.64%) IntelliJ
4 13 (23.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 12 (21.82%) PyCharm
5 12 (21.82%) Visual Studio
6 6 (10.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (7.27%) GitLab
7 4 (7.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (69.09%) Finance
2 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.64%) Banking
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) Project Manager
3 7 (12.73%) Python Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Python Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (7.27%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Scrum Master
7 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Agile Project Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (3.64%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) RESTful
2 2 (3.64%) SOAP
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) J2EE
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) Kafka
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.82%) Spring
3 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Public Cloud
2 5 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.45%) CMDB
4 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (43.64%) Linux
2 13 (23.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (70.91%) Agile
2 25 (45.45%) DevOps
3 17 (30.91%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.27%) SDLC
5 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (14.55%) Microservices
7 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.73%) Build Automation
8 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.73%) Issue Tracking
8 7 (12.73%) ITIL
8 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
8 7 (12.73%) Migration
9 6 (10.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (9.09%) Coaching
10 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.09%) Project Management
10 5 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (47.27%) Java
1 26 (47.27%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) C#
2 13 (23.64%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.09%) Perl
3 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.09%) Ruby
3 5 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.82%) R
4 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) PMP
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.82%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) CBAP
5 1 (1.82%) HNC
5 1 (1.82%) HND
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.82%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) PMO
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.91%) Terraform
3 13 (23.64%) Ansible
4 4 (7.27%) Argo
4 4 (7.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.82%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.82%) Kronos
5 1 (1.82%) Pega
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Workday
8 JIRA jobs in Glasgow