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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 14 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 58 61 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.92% 9.02% 6.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.15% 55.45% 37.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 35
10th Percentile £350 £330 £336
25th Percentile £421 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £541
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.19% -0.74%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £694
90th Percentile £575 £725 £700
Scotland median daily rate £482 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £15.96 - £62.84
25th Percentile £16.84 - £63.83
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £66.56
75th Percentile £18.05 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £64.38

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 199 110 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.19% 16.27% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 77 102
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £421 £382 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £572
90th Percentile £614 £672 £699
Scotland median daily rate £488 £482 £476
% change year-on-year +1.35% +1.10% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £15.96 - £62.84
25th Percentile £16.84 - £63.83
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £66.56
75th Percentile £18.05 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.09%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (39.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (10.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) AWS
2 17 (29.31%) Azure
3 15 (25.86%) GitHub
4 13 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (12.07%) SaaS
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.90%) Serverless
7 4 (6.90%) Slack
8 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.45%) Miro
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.72%) Asana
10 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.72%) PaaS
10 1 (1.72%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Metadata
1 3 (5.17%) MSDE
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) DB2
2 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Bitbucket
2 14 (24.14%) IntelliJ
2 14 (24.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
3 13 (22.41%) PyCharm
3 13 (22.41%) Visual Studio
4 12 (20.69%) Git
5 4 (6.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (68.97%) Finance
2 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Analyst
1 10 (17.24%) Business Analyst
1 10 (17.24%) Developer
2 9 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Python Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Python Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (8.62%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.45%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Change Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) REST
1 2 (3.45%) RESTful
1 2 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (1.72%) HTML
2 1 (1.72%) J2EE
2 1 (1.72%) JSON
2 1 (1.72%) Kafka
2 1 (1.72%) OAuth
2 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.72%) Spring
2 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.34%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) PMI
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.76%) Linux
2 14 (24.14%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Agile
2 19 (32.76%) DevOps
3 17 (29.31%) SDLC
4 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.97%) Deployment Automation
5 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
7 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.79%) Build Automation
8 8 (13.79%) Data Analysis
8 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
9 7 (12.07%) Issue Tracking
9 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
9 7 (12.07%) User Stories
10 6 (10.34%) Coaching
10 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
10 6 (10.34%) Data Protection
10 6 (10.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 21 (36.21%) Java
3 14 (24.14%) C#
3 14 (24.14%) TypeScript
4 7 (12.07%) SQL
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) R
5 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.72%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) CBAP
5 1 (1.72%) HNC
5 1 (1.72%) HND
5 1 (1.72%) IIBA
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.17%) PMO
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Terraform
2 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 14 (24.14%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Argo
4 4 (6.90%) Istio
5 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Pega
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.72%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.72%) Kronos
4 1 (1.72%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Workday