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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 46 68 83
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.37% 8.94% 9.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.75% 54.40% 46.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 50
10th Percentile £313 £332 £346
25th Percentile £408 £356 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £390 £559
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% -30.29% +25.84%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £700
90th Percentile £576 £560 -
Scotland median daily rate £456 £404 £550
% change year-on-year +12.93% -26.55% +22.22%

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 160 125 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.16% 16.43% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 85 115
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £408 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £498
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -14.57% +4.74%
75th Percentile £569 £500 £617
90th Percentile £631 £555 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +3.30% -9.00% +7.35%

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 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 13 (28.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Camunda
2 1 (2.17%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) AWS
2 14 (30.43%) Azure
3 11 (23.91%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (23.91%) GitHub
4 9 (19.57%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (19.57%) Serverless
5 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.52%) Slack
9 2 (4.35%) SaaS
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Metadata
2 3 (6.52%) MSDE
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Bitbucket
2 17 (36.96%) Jenkins
3 15 (32.61%) Git
4 10 (21.74%) IntelliJ
4 10 (21.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (19.57%) PyCharm
5 9 (19.57%) Visual Studio
6 8 (17.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (10.87%) GitLab
8 3 (6.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (76.09%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Banking
3 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Project Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Python Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Scrum Master
5 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Agile Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Change Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Node.js
2 2 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) SOAP
3 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.52%) CMDB
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (45.65%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Agile
2 23 (50.00%) DevOps
3 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
4 14 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (26.09%) SDLC
6 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
6 9 (19.57%) Microservices
7 8 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (15.22%) Issue Tracking
9 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (13.04%) Migration
9 6 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (10.87%) AI
10 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.87%) Project Management
10 5 (10.87%) Scrum
10 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
11 4 (8.70%) Build Automation
11 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) Java
2 22 (47.83%) Python
3 10 (21.74%) C#
3 10 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 7 (15.22%) Perl
4 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.22%) Ruby
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) PMP
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) CBAP
4 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.35%) PMO
2 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (30.43%) Terraform
3 11 (23.91%) Ansible
4 3 (6.52%) Argo
4 3 (6.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.35%) IBM
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.17%) Kronos
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) Workday