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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -19 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 37 62 97
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.52% 8.37% 11.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.46% 34.44% 58.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 42 70
10th Percentile £312 £300 £362
25th Percentile £344 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £441 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -7.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £577 £525 £580
90th Percentile £688 £575 £600
Scotland median daily rate £525 £446 £494
% change year-on-year +17.71% -9.63% +10.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
Median hourly rate - £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - -57.39% -38.49%
Scotland median hourly rate - £17.45 £40.94
% change year-on-year - -57.39% -38.49%

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 114 180 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.94% 24.29% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 110 113
10th Percentile £311 £311 £361
25th Percentile £358 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £563 £538 £550
90th Percentile £601 £575 £588
Scotland median daily rate £481 £468 £485
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.51% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 8
10th Percentile £58.48 £15.96 -
25th Percentile - £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -36.40%
75th Percentile - £18.05 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £18.98 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
% change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -34.46%

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 4 June 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 19 (51.35%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) JBoss
4 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) AWS
4 4 (10.81%) Collibra
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) Miro
6 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.41%) Slack
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
2 4 (10.81%) WAN
3 3 (8.11%) DNS
3 3 (8.11%) HTTPS
3 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
3 3 (8.11%) SSH
3 3 (8.11%) SSL
4 1 (2.70%) Internet
4 1 (2.70%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Big Data
1 4 (10.81%) Hadoop
1 4 (10.81%) Metadata
2 3 (8.11%) MariaDB
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) SQLPlus
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (5.41%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.70%) Ant
3 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) Claude Code
3 1 (2.70%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Banking
3 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.22%) Legal
4 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
6 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Business Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Lead
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Scrum Master
4 3 (8.11%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Coordinator
5 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.81%) Reference Data
3 4 (10.81%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.70%) Derivative
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Agile
2 27 (72.97%) Scrum
3 16 (43.24%) DevOps
4 13 (35.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (32.43%) Kanban
6 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
7 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.03%) User Stories
8 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
10 6 (16.22%) Change Management
10 6 (16.22%) Coaching
10 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
10 6 (16.22%) Data Lineage
10 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
10 6 (16.22%) ITSM
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.22%) Migration
10 6 (16.22%) Risk Management
10 6 (16.22%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) Bash
3 4 (10.81%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) Groovy
4 1 (2.70%) Perl
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.70%) FFIEC
6 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
3 3 (8.11%) PMO
3 3 (8.11%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) Basel III
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) Ceph
1 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.11%) Squid
1 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Argo
3 2 (5.41%) Istio
4 1 (2.70%) Podman
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco
2 3 (8.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle