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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 41 71 86
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.86% 9.40% 9.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.11% 55.91% 48.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 45 52
10th Percentile £313 £334 £353
25th Percentile £400 £356 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £392 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -31.91% +30.68%
75th Percentile £550 £476 £700
90th Percentile £576 £575 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +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 157 127 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.43% 16.82% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 84 115
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £405 £362 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £517 £617
90th Percentile £635 £570 £700
Scotland median daily rate £468 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.11 - £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 29 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 12 (29.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Camunda
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (24.39%) Azure
4 9 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (21.95%) Serverless
5 8 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (19.51%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (17.07%) GitHub
7 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (12.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (7.32%) Slack
10 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
11 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
11 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.32%) Metadata
2 3 (7.32%) MSDE
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Bitbucket
2 13 (31.71%) Git
2 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (19.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (14.63%) IntelliJ
4 6 (14.63%) PyCharm
4 6 (14.63%) Visual Studio
4 6 (14.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (12.20%) GitLab
6 3 (7.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (73.17%) Finance
2 13 (31.71%) Banking
2 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Project Manager
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Scrum Master
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Agile Project Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Change Manager
8 1 (2.44%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Management Consultant
8 1 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Node.js
2 2 (4.88%) RESTful
3 1 (2.44%) HTML
3 1 (2.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.44%) OAuth
3 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.44%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) SOAP
3 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.32%) CMDB
4 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (41.46%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Agile
2 20 (48.78%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
5 9 (21.95%) Microservices
6 7 (17.07%) SDLC
7 6 (14.63%) Migration
8 5 (12.20%) AI
8 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (12.20%) Issue Tracking
8 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.20%) Project Management
8 5 (12.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (12.20%) Scrum
9 4 (9.76%) Asset Management
9 4 (9.76%) Data Governance
9 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
10 3 (7.32%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Java
2 17 (41.46%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) Perl
3 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.07%) Ruby
4 6 (14.63%) C#
4 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) PMP
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) CBAP
4 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) PMO
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Docker
2 4 (9.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (24.39%) Terraform
3 7 (17.07%) Ansible
4 3 (7.32%) Argo
4 3 (7.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.88%) IBM
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.44%) Kronos
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Workday