JIRA Contracts in Scotland

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 37 26
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing JIRA 227 179 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.29% 6.27% 6.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 54.57% 31.29% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 124 177
10th Percentile £396 £277 £306
25th Percentile £441 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -3.78% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £569
90th Percentile £696 £669 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £37.95 £53.44 £19.78
25th Percentile - £56.72 £23.56
Median hourly rate £40.94 £64.38 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +106.00% -32.07%
75th Percentile - £67.66 £38.06
90th Percentile - £68.31 £41.33
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.77% +46.07% -3.26%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 416 572 634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.85% 20.04% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 442 452
10th Percentile £375 £394 £360
25th Percentile £425 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £557
90th Percentile £644 £636 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.36 £35.45
25th Percentile £37.97 £59.03 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.94 £60.55 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% +15.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £55.75
90th Percentile - £67.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +6 96 £500 +17.65% 14
South Lanarkshire - 62 £600 - 3
Edinburgh +25 46 £473 +5.59% 10
West Lothian +14 16 £585 +14.15%
Perthshire +11 1 - -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 131 (57.71%) Confluence
2 10 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.20%) Apache
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.32%) IIS
6 2 (0.88%) CMS
6 2 (0.88%) JBoss
6 2 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.88%) WildFly
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.29%) Power Platform
2 11 (4.85%) Azure
2 11 (4.85%) Power Automate
2 11 (4.85%) PowerApps
3 7 (3.08%) AWS
3 7 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.32%) GCP
4 3 (1.32%) IaaS
4 3 (1.32%) OCI
5 2 (0.88%) PaaS
5 2 (0.88%) SaaS
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.44%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.44%) Route 53
6 1 (0.44%) Serverless
6 1 (0.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.64%) 5G
1 6 (2.64%) VoIP
2 5 (2.20%) VSAN
3 4 (1.76%) DNS
4 2 (0.88%) Firewall
5 1 (0.44%) 2G
5 1 (0.44%) Modbus
5 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) VLAN
5 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.85%) Power BI
2 8 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.88%) DB2
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) Git
2 21 (9.25%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.49%) Postman
4 14 (6.17%) Cucumber
4 14 (6.17%) JUnit
5 10 (4.41%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.76%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.76%) Subversion
7 3 (1.32%) GitLab
7 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.88%) Maven
8 2 (0.88%) Selenium
8 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.44%) CMake
9 1 (0.44%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (46.26%) Public Sector
2 44 (19.38%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.66%) Finance
4 8 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.52%) Banking
5 5 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.76%) Electronics
6 4 (1.76%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.76%) Marketing
6 4 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.76%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.88%) Legal
8 2 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 47 (20.70%) Senior
2 36 (15.86%) Developer
3 29 (12.78%) Analyst
4 20 (8.81%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.37%) Lead
6 18 (7.93%) Product Manager
7 17 (7.49%) Delivery Manager
8 14 (6.17%) Senior Manager
9 13 (5.73%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 12 (5.29%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (4.85%) Data Analyst
11 11 (4.85%) JIRA Engineer
11 11 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.41%) Exchange Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Applications Support
13 9 (3.96%) Applications Support Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.96%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Administrator
14 8 (3.52%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.25%) REST
2 16 (7.05%) Kafka
2 16 (7.05%) Spring
3 14 (6.17%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.29%) Apache Camel
5 9 (3.96%) J2EE
6 8 (3.52%) HTML
7 7 (3.08%) CSS
7 7 (3.08%) Web Services
8 6 (2.64%) .NET
8 6 (2.64%) React
9 5 (2.20%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.20%) Jest
9 5 (2.20%) Node.js
9 5 (2.20%) Playwright
9 5 (2.20%) RESTful
10 4 (1.76%) JSON
10 4 (1.76%) JSP
10 4 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.61%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.64%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.76%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.88%) Equities
7 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.81%) Linux
2 9 (3.96%) Windows
3 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.32%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) AIX
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (56.83%) Agile
2 53 (23.35%) Project Management
3 52 (22.91%) Roadmaps
4 40 (17.62%) Coaching
5 33 (14.54%) Scrum
6 29 (12.78%) Project Delivery
7 23 (10.13%) Migration
8 22 (9.69%) Analytics
8 22 (9.69%) DevOps
8 22 (9.69%) Epics
9 21 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (9.25%) Unit Testing
9 21 (9.25%) User Research
10 19 (8.37%) CRM
10 19 (8.37%) User Stories
11 17 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.05%) Data Migration
12 16 (7.05%) Problem Management
12 16 (7.05%) Software Delivery
12 16 (7.05%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.33%) Java
1 28 (12.33%) SQL
2 21 (9.25%) PowerShell
3 15 (6.61%) PL/SQL
4 12 (5.29%) Python
5 11 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.08%) Bash
6 7 (3.08%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.20%) Perl
8 4 (1.76%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.76%) Scala
9 3 (1.32%) C#
10 2 (0.88%) C++
10 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.88%) VBA
10 2 (0.88%) VBScript
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) COBOL
11 1 (0.44%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 92 (40.53%) Security Cleared
2 85 (37.44%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.37%) Degree
4 9 (3.96%) PMP
5 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.76%) ISEB
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.88%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.44%) CCSA
7 1 (0.44%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.57%) PMO
2 15 (6.61%) Disclosure Scotland
3 10 (4.41%) SLA
4 4 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.76%) QA
5 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.32%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (7.05%) Docker
2 14 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.76%) vSphere
4 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (4.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 10 (4.41%) Kibana
2 6 (2.64%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.76%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.76%) VxRail
5 2 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.88%) Terraform
5 2 (0.88%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.44%) Istio
6 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (24.23%) Atlassian
2 21 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.17%) Oracle
4 13 (5.73%) Avaloq
5 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.64%) VMware
6 4 (1.76%) Dell
6 4 (1.76%) SAP
6 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.32%) Cisco
8 2 (0.88%) Pega
9 1 (0.44%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.44%) Cadence
9 1 (0.44%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.44%) IBM
9 1 (0.44%) Workday