JIRA Contracts in Scotland

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 13 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 117 227 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.25% 10.23% 6.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.50% 54.57% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 122 124
10th Percentile £295 £396 £277
25th Percentile £363 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +12.36% -4.04%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £556
90th Percentile £575 £696 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £37.95 £53.44
25th Percentile £19.75 - £56.72
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% -36.40% +106.00%
75th Percentile £19.92 - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £68.31
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £45.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -30.09% +46.07%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 312 416 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.33% 18.74% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 261 439
10th Percentile £312 £375 £393
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £528 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £23.77 £35.00 £54.36
25th Percentile £29.81 £37.97 £59.03
Median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £55.99 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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 30 April 2025.

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
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 30 April 2025. 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 -8 68 £432 -13.65% 8
Edinburgh +2 42 £450 -4.76% 9
Perthshire +1 2 £375 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £400 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £463 -
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 54 (46.15%) Confluence
2 14 (11.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.56%) Camunda
4 2 (1.71%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (16.24%) MS Visio
2 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.85%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Finacle
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.66%) AWS
2 20 (17.09%) Azure
3 17 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.68%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.26%) SaaS
6 11 (9.40%) IaaS
6 11 (9.40%) Serverless
7 10 (8.55%) PowerApps
8 9 (7.69%) GitHub
9 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.42%) Figma
10 4 (3.42%) PaaS
11 3 (2.56%) Alation
11 3 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.56%) Asana
11 3 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.56%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) DHCP
1 4 (3.42%) DNS
2 3 (2.56%) SNA
2 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) Power BI
2 9 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 8 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.56%) DB2
5 3 (2.56%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (14.53%) Git
2 15 (12.82%) Bitbucket
3 12 (10.26%) Subversion
4 9 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (7.69%) PVCS
5 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.42%) Selenium
7 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.56%) Postman
7 3 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.56%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.71%) GitLab
8 2 (1.71%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.71%) Toad
9 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.85%) TestRail
9 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (49.57%) Finance
2 29 (24.79%) Banking
2 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.97%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Back Office
6 2 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.71%) Front Office
6 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Private Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Retail
6 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Analyst
2 24 (20.51%) Developer
3 18 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.55%) Senior
5 9 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
6 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Python Developer
7 7 (5.98%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.98%) Scrum Master
8 6 (5.13%) Designer
8 6 (5.13%) Lead
9 5 (4.27%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.42%) UX Designer
11 3 (2.56%) Business Data Analyst
11 3 (2.56%) Data Governance Manager
11 3 (2.56%) Portfolio Analyst
11 3 (2.56%) Project Governance Manager
11 3 (2.56%) Project Officer
11 3 (2.56%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) Java EE
2 7 (5.98%) SOAP
2 7 (5.98%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.13%) REST
4 5 (4.27%) Kafka
4 5 (4.27%) Middleware
5 4 (3.42%) .NET
5 4 (3.42%) J2EE
5 4 (3.42%) Spring
6 2 (1.71%) LDAP
6 2 (1.71%) RESTful
6 2 (1.71%) SPFx
6 2 (1.71%) XML
7 1 (0.85%) ADO
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.98%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.42%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.56%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.71%) Derivative
5 2 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.71%) PMI
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.40%) Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Unix
2 4 (3.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.56%) zOS
4 1 (0.85%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.99%) Agile
2 32 (27.35%) DevOps
3 26 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (17.09%) Waterfall
6 18 (15.38%) ETL
7 15 (12.82%) SDLC
8 14 (11.97%) Computer Science
8 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (11.97%) Migration
8 14 (11.97%) Project Management
9 13 (11.11%) Business Analysis
9 13 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 13 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 12 (10.26%) Data Modelling
10 12 (10.26%) Kanban
11 11 (9.40%) Data Analysis
11 11 (9.40%) Scrum
11 11 (9.40%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.55%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.51%) Java
2 22 (18.80%) Python
3 20 (17.09%) SQL
4 14 (11.97%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.69%) C
5 9 (7.69%) ProC
6 6 (5.13%) C#
6 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.56%) C++
8 3 (2.56%) JCL
8 3 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.56%) VBA
8 3 (2.56%) VBScript
9 2 (1.71%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) Bash
10 1 (0.85%) REXX
Qualifications
1 11 (9.40%) Degree
2 10 (8.55%) AWS Certification
3 8 (6.84%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (6.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.56%) ISEB
6 3 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.27%) PMO
4 3 (2.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) Basel III
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (11.11%) Terraform
2 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Tivoli NetView
5 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (9.40%) Microsoft
1 11 (9.40%) Oracle
2 8 (6.84%) IBM
3 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.42%) DocuSign
4 4 (3.42%) Informatica
5 3 (2.56%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.71%) Adobe
6 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.71%) Pega
6 2 (1.71%) Temenos
7 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.85%) Planview
7 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) StreamSets