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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 14 37
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 115 217 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.18% 9.97% 6.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.38% 55.08% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 121 129
10th Percentile £274 £363 £290
25th Percentile £363 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £520 £588 £550
90th Percentile £575 £700 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £17.13 £37.95 £53.44
25th Percentile £17.56 - £56.72
Median hourly rate £18.64 £40.94 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year -54.48% -36.40% +106.00%
75th Percentile £19.45 - £67.66
90th Percentile £19.73 - £68.31
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £45.88 £65.84
% change year-on-year +25.33% -30.32% +47.96%

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 325 394 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.29% 18.10% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 413
10th Percentile £310 £363 £394
25th Percentile £404 £418 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £497 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +4.58% -
75th Percentile £538 £580 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £635
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £17.42 £34.10 £54.36
25th Percentile £18.29 - £59.03
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% -32.39% +13.18%
75th Percentile £39.96 - £66.56
90th Percentile £51.98 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.31% +5.69% +18.27%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -12 68 £437 -8.00% 23
Edinburgh +5 40 £450 -4.26% 23
Perthshire +3 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 55 (47.83%) Confluence
2 14 (12.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.61%) Camunda
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (17.39%) MS Visio
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.87%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Finacle
2 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.87%) AWS
2 21 (18.26%) Azure
3 18 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (14.78%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.57%) IaaS
5 11 (9.57%) SaaS
5 11 (9.57%) Serverless
6 10 (8.70%) GitHub
6 10 (8.70%) PowerApps
7 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.48%) PaaS
9 3 (2.61%) Alation
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.61%) Asana
9 3 (2.61%) Figma
9 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.61%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) DHCP
1 4 (3.48%) DNS
2 3 (2.61%) SNA
2 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Power BI
2 9 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.83%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.61%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) Git
2 16 (13.91%) Bitbucket
3 12 (10.43%) Subversion
4 9 (7.83%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.83%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (7.83%) PVCS
5 4 (3.48%) Selenium
6 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.61%) Postman
6 3 (2.61%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.61%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.74%) GitLab
7 2 (1.74%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.74%) Toad
8 1 (0.87%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (52.17%) Finance
2 29 (25.22%) Banking
2 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 14 (12.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Back Office
6 2 (1.74%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.74%) Front Office
6 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Legal
6 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Private Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Retail
6 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Electronics
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (27.83%) Analyst
2 22 (19.13%) Developer
3 18 (15.65%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.70%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) Oracle Developer
5 9 (7.83%) Python Developer
6 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.09%) Scrum Master
8 6 (5.22%) Lead
9 5 (4.35%) Designer
9 5 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.48%) Architect
11 3 (2.61%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.61%) Data Manager
11 3 (2.61%) Project Support Officer
11 3 (2.61%) QA Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) Java EE
2 4 (3.48%) .NET
2 4 (3.48%) SOAP
2 4 (3.48%) Spring
2 4 (3.48%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.61%) Middleware
3 3 (2.61%) REST
4 2 (1.74%) Kafka
4 2 (1.74%) LDAP
4 2 (1.74%) RESTful
4 2 (1.74%) SPFx
4 2 (1.74%) XML
5 1 (0.87%) ADO
5 1 (0.87%) J2EE
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.48%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.61%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.61%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Derivative
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.74%) PMI
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Linux
2 5 (4.35%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) zOS
4 1 (0.87%) AIX
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.04%) Agile
2 33 (28.70%) DevOps
3 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (15.65%) ETL
6 17 (14.78%) Waterfall
7 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (12.17%) Project Management
7 14 (12.17%) Roadmaps
8 13 (11.30%) Business Analysis
8 13 (11.30%) Computer Science
8 13 (11.30%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.30%) Data Modelling
8 13 (11.30%) Migration
8 13 (11.30%) SDLC
9 12 (10.43%) Kanban
9 12 (10.43%) Scrum
9 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.57%) Data Analysis
11 10 (8.70%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.00%) Python
2 22 (19.13%) Java
3 18 (15.65%) SQL
4 11 (9.57%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.83%) C
5 9 (7.83%) ProC
6 7 (6.09%) C#
7 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.61%) C++
9 3 (2.61%) JCL
9 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.61%) VBA
9 3 (2.61%) VBScript
10 2 (1.74%) Groovy
11 1 (0.87%) Bash
11 1 (0.87%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Degree
2 10 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 8 (6.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (6.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.61%) ISEB
6 3 (2.61%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.87%) CBAP
8 1 (0.87%) IIBA
8 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.35%) PMO
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) Basel III
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (12.17%) Terraform
2 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) Ansible
4 3 (2.61%) Tivoli NetView
5 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.87%) Grafana
6 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.57%) Oracle
3 8 (6.96%) IBM
4 4 (3.48%) Informatica
4 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.61%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.74%) Adobe
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Pega
6 2 (1.74%) Temenos
7 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.87%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.87%) Planview
7 1 (0.87%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.87%) StreamSets