JIRA Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Atlassian JIRA
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire citing JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	6	4	3
Rank change year-on-year	-2	-1	0
Contract jobs citing JIRA	7	1	12
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire	21.88%	11.11%	48.00%
As % of the Development Applications category	77.78%	100.00%	100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	1	6
10^th Percentile	£766	-	£585
25^th Percentile	£772	-	£670
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£788	£550	£710
Median % change year-on-year	+43.18%	-22.54%	+5.19%
75^th Percentile	£797	-	£778
90^th Percentile	£799	-	£788
Scotland median daily rate	£425	£474	£450
% change year-on-year	-10.34%	+5.33%	-16.93%

All Development Application Skills
South Lanarkshire

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing development application skills in South Lanarkshire.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing development application skills	9	1	12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire	28.13%	11.11%	48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	1	6
10^th Percentile	£766	-	£585
25^th Percentile	£772	-	£670
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£788	£550	£710
Median % change year-on-year	+43.18%	-22.54%	+5.19%
75^th Percentile	£797	-	£778
90^th Percentile	£799	-	£788
Scotland median daily rate	£430	£488	£450
% change year-on-year	-11.89%	+8.44%	-7.22%

JIRA Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

JIRA Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing JIRA.

JIRA Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 10 November 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
East Kilbride	-2	7	£788	+43.18%	1
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JIRA Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing JIRA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Lanarkshire region citing JIRA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Confluence	100.0%	7
2	Security Cleared	85.7%	6
3	Agile	71.4%	5
4	DevOps	57.1%	4
4	DHCP	57.1%	4
4	DNS	57.1%	4
4	ITSM	57.1%	4
4	Microsoft	57.1%	4
4	PowerShell	57.1%	4
10	Active Directory	42.9%	3
10	Application Virtualisation	42.9%	3
10	Infrastructure Monitoring	42.9%	3
10	Performance Management	42.9%	3
10	SC Cleared	42.9%	3
10	Service Management	42.9%	3
10	UAG	42.9%	3
10	vCenter Server	42.9%	3
10	Virtual Desktop	42.9%	3
10	VMware	42.9%	3
10	VMware ESXi	42.9%	3
10	VMware Infrastructure	42.9%	3
10	vSphere	42.9%	3
10	Windows	42.9%	3
10	Windows Server	42.9%	3
25	Atlassian	28.6%	2
25	DV Cleared	28.6%	2
25	PMO	28.6%	2
25	Programme Management	28.6%	2
29	Ansible	14.3%	1
29	AWS	14.3%	1

JIRA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Git	14.3%	1