JIRA Job Trends in Edinburgh

Atlassian JIRA
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 74 38
Rank change year-on-year +36 -36 -2
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 72 29 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.15% 2.70% 6.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.11% 21.17% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 70
10th Percentile £71,500 £47,620 £42,439
25th Percentile £71,875 £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -7.69% +3.66%
75th Percentile £83,375 £67,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £84,500 £73,886 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £64,999 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +8.11%

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 194 137 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.58% 12.76% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 39 71 208
10th Percentile - £45,000 £45,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £55,000 £53,921
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,253 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £38,547 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -32.96% -8.00% +5.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

JIRA
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 17 (23.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (22.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) CICS
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (11.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (87.50%) Azure
2 52 (72.22%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (50.00%) GitHub
3 36 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 31 (43.06%) Snowflake
5 29 (40.28%) Power Platform
6 19 (26.39%) dbt
7 17 (23.61%) OCI
8 8 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (11.11%) Boomi
8 8 (11.11%) SaaS
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.17%) AWS
9 3 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) Telnet
2 3 (4.17%) BGP
2 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) LAN
2 3 (4.17%) MPLS
2 3 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (4.17%) WAN
2 3 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (43.06%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (40.28%) Power BI
2 29 (40.28%) Tableau
3 14 (19.44%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Git
1 17 (23.61%) Jenkins
1 17 (23.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 68 (94.44%) Finance
2 39 (54.17%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.67%) Marketing
5 8 (11.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (30.56%) Senior
2 17 (23.61%) Applications Engineer
2 17 (23.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (22.22%) Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Platform Specialist
5 4 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) UX Analyst
6 2 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.78%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.72%) SAML
2 17 (23.61%) OAuth
2 17 (23.61%) OAuth2
2 17 (23.61%) RESTful
3 8 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (11.11%) REST
3 8 (11.11%) SOAP
3 8 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (38.89%) Product Ownership
3 17 (23.61%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (11.11%) Equities
5 8 (11.11%) Fixed Income
5 8 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (11.11%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Windows
1 8 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (94.44%) Asset Management
1 68 (94.44%) Coaching
2 64 (88.89%) Agile
3 56 (77.78%) DevOps
4 48 (66.67%) AI
5 40 (55.56%) CI/CD
6 36 (50.00%) Analytics
6 36 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 36 (50.00%) Test Automation
7 35 (48.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (43.06%) Sprint Planning
8 31 (43.06%) Sprint Retrospective
9 29 (40.28%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (30.56%) Mentoring
11 19 (26.39%) Data Modelling
11 19 (26.39%) ETL
11 19 (26.39%) Migration
12 17 (23.61%) ERP
12 17 (23.61%) Microservices
12 17 (23.61%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) Python
2 37 (51.39%) SQL
3 20 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 17 (23.61%) Java
4 17 (23.61%) PL/SQL
4 17 (23.61%) Shell Script
5 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 8 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 25 (34.72%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (29.17%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) Ansible
3 4 (5.56%) Grafana
4 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft
1 17 (23.61%) Oracle
2 12 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.11%) Charles River
3 8 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 8 (11.11%) Workday
4 4 (5.56%) Splunk
5 3 (4.17%) F5
5 3 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.39%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.39%) IBM