JIRA Jobs in Scotland

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 109 63
Rank change year-on-year +55 -46 +6
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 122 219 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.19% 3.25% 4.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.69% 20.90% 30.35%
Number of salaries quoted 40 98 101
10th Percentile - £42,850 £38,750
25th Percentile - £52,000 £44,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,625 £82,548 £77,715
90th Percentile £73,886 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +0.84%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 385 1,048 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.22% 15.55% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 205 292 373
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £91,934 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -27 31 £65,000 - 22
Renfrewshire - 22 £52,000 - 10
Lanarkshire +4 18 - - 1
Inverclyde - 13 £52,000 -
Glasgow +83 10 £60,000 -2.44% 19
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Fife -8 3 - - 1
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +11 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 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 66 (54.10%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) Apache
2 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (27.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.26%) Azure
1 54 (44.26%) GCP
2 53 (43.44%) AWS
3 9 (7.38%) SaaS
4 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.82%) GitHub
5 1 (0.82%) OCI
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.10%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) DNS
2 1 (0.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) LAN
2 1 (0.82%) Multicast
2 1 (0.82%) RTP
2 1 (0.82%) RTSP
2 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.82%) SSL
2 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (40.98%) SQL Server
2 33 (27.05%) Tableau
3 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.82%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (41.80%) Selenium
2 49 (40.16%) Bitbucket
2 49 (40.16%) Cucumber
2 49 (40.16%) GitLab
2 49 (40.16%) Maven
2 49 (40.16%) SonarQube
2 49 (40.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (5.74%) Git
4 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.82%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.82%) JUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 66 (54.10%) Finance
2 63 (51.64%) Banking
3 56 (45.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.84%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Electronics
7 2 (1.64%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Military
8 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (45.90%) Software Engineer
2 33 (27.05%) Principal Engineer
3 13 (10.66%) Senior
4 8 (6.56%) Analyst
5 7 (5.74%) Developer
6 5 (4.10%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.28%) DevOps Developer
7 4 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.28%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.46%) Business Manager
8 3 (2.46%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.46%) Release Manager
8 3 (2.46%) Release Train Manager
8 3 (2.46%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (1.64%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (1.64%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (42.62%) Spring
1 52 (42.62%) Spring Boot
2 51 (41.80%) CSS
2 51 (41.80%) HTML
2 51 (41.80%) Kafka
2 51 (41.80%) React
3 50 (40.98%) Hibernate
3 50 (40.98%) Redux
4 49 (40.16%) JPA
5 3 (2.46%) RESTful
6 2 (1.64%) .NET
6 2 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.64%) JSON
6 2 (1.64%) Node.js
6 2 (1.64%) REST
6 2 (1.64%) Web Services
6 2 (1.64%) XML
7 1 (0.82%) Android SDK
7 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.82%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (47.54%) Product Ownership
2 49 (40.16%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.64%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.82%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.82%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.82%) IPTV
5 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.82%) MPEG
5 1 (0.82%) PCIe
5 1 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) Linux
1 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Android
2 1 (0.82%) Debian
2 1 (0.82%) Rocky
2 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (64.75%) Agile
2 60 (49.18%) DevOps
3 57 (46.72%) Software Engineering
4 54 (44.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (43.44%) CI/CD
6 52 (42.62%) Microservices
6 52 (42.62%) Test Automation
7 51 (41.80%) TDD
8 50 (40.98%) Clean Code
8 50 (40.98%) SDLC
9 49 (40.16%) Containerisation
9 49 (40.16%) Front End Development
9 49 (40.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 49 (40.16%) Performance Optimisation
10 36 (29.51%) Analytics
11 34 (27.87%) Data Analytics
12 33 (27.05%) Data Governance
12 33 (27.05%) Data Management
12 33 (27.05%) Data Modelling
13 12 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (44.26%) Java
1 54 (44.26%) SQL
2 50 (40.98%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.28%) Go
4 2 (1.64%) C
4 2 (1.64%) C#
4 2 (1.64%) C++
4 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.82%) Bash
5 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.82%) PHP
5 1 (0.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
1 1 (0.82%) Degree
1 1 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (40.16%) QA
2 34 (27.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.10%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.82%) IFRS
4 1 (0.82%) SEPA
4 1 (0.82%) TARGET2
System Software
1 56 (45.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (41.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (40.16%) Solace
2 35 (28.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.46%) Google
4 2 (1.64%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.82%) Cisco
5 1 (0.82%) F5
5 1 (0.82%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) Planview
5 1 (0.82%) VMware