JIRA Job Trends in Scotland

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 65 91 101
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 -56
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 96 46 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.25% 1.93% 3.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.09% 19.25% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 97
10th Percentile £44,254 £47,620 £42,439
25th Percentile £50,625 £52,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,999 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £75,900 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,200 £73,886 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,498 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

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 266 239 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.00% 10.05% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 66 142 320
10th Percentile - £31,250 £38,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,875 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,547 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.96% -8.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,965 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,125 £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,419 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.37% -7.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Scotland

JIRA
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

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 13 February 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +36 72 £77,000 +28.33% 6
Glasgow +6 9 £55,000 -8.33% 6
South Ayrshire - 5 £52,048 -
Fife +8 3 £75,900 -
Renfrewshire -9 1 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 £50,000 - 1
East Ayrshire - 1 £75,900 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 4
Stirling - 1 £77,500 - 1
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 20 (20.83%) Confluence
2 17 (17.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (6.25%) WebSphere
4 4 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.04%) Apache
5 1 (1.04%) CICS
5 1 (1.04%) JBoss
Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.08%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (8.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (71.88%) Azure
2 53 (55.21%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (37.50%) GitHub
3 36 (37.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 31 (32.29%) Snowflake
5 29 (30.21%) Power Platform
6 19 (19.79%) dbt
7 17 (17.71%) OCI
8 8 (8.33%) AWS
8 8 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (8.33%) Boomi
8 8 (8.33%) SaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.13%) GCP
10 1 (1.04%) Figma
10 1 (1.04%) Miro
10 1 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) Telnet
2 3 (3.13%) BGP
2 3 (3.13%) Firewall
2 3 (3.13%) LAN
2 3 (3.13%) MPLS
2 3 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (3.13%) WAN
2 3 (3.13%) Wireless
3 1 (1.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.29%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (30.21%) Power BI
2 29 (30.21%) Tableau
3 14 (14.58%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.17%) Metadata
4 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.04%) DB2
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Git
2 18 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 17 (17.71%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (9.38%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.04%) Ant
5 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.04%) Maven
5 1 (1.04%) Postman
5 1 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.04%) Rational Statemate
5 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (80.21%) Finance
2 41 (42.71%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.50%) Marketing
5 8 (8.33%) Front Office
6 4 (4.17%) Avionics
6 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Senior
2 21 (21.88%) Analyst
3 17 (17.71%) Applications Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 8 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (6.25%) Requirements Manager
5 6 (6.25%) Systems Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Applications Support
6 4 (4.17%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) UX Analyst
7 3 (3.13%) Lead
7 3 (3.13%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (3.13%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.04%) SAML
2 17 (17.71%) OAuth
2 17 (17.71%) OAuth2
2 17 (17.71%) RESTful
3 8 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (8.33%) REST
3 8 (8.33%) SOAP
3 8 (8.33%) Web Services
4 4 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.04%) Kafka
5 1 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 30 (31.25%) Product Ownership
3 17 (17.71%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (9.38%) Equities
5 9 (9.38%) Fixed Income
5 9 (9.38%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (78.13%) Agile
2 69 (71.88%) Asset Management
3 68 (70.83%) Coaching
4 58 (60.42%) DevOps
5 48 (50.00%) AI
6 43 (44.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (42.71%) CI/CD
8 36 (37.50%) Analytics
8 36 (37.50%) Clean Code
8 36 (37.50%) Test Automation
9 33 (34.38%) Sprint Planning
10 32 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
11 29 (30.21%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (22.92%) Mentoring
13 19 (19.79%) Data Modelling
13 19 (19.79%) ETL
13 19 (19.79%) Migration
14 17 (17.71%) ERP
14 17 (17.71%) Microservices
14 17 (17.71%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) Python
2 42 (43.75%) SQL
3 21 (21.88%) Java
4 20 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 17 (17.71%) PL/SQL
5 17 (17.71%) Shell Script
6 8 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.25%) C
8 4 (4.17%) Ada
8 4 (4.17%) C#
8 4 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.08%) C++
10 1 (1.04%) Bash
10 1 (1.04%) Groovy
10 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Degree
2 12 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.04%) CBAP
3 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.04%) PMP
3 1 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 8 (8.33%) GDPR
2 6 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 6 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (5.21%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.04%) RACF
Systems Management
1 25 (26.04%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (21.88%) Terraform
3 5 (5.21%) Ansible
4 4 (4.17%) Grafana
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.04%) Podman
6 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
1 17 (17.71%) Oracle
2 13 (13.54%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.33%) Charles River
3 8 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 8 (8.33%) Workday
4 7 (7.29%) IBM
5 4 (4.17%) Splunk
6 3 (3.13%) F5
6 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.04%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.04%) Green Hills