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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 108 69
Rank change year-on-year +46 -39 +3
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 116 208 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.84% 3.10% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.22% 20.39% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 34 86 94
10th Percentile - £43,000 £41,625
25th Percentile - £47,500 £44,274
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,500 £60,259
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +3.72% +4.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £82,548 £77,715
90th Percentile £73,886 £99,237 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% -8.33% -

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 360 1,020 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.92% 15.21% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 183 269 344
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,787 £42,439 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £76,430 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £91,934 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 21 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 21 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 -16 26 £68,496 +5.38% 29
Renfrewshire 0 22 £52,000 -16.80% 12
Lanarkshire +1 18 - - 1
Inverclyde - 13 £52,000 -
Glasgow +83 9 £56,000 -8.94% 24
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Fife -14 3 - - 1
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +7 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 60 (51.72%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) CICS
3 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (28.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 53 (45.69%) Azure
2 52 (44.83%) GCP
3 51 (43.97%) AWS
4 8 (6.90%) SaaS
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.86%) GitHub
6 1 (0.86%) OCI
6 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) HTTP
2 1 (0.86%) DNS
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) LAN
2 1 (0.86%) Multicast
2 1 (0.86%) RTP
2 1 (0.86%) RTSP
2 1 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.86%) SSL
2 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (43.10%) SQL Server
2 33 (28.45%) Tableau
3 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.86%) DB2
4 1 (0.86%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.86%) Metadata
4 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (42.24%) Bitbucket
1 49 (42.24%) Cucumber
1 49 (42.24%) GitLab
1 49 (42.24%) Maven
1 49 (42.24%) Selenium
1 49 (42.24%) SonarQube
1 49 (42.24%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (4.31%) Git
3 1 (0.86%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) JUnit
3 1 (0.86%) Subversion
General
1 64 (55.17%) Finance
2 58 (50.00%) Banking
3 53 (45.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Electronics
7 2 (1.72%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (46.55%) Software Engineer
2 33 (28.45%) Principal Engineer
3 11 (9.48%) Senior
4 7 (6.03%) Analyst
5 6 (5.17%) Developer
6 5 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.45%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Business Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Product Developer
8 3 (2.59%) Product Owner
8 3 (2.59%) Release Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Release Train Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (1.72%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (1.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.72%) Digital Analyst
9 2 (1.72%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
9 2 (1.72%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (1.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (43.97%) CSS
1 51 (43.97%) HTML
1 51 (43.97%) React
2 50 (43.10%) Hibernate
2 50 (43.10%) Redux
2 50 (43.10%) Spring
2 50 (43.10%) Spring Boot
3 49 (42.24%) JPA
3 49 (42.24%) Kafka
4 3 (2.59%) RESTful
5 2 (1.72%) .NET
5 2 (1.72%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.72%) Node.js
5 2 (1.72%) Web Services
6 1 (0.86%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.86%) Express.js
6 1 (0.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.86%) Middleware
6 1 (0.86%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 60 (51.72%) Product Ownership
2 49 (42.24%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.72%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.86%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.86%) IPTV
5 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.86%) MPEG
5 1 (0.86%) PCIe
5 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.72%) Linux
1 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.86%) Android
2 1 (0.86%) Debian
2 1 (0.86%) Rocky
2 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (63.79%) Agile
2 56 (48.28%) DevOps
3 55 (47.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (47.41%) Software Engineering
4 52 (44.83%) CI/CD
5 50 (43.10%) Clean Code
5 50 (43.10%) SDLC
5 50 (43.10%) Test Automation
6 49 (42.24%) Containerisation
6 49 (42.24%) Front End Development
6 49 (42.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (42.24%) Microservices
6 49 (42.24%) Performance Optimisation
6 49 (42.24%) TDD
7 35 (30.17%) Analytics
8 33 (28.45%) Data Analytics
8 33 (28.45%) Data Governance
8 33 (28.45%) Data Management
8 33 (28.45%) Data Modelling
9 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (44.83%) SQL
2 51 (43.97%) Java
3 50 (43.10%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.72%) C
4 2 (1.72%) C#
4 2 (1.72%) C++
4 2 (1.72%) Go
4 2 (1.72%) Python
4 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.86%) Bash
5 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.86%) PHP
5 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (42.24%) QA
2 34 (29.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.86%) IFRS
System Software
1 52 (44.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) RACF
2 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (42.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.45%) Terraform
3 2 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (42.24%) Solace
2 35 (30.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.72%) Google
4 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.86%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco
5 1 (0.86%) F5
5 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.86%) IBM
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle
5 1 (0.86%) Planview
5 1 (0.86%) Splunk
5 1 (0.86%) VMware