JIRA Contracts in Scotland

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 37 25
Rank change year-on-year +24 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 217 176 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.01% 6.37% 6.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 54.66% 32.65% 37.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 123 172
10th Percentile £363 £296 £333
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £465
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -4.30% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £569
90th Percentile £700 £658 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.38% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £37.95 £62.84 £19.78
25th Percentile - £63.83 £23.56
Median hourly rate £40.94 £66.56 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.49% +113.00% -32.07%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £38.06
90th Percentile - £68.53 £41.33
UK median hourly rate £50.44 £66.69 £44.85
% change year-on-year -24.36% +48.70% -2.51%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 397 539 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.31% 19.51% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 409 437
10th Percentile £363 £393 £364
25th Percentile £418 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £550
90th Percentile £643 £615 £621
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £34.10 £59.49 £35.45
25th Percentile - £60.17 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.94 £62.46 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +18.98% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £67.11 £55.75
90th Percentile - £68.09 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in Scotland

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 96 £475 +11.76% 13
South Lanarkshire - 56 £600 -
Edinburgh +18 43 £470 +4.44% 4
West Lothian +12 16 £585 +14.15%
Perthshire +9 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
1 118 (54.38%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.30%) Apache
3 5 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) JBoss
5 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.92%) WildFly
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.45%) Azure
2 12 (5.53%) Power Platform
3 11 (5.07%) Power Automate
3 11 (5.07%) PowerApps
4 10 (4.61%) AWS
5 7 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.76%) GCP
7 3 (1.38%) IaaS
7 3 (1.38%) OCI
8 2 (0.92%) PaaS
8 2 (0.92%) SaaS
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.76%) 5G
1 6 (2.76%) VoIP
2 5 (2.30%) VSAN
3 2 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) Modbus
4 1 (0.46%) 2G
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.07%) Power BI
2 6 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.92%) DB2
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (10.60%) Git
2 21 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.83%) Postman
4 14 (6.45%) Cucumber
4 14 (6.45%) JUnit
5 10 (4.61%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.84%) Subversion
7 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.92%) CMake
8 2 (0.92%) GitLab
8 2 (0.92%) Maven
8 2 (0.92%) Selenium
8 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.92%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.46%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (43.78%) Public Sector
2 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.90%) Finance
4 11 (5.07%) Banking
5 10 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.84%) Electronics
6 4 (1.84%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.84%) Marketing
6 4 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.46%) Automotive
9 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (19.35%) Senior
2 37 (17.05%) Developer
3 25 (11.52%) Analyst
4 23 (10.60%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.76%) Lead
6 18 (8.29%) Product Manager
7 15 (6.91%) Delivery Manager
8 14 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
9 13 (5.99%) JIRA Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Senior Manager
11 11 (5.07%) Data Analyst
11 11 (5.07%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (5.07%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.61%) Applications Support
12 10 (4.61%) Applications Support Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) Exchange Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.69%) Project Controller
13 8 (3.69%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.69%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.22%) REST
2 19 (8.76%) Kafka
3 18 (8.29%) Spring
4 17 (7.83%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.53%) Apache Camel
6 9 (4.15%) J2EE
6 9 (4.15%) Web Services
7 8 (3.69%) HTML
8 7 (3.23%) CSS
9 6 (2.76%) React
10 5 (2.30%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.30%) Jest
10 5 (2.30%) Node.js
10 5 (2.30%) Playwright
10 5 (2.30%) RESTful
11 4 (1.84%) .NET
12 3 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.38%) Hibernate
12 3 (1.38%) JSP
13 2 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.76%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.84%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.92%) Equities
7 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.76%) Linux
2 6 (2.76%) Windows
3 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.30%) Unix
4 2 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.46%) AIX
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (56.22%) Agile
2 48 (22.12%) Roadmaps
3 47 (21.66%) Project Management
4 38 (17.51%) Coaching
5 36 (16.59%) Scrum
6 29 (13.36%) Project Delivery
7 24 (11.06%) Unit Testing
8 23 (10.60%) Migration
9 22 (10.14%) Analytics
9 22 (10.14%) Epics
10 20 (9.22%) DevOps
11 19 (8.76%) CRM
11 19 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (8.76%) User Research
11 19 (8.76%) User Stories
12 18 (8.29%) End-to-End Testing
13 16 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (7.37%) Data Migration
13 16 (7.37%) User Acceptance Testing
14 15 (6.91%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.82%) Java
1 30 (13.82%) SQL
2 17 (7.83%) PL/SQL
3 16 (7.37%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.61%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.61%) Python
5 5 (2.30%) Bash
5 5 (2.30%) Perl
5 5 (2.30%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.84%) Kotlin
6 4 (1.84%) Scala
6 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.38%) C#
8 2 (0.92%) C
8 2 (0.92%) C++
8 2 (0.92%) Embedded C
8 2 (0.92%) Groovy
8 2 (0.92%) VBA
8 2 (0.92%) VBScript
9 1 (0.46%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 84 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 75 (34.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.76%) Degree
4 8 (3.69%) PMP
5 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.84%) ISEB
6 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.92%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.46%) CCSA
7 1 (0.46%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.68%) PMO
2 13 (5.99%) Disclosure Scotland
3 10 (4.61%) SLA
4 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.38%) NIST
4 3 (1.38%) QA
5 2 (0.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (8.76%) Docker
2 11 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.84%) vSphere
4 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (4.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 10 (4.61%) Kibana
2 8 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.84%) Grafana
3 4 (1.84%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (1.84%) vCenter Server
3 4 (1.84%) VxRail
4 2 (0.92%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.92%) Terraform
4 2 (0.92%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.46%) Ansible
5 1 (0.46%) Argo
5 1 (0.46%) Istio
5 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (22.58%) Atlassian
2 21 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.99%) Avaloq
3 13 (5.99%) Oracle
4 6 (2.76%) VMware
5 4 (1.84%) Dell
5 4 (1.84%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.84%) SAP
5 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.38%) Cisco
6 3 (1.38%) Splunk
7 2 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.46%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.46%) Cadence
8 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.46%) IBM
8 1 (0.46%) Pega