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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 39 26
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 201 166 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.38% 6.20% 7.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 54.32% 34.51% 37.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 114 180
10th Percentile £355 £297 £319
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £446 £465
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -4.19% +6.29%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £570
90th Percentile £714 £666 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
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 £55.00 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% +34.83% -17.59%

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 370 481 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.27% 17.97% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 360 466
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £417 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £557
90th Percentile £634 £615 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £34.10 £59.49 £32.40
25th Percentile - £60.17 £45.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £62.46 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +14.61% +36.25%
75th Percentile - £67.11 £56.63
90th Percentile - £68.09 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +12 97 £475 +11.76% 21
South Lanarkshire - 47 £600 -
Edinburgh +9 41 £473 +2.16% 11
West Lothian +8 6 - -
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 97 (48.26%) Confluence
2 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.99%) Apache
5 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.00%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.00%) JBoss
6 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.00%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Maximo
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.96%) Azure
2 12 (5.97%) Power Platform
3 11 (5.47%) Power Automate
3 11 (5.47%) PowerApps
4 10 (4.98%) AWS
5 9 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.99%) GCP
7 3 (1.49%) IaaS
7 3 (1.49%) OCI
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.00%) PaaS
8 2 (1.00%) SaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.50%) Serverless
9 1 (0.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.99%) VoIP
2 4 (1.99%) VSAN
3 2 (1.00%) Modbus
4 1 (0.50%) 2G
4 1 (0.50%) 5G
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.47%) Power BI
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.50%) DB2
4 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Git
2 10 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.48%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.48%) JUnit
4 6 (2.99%) Postman
5 4 (1.99%) IntelliJ
5 4 (1.99%) Subversion
6 2 (1.00%) CMake
6 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.00%) Maven
6 2 (1.00%) Selenium
6 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) GitLab
7 1 (0.50%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.50%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (43.78%) Public Sector
2 32 (15.92%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.93%) Finance
4 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.98%) Banking
5 4 (1.99%) Electronics
5 4 (1.99%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.99%) Marketing
5 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Military
8 1 (0.50%) Automotive
8 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (15.42%) Developer
1 31 (15.42%) Senior
2 29 (14.43%) Analyst
3 19 (9.45%) Lead
4 18 (8.96%) Product Manager
5 17 (8.46%) Java Developer
6 15 (7.46%) Applications Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) JIRA Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (5.47%) Applications Support
9 11 (5.47%) Applications Support Engineer
9 11 (5.47%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.47%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (5.47%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.98%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.98%) Exchange Engineer
10 10 (4.98%) Senior Manager
11 9 (4.48%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 8 (3.98%) Project Controller
12 8 (3.98%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.97%) REST
2 13 (6.47%) Kafka
2 13 (6.47%) Spring
3 10 (4.98%) Spring Boot
3 10 (4.98%) Web Services
4 5 (2.49%) Apache Camel
4 5 (2.49%) RESTful
5 4 (1.99%) .NET
5 4 (1.99%) J2EE
6 3 (1.49%) CSS
6 3 (1.49%) HTML
6 3 (1.49%) React
7 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.00%) JSP
7 2 (1.00%) OpenTracing
7 2 (1.00%) Servlets
7 2 (1.00%) STL
7 2 (1.00%) XML
7 2 (1.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.96%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (3.48%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.49%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.99%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.99%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.00%) CMDB
7 2 (1.00%) Equities
7 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.46%) Linux
2 7 (3.48%) Unix
3 5 (2.49%) Windows
4 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.50%) AIX
6 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (56.72%) Agile
2 44 (21.89%) Roadmaps
3 43 (21.39%) Project Management
4 36 (17.91%) Scrum
5 35 (17.41%) Coaching
6 29 (14.43%) Project Delivery
7 24 (11.94%) Migration
8 23 (11.44%) DevOps
8 23 (11.44%) Epics
9 22 (10.95%) Analytics
10 20 (9.95%) Unit Testing
10 20 (9.95%) User Stories
11 19 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (9.45%) User Research
12 18 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (8.46%) Data Migration
14 16 (7.96%) Performance Metrics
14 16 (7.96%) Service Management
15 15 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (7.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.94%) SQL
2 22 (10.95%) Java
3 16 (7.96%) PL/SQL
4 12 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.98%) Python
6 6 (2.99%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.49%) Perl
8 4 (1.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.99%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.99%) Scala
9 3 (1.49%) Bash
9 3 (1.49%) C#
10 2 (1.00%) C
10 2 (1.00%) C++
10 2 (1.00%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.00%) Groovy
10 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.00%) VBA
10 2 (1.00%) VBScript
11 1 (0.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 78 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 71 (35.32%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.45%) Degree
4 8 (3.98%) PMP
5 4 (1.99%) ISEB
6 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.00%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.50%) CCSA
8 1 (0.50%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.96%) PMO
2 13 (6.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (4.48%) SLA
4 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.49%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.98%) Active Directory
1 10 (4.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.99%) vSphere
3 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (4.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 9 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.99%) Grafana
2 4 (1.99%) Kibana
2 4 (1.99%) vCenter Server
2 4 (1.99%) VxRail
3 2 (1.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Zipkin
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Argo
4 1 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 45 (22.39%) Atlassian
2 21 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.47%) Avaloq
4 12 (5.97%) Oracle
5 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.49%) VMware
7 4 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.99%) Dell
7 4 (1.99%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.99%) SAP
8 3 (1.49%) Cisco
8 3 (1.49%) Splunk
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) IBM
10 1 (0.50%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.50%) Cadence
10 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint