JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 52 46 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,357 2,121 4,294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.68% 4.47% 6.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.56% 31.22% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,483 2,917
10th Percentile £325 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £725 £760 £713
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 52 88
10th Percentile £25.03 £42.75 £27.24
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +32.02% -20.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.14
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% +34.83% -17.59%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,300 6,793 12,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.65% 14.31% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,912 4,846 8,978
10th Percentile £350 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 199 177
10th Percentile £31.57 £45.87 £38.15
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +22.51% +0.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £83.36 £76.64
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 England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the England 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
London -10 670 £538 -6.52% 186
South East -7 191 £450 -10.00% 90
South West +30 187 £538 +2.38% 49
North of England -9 150 £500 - 83
North West +3 87 £500 +11.11% 56
Midlands -35 68 £460 +2.22% 77
Yorkshire +11 57 £450 -11.76% 21
East of England -31 53 £500 - 24
East Midlands +8 36 £445 +34.85% 26
West Midlands -53 32 £511 +7.63% 52
North East -21 6 £575 +1.77% 10
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 522 (38.47%) Confluence
2 68 (5.01%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (2.21%) SharePoint Server
4 26 (1.92%) CMS
5 25 (1.84%) Apache
6 18 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (1.11%) Apache Spark
9 14 (1.03%) nginx
10 9 (0.66%) IIS
10 9 (0.66%) JBoss
11 7 (0.52%) Drupal
12 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.44%) SAS
13 4 (0.29%) Appian
13 4 (0.29%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Mule
14 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 75 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (3.91%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (3.32%) MS Visio
5 30 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (1.03%) Trello
8 7 (0.52%) Windchill
9 3 (0.22%) Sketch
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.15%) InDesign
10 2 (0.15%) Mingle
10 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.15%) Simulink
11 1 (0.074%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.074%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.074%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
1 12 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.52%) SAP CO
2 7 (0.52%) SAP FI
2 7 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
2 7 (0.52%) SimCorp Dimension
2 7 (0.52%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.44%) ION MarketView
3 6 (0.44%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.44%) Workfront
4 4 (0.29%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.29%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.22%) Misys Midas
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 242 (17.83%) Azure
2 212 (15.62%) AWS
3 97 (7.15%) GitHub
4 82 (6.04%) Power Platform
5 71 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (4.05%) GCP
7 51 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (2.43%) SaaS
8 33 (2.43%) Slack
9 32 (2.36%) Azure Stack
9 32 (2.36%) Serverless
10 24 (1.77%) Power Automate
10 24 (1.77%) PowerApps
11 22 (1.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 20 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (1.47%) OpenShift
12 20 (1.47%) PaaS
13 18 (1.33%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.25%) Kong
15 16 (1.18%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.23%) Firewall
2 49 (3.61%) BGP
3 47 (3.46%) DNS
4 41 (3.02%) VPN
5 39 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 29 (2.14%) DHCP
7 23 (1.69%) HTTP
8 18 (1.33%) SNMP
9 17 (1.25%) MPLS
10 16 (1.18%) Internet
10 16 (1.18%) Software-Defined Radio
11 14 (1.03%) Wireless
12 12 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.81%) 5G
13 11 (0.81%) VLAN
14 10 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
15 9 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.66%) NAS
15 9 (0.66%) SSH
15 9 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.08%) Power BI
2 67 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 46 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 28 (2.06%) Tableau
9 24 (1.77%) Big Data
10 23 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.40%) MySQL
12 15 (1.11%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.96%) Metadata
14 12 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.59%) Apache Hive
16 8 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 200 (14.74%) Git
2 195 (14.37%) Jenkins
3 100 (7.37%) Bitbucket
4 93 (6.85%) GitLab
5 65 (4.79%) Selenium
6 55 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 54 (3.98%) JMeter
8 35 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 35 (2.58%) TeamCity
9 34 (2.51%) GoogleTest
10 32 (2.36%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.99%) Eclipse
12 26 (1.92%) Robot Framework
13 25 (1.84%) JUnit
14 24 (1.77%) Postman
15 23 (1.69%) Subversion
16 22 (1.62%) TestRail
17 18 (1.33%) webpack
18 17 (1.25%) Maven
18 17 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 512 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 288 (21.22%) Finance
3 267 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (9.06%) Banking
5 68 (5.01%) Public Sector
6 64 (4.72%) Front Office
7 51 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (3.24%) Aerospace
9 42 (3.10%) Marketing
10 40 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (2.80%) Retail
12 35 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.43%) Military
14 29 (2.14%) Manufacturing
14 29 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 27 (1.99%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (1.33%) Law
18 17 (1.25%) Back Office
18 17 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 205 (15.11%) Analyst
2 186 (13.71%) Developer
3 113 (8.33%) Senior
4 110 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 93 (6.85%) Business Analyst
6 86 (6.34%) Lead
7 82 (6.04%) Architect
8 73 (5.38%) Test Engineer
9 65 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 45 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 43 (3.17%) Java Developer
12 39 (2.87%) Tester
13 37 (2.73%) Test Analyst
14 35 (2.58%) Support Engineer
14 35 (2.58%) Test Manager
15 33 (2.43%) Java Engineer
16 32 (2.36%) Consultant
17 31 (2.28%) Java Software Engineer
18 29 (2.14%) C++ Software Engineer
18 29 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.59%) REST
2 63 (4.64%) React
3 59 (4.35%) XML
4 52 (3.83%) .NET
5 51 (3.76%) HTML
5 51 (3.76%) JSON
6 50 (3.68%) CSS
7 46 (3.39%) Web Services
8 45 (3.32%) SOAP
9 42 (3.10%) Spring
10 36 (2.65%) Kafka
11 34 (2.51%) AngularJS
12 32 (2.36%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
14 27 (1.99%) ADO
14 27 (1.99%) LDAP
14 27 (1.99%) Spring Boot
15 25 (1.84%) JPA
16 22 (1.62%) RESTful
17 21 (1.55%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 41 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (2.51%) Private Cloud
4 33 (2.43%) Fixed Income
4 33 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.84%) PKI
7 24 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 23 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 23 (1.69%) Derivative
8 23 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.11%) Credit Risk
12 15 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 169 (12.45%) Linux
2 147 (10.83%) Windows
3 60 (4.42%) Unix
4 49 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (1.03%) Android
7 14 (1.03%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.44%) Solaris
10 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.37%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.37%) VMS
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.22%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.22%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.074%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (55.42%) Agile
2 281 (20.71%) DevOps
3 271 (19.97%) Scrum
4 242 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
5 223 (16.43%) Project Management
6 206 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 192 (14.15%) CI/CD
8 181 (13.34%) Test Automation
9 157 (11.57%) Software Engineering
10 129 (9.51%) Continuous Integration
11 127 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (7.66%) Migration
13 100 (7.37%) Kanban
14 99 (7.30%) Project Delivery
15 89 (6.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 89 (6.56%) SDLC
16 84 (6.19%) User Stories
16 84 (6.19%) Waterfall
17 82 (6.04%) ITIL
18 81 (5.97%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 241 (17.76%) Python
2 203 (14.96%) SQL
3 202 (14.89%) Java
4 114 (8.40%) JavaScript
5 89 (6.56%) PowerShell
6 82 (6.04%) C++
7 60 (4.42%) C#
8 52 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 46 (3.39%) Bash
10 36 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 32 (2.36%) Go
12 29 (2.14%) C
13 24 (1.77%) Groovy
14 19 (1.40%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.25%) Perl
16 12 (0.88%) Ruby
17 11 (0.81%) Scala
18 10 (0.74%) ABAP
19 8 (0.59%) Assembly Language
19 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 313 (23.07%) Security Cleared
2 229 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 171 (12.60%) Degree
4 72 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 39 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 36 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.84%) APMP
7 25 (1.84%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 22 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.40%) PMP
11 18 (1.33%) MCSA
11 18 (1.33%) MCSE
11 18 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.59%) CCNA
14 8 (0.59%) ISEB
15 6 (0.44%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (10.76%) QA
2 63 (4.64%) PMO
3 33 (2.43%) Government Security Classifications
4 23 (1.69%) MISRA
5 19 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.18%) GDPR
7 10 (0.74%) GxP
7 10 (0.74%) NIST
8 9 (0.66%) EMIR
9 7 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.52%) MiFID
10 6 (0.44%) Dodd-Frank
10 6 (0.44%) NCSC
10 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.29%) JTAG
11 4 (0.29%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (7.96%) Docker
2 67 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 54 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.55%) Firmware
5 16 (1.18%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.74%) vSphere
8 6 (0.44%) HDFS
8 6 (0.44%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.074%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.074%) iptables
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.074%) Snort
10 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 122 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 108 (7.96%) Ansible
3 90 (6.63%) Terraform
4 31 (2.28%) PowerCLI
5 29 (2.14%) Grafana
6 28 (2.06%) Progress Chef
7 24 (1.77%) Kibana
7 24 (1.77%) Puppet
8 22 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
8 22 (1.62%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.33%) SCOM
10 16 (1.18%) logstash
11 14 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.96%) Packer
12 13 (0.96%) Podman
13 10 (0.74%) Consul
14 8 (0.59%) Rancher
15 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.37%) PingFederate
16 5 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 216 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 154 (11.35%) Atlassian
3 83 (6.12%) Oracle
4 68 (5.01%) VMware
5 64 (4.72%) Google
6 58 (4.27%) ServiceNow
7 57 (4.20%) SAP
8 46 (3.39%) Splunk
9 43 (3.17%) Dell
10 36 (2.65%) HP
11 32 (2.36%) Salesforce
12 29 (2.14%) Cisco
13 19 (1.40%) Adobe
14 17 (1.25%) IBM
15 15 (1.11%) Bloomberg
16 13 (0.96%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.96%) Juniper
16 13 (0.96%) Okta
17 12 (0.88%) ION Trading
17 12 (0.88%) Palo Alto