JIRA Contracts in the South East

Atlassian JIRA
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 53 46 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 191 244 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.38% 4.33% 5.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.17% 33.42% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 137 277
10th Percentile £300 £316 £342
25th Percentile £350 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £563
90th Percentile £681 £660 £673
England median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 14
10th Percentile £32.60 £33.80 £47.38
25th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £52.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -0.83%
75th Percentile - £71.28 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.50 £75.00 £67.26
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year +2.13% +32.02% -20.54%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 543 730 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.62% 12.94% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 473 629
10th Percentile £312 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
England median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 41 21
10th Percentile £43.40 £22.16 £45.00
25th Percentile £55.87 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.24 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -6.28% +6.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £75.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year +5.69% +22.51% +0.40%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the South East 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
Thames Valley +14 99 £475 -7.32% 31
Berkshire -5 78 £525 +2.44% 11
Hampshire -4 51 £538 +16.22% 18
Surrey -1 26 £413 -17.50% 18
Buckinghamshire +37 15 £358 -30.24% 13
West Sussex -8 9 £500 +1.92% 11
Oxfordshire +11 7 £450 -11.76% 7
Middlesex - 2 £538 -
Sussex -6 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Kent -6 1 - - 4
Home Counties - 1 - -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 88 (46.07%) Confluence
2 13 (6.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.71%) Apache
4 7 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.57%) Appian
6 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.57%) Sketch
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.52%) FileZilla
5 1 (0.52%) Simulink
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
5 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (5.24%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 31 (16.23%) AWS
1 31 (16.23%) Azure
2 12 (6.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.62%) SaaS
5 4 (2.09%) PaaS
6 3 (1.57%) Figma
6 3 (1.57%) GitHub
6 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.57%) IaaS
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.05%) GCP
7 2 (1.05%) Miro
7 2 (1.05%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.05%) Route 53
7 2 (1.05%) Serverless
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.90%) SNMP
2 16 (8.38%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (7.85%) BGP
3 15 (7.85%) MPLS
4 11 (5.76%) VPN
5 9 (4.71%) DHCP
5 9 (4.71%) DNS
5 9 (4.71%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.66%) Ethernet VPN
6 7 (3.66%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (2.62%) Firewall
7 5 (2.62%) Wireless
8 3 (1.57%) WAN
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.05%) DMVPN
9 2 (1.05%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.05%) IPsec
9 2 (1.05%) OSPF
9 2 (1.05%) Sourcefire
9 2 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.24%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.19%) Big Data
5 3 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.57%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.05%) CouchDB
6 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.05%) MySQL
6 2 (1.05%) Power BI
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.05%) Tableau
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.52%) Impala
Development Applications
1 42 (21.99%) Git
2 33 (17.28%) GitLab
3 27 (14.14%) Bitbucket
4 25 (13.09%) Jenkins
5 23 (12.04%) Robot Framework
6 18 (9.42%) Selenium
7 17 (8.90%) GoogleTest
8 16 (8.38%) Eclipse
9 14 (7.33%) Cucumber
10 12 (6.28%) REST Assured
10 12 (6.28%) SonarQube
10 12 (6.28%) TestRail
11 8 (4.19%) Subversion
12 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (2.09%) Artifactory
14 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket Server
14 2 (1.05%) JMeter
14 2 (1.05%) Maven
14 2 (1.05%) VersionOne
14 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.66%) Finance
4 19 (9.95%) Telecoms
5 14 (7.33%) Aerospace
6 13 (6.81%) Retail
7 11 (5.76%) Military
8 9 (4.71%) Law
9 8 (4.19%) Police
10 7 (3.66%) Automotive
10 7 (3.66%) Banking
11 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.62%) Marketing
11 5 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.62%) Publishing
12 4 (2.09%) Billing
12 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.05%) Aviation
13 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.05%) French Language
Job Titles
1 33 (17.28%) Analyst
2 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
2 29 (15.18%) Test Engineer
3 20 (10.47%) Developer
4 18 (9.42%) Senior
5 15 (7.85%) C++ Software Engineer
5 15 (7.85%) Project Manager
6 14 (7.33%) Business Analyst
7 13 (6.81%) Java Engineer
7 13 (6.81%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (5.24%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (5.24%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Embedded Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 7 (3.66%) Architect
10 7 (3.66%) Digital Analyst
10 7 (3.66%) Scrum Master
10 7 (3.66%) Senior Test Engineer
10 7 (3.66%) Test Analyst
11 6 (3.14%) IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.18%) REST
2 28 (14.66%) HTML
3 23 (12.04%) CSS
4 13 (6.81%) Java EE
5 12 (6.28%) ARM Templates
5 12 (6.28%) SOAP
6 8 (4.19%) React
6 8 (4.19%) XML
7 7 (3.66%) NETCONF
7 7 (3.66%) RESTCONF
7 7 (3.66%) RESTful
7 7 (3.66%) YANG
8 6 (3.14%) Kafka
9 5 (2.62%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.62%) Node.js
10 4 (2.09%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.09%) JSON
10 4 (2.09%) PySpark
11 3 (1.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.76%) PKI
3 8 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.62%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.09%) Biopharmaceutical
6 4 (2.09%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.09%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.37%) Linux
2 35 (18.32%) Windows
3 16 (8.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.62%) Unix
6 4 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.05%) VMS
8 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.52%) Android
9 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.52%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (65.45%) Agile
2 57 (29.84%) Scrum
3 45 (23.56%) Software Engineering
4 44 (23.04%) DevOps
4 44 (23.04%) Test Automation
5 35 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (15.18%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (15.18%) Project Management
7 25 (13.09%) CI/CD
8 24 (12.57%) Validation
9 20 (10.47%) Computer Science
10 19 (9.95%) Containerisation
10 19 (9.95%) Regression Testing
10 19 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (8.90%) Configuration Management
11 17 (8.90%) UML
11 17 (8.90%) Workflow
12 16 (8.38%) SysML
12 16 (8.38%) Test Scripting
12 16 (8.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.85%) SQL
2 27 (14.14%) Java
3 26 (13.61%) C++
3 26 (13.61%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.04%) Python
5 10 (5.24%) Go
5 10 (5.24%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.19%) C#
7 5 (2.62%) Assembly Language
7 5 (2.62%) C
7 5 (2.62%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.09%) F#
9 2 (1.05%) Bash
9 2 (1.05%) Groovy
9 2 (1.05%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (19.37%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.85%) Degree
3 31 (16.23%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.76%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.71%) MCSA
5 9 (4.71%) MCSE
5 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.66%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (2.09%) HNC
8 4 (2.09%) PhD
9 3 (1.57%) PMP
10 2 (1.05%) CCNA
10 2 (1.05%) CCNP
10 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.05%) MBA
10 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) QA
2 6 (3.14%) PMO
3 4 (2.09%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.09%) JTAG
4 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.05%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) GxP
5 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.52%) MISRA
5 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (13.09%) Docker
2 20 (10.47%) Firmware
3 17 (8.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.85%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.14%) VirtualBox
6 4 (2.09%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.47%) Terraform
3 16 (8.38%) Ansible
4 12 (6.28%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.28%) Podman
5 4 (2.09%) Rancher
6 2 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.52%) Control-M
7 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.52%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (12.57%) Atlassian
2 23 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.47%) VMware
4 18 (9.42%) Google
5 15 (7.85%) SAP
6 13 (6.81%) Adobe
6 13 (6.81%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.76%) Oracle
8 8 (4.19%) Juniper
8 8 (4.19%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.66%) Dell
10 5 (2.62%) HP
11 4 (2.09%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.57%) Apple
12 3 (1.57%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.05%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.05%) Citrix
13 2 (1.05%) McAfee
13 2 (1.05%) Reuters