Atlassian JIRA
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 45 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,738 2,751 5,318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 4.73% 6.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.05% 31.80% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,881 3,637
10th Percentile £340 £330 £372
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +0.10% +10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £613
90th Percentile £725 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +2.56% -0.51% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 51 106
10th Percentile £25.00 £39.60 £31.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.88 £66.69 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +48.70% -2.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £66.72 £57.23
% change year-on-year -10.07% +16.58% +17.46%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,105 8,652 15,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 14.87% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,428 6,098 11,217
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 237 216
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.62 £38.54
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £81.00 £76.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -3 1,346 £525 -2.78% 609
UK excluding London +4 866 £500 +2.56% 419
London -9 667 £545 -5.22% 198
Work from Home +5 645 £500 -4.12% 307
Scotland +24 217 £500 +12.36% 29
South East +3 201 £475 -5.00% 121
South West +26 185 £538 +7.50% 61
North of England -21 134 £500 - 86
North West -10 73 £510 +13.33% 47
Midlands -48 61 £468 +3.03% 88
Yorkshire +3 56 £450 -14.29% 33
East of England -23 55 £450 -10.00% 36
West Midlands -51 36 £500 -4.76% 54
East Midlands +4 25 £363 +9.85% 34
Wales +20 12 £515 +3.00% 11
North East -22 5 £566 -0.66% 9
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 692 (39.82%) Confluence
2 81 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (2.07%) SharePoint Server
5 32 (1.84%) Apache
6 25 (1.44%) CMS
7 21 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (1.04%) Apache Spark
9 16 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.86%) nginx
11 11 (0.63%) JBoss
12 8 (0.46%) Drupal
12 8 (0.46%) IIS
12 8 (0.46%) SAS
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.23%) Appian
14 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 99 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
4 53 (3.05%) MS Visio
5 43 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.81%) Trello
8 7 (0.40%) Windchill
9 4 (0.23%) Sketch
10 3 (0.17%) Simulink
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.12%) InDesign
11 2 (0.12%) InVision
11 2 (0.12%) Mingle
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.058%) FileZilla
12 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
3 9 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.35%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.29%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.23%) Workfront
7 3 (0.17%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.17%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 316 (18.18%) Azure
2 262 (15.07%) AWS
3 124 (7.13%) GitHub
4 112 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 97 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (3.68%) GCP
7 58 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 42 (2.42%) Serverless
10 39 (2.24%) Azure Stack
10 39 (2.24%) Power Automate
11 38 (2.19%) SaaS
11 38 (2.19%) Slack
12 27 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (1.44%) PaaS
14 21 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.21%) IaaS
14 21 (1.21%) Miro
15 20 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.89%) Firewall
2 55 (3.16%) BGP
3 54 (3.11%) DNS
4 43 (2.47%) TCP/IP
5 41 (2.36%) VPN
6 31 (1.78%) DHCP
7 24 (1.38%) HTTP
8 22 (1.27%) Intranet
9 18 (1.04%) 5G
10 17 (0.98%) MPLS
11 16 (0.92%) Internet
11 16 (0.92%) SNMP
12 15 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
12 15 (0.86%) Wireless
13 14 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
13 14 (0.81%) VLAN
14 12 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
14 12 (0.69%) NAS
14 12 (0.69%) VSAN
15 11 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.52%) Power BI
2 84 (4.83%) SQL Server
3 56 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 34 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 32 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (1.78%) Tableau
8 30 (1.73%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.27%) Big Data
10 21 (1.21%) MySQL
11 17 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 12 (0.69%) Metadata
14 11 (0.63%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.58%) Apache Hive
16 9 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (0.46%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 232 (13.35%) Git
2 208 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 101 (5.81%) GitLab
4 99 (5.70%) Bitbucket
5 75 (4.32%) Cucumber
5 75 (4.32%) Selenium
6 51 (2.93%) JMeter
7 48 (2.76%) TeamCity
8 43 (2.47%) Postman
9 38 (2.19%) Cypress.io
9 38 (2.19%) JUnit
10 35 (2.01%) TestRail
11 33 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 28 (1.61%) Eclipse
12 28 (1.61%) Subversion
13 27 (1.55%) Robot Framework
14 26 (1.50%) GoogleTest
15 22 (1.27%) webpack
16 19 (1.09%) Maven
17 18 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 620 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 335 (19.28%) Finance
3 305 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.77%) Banking
6 67 (3.86%) Front Office
7 65 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (2.93%) Marketing
9 43 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 42 (2.42%) Aerospace
11 41 (2.36%) Retail
12 39 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.84%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.78%) Military
17 20 (1.15%) Law
18 19 (1.09%) Legal
19 16 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 265 (15.25%) Analyst
2 237 (13.64%) Developer
3 170 (9.78%) Senior
4 128 (7.36%) Lead
5 121 (6.96%) Project Manager
6 119 (6.85%) Business Analyst
7 78 (4.49%) Test Engineer
8 75 (4.32%) Architect
9 63 (3.62%) Java Developer
10 58 (3.34%) Software Engineer
11 53 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 48 (2.76%) Test Analyst
13 46 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.59%) Support Engineer
15 41 (2.36%) Tester
16 40 (2.30%) Data Analyst
17 38 (2.19%) Consultant
17 38 (2.19%) Test Manager
18 35 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
18 35 (2.01%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.71%) REST
2 78 (4.49%) CSS
3 77 (4.43%) HTML
4 74 (4.26%) React
5 63 (3.62%) XML
6 60 (3.45%) .NET
7 58 (3.34%) JSON
8 56 (3.22%) Spring
9 54 (3.11%) SOAP
9 54 (3.11%) Web Services
10 50 (2.88%) Kafka
11 43 (2.47%) AngularJS
12 42 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 37 (2.13%) ADO
14 34 (1.96%) .NET Core
15 30 (1.73%) RESTful
16 29 (1.67%) LDAP
16 29 (1.67%) Node.js
17 27 (1.55%) J2EE
18 26 (1.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.81%) Product Ownership
2 51 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 48 (2.76%) Private Cloud
4 37 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 35 (2.01%) Fixed Income
6 33 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 29 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.55%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.50%) PKI
10 25 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.38%) Derivative
11 24 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 16 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.86%) Clustering
17 13 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 192 (11.05%) Linux
2 174 (10.01%) Windows
3 69 (3.97%) Unix
4 53 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.81%) Android
9 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.52%) Solaris
11 8 (0.46%) AIX
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.35%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.29%) VMS
15 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.17%) Windows 2000
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (54.83%) Agile
2 352 (20.25%) DevOps
3 331 (19.04%) Scrum
4 292 (16.80%) Project Management
5 275 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
6 259 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 221 (12.72%) Test Automation
8 204 (11.74%) CI/CD
9 158 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 151 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (8.17%) Continuous Integration
12 140 (8.06%) Project Delivery
13 136 (7.83%) Migration
14 118 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
15 117 (6.73%) User Stories
16 116 (6.67%) Kanban
17 115 (6.62%) Roadmaps
17 115 (6.62%) SDLC
17 115 (6.62%) Workflow
18 109 (6.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 264 (15.19%) Python
2 255 (14.67%) SQL
3 226 (13.00%) Java
4 151 (8.69%) JavaScript
5 110 (6.33%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.37%) C#
7 70 (4.03%) C++
8 60 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 51 (2.93%) Bash
10 49 (2.82%) Shell Script
11 37 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 31 (1.78%) C
12 31 (1.78%) Go
13 22 (1.27%) Groovy
14 21 (1.21%) Perl
14 21 (1.21%) Scala
15 15 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.75%) Ruby
17 10 (0.58%) ABAP
18 8 (0.46%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 433 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 215 (12.37%) Degree
4 82 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 36 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.61%) PMP
9 25 (1.44%) APMP
10 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 20 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 17 (0.98%) MCSE
13 16 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 16 (0.92%) MCSA
14 13 (0.75%) ISEB
15 12 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 7 (0.40%) CCNA
18 6 (0.35%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (9.32%) QA
2 92 (5.29%) PMO
3 39 (2.24%) Government Security Classifications
4 33 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.27%) GDPR
7 15 (0.86%) MISRA
8 14 (0.81%) NIST
8 14 (0.81%) SLA
9 13 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
9 13 (0.75%) GxP
10 12 (0.69%) NCSC
11 10 (0.58%) EMIR
12 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.46%) MiFID
14 7 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
14 7 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
15 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 132 (7.59%) Docker
2 81 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 59 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.15%) Firmware
5 19 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.98%) vSphere
7 12 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (0.35%) HDFS
10 6 (0.35%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
12 4 (0.23%) Snort
13 3 (0.17%) vCloud
14 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.058%) iptables
14 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 131 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 116 (6.67%) Ansible
3 106 (6.10%) Terraform
4 33 (1.90%) Grafana
4 33 (1.90%) Kibana
5 29 (1.67%) PowerCLI
6 27 (1.55%) Puppet
7 26 (1.50%) SCOM
8 22 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
10 17 (0.98%) Packer
11 13 (0.75%) Podman
12 12 (0.69%) Consul
12 12 (0.69%) logstash
12 12 (0.69%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.52%) VxRail
15 8 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 274 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 220 (12.66%) Atlassian
3 116 (6.67%) Oracle
4 84 (4.83%) SAP
5 80 (4.60%) VMware
6 79 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.45%) Google
8 56 (3.22%) Splunk
9 51 (2.93%) Dell
10 41 (2.36%) HP
11 38 (2.19%) Salesforce
12 33 (1.90%) Cisco
13 23 (1.32%) Avaloq
14 21 (1.21%) Adobe
14 21 (1.21%) IBM
15 17 (0.98%) CyberArk
16 15 (0.86%) Bloomberg
16 15 (0.86%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.81%) Informatica
18 13 (0.75%) ION Trading