JIRA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 45 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 877 1,036 1,827
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.16% 4.56% 5.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.25% 34.48% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 706 1,304
10th Percentile £350 £300 £351
25th Percentile £414 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 43 43
10th Percentile £37.55 £51.25 £38.68
25th Percentile £40.94 £55.63 £50.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.77% +11.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.51 £75.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -7.26% +39.33% -15.24%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,293 3,005 4,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 13.21% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,458 2,098 3,216
10th Percentile £350 £338 £360
25th Percentile £413 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £657 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 162 113
10th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £41.54
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +7.77%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +23 195 £500 +11.11% 35
South East -5 192 £450 -10.00% 94
South West +33 188 £538 -2.27% 51
North of England -3 167 £500 - 79
North West +13 99 £505 +12.10% 54
Midlands -35 74 £454 +0.83% 66
Yorkshire +11 59 £450 -10.00% 22
East of England -26 52 £506 +1.25% 25
East Midlands +13 41 £445 +34.85% 23
West Midlands -54 33 £500 - 43
Wales +18 11 £514 +11.08% 10
North East -18 9 £546 -3.32% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 368 (41.96%) Confluence
2 46 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (3.19%) SharePoint Server
5 16 (1.82%) Apache
6 15 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.25%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.80%) JBoss
10 6 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.46%) Appian
12 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.23%) Mule
13 2 (0.23%) StreamWeaver
13 2 (0.23%) WildFly
14 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.11%) CMS
14 1 (0.11%) nginx
14 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 58 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (4.45%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (3.65%) MS Visio
5 24 (2.74%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (1.03%) Trello
8 4 (0.46%) Sketch
8 4 (0.46%) Windchill
9 2 (0.23%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) SAP Hybris
2 10 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.91%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.91%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.80%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.46%) Maximo
5 4 (0.46%) Misys Midas
5 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.11%) Magento
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 161 (18.36%) Azure
2 116 (13.23%) AWS
3 58 (6.61%) GitHub
4 45 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (4.90%) Power Platform
6 35 (3.99%) GCP
7 27 (3.08%) Azure Stack
8 20 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.05%) Power Automate
9 18 (2.05%) PowerApps
10 16 (1.82%) Kong
10 16 (1.82%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.60%) Apigee
11 14 (1.60%) SaaS
11 14 (1.60%) Serverless
12 13 (1.48%) PaaS
12 13 (1.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 12 (1.37%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.93%) Firewall
2 44 (5.02%) BGP
3 31 (3.53%) DNS
4 29 (3.31%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.19%) VPN
6 18 (2.05%) DHCP
6 18 (2.05%) SNMP
7 17 (1.94%) Software-Defined Radio
8 16 (1.82%) HTTP
9 15 (1.71%) MPLS
10 10 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (1.03%) SSL
12 8 (0.91%) VSAN
13 7 (0.80%) WAN
13 7 (0.80%) Wireless
14 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 6 (0.68%) FTP
14 6 (0.68%) VoIP
15 5 (0.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.88%) Power BI
2 22 (2.51%) MongoDB
2 22 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (1.94%) Big Data
5 13 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.48%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.91%) MySQL
8 8 (0.91%) Tableau
9 7 (0.80%) Metadata
9 7 (0.80%) OLAP
9 7 (0.80%) OLTP
9 7 (0.80%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.68%) Oracle OLAP
10 6 (0.68%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (14.25%) Jenkins
2 117 (13.34%) Git
3 84 (9.58%) Bitbucket
4 50 (5.70%) GitLab
5 41 (4.68%) GoogleTest
6 35 (3.99%) Selenium
7 32 (3.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (3.08%) Cucumber
9 24 (2.74%) Robot Framework
10 23 (2.62%) Eclipse
11 21 (2.39%) Subversion
12 18 (2.05%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.71%) JMeter
14 13 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (1.37%) REST Assured
15 12 (1.37%) TestRail
16 9 (1.03%) CircleCI
16 9 (1.03%) TeamCity
16 9 (1.03%) Travis CI
17 8 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 296 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 165 (18.81%) Finance
3 162 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 48 (5.47%) Banking
6 44 (5.02%) Aerospace
7 39 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 29 (3.31%) Military
8 29 (3.31%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.96%) Retail
10 23 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.71%) Marketing
14 13 (1.48%) Automotive
15 12 (1.37%) Law
16 10 (1.14%) Legal
17 8 (0.91%) Police
18 6 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (14.94%) Analyst
2 114 (13.00%) Developer
3 81 (9.24%) Senior
4 65 (7.41%) Lead
5 64 (7.30%) Project Manager
6 62 (7.07%) Architect
6 62 (7.07%) Software Engineer
7 53 (6.04%) Business Analyst
8 50 (5.70%) Test Engineer
9 37 (4.22%) Java Engineer
10 35 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (3.65%) Data Analyst
12 31 (3.53%) C++ Software Engineer
12 31 (3.53%) Project Leader
13 29 (3.31%) Java Developer
14 25 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
14 25 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (2.74%) Support Engineer
16 22 (2.51%) Consultant
16 22 (2.51%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.02%) REST
2 38 (4.33%) .NET
2 38 (4.33%) HTML
3 31 (3.53%) CSS
4 30 (3.42%) Kafka
5 29 (3.31%) XML
6 26 (2.96%) Web Services
7 25 (2.85%) .NET Core
7 25 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (2.85%) Qt
7 25 (2.85%) Spring
8 24 (2.74%) JSON
9 22 (2.51%) SOAP
10 21 (2.39%) React
11 19 (2.17%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.82%) Java EE
13 15 (1.71%) YAML
14 14 (1.60%) RESTful
15 12 (1.37%) ARM Templates
15 12 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 35 (3.99%) Private Cloud
3 33 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
5 30 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.74%) PKI
7 21 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.14%) Credit Risk
11 8 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.80%) Cyberattack
12 7 (0.80%) DataPower
13 6 (0.68%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.68%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 139 (15.85%) Linux
2 108 (12.31%) Windows
3 35 (3.99%) Unix
4 31 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 22 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.80%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.57%) AIX
8 5 (0.57%) VMS
9 4 (0.46%) Android
9 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.34%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.34%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (54.73%) Agile
2 190 (21.66%) DevOps
3 172 (19.61%) Project Management
4 164 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (18.13%) Scrum
6 141 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 118 (13.45%) CI/CD
8 107 (12.20%) Project Delivery
8 107 (12.20%) Software Engineering
9 91 (10.38%) Test Automation
10 77 (8.78%) Continuous Integration
11 69 (7.87%) Migration
12 67 (7.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 64 (7.30%) Roadmaps
14 62 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (6.96%) Workflow
16 60 (6.84%) Service Management
17 55 (6.27%) Configuration Management
17 55 (6.27%) ITIL
17 55 (6.27%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.08%) Python
2 125 (14.25%) Java
3 108 (12.31%) SQL
4 70 (7.98%) C++
5 66 (7.53%) PowerShell
6 55 (6.27%) JavaScript
7 31 (3.53%) Shell Script
8 29 (3.31%) Bash
9 25 (2.85%) PL/SQL
10 22 (2.51%) C#
11 21 (2.39%) C
12 14 (1.60%) Groovy
13 12 (1.37%) Go
14 11 (1.25%) ABAP
14 11 (1.25%) Perl
14 11 (1.25%) Scala
15 8 (0.91%) Assembly Language
16 6 (0.68%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 269 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 183 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 106 (12.09%) Degree
4 69 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.85%) APMP
6 23 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 18 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.05%) MCSA
8 18 (2.05%) MCSE
8 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.94%) PMP
10 11 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 9 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.80%) CCNA
13 7 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (0.46%) ISEB
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.93%) PMO
2 48 (5.47%) QA
3 31 (3.53%) Government Security Classifications
4 30 (3.42%) MISRA
5 12 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.80%) GDPR
7 7 (0.80%) GxP
7 7 (0.80%) NCSC
7 7 (0.80%) NIST
8 6 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (0.68%) SLA
9 5 (0.57%) MISRA C
10 4 (0.46%) GRC
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.46%) JTAG
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) IFRS
12 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (8.10%) Docker
2 48 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 44 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (2.85%) Firmware
5 12 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.25%) vSphere
7 10 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.68%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.11%) HDFS
13 1 (0.11%) Snort
Systems Management
1 72 (8.21%) Ansible
2 70 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 52 (5.93%) Terraform
4 25 (2.85%) PowerCLI
5 24 (2.74%) Progress Chef
6 21 (2.39%) Docker Swarm
6 21 (2.39%) Kibana
7 16 (1.82%) SCOM
8 13 (1.48%) Grafana
8 13 (1.48%) logstash
8 13 (1.48%) Podman
9 11 (1.25%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.03%) Puppet
10 9 (1.03%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.91%) Rancher
12 7 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.46%) OPNET
Vendors
1 173 (19.73%) Atlassian
2 151 (17.22%) Microsoft
3 52 (5.93%) Google
4 50 (5.70%) VMware
5 49 (5.59%) SAP
6 38 (4.33%) Oracle
7 32 (3.65%) Dell
8 30 (3.42%) Splunk
9 27 (3.08%) HP
10 24 (2.74%) Cisco
11 23 (2.62%) ServiceNow
12 21 (2.39%) Avaloq
13 20 (2.28%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.94%) Adobe
15 14 (1.60%) Juniper
16 11 (1.25%) IBM
16 11 (1.25%) Red Hat
17 10 (1.14%) Informatica
18 8 (0.91%) Cadence
18 8 (0.91%) F5