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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 46 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,737 2,675 5,296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.08% 4.70% 6.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.80% 31.79% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 1,829 3,613
10th Percentile £349 £330 £373
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £495
% change year-on-year +3.09% -2.02% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 49 106
10th Percentile £25.10 £39.28 £30.75
25th Percentile £40.00 £54.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £66.69 £44.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +49.55% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
90th Percentile - £83.33 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £67.04 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.50% +11.73% +16.50%

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 5,139 8,415 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.06% 14.80% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,934 11,100
10th Percentile £355 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 226 207
10th Percentile £32.23 £43.70 £37.85
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.16
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 1,362 £525 -2.78% 594
UK excluding London +5 866 £500 +3.09% 423
London -7 671 £550 -4.35% 206
Work from Home +10 644 £500 -3.85% 300
Scotland +26 203 £494 +10.90% 23
South East +4 199 £493 -1.50% 127
South West +22 187 £538 +7.50% 62
North of England -12 143 £500 - 90
North West -5 81 £510 +13.33% 53
Midlands -38 69 £460 +2.22% 87
Yorkshire +1 57 £450 -14.29% 29
East of England -22 54 £450 -10.00% 32
West Midlands -46 37 £500 -2.44% 56
East Midlands +3 32 £445 +34.85% 31
Wales +20 12 £515 +3.00% 11
North East -20 5 £566 +0.22% 11
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
1 691 (39.78%) Confluence
2 81 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (2.07%) SharePoint Server
5 30 (1.73%) Apache
6 25 (1.44%) CMS
7 19 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.86%) nginx
10 11 (0.63%) JBoss
11 8 (0.46%) IIS
12 7 (0.40%) Drupal
12 7 (0.40%) SAS
13 6 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.23%) Appian
14 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 102 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
2 99 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (3.22%) MS Visio
5 44 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.86%) 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%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
3 7 (0.40%) Temenos T24
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
4 6 (0.35%) thinkFolio
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.23%) Markit EDM
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%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 315 (18.13%) Azure
2 264 (15.20%) AWS
3 126 (7.25%) GitHub
4 115 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 97 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (3.74%) GCP
7 56 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 42 (2.42%) Serverless
10 39 (2.25%) Azure Stack
10 39 (2.25%) Power Automate
10 39 (2.25%) Slack
11 38 (2.19%) SaaS
12 27 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.38%) PaaS
14 22 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (1.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 21 (1.21%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.21%) Miro
16 20 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.78%) Firewall
2 55 (3.17%) BGP
3 53 (3.05%) DNS
4 41 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 40 (2.30%) VPN
6 30 (1.73%) DHCP
7 26 (1.50%) HTTP
8 22 (1.27%) Intranet
9 20 (1.15%) Internet
10 17 (0.98%) MPLS
10 17 (0.98%) SNMP
11 15 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
12 14 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
12 14 (0.81%) Wireless
13 13 (0.75%) 5G
14 12 (0.69%) SSL
14 12 (0.69%) VLAN
14 12 (0.69%) VSAN
15 11 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.70%) Power BI
2 85 (4.89%) SQL Server
3 54 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 34 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 34 (1.96%) Tableau
6 30 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 22 (1.27%) Big Data
8 21 (1.21%) MySQL
9 19 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.86%) 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 8 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 231 (13.30%) Git
2 210 (12.09%) Jenkins
3 104 (5.99%) GitLab
4 99 (5.70%) Bitbucket
5 75 (4.32%) Selenium
6 69 (3.97%) Cucumber
7 55 (3.17%) JMeter
8 45 (2.59%) TeamCity
9 41 (2.36%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.13%) Postman
11 35 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 32 (1.84%) JUnit
13 29 (1.67%) Eclipse
14 28 (1.61%) GoogleTest
14 28 (1.61%) Subversion
15 27 (1.55%) Robot Framework
15 27 (1.55%) TestRail
16 20 (1.15%) webpack
17 19 (1.09%) Maven
18 18 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 608 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 347 (19.98%) Finance
3 308 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 141 (8.12%) Banking
6 65 (3.74%) Front Office
7 62 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 54 (3.11%) Marketing
9 45 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 43 (2.48%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.36%) Retail
12 37 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 32 (1.84%) Military
14 27 (1.55%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.15%) Law
16 17 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 269 (15.49%) Analyst
2 229 (13.18%) Developer
3 164 (9.44%) Senior
4 125 (7.20%) Project Manager
5 124 (7.14%) Lead
6 122 (7.02%) Business Analyst
7 90 (5.18%) Architect
8 79 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 59 (3.40%) Software Engineer
10 58 (3.34%) Java Developer
11 52 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (2.71%) Test Analyst
13 45 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
14 44 (2.53%) Support Engineer
14 44 (2.53%) Tester
15 43 (2.48%) Data Analyst
16 39 (2.25%) Consultant
17 37 (2.13%) Technical Analyst
18 36 (2.07%) Test Manager
19 35 (2.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (7.25%) REST
2 75 (4.32%) CSS
2 75 (4.32%) HTML
3 68 (3.91%) React
4 65 (3.74%) XML
5 60 (3.45%) .NET
6 59 (3.40%) Web Services
7 57 (3.28%) JSON
8 54 (3.11%) SOAP
9 51 (2.94%) Spring
10 47 (2.71%) Kafka
11 41 (2.36%) AngularJS
12 36 (2.07%) Spring Boot
13 35 (2.01%) ADO
14 33 (1.90%) .NET Core
15 30 (1.73%) Middleware
15 30 (1.73%) RESTful
16 27 (1.55%) LDAP
17 26 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
18 25 (1.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.81%) Product Ownership
2 49 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 48 (2.76%) Private Cloud
4 40 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 34 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 33 (1.90%) Fixed Income
7 29 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 26 (1.50%) PKI
10 24 (1.38%) Derivative
11 23 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 20 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.86%) Credit Risk
17 13 (0.75%) Clustering
18 12 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 186 (10.71%) Linux
2 166 (9.56%) Windows
3 70 (4.03%) Unix
4 50 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.86%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.81%) Android
9 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.46%) AIX
11 7 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.40%) Solaris
12 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.35%) Mac OS X
12 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.29%) VMS
14 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.17%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (54.86%) Agile
2 362 (20.84%) DevOps
3 336 (19.34%) Scrum
4 286 (16.47%) Project Management
5 277 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 267 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 217 (12.49%) Test Automation
8 211 (12.15%) CI/CD
9 164 (9.44%) Software Engineering
10 143 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 141 (8.12%) Project Delivery
12 138 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
13 129 (7.43%) Migration
14 119 (6.85%) User Stories
15 118 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
16 117 (6.74%) Kanban
16 117 (6.74%) Workflow
17 116 (6.68%) Roadmaps
18 110 (6.33%) SDLC
19 108 (6.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 267 (15.37%) Python
2 254 (14.62%) SQL
3 223 (12.84%) Java
4 148 (8.52%) JavaScript
5 107 (6.16%) PowerShell
6 74 (4.26%) C#
7 73 (4.20%) C++
8 57 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 51 (2.94%) Bash
9 51 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 36 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 32 (1.84%) Go
12 31 (1.78%) C
13 23 (1.32%) Groovy
14 21 (1.21%) Perl
14 21 (1.21%) Scala
15 14 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.69%) Ruby
17 11 (0.63%) ABAP
18 8 (0.46%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 430 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 330 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 216 (12.44%) Degree
4 81 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 39 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 38 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.67%) PMP
8 28 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.44%) APMP
10 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (1.21%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.04%) MCSE
13 17 (0.98%) MCSA
14 16 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 12 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.69%) ISEB
16 8 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 7 (0.40%) CCNA
18 6 (0.35%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (9.56%) QA
2 90 (5.18%) PMO
3 39 (2.25%) Government Security Classifications
4 33 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.15%) GDPR
7 17 (0.98%) MISRA
8 15 (0.86%) NIST
9 14 (0.81%) SLA
10 13 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
10 13 (0.75%) GxP
11 12 (0.69%) NCSC
12 10 (0.58%) EMIR
13 8 (0.46%) MiFID
14 7 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
14 7 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
14 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 124 (7.14%) Docker
2 78 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 57 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.21%) 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
1 132 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 115 (6.62%) Ansible
3 105 (6.04%) Terraform
4 33 (1.90%) Grafana
5 31 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 29 (1.67%) PowerCLI
7 28 (1.61%) Kibana
7 28 (1.61%) Puppet
8 26 (1.50%) SCOM
9 23 (1.32%) Prometheus
10 22 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
11 17 (0.98%) Packer
12 13 (0.75%) logstash
12 13 (0.75%) Podman
12 13 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.69%) Consul
13 12 (0.69%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.52%) VxRail
16 7 (0.40%) Autotask
Vendors
1 272 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 218 (12.55%) Atlassian
3 117 (6.74%) Oracle
4 86 (4.95%) SAP
5 78 (4.49%) VMware
6 74 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 65 (3.74%) Google
8 55 (3.17%) Splunk
9 48 (2.76%) Dell
10 40 (2.30%) Salesforce
11 38 (2.19%) HP
12 30 (1.73%) Cisco
13 24 (1.38%) Avaloq
14 22 (1.27%) Adobe
15 21 (1.21%) IBM
16 16 (0.92%) CyberArk
17 15 (0.86%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.86%) Okta
18 14 (0.81%) Databricks
18 14 (0.81%) Informatica