JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 49 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,374 1,717 4,152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.40% 4.29% 6.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.97% 33.31% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,152 2,803
10th Percentile £318 £360 £388
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.62% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 56 88
10th Percentile £37.55 £45.42 £16.86
25th Percentile £58.68 £51.44 £49.62
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.77% +16.07%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +17.12%

All Development Application Skills
England

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,167 5,154 11,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 12.89% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,659 8,089
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £683
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £545 £559
% change year-on-year -4.82% -2.42% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 226 271
10th Percentile £37.55 £45.88 £40.96
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +25.00%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -2 664 £525 -4.55% 171
North of England +12 215 £488 -2.50% 104
South East -6 191 £450 -11.76% 99
South West +25 129 £550 -1.35% 39
North West +2 109 £500 -4.76% 65
Midlands +30 94 £477 -6.93% 70
Yorkshire +23 94 £490 +8.94% 32
West Midlands +5 52 £550 +4.76% 58
East of England +10 51 £425 -10.53% 55
East Midlands +34 41 £455 -13.13% 12
North East -1 12 £454 +13.50% 7
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
1 653 (47.53%) Confluence
2 61 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.06%) CMS
4 17 (1.24%) Apache
4 17 (1.24%) Drupal
5 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.95%) nginx
7 11 (0.80%) Headless CMS
7 11 (0.80%) SAS
8 10 (0.73%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.51%) WordPress
10 6 (0.44%) JBoss
11 5 (0.36%) Camunda
12 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.22%) IIS
13 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 68 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (4.15%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 31 (2.26%) Trello
6 8 (0.58%) Sketch
7 5 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.36%) InVision
7 5 (0.36%) OmniGraffle
7 5 (0.36%) Zeplin
8 3 (0.22%) CANalyzer
9 2 (0.15%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.073%) InDesign
10 1 (0.073%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.073%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle iProcurement
6 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.51%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.29%) Misys Midas
8 4 (0.29%) Shopify
8 4 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.22%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.22%) PORTIA
9 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 241 (17.54%) Azure
2 216 (15.72%) AWS
3 154 (11.21%) GitHub
4 85 (6.19%) GCP
5 66 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (2.91%) Serverless
9 33 (2.40%) OpenShift
10 30 (2.18%) SaaS
11 29 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 25 (1.82%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.75%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.67%) Azure Functions
15 21 (1.53%) PaaS
16 20 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (1.24%) Figma
18 17 (1.24%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.29%) VPN
2 40 (2.91%) BGP
2 40 (2.91%) MPLS
3 37 (2.69%) Firewall
4 36 (2.62%) DNS
5 26 (1.89%) SNMP
6 21 (1.53%) Ethernet
7 20 (1.46%) Network Security
7 20 (1.46%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.24%) Ethernet VPN
9 16 (1.16%) Software-Defined Radio
10 15 (1.09%) FTP
10 15 (1.09%) Internet
10 15 (1.09%) Kerberos
10 15 (1.09%) SSH
11 14 (1.02%) IPsec
11 14 (1.02%) SSL
11 14 (1.02%) WAN
11 14 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.51%) Power BI
2 55 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 52 (3.78%) NoSQL
4 43 (3.13%) MySQL
5 41 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 38 (2.77%) MongoDB
7 34 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.67%) Big Data
9 21 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (1.53%) Tableau
10 19 (1.38%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (1.09%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.02%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 14 (1.02%) Metadata
14 13 (0.95%) Informix
15 12 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 210 (15.28%) Git
2 177 (12.88%) Jenkins
3 112 (8.15%) GitLab
4 108 (7.86%) Bitbucket
5 50 (3.64%) GoogleTest
6 45 (3.28%) Selenium
7 41 (2.98%) Postman
8 33 (2.40%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.26%) Cypress.io
10 29 (2.11%) JUnit
11 24 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 23 (1.67%) Maven
13 20 (1.46%) JMeter
13 20 (1.46%) Robot Framework
13 20 (1.46%) TeamCity
13 20 (1.46%) TestRail
13 20 (1.46%) Visual Studio
14 17 (1.24%) Eclipse
14 17 (1.24%) Zephyr
15 16 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 441 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 376 (27.37%) Finance
3 224 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (12.66%) Banking
5 85 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.20%) Retail
7 37 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 35 (2.55%) Marketing
8 35 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (2.47%) Financial Institution
10 30 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.89%) Military
12 23 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.46%) Front Office
14 19 (1.38%) Legal
15 16 (1.16%) Back Office
16 15 (1.09%) Aerospace
16 15 (1.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 201 (14.63%) Developer
2 196 (14.26%) Analyst
3 136 (9.90%) Senior
4 111 (8.08%) Project Manager
5 107 (7.79%) Architect
6 98 (7.13%) Business Analyst
7 74 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (4.66%) Lead
9 63 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 50 (3.64%) Consultant
11 49 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (3.28%) Test Engineer
13 39 (2.84%) C++ Software Engineer
14 35 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.33%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.26%) Tester
17 30 (2.18%) Java Developer
17 30 (2.18%) Technical Architect
18 26 (1.89%) Network Engineer
18 26 (1.89%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (8.15%) REST
2 81 (5.90%) CSS
2 81 (5.90%) HTML
3 67 (4.88%) .NET
4 65 (4.73%) Web Services
5 59 (4.29%) React
6 48 (3.49%) Kafka
7 46 (3.35%) SOAP
7 46 (3.35%) XML
8 42 (3.06%) JSON
9 39 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 38 (2.77%) Spring
11 35 (2.55%) RESTful
11 35 (2.55%) Spring Boot
12 33 (2.40%) Node.js
13 31 (2.26%) NETCONF
14 30 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (2.18%) Middleware
15 27 (1.97%) Qt
15 27 (1.97%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 96 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 66 (4.80%) Virtual Team
3 46 (3.35%) Public Cloud
4 41 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
5 38 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 31 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 29 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 23 (1.67%) PKI
10 22 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
15 12 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
16 11 (0.80%) Clustering
16 11 (0.80%) Cyberattack
16 11 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 221 (16.08%) Linux
2 118 (8.59%) Windows
3 76 (5.53%) Unix
4 26 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.38%) CentOS
7 17 (1.24%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.80%) Solaris
9 9 (0.66%) Android
9 9 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.44%) VMS
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) OS/400
12 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.22%) AIX
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (55.97%) Agile
2 324 (23.58%) DevOps
3 267 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
3 267 (19.43%) Scrum
4 225 (16.38%) Project Management
5 203 (14.77%) CI/CD
6 178 (12.95%) Test Automation
7 147 (10.70%) Software Engineering
8 135 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 128 (9.32%) Migration
10 115 (8.37%) Project Delivery
11 103 (7.50%) Waterfall
12 93 (6.77%) Analytics
13 92 (6.70%) SDLC
14 91 (6.62%) Roadmaps
15 90 (6.55%) Continuous Integration
16 88 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 85 (6.19%) Change Management
18 83 (6.04%) Kanban
19 82 (5.97%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 243 (17.69%) Python
2 220 (16.01%) SQL
3 166 (12.08%) Java
4 116 (8.44%) JavaScript
5 96 (6.99%) C++
6 86 (6.26%) Bash
7 73 (5.31%) C#
8 59 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 58 (4.22%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.11%) Perl
11 26 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 23 (1.67%) Ruby
13 21 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 18 (1.31%) Go
15 17 (1.24%) PHP
16 15 (1.09%) Groovy
17 14 (1.02%) C
17 14 (1.02%) R
18 13 (0.95%) ABAP
19 12 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 227 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 203 (14.77%) Degree
3 187 (13.61%) SC Cleared
4 47 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 26 (1.89%) PMP
8 22 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.31%) CCNP
10 13 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.73%) CCNA
12 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.66%) MCSE
14 8 (0.58%) MCSA
15 7 (0.51%) APMP
15 7 (0.51%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.95%) QA
2 43 (3.13%) PMO
3 31 (2.26%) MISRA
4 30 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.31%) GDPR
7 13 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.73%) NIST
9 9 (0.66%) SLA
10 8 (0.58%) NCSC
11 6 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.44%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.29%) MISRA C
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) IFRS
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.22%) PMBOK
System Software
1 140 (10.19%) Docker
2 55 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 46 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
5 29 (2.11%) Firmware
6 9 (0.66%) Microcode
7 8 (0.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 7 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.36%) NFS
9 5 (0.36%) Veritas File System
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.36%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.29%) HDFS
10 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.29%) Lustre
11 3 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.15%) Ceph
12 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 108 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 91 (6.62%) Ansible
3 78 (5.68%) Terraform
4 40 (2.91%) Grafana
5 28 (2.04%) Kibana
5 28 (2.04%) Puppet
6 25 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.31%) Dell DRAC
8 17 (1.24%) logstash
8 17 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.09%) Rancher
10 14 (1.02%) HP ALM
10 14 (1.02%) Packer
11 13 (0.95%) SCCM
12 11 (0.80%) Consul
12 11 (0.80%) Control-M
13 9 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
13 9 (0.66%) Podman
13 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.58%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 198 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 141 (10.26%) Atlassian
3 122 (8.88%) Oracle
4 105 (7.64%) Google
5 64 (4.66%) Cisco
6 57 (4.15%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.93%) Red Hat
8 53 (3.86%) SAP
8 53 (3.86%) Splunk
9 52 (3.78%) VMware
10 38 (2.77%) Salesforce
11 31 (2.26%) IBM
12 30 (2.18%) Dell
13 16 (1.16%) F5
13 16 (1.16%) HP
13 16 (1.16%) Informatica
14 15 (1.09%) Confluent
15 14 (1.02%) Adobe
15 14 (1.02%) EMC
16 12 (0.87%) Apple