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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 46 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,739 2,741 5,182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 4.73% 5.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.02% 31.65% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,882 3,543
10th Percentile £350 £330 £369
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £613
90th Percentile £725 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £489 £485
% change year-on-year +2.30% +0.77% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 93
10th Percentile £24.70 £39.60 £30.30
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.88 £65.84 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.32% +47.96% -2.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile - £82.50 £65.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £66.69 £52.70
% change year-on-year -13.78% +26.55% +14.57%

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 5,112 8,660 15,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.93% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,434 6,096 11,096
10th Percentile £353 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 238 205
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.63 £37.65
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +15.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.19 £62.25
90th Percentile £79.92 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -5 1,347 £525 -2.78% 580
UK excluding London +1 865 £500 +2.30% 398
London -9 671 £550 -4.35% 188
Work from Home +4 644 £500 -3.85% 293
Scotland +23 217 £500 +11.11% 28
South East +4 201 £485 -3.00% 99
South West +20 182 £538 +7.50% 71
North of England -18 133 £500 -1.23% 78
North West -10 73 £510 +13.33% 45
Midlands -42 61 £468 +2.75% 82
East of England -22 57 £450 -10.00% 37
Yorkshire +4 55 £450 -14.29% 31
West Midlands -56 36 £500 -4.76% 48
East Midlands +3 25 £363 +9.85% 34
Wales +19 13 £520 +4.00% 11
North East -23 5 £566 +0.22% 5
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 (39.74%) Confluence
2 81 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (2.07%) SharePoint Server
5 33 (1.90%) Apache
6 25 (1.44%) CMS
7 21 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (1.09%) Apache Spark
9 16 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 14 (0.81%) nginx
11 11 (0.63%) JBoss
12 9 (0.52%) SAS
13 8 (0.46%) Drupal
13 8 (0.46%) IIS
14 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.23%) Appian
15 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
17 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
17 2 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 101 (5.81%) 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%) PlantUML
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%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 317 (18.23%) Azure
2 263 (15.12%) AWS
3 120 (6.90%) GitHub
4 112 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 98 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (3.62%) GCP
7 57 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 43 (2.47%) Serverless
10 39 (2.24%) Azure Stack
10 39 (2.24%) Power Automate
10 39 (2.24%) SaaS
11 38 (2.19%) Slack
12 28 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (1.44%) PaaS
14 23 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (1.21%) IaaS
15 21 (1.21%) Miro
16 20 (1.15%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.72%) Firewall
2 56 (3.22%) BGP
3 51 (2.93%) DNS
4 41 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 37 (2.13%) VPN
6 30 (1.73%) DHCP
7 22 (1.27%) HTTP
8 21 (1.21%) Intranet
9 20 (1.15%) 5G
10 18 (1.04%) MPLS
11 17 (0.98%) SNMP
12 16 (0.92%) Internet
13 15 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
13 15 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
13 15 (0.86%) Wireless
14 14 (0.81%) VLAN
15 12 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (0.69%) NAS
15 12 (0.69%) VSAN
16 11 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.52%) Power BI
2 86 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 58 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (2.88%) Relational Database
5 34 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 32 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 30 (1.73%) Tableau
8 23 (1.32%) Big Data
9 21 (1.21%) MySQL
10 18 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.75%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.69%) Metadata
15 11 (0.63%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.58%) Apache Hive
17 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 233 (13.40%) Git
2 206 (11.85%) Jenkins
3 101 (5.81%) Bitbucket
4 100 (5.75%) GitLab
5 74 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 74 (4.26%) Selenium
6 51 (2.93%) JMeter
7 49 (2.82%) TeamCity
8 45 (2.59%) Postman
9 39 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.13%) JUnit
11 36 (2.07%) TestRail
12 31 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 30 (1.73%) Eclipse
14 28 (1.61%) Robot Framework
14 28 (1.61%) Subversion
15 26 (1.50%) GoogleTest
16 22 (1.27%) webpack
17 21 (1.21%) Maven
18 18 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 618 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 333 (19.15%) Finance
3 300 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.76%) Banking
6 68 (3.91%) Front Office
7 66 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (2.93%) Marketing
9 44 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 43 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (2.42%) Aerospace
11 42 (2.42%) Retail
12 39 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.84%) Investment Banking
16 30 (1.73%) Military
17 20 (1.15%) Law
18 19 (1.09%) Legal
19 17 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 263 (15.12%) Analyst
2 241 (13.86%) Developer
3 169 (9.72%) Senior
4 128 (7.36%) Lead
5 125 (7.19%) Project Manager
6 119 (6.84%) Business Analyst
7 76 (4.37%) Test Engineer
8 74 (4.26%) Architect
9 62 (3.57%) Java Developer
10 58 (3.34%) Software Engineer
11 50 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.70%) Test Analyst
13 45 (2.59%) Support Engineer
14 42 (2.42%) Tester
15 40 (2.30%) Data Analyst
16 38 (2.19%) Consultant
16 38 (2.19%) Test Manager
17 35 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 35 (2.01%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (7.82%) REST
2 78 (4.49%) CSS
3 76 (4.37%) HTML
4 74 (4.26%) React
5 61 (3.51%) .NET
5 61 (3.51%) XML
6 57 (3.28%) JSON
7 56 (3.22%) Spring
8 53 (3.05%) Web Services
9 52 (2.99%) SOAP
10 49 (2.82%) Kafka
11 43 (2.47%) Spring Boot
12 42 (2.42%) AngularJS
13 38 (2.19%) ADO
14 34 (1.96%) .NET Core
15 31 (1.78%) Node.js
16 30 (1.73%) RESTful
17 29 (1.67%) LDAP
18 26 (1.50%) J2EE
18 26 (1.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.75%) Product Ownership
2 51 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 48 (2.76%) Private Cloud
4 35 (2.01%) Fixed Income
4 35 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 27 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 25 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.44%) PKI
9 24 (1.38%) Derivative
9 24 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 21 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 15 (0.86%) Clustering
12 15 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 191 (10.98%) Linux
2 172 (9.89%) Windows
3 69 (3.97%) Unix
4 50 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.86%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.75%) Android
9 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.52%) Solaris
11 8 (0.46%) AIX
11 8 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.35%) Mac OS X
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
1 956 (54.97%) Agile
2 352 (20.24%) DevOps
3 337 (19.38%) Scrum
4 292 (16.79%) Project Management
5 273 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 256 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 222 (12.77%) Test Automation
8 200 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 157 (9.03%) Software Engineering
10 153 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 145 (8.34%) Project Delivery
12 141 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
13 134 (7.71%) Migration
14 119 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
15 116 (6.67%) Kanban
15 116 (6.67%) SDLC
15 116 (6.67%) User Stories
16 114 (6.56%) Roadmaps
17 111 (6.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 111 (6.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 262 (15.07%) Python
2 257 (14.78%) SQL
3 227 (13.05%) Java
4 153 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 107 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.54%) C#
7 70 (4.03%) C++
8 60 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 50 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 49 (2.82%) Bash
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
1 432 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 217 (12.48%) Degree
4 82 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 39 (2.24%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.73%) PMP
8 29 (1.67%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.44%) APMP
10 21 (1.21%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 16 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 16 (0.92%) MCSE
13 15 (0.86%) 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
1 160 (9.20%) QA
2 91 (5.23%) PMO
3 39 (2.24%) Government Security Classifications
4 34 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.27%) GDPR
6 14 (0.81%) NIST
6 14 (0.81%) SLA
7 13 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
7 13 (0.75%) GxP
7 13 (0.75%) MISRA
8 12 (0.69%) NCSC
9 10 (0.58%) EMIR
10 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.46%) MiFID
12 7 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
12 7 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
13 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 129 (7.42%) 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
1 128 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 114 (6.56%) Ansible
3 103 (5.92%) Terraform
4 31 (1.78%) Grafana
4 31 (1.78%) Kibana
5 29 (1.67%) PowerCLI
6 26 (1.50%) SCOM
7 25 (1.44%) Puppet
8 20 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
10 16 (0.92%) Packer
11 13 (0.75%) Podman
12 12 (0.69%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.63%) Consul
14 10 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.58%) logstash
14 10 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.52%) VxRail
16 8 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 271 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 222 (12.77%) Atlassian
3 117 (6.73%) Oracle
4 83 (4.77%) SAP
5 79 (4.54%) ServiceNow
6 78 (4.49%) VMware
7 60 (3.45%) Google
8 54 (3.11%) Splunk
9 50 (2.88%) Dell
10 41 (2.36%) HP
11 38 (2.19%) Salesforce
12 35 (2.01%) 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