JIRA Contracts

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 46 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,724 2,597 5,337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.00% 4.61% 6.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.43% 32.02% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 1,762 3,634
10th Percentile £325 £325 £370
25th Percentile £425 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £619
90th Percentile £714 £738 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +4.18% -3.04% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 60 101
10th Percentile £25.40 £39.60 £27.67
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +37.08% -16.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £64.69 £64.13
% change year-on-year -7.25% +0.88% +14.00%

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 5,157 8,111 15,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.39% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,457 5,721 11,061
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 227 200
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.86 £37.85
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
England -5 1,358 £525 -2.78% 557
UK excluding London +7 861 £500 +4.18% 381
London -10 671 £538 -6.52% 200
Work from Home +4 626 £500 - 257
Scotland +25 201 £494 +10.90% 38
South East -5 191 £450 -10.00% 97
South West +29 187 £538 -2.27% 52
North of England -10 150 £500 - 86
North West +1 87 £500 +11.11% 58
Midlands -33 68 £460 +2.22% 78
Yorkshire +14 57 £450 -10.00% 22
East of England -32 53 £500 - 25
East Midlands +7 36 £445 +34.85% 28
West Midlands -53 32 £511 +7.63% 51
Wales +20 12 £515 +3.00% 7
North East -22 6 £575 +1.77% 10
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
1 666 (38.63%) Confluence
2 77 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.74%) SharePoint Server
5 29 (1.68%) Apache
6 26 (1.51%) CMS
7 21 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (1.10%) Apache Spark
9 16 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.93%) nginx
10 11 (0.64%) JBoss
11 9 (0.52%) IIS
12 7 (0.41%) Drupal
13 6 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.35%) SAS
14 4 (0.23%) Appian
14 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 98 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (3.71%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (3.19%) MS Visio
5 38 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (1.04%) Trello
8 7 (0.41%) Windchill
9 3 (0.17%) Sketch
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 2 (0.12%) Mingle
10 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.12%) Simulink
11 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.058%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.058%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
3 7 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.41%) Maximo
3 7 (0.41%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.41%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
3 7 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
3 7 (0.41%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.35%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.35%) thinkFolio
4 6 (0.35%) Workfront
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
7 3 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 295 (17.11%) Azure
2 248 (14.39%) AWS
3 129 (7.48%) GitHub
4 109 (6.32%) Power Platform
5 93 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (4.12%) GCP
7 56 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (2.26%) Power Automate
9 38 (2.20%) PowerApps
9 38 (2.20%) SaaS
9 38 (2.20%) Slack
10 37 (2.15%) Serverless
11 32 (1.86%) Azure Stack
12 25 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.39%) PaaS
14 22 (1.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 21 (1.22%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.22%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.52%) Firewall
2 49 (2.84%) BGP
2 49 (2.84%) DNS
3 42 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 41 (2.38%) VPN
5 30 (1.74%) DHCP
6 23 (1.33%) HTTP
7 22 (1.28%) Intranet
8 18 (1.04%) SNMP
9 17 (0.99%) Internet
9 17 (0.99%) MPLS
10 16 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
11 15 (0.87%) Wireless
12 12 (0.70%) 5G
12 12 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.64%) VLAN
14 10 (0.58%) FIX Connectivity
14 10 (0.58%) VSAN
15 9 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.39%) Power BI
2 77 (4.47%) SQL Server
3 52 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 34 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 32 (1.86%) Tableau
8 31 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.45%) Big Data
10 24 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.28%) MySQL
12 17 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 15 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.75%) Metadata
15 12 (0.70%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.64%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.64%) Oracle Database
17 9 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
17 9 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 238 (13.81%) Git
2 217 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 109 (6.32%) Bitbucket
4 102 (5.92%) GitLab
5 75 (4.35%) Selenium
6 67 (3.89%) Cucumber
7 54 (3.13%) JMeter
8 41 (2.38%) TeamCity
9 39 (2.26%) Cypress.io
10 35 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 34 (1.97%) GoogleTest
11 34 (1.97%) Postman
12 33 (1.91%) JUnit
13 31 (1.80%) Eclipse
14 27 (1.57%) Subversion
15 26 (1.51%) Robot Framework
16 23 (1.33%) Maven
16 23 (1.33%) TestRail
17 18 (1.04%) webpack
18 17 (0.99%) SonarQube
General
1 594 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 356 (20.65%) Finance
3 300 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 156 (9.05%) Banking
6 64 (3.71%) Front Office
7 61 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 48 (2.78%) Marketing
9 45 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.32%) Retail
13 35 (2.03%) Military
14 31 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 29 (1.68%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.16%) Law
17 18 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 273 (15.84%) Analyst
2 231 (13.40%) Developer
3 149 (8.64%) Senior
4 129 (7.48%) Project Manager
5 124 (7.19%) Business Analyst
6 121 (7.02%) Lead
7 89 (5.16%) Architect
8 74 (4.29%) Test Engineer
9 67 (3.89%) Software Engineer
10 60 (3.48%) Java Developer
11 54 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (2.67%) Support Engineer
12 46 (2.67%) Test Analyst
13 43 (2.49%) Tester
14 42 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
15 41 (2.38%) Consultant
16 40 (2.32%) Data Analyst
17 37 (2.15%) Technical Analyst
17 37 (2.15%) Test Manager
18 35 (2.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (7.48%) REST
2 77 (4.47%) HTML
3 75 (4.35%) CSS
4 68 (3.94%) React
5 64 (3.71%) XML
6 61 (3.54%) Web Services
7 60 (3.48%) .NET
8 58 (3.36%) Spring
9 57 (3.31%) JSON
10 54 (3.13%) SOAP
11 49 (2.84%) Kafka
12 39 (2.26%) AngularJS
12 39 (2.26%) Spring Boot
13 33 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (1.86%) .NET Core
14 32 (1.86%) ADO
15 30 (1.74%) Middleware
15 30 (1.74%) RESTful
16 28 (1.62%) JPA
17 27 (1.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.86%) Product Ownership
2 50 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 44 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 40 (2.32%) Private Cloud
6 33 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 30 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.45%) PKI
10 24 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 24 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.33%) Derivative
12 21 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 20 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.87%) Credit Risk
15 14 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 201 (11.66%) Linux
2 158 (9.16%) Windows
3 72 (4.18%) Unix
4 49 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.81%) Android
9 12 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.46%) AIX
11 7 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.35%) Solaris
13 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.29%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.29%) VMS
13 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.17%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (54.99%) Agile
2 353 (20.48%) DevOps
3 339 (19.66%) Scrum
4 286 (16.59%) Project Management
5 281 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
6 261 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 216 (12.53%) CI/CD
8 210 (12.18%) Test Automation
9 171 (9.92%) Software Engineering
10 141 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
11 139 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (8.00%) Migration
12 138 (8.00%) Project Delivery
13 123 (7.13%) Kanban
14 121 (7.02%) User Stories
15 117 (6.79%) Roadmaps
16 114 (6.61%) Workflow
17 110 (6.38%) SDLC
18 107 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
19 103 (5.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 266 (15.43%) Python
2 250 (14.50%) SQL
3 231 (13.40%) Java
4 147 (8.53%) JavaScript
5 105 (6.09%) PowerShell
6 85 (4.93%) C++
7 69 (4.00%) C#
8 55 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 52 (3.02%) Bash
9 52 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 36 (2.09%) Go
10 36 (2.09%) PL/SQL
11 31 (1.80%) C
12 26 (1.51%) Groovy
13 22 (1.28%) Perl
14 15 (0.87%) Ruby
14 15 (0.87%) Scala
15 13 (0.75%) ABAP
16 12 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.46%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 408 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 313 (18.16%) SC Cleared
3 211 (12.24%) Degree
4 76 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.32%) Master's Degree
6 31 (1.80%) PMP
7 29 (1.68%) ISTQB
8 25 (1.45%) APMP
9 23 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.04%) MCSA
11 18 (1.04%) MCSE
12 17 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 12 (0.70%) ISEB
14 11 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.46%) CCNA
17 6 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (9.45%) QA
2 80 (4.64%) PMO
3 33 (1.91%) Government Security Classifications
4 29 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.33%) MISRA
6 22 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.10%) GDPR
8 14 (0.81%) NIST
9 13 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
9 13 (0.75%) SLA
10 12 (0.70%) GxP
11 9 (0.52%) EMIR
11 9 (0.52%) NCSC
12 7 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
12 7 (0.41%) MiFID
13 6 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
13 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.23%) MISRA C
System Software
1 127 (7.37%) Docker
2 78 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 59 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.28%) Firmware
5 19 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.99%) vSphere
7 12 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.41%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 141 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 117 (6.79%) Ansible
3 106 (6.15%) Terraform
4 35 (2.03%) Grafana
5 31 (1.80%) Kibana
5 31 (1.80%) PowerCLI
5 31 (1.80%) Progress Chef
6 30 (1.74%) Puppet
7 24 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
9 18 (1.04%) SCOM
10 17 (0.99%) Packer
11 16 (0.93%) logstash
12 14 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (0.75%) Podman
14 12 (0.70%) Consul
14 12 (0.70%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.52%) VxRail
16 8 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 261 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 214 (12.41%) Atlassian
3 115 (6.67%) Oracle
4 80 (4.64%) SAP
5 77 (4.47%) VMware
6 76 (4.41%) Google
7 72 (4.18%) ServiceNow
8 54 (3.13%) Splunk
9 47 (2.73%) Dell
10 40 (2.32%) Salesforce
11 37 (2.15%) HP
12 32 (1.86%) Cisco
13 24 (1.39%) Avaloq
14 21 (1.22%) Adobe
15 19 (1.10%) IBM
16 15 (0.87%) Bloomberg
16 15 (0.87%) CyberArk
17 14 (0.81%) Informatica
17 14 (0.81%) Okta
17 14 (0.81%) Palo Alto