The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank - 32 -
Contract jobs citing JIRA 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.358% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 7.692% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £358
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+15.62% -11.11%
All Development Applications
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 13 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 8.995% 4.659% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 15
Average daily rate £350 £330 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £348 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
Average hourly rate £34.13 £190.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-82.03% +1166.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JIRA across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Bedfordshire JIRA Jobs Demand Trend

JIRA
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing JIRA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JIRA.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) MSMQ
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing JIRA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JIRA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft