JIRA Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 52 53 71
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +18
Contract jobs citing JIRA 10 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.368% 1.629% 0.101%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.20% 17.57% 1.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £325 £365
% change year-on-year
-1.53% -10.95%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 82 74 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.22% 9.273% 5.758%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 32
Average daily rate £375 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £355 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £33.75 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.75 £30.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £30.00 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire JIRA Jobs Demand Trend

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JIRA across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Crewe +3 4 £275 -
Chester -3 1 £375 +7.14%
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (50.00%) DameWare
1 7 (50.00%) Retail
1 7 (50.00%) WSUS
1 7 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 6 (42.86%) ITIL
3 5 (35.71%) SOAP
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) J2EE
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 5 (35.71%) JUnit
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
3 5 (35.71%) Hibernate
3 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (28.57%) Web Services
5 3 (21.43%) DOM
5 3 (21.43%) XSLT
5 3 (21.43%) Apache
5 3 (21.43%) XHTML
5 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) JSP
5 3 (21.43%) Servlets

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (35.71%) SOAP
1 5 (35.71%) J2EE
1 5 (35.71%) Hibernate
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 3 (21.43%) DOM
3 3 (21.43%) XSLT
3 3 (21.43%) XHTML
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) JSP
3 3 (21.43%) Servlets
3 3 (21.43%) WSDL
3 3 (21.43%) JAX-RPC
3 3 (21.43%) JSF
3 3 (21.43%) Ajax
3 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
3 3 (21.43%) jQuery
3 3 (21.43%) Apache Axis
3 3 (21.43%) CSS3
3 3 (21.43%) ICEfaces
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
3 2 (14.29%) OpenEdge
4 1 (7.143%) ESB
4 1 (7.143%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) TELNET
1 2 (14.29%) SNMP
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (35.71%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
3 3 (21.43%) Subversion
4 2 (14.29%) TestNG
4 2 (14.29%) MyEclipse
4 2 (14.29%) Mercurial
4 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (14.29%) WebSpeed
4 2 (14.29%) PVCS
4 2 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 7 (50.00%) Retail
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Applications Support
2 5 (35.71%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Server Support
4 2 (14.29%) Server Support
4 2 (14.29%) Progress Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Support
5 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Support
5 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Smartcard
1 3 (21.43%) Web 2.0
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) EPoS
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.143%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 2 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem Management
1 6 (42.86%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) XPath
4 2 (14.29%) Progress 4GL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) DameWare
1 7 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) Perforce
3 2 (14.29%) Sculptor
3 2 (14.29%) Adobe
3 2 (14.29%) Progress
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