The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset 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 Dorset 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 - 29 38
Contract jobs citing JIRA 0 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset - 0.743% 1.231%
As % of the Development Applications category - 5.263% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
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
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
27 38 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 12.86% 14.13% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 14
Average daily rate £343 £400 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.37% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £363 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £435 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
Average hourly rate £43.75 £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -2.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £40.00 £40.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £42.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JIRA
South West

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) ISEB
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
1 7 (100.00%) Retail
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
1 7 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 7 (100.00%) Time Management
2 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
2 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 3 (42.86%) Kronos
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Lawson
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (42.86%) Fiserv

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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.

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Lawson
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 7 (100.00%) Retail
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Leader
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Support
2 3 (42.86%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 7 (100.00%) Time Management
2 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) ISEB
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Kronos
2 3 (42.86%) Fiserv