JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 48 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,362 2,198 4,264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.74% 4.57% 6.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.94% 31.20% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,543 2,901
10th Percentile £348 £330 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £521
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +3.56% +9.78%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £615
90th Percentile £738 £765 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 44 91
10th Percentile £22.90 £40.26 £31.50
25th Percentile £38.16 £54.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.72 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +49.92% -15.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
90th Percentile - £85.41 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £66.69 £44.60
% change year-on-year -17.53% +49.55% -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,264 7,044 12,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.64% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,915 5,004 9,021
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 201 182
10th Percentile £31.84 £42.81 £38.43
25th Percentile £54.38 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.51
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.80 £76.96
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +15.38%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -7 671 £550 -4.35% 185
South East +4 199 £493 -1.50% 108
South West +22 187 £538 +7.50% 66
North of England -12 143 £500 - 90
North West -5 81 £510 +13.33% 53
Midlands -38 69 £460 +2.22% 84
Yorkshire +1 57 £450 -14.29% 30
East of England -22 54 £450 -10.00% 27
West Midlands -46 37 £500 -2.44% 51
East Midlands +3 32 £445 +34.85% 33
North East -20 5 £566 +0.22% 10
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 536 (39.35%) Confluence
2 71 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.64%) SharePoint Server
4 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.91%) Apache
6 25 (1.84%) CMS
7 19 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (1.10%) Apache Spark
10 13 (0.95%) nginx
11 9 (0.66%) JBoss
12 8 (0.59%) IIS
13 7 (0.51%) Drupal
13 7 (0.51%) SAS
14 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.29%) Appian
15 4 (0.29%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.15%) Mule
16 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 85 (6.24%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (3.89%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (3.23%) MS Visio
5 32 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.88%) Trello
8 7 (0.51%) Windchill
9 3 (0.22%) Simulink
9 3 (0.22%) Sketch
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.15%) InDesign
10 2 (0.15%) Mingle
10 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.073%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.073%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.073%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
1 12 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.51%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.44%) ION MarketView
3 6 (0.44%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.44%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
3 6 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
3 6 (0.44%) thinkFolio
4 4 (0.29%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.29%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.29%) Workfront
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 262 (19.24%) Azure
2 220 (16.15%) AWS
3 96 (7.05%) GitHub
4 88 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 79 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (3.74%) GCP
7 50 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (2.86%) Azure Stack
9 36 (2.64%) Serverless
10 34 (2.50%) Slack
11 33 (2.42%) SaaS
12 30 (2.20%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.76%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 21 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.47%) PaaS
17 18 (1.32%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.32%) npm
18 17 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.43%) Firewall
2 55 (4.04%) BGP
3 49 (3.60%) DNS
4 39 (2.86%) VPN
5 37 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 29 (2.13%) DHCP
7 25 (1.84%) HTTP
8 18 (1.32%) Internet
9 17 (1.25%) MPLS
9 17 (1.25%) SNMP
10 15 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
11 14 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
12 13 (0.95%) Wireless
13 12 (0.88%) 5G
14 11 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
14 11 (0.81%) SSL
14 11 (0.81%) VLAN
15 10 (0.73%) NAS
16 8 (0.59%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.51%) Power BI
2 71 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 46 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 29 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.13%) Tableau
7 21 (1.54%) Big Data
8 18 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (1.32%) MySQL
9 15 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 12 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (0.88%) Metadata
11 11 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (0.51%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.51%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 191 (14.02%) Git
2 187 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 94 (6.90%) GitLab
4 91 (6.68%) Bitbucket
5 65 (4.77%) Selenium
6 56 (4.11%) Cucumber
7 55 (4.04%) JMeter
8 39 (2.86%) TeamCity
9 35 (2.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 34 (2.50%) Cypress.io
11 28 (2.06%) GoogleTest
12 27 (1.98%) Robot Framework
13 26 (1.91%) TestRail
14 25 (1.84%) Eclipse
14 25 (1.84%) Postman
15 24 (1.76%) Subversion
16 23 (1.69%) JUnit
17 20 (1.47%) webpack
18 18 (1.32%) SonarQube
19 16 (1.17%) Appium
General
1 522 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.63%) Finance
3 273 (20.04%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.08%) Banking
5 76 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 65 (4.77%) Front Office
7 52 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 48 (3.52%) Marketing
9 42 (3.08%) Aerospace
10 40 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.72%) Retail
13 35 (2.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 32 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 32 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (2.20%) Military
16 26 (1.91%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.32%) Law
18 17 (1.25%) Legal
19 16 (1.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 204 (14.98%) Analyst
2 182 (13.36%) Developer
3 122 (8.96%) Senior
4 104 (7.64%) Project Manager
5 93 (6.83%) Business Analyst
6 89 (6.53%) Lead
7 81 (5.95%) Architect
8 78 (5.73%) Test Engineer
9 57 (4.19%) Software Engineer
10 42 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (2.94%) Java Developer
12 39 (2.86%) Tester
13 38 (2.79%) Test Analyst
14 34 (2.50%) Support Engineer
14 34 (2.50%) Test Manager
15 31 (2.28%) Data Analyst
16 30 (2.20%) Consultant
17 29 (2.13%) Java Engineer
17 29 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
18 27 (1.98%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (7.42%) REST
2 62 (4.55%) React
3 60 (4.41%) XML
4 51 (3.74%) JSON
5 50 (3.67%) .NET
5 50 (3.67%) CSS
6 49 (3.60%) HTML
7 45 (3.30%) SOAP
7 45 (3.30%) Web Services
8 36 (2.64%) AngularJS
8 36 (2.64%) Spring
9 33 (2.42%) Kafka
10 32 (2.35%) .NET Core
11 30 (2.20%) ADO
12 27 (1.98%) LDAP
13 24 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
13 24 (1.76%) Spring Boot
14 22 (1.62%) WebSockets
15 21 (1.54%) JPA
15 21 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (5.95%) Product Ownership
2 41 (3.01%) Private Cloud
3 37 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (2.42%) Fixed Income
5 31 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 27 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (1.91%) PKI
8 24 (1.76%) Derivative
8 24 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.25%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.10%) Credit Risk
15 13 (0.95%) Clustering
16 11 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 154 (11.31%) Linux
1 154 (11.31%) Windows
2 58 (4.26%) Unix
3 49 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 17 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.95%) Android
8 10 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.51%) Solaris
10 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.44%) Mac OS X
10 6 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (0.37%) VMS
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.22%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.22%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (55.36%) Agile
2 291 (21.37%) DevOps
3 268 (19.68%) Scrum
4 237 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (16.15%) Project Management
6 212 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 186 (13.66%) CI/CD
8 185 (13.58%) Test Automation
9 150 (11.01%) Software Engineering
10 130 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (9.25%) Continuous Integration
12 101 (7.42%) Project Delivery
13 95 (6.98%) Migration
14 94 (6.90%) Kanban
14 94 (6.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 88 (6.46%) SDLC
16 87 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
17 86 (6.31%) ITIL
17 86 (6.31%) Waterfall
18 85 (6.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 238 (17.47%) Python
2 209 (15.35%) SQL
3 194 (14.24%) Java
4 114 (8.37%) JavaScript
5 88 (6.46%) PowerShell
6 71 (5.21%) C++
7 64 (4.70%) C#
8 54 (3.96%) TypeScript
9 43 (3.16%) Bash
10 35 (2.57%) Shell Script
11 29 (2.13%) C
12 28 (2.06%) Go
13 21 (1.54%) Groovy
14 19 (1.40%) PL/SQL
15 16 (1.17%) Perl
15 16 (1.17%) Scala
16 9 (0.66%) Ruby
17 8 (0.59%) ABAP
17 8 (0.59%) Assembly Language
17 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (24.16%) Security Cleared
2 243 (17.84%) SC Cleared
3 172 (12.63%) Degree
4 76 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 34 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.84%) APMP
8 24 (1.76%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.32%) MCSE
11 17 (1.25%) MCSA
12 16 (1.17%) PMP
13 15 (1.10%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.59%) ISEB
16 7 (0.51%) CCNA
17 5 (0.37%) CISSP
17 5 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (10.87%) QA
2 70 (5.14%) PMO
3 39 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
4 23 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.25%) GDPR
6 17 (1.25%) MISRA
7 11 (0.81%) GxP
8 10 (0.73%) EMIR
9 9 (0.66%) NIST
10 8 (0.59%) MiFID
11 7 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
11 7 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.51%) NCSC
11 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.29%) JTAG
14 3 (0.22%) GAAP
14 3 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (7.64%) Docker
2 66 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.47%) Firmware
5 15 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.73%) vSphere
8 6 (0.44%) HDFS
8 6 (0.44%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.073%) iptables
10 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.073%) NFS
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.073%) Snort
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 113 (8.30%) Kubernetes
2 105 (7.71%) Ansible
3 87 (6.39%) Terraform
4 29 (2.13%) PowerCLI
5 28 (2.06%) Progress Chef
6 27 (1.98%) Grafana
7 26 (1.91%) SCOM
8 22 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
8 22 (1.62%) Puppet
9 21 (1.54%) Kibana
9 21 (1.54%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.95%) logstash
10 13 (0.95%) Packer
10 13 (0.95%) Podman
10 13 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.73%) Consul
12 7 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.44%) Tivoli
13 6 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 224 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 155 (11.38%) Atlassian
3 85 (6.24%) Oracle
4 68 (4.99%) VMware
5 62 (4.55%) SAP
6 61 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 56 (4.11%) Google
8 47 (3.45%) Splunk
9 44 (3.23%) Dell
10 37 (2.72%) HP
11 32 (2.35%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.98%) Cisco
13 21 (1.54%) Adobe
14 20 (1.47%) IBM
15 15 (1.10%) Bloomberg
16 14 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 14 (1.03%) Okta
17 13 (0.95%) ION Trading
18 11 (0.81%) Juniper
18 11 (0.81%) MarketAxess