The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 59 67 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing JIRA 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.628% 0.307% -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.738% 3.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
107 98 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 16.80% 10.03% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 30
Average daily rate £325 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £290 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 38
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £34.25 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £37.50 £39.75
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (77.78%) Automated Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 7 (77.78%) Integration Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 7 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) ISEB
2 7 (77.78%) Confluence
2 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Build Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Capita
4 4 (44.44%) JBehave
4 4 (44.44%) WebDriver
4 4 (44.44%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) soapUI
5 2 (22.22%) MonkeyTalk
5 2 (22.22%) Product Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
5 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) QA
5 2 (22.22%) Retail
5 2 (22.22%) PMP
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) MS Excel

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (100.00%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
3 2 (22.22%) soapUI
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
1 2 (22.22%) MS Project
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) JBehave
2 4 (44.44%) WebDriver
3 2 (22.22%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Test Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (77.78%) Automated Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Integration Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) Build Automation
3 4 (44.44%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Product Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Capita
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle