The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leicestershire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 31 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.935% 0.433% -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.882% 4.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -7.14%
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
34 25 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 15.89% 10.82% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £270 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £413 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
JIRA
East Midlands

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire JIRA Jobs Demand 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicester - - - -
Loughborough - - - -
JIRA
East Midlands

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) ISEB
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) hybris
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) SEO
3 1 (20.00%) CMS
3 1 (20.00%) LAMP
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) Zend
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 4 (80.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) XHTML
2 1 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Tester
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) SEO
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) hybris
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Zend
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
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