The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 18 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 North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 98 107 130
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +23
Contract jobs citing JIRA 24 27 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.996% 0.887% 0.066%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.302% 10.23% 0.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 1
Average daily rate £300 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+15.62% -11.11%
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
258 264 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.71% 8.670% 7.983%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 151 136
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.63% -14.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £17.37 £21.86
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £35.00 £32.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
JIRA
England

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JIRA across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West JIRA Daily Rate Histogram

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 North West region over the 3 months to 18 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
Manchester +17 12 £300 -25.00% 2
Cheshire -8 11 £375 +25.00%
JIRA
England

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 13 (40.63%) CSS
3 13 (40.63%) Web Services
4 12 (37.50%) Subversion
5 11 (34.38%) Ajax
6 10 (31.25%) ITIL
6 10 (31.25%) Java
6 10 (31.25%) Eclipse
7 9 (28.13%) SOAP
7 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
7 9 (28.13%) jQuery
7 9 (28.13%) Spring
7 9 (28.13%) Hibernate
8 8 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (25.00%) XML
8 8 (25.00%) JSP
8 8 (25.00%) Servlets
8 8 (25.00%) CSS3
9 7 (21.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (21.88%) Scrum
9 7 (21.88%) DameWare
9 7 (21.88%) WSUS
9 7 (21.88%) Retail
10 6 (18.75%) Problem Management
10 6 (18.75%) TDD
10 6 (18.75%) MS Excel
10 6 (18.75%) Oracle
11 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
11 5 (15.63%) JUnit

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 13 (40.63%) CSS
1 13 (40.63%) Web Services
2 11 (34.38%) Ajax
3 9 (28.13%) SOAP
3 9 (28.13%) jQuery
3 9 (28.13%) Hibernate
3 9 (28.13%) Spring
4 8 (25.00%) XML
4 8 (25.00%) JSP
4 8 (25.00%) Servlets
4 8 (25.00%) CSS3
5 5 (15.63%) REST
5 5 (15.63%) J2EE
5 5 (15.63%) JSF
5 5 (15.63%) XSLT
5 5 (15.63%) XHTML
5 5 (15.63%) JSON
6 4 (12.50%) JSTL
6 4 (12.50%) Apache Axis
6 4 (12.50%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (15.63%) Apache
3 3 (9.375%) Confluence
4 2 (6.250%) OpenStack
4 2 (6.250%) OpenEdge
4 2 (6.250%) IIS
5 1 (3.125%) ESB
5 1 (3.125%) Mule
5 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Internet
2 3 (9.375%) Firewall
3 1 (3.125%) DVB
3 1 (3.125%) TELNET
3 1 (3.125%) SNMP
3 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Subversion
2 10 (31.25%) Eclipse
3 7 (21.88%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (15.63%) JUnit
5 4 (12.50%) NetBeans
5 4 (12.50%) Hudson
5 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.250%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (6.250%) Selenium
6 2 (6.250%) CruiseControl
6 2 (6.250%) WebSpeed
6 2 (6.250%) PVCS
6 2 (6.250%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.125%) Xcode
7 1 (3.125%) Firebug
7 1 (3.125%) TestNG
7 1 (3.125%) MyEclipse
7 1 (3.125%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.125%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (21.88%) Retail
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Applications Support
3 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (9.375%) Web Developer
4 3 (9.375%) Applications Developer
4 3 (9.375%) Test Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Java Web Developer
4 3 (9.375%) Java Applications Developer
4 3 (9.375%) Web Applications Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 2 (6.250%) Progress Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Network Support
5 2 (6.250%) Server Support
5 2 (6.250%) Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Test Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Tester
5 2 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Web 2.0
1 4 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.375%) Smartcard
3 2 (6.250%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.250%) EPoS
3 2 (6.250%) W3C
4 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.125%) RIA
4 1 (3.125%) iPhone
4 1 (3.125%) Semantic Web
4 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.250%) Android
2 2 (6.250%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.125%) bada
3 1 (3.125%) Maemo
3 1 (3.125%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.125%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) ITIL
2 8 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (21.88%) Scrum
4 6 (18.75%) TDD
4 6 (18.75%) Problem Management
5 5 (15.63%) MVC
5 5 (15.63%) Integration Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
6 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 4 (12.50%) Web Design
7 3 (9.375%) Project Management
7 3 (9.375%) Release Management
7 3 (9.375%) Automated Testing
7 3 (9.375%) Software Engineering
8 2 (6.250%) Load Testing
8 2 (6.250%) Service Delivery
8 2 (6.250%) User Stories
8 2 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.250%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 10 (31.25%) Java
4 5 (15.63%) XPath
4 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (6.250%) Progress 4GL
7 1 (3.125%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (9.375%) ISEB
1 3 (9.375%) ISTQB
1 3 (9.375%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) DameWare
1 7 (21.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) IBM
2 4 (12.50%) Perforce
3 3 (9.375%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.250%) Sculptor
4 2 (6.250%) Facebook
4 2 (6.250%) Twitter
4 2 (6.250%) VMware
4 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.250%) Progress
5 1 (3.125%) Symbian
5 1 (3.125%) Cisco
5 1 (3.125%) Adobe
5 1 (3.125%) Juniper
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