North West JIRA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Atlassian JIRA skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Atlassian JIRA
Location Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Hertfordshire London North West Northamptonshire Rickmansworth UK Watford	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	143	131
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.286 %	0.542 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£445	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Development Applications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	350	369
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.462 %	0.391 %
Daily rates quoted	66	60
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£275
Average daily rate	£334	£287
% change on same period last year	+16.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.72	£27.45
Average hourly rate	£25.70	£29.21
% change on same period last year	-12.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.68	£30.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.57	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
JIRA England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

JIRA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JIRA across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JIRA across the North West region.

JIRA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing JIRA within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-	1	-	-

JIRA England

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 5 (71.43 %) Java 2 3 (42.86 %) HTML 2 3 (42.86 %) CSS 2 3 (42.86 %) SOAP 2 3 (42.86 %) WebServices 2 3 (42.86 %) XML 2 3 (42.86 %) WSDL 2 3 (42.86 %) JAX-RPC 2 3 (42.86 %) Finance 2 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (28.57 %) TDD 3 2 (28.57 %) Banking 3 2 (28.57 %) Subversion 3 2 (28.57 %) Hibernate 3 2 (28.57 %) Linux

3 2 (28.57 %) Swing 3 2 (28.57 %) Tomcat 3 2 (28.57 %) Tuxedo 3 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 3 2 (28.57 %) C++ 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL 3 2 (28.57 %) Middleware 3 2 (28.57 %) Spring 3 2 (28.57 %) AJAX 3 2 (28.57 %) XPath 3 2 (28.57 %) Atlassian 3 2 (28.57 %) JSP 4 1 (14.29 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Test Management 4 1 (14.29 %) International Banking

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 3 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) CSS 1 3 (42.86 %) SOAP 1 3 (42.86 %) WebServices 1 3 (42.86 %) XML 1 3 (42.86 %) WSDL 1 3 (42.86 %) JAX-RPC 2 2 (28.57 %) Middleware 2 2 (28.57 %) Hibernate 2 2 (28.57 %) Spring 2 2 (28.57 %) AJAX 2 2 (28.57 %) JSP 2 2 (28.57 %) Swing 3 1 (14.29 %) XSL 3 1 (14.29 %) JDBC 3 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 3 1 (14.29 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) Tomcat 1 2 (28.57 %) Tuxedo 2 1 (14.29 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) HTTP	Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) Subversion
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 2 2 (28.57 %) Banking 3 1 (14.29 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Java Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (28.57 %) Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Test Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Linux Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Linux Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Integration Test Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Integration Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (28.57 %) TDD 3 1 (14.29 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Management 3 1 (14.29 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 5 (71.43 %) Java 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 2 (28.57 %) XPath 2 2 (28.57 %) C++
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 1 2 (28.57 %) Atlassian 2 1 (14.29 %) HP