JIRA Contracts in the North West

Atlassian JIRA
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 52 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 85 125 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.08% 3.89% 4.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.24% 29.69% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 91 148
10th Percentile £358 £285 £350
25th Percentile £459 £336 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £595 £530 £538
90th Percentile £634 £615 £625
England median daily rate £525 £540 £515
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.85% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile - £42.28 £37.82
25th Percentile - £46.31 £38.68
Median hourly rate £45.88 £56.38 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +36.33% -2.69%
75th Percentile - - £44.03
90th Percentile - £62.57 £45.65
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.84 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.47% +47.96% -13.59%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 301 421 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.89% 13.10% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 325 457
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £673 £654 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 19
10th Percentile £40.52 £38.16 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.81 £38.68
Median hourly rate £52.94 £49.88 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +17.35% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £53.44 £49.09
90th Percentile £81.45 £56.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North West.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Cheshire +27 45 £510 +10.27% 17
Manchester -21 30 £498 +17.06% 33
Lancashire 0 7 £740 +34.55% 1
Cumbria - 1 £450 - 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (17.65%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Apache
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.35%) Mule
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (11.76%) MS Visio
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.94%) AWS
1 28 (32.94%) Azure
2 7 (8.24%) GitHub
2 7 (8.24%) Snowflake
3 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.88%) Apigee
4 5 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.88%) Kong
4 5 (5.88%) Serverless
5 3 (3.53%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.53%) GCP
5 3 (3.53%) IaaS
5 3 (3.53%) SaaS
6 2 (2.35%) Miro
6 2 (2.35%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) DSL
2 5 (5.88%) FTP
2 5 (5.88%) HTTP
3 3 (3.53%) Firewall
3 3 (3.53%) SSL
4 2 (2.35%) DMZ
4 2 (2.35%) DNS
4 2 (2.35%) VPN
5 1 (1.18%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.06%) Power BI
3 5 (5.88%) Big Data
3 5 (5.88%) OLAP
3 5 (5.88%) OLTP
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.35%) Tableau
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.18%) Metadata
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.12%) Git
3 8 (9.41%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.88%) GitLab
5 4 (4.71%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.71%) Selenium
6 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.53%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.35%) Appium
7 2 (2.35%) Gatling
7 2 (2.35%) JMeter
7 2 (2.35%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.35%) Log4j
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
7 2 (2.35%) Postman
7 2 (2.35%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.35%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.18%) TestDirector
General
1 45 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.76%) Finance
3 19 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.94%) Banking
5 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.53%) Retail
10 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.35%) Front Office
10 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Analyst
2 15 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 9 (10.59%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Architect
5 5 (5.88%) AWS Architect
5 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Pega Business Analyst
5 5 (5.88%) Senior
5 5 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Lead
8 2 (2.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) Kafka
1 9 (10.59%) Web Services
2 8 (9.41%) Spring
3 5 (5.88%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (5.88%) J2EE
3 5 (5.88%) JSON
3 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.88%) SOAP
3 5 (5.88%) XML
4 4 (4.71%) Apache Camel
4 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.71%) Spring Integration
5 3 (3.53%) JDBC
5 3 (3.53%) JPA
5 3 (3.53%) JWT
5 3 (3.53%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.35%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.35%) REST
6 2 (2.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Virtual Team
2 7 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.88%) DataPower
4 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.35%) CMDB
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.18%) ASIC
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Derivative
7 1 (1.18%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.18%) Life Science
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Windows
2 11 (12.94%) Linux
3 9 (10.59%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.18%) Android
5 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.88%) Agile
2 32 (37.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (36.47%) DevOps
4 22 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (24.71%) Project Management
6 19 (22.35%) CI/CD
7 15 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 13 (15.29%) Design Patterns
9 12 (14.12%) Project Delivery
9 12 (14.12%) Scrum
10 11 (12.94%) Test Automation
11 10 (11.76%) Microservices
11 10 (11.76%) OO
11 10 (11.76%) Risk Management
11 10 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (10.59%) Requirements Gathering
13 8 (9.41%) Programme Management
13 8 (9.41%) Use Case
14 7 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.53%) Java
2 15 (17.65%) SQL
3 12 (14.12%) Python
4 7 (8.24%) PL/SQL
4 7 (8.24%) Ruby
5 5 (5.88%) C#
6 3 (3.53%) Go
6 3 (3.53%) Groovy
6 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.35%) Scala
7 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) CCSA
4 1 (1.18%) CCSE
4 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.35%) NIST
2 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.18%) EMIR
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (1.18%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Ansible
2 7 (8.24%) CFEngine
2 7 (8.24%) PowerBroker
2 7 (8.24%) Progress Chef
2 7 (8.24%) Puppet
3 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.35%) Terraform
6 1 (1.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 9 (10.59%) Oracle
4 7 (8.24%) Avaloq
5 5 (5.88%) IBM
5 5 (5.88%) Informatica
5 5 (5.88%) Pega
5 5 (5.88%) Talend
5 5 (5.88%) TSYS
6 4 (4.71%) Cadence
6 4 (4.71%) SAP
7 2 (2.35%) Cognizant
7 2 (2.35%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco
8 1 (1.18%) HP
8 1 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.18%) VMware