The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxfordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 50 - 52
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.209% - 0.206%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.125% - 1.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
32 44 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 6.695% 7.788% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 47
Average daily rate £335 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.66% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £225 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £443 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £24.50 £34.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.94% +4.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 5 (55.56%) C#
3 5 (55.56%) MS Visio
4 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (33.33%) CSS
6 2 (22.22%) Middleware
6 2 (22.22%) MVC
6 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
6 2 (22.22%) Web Services
6 2 (22.22%) SOA
6 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) Banking
6 2 (22.22%) WCF
6 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 2 (22.22%) jQuery
6 2 (22.22%) HTML5
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
6 2 (22.22%) Web Application Development
6 2 (22.22%) User Stories
6 2 (22.22%) Automation Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (11.11%) SaaS
7 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 1 (11.11%) Git (software)

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) Middleware
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) WCF
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) GWT
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 4 (44.44%) Agile Project Manager
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Manager
3 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (22.22%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Web Application Development
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development
4 1 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle