The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.343% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.704% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £340 - -
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
81 74 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.257% 6.429% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 37
Average daily rate £369 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.35% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
JIRA
Berkshire

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JIRA across the Reading region.

Reading JIRA Hourly Rate Trend

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (77.78%) .NET
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
1 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
1 7 (77.78%) CSS
1 7 (77.78%) Web Services
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) SOA
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
1 7 (77.78%) Telecoms
1 7 (77.78%) Scrum
1 7 (77.78%) TDD
1 7 (77.78%) jQuery
1 7 (77.78%) WCF
1 7 (77.78%) HTML5
2 6 (66.67%) BDD
2 6 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 6 (66.67%) Automation Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 6 (66.67%) Middleware
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) WinRunner
4 2 (22.22%) Internet
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Selenium

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (77.78%) .NET
1 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
1 7 (77.78%) CSS
1 7 (77.78%) Web Services
1 7 (77.78%) WCF
1 7 (77.78%) jQuery
1 7 (77.78%) HTML5
2 6 (66.67%) Middleware
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) LINQ
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) MSMQ
3 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (22.22%) WinRunner
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 7 (77.78%) Telecoms
2 6 (66.67%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Coordinator
3 2 (22.22%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) SOA
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
1 7 (77.78%) Scrum
1 7 (77.78%) TDD
2 6 (66.67%) BDD
2 6 (66.67%) Automation Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware