The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 104 102 104
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 14 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.574% 0.301% 0.253%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.303% 4.734% 2.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
Average daily rate £323 £400 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.37% +6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £400 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £427
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £325 £365
% change year-on-year
-1.53% -10.95%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
264 169 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.82% 6.353% 9.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 77 133
Average daily rate £356 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% -16.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Glasgow -14 7 £288 -28.12%
Edinburgh +8 3 £323 -
Dundee - 2 - -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 17 (56.67%) Java
2 16 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (53.33%) Subversion
3 15 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (50.00%) Scrum
4 14 (46.67%) Hibernate
4 14 (46.67%) SQL
4 14 (46.67%) Tomcat
4 14 (46.67%) Spring
4 14 (46.67%) Maven
5 13 (43.33%) Sybase
6 12 (40.00%) UNIX
6 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
7 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
7 11 (36.67%) Eclipse
8 10 (33.33%) Finance
8 10 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
8 10 (33.33%) J2EE
9 9 (30.00%) Selenium
9 9 (30.00%) Cucumber
10 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
10 8 (26.67%) Web Services
10 8 (26.67%) XML
11 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
12 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
12 6 (20.00%) JMS
12 6 (20.00%) N-Tier
12 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
12 6 (20.00%) SOA

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (46.67%) Hibernate
1 14 (46.67%) Spring
2 10 (33.33%) J2EE
3 8 (26.67%) Web Services
3 8 (26.67%) XML
4 6 (20.00%) JMS
5 5 (16.67%) RESTful
6 3 (10.00%) JPA
6 3 (10.00%) J2ME
7 2 (6.667%) SOAP
7 2 (6.667%) Smart GWT
7 2 (6.667%) jQuery
8 1 (3.333%) JSON
8 1 (3.333%) Ajax
8 1 (3.333%) HTML5
8 1 (3.333%) Qt
8 1 (3.333%) CSS3
8 1 (3.333%) CSS
8 1 (3.333%) HTML
8 1 (3.333%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 14 (46.67%) Tomcat
2 6 (20.00%) GlassFish
2 6 (20.00%) Mule
3 3 (10.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (6.667%) Apache
5 1 (3.333%) CMS
5 1 (3.333%) SAS
5 1 (3.333%) TeamSite
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (13.33%) MS Project
2 4 (13.33%) MS Office
2 4 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.667%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (53.33%) Subversion
2 14 (46.67%) Maven
3 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (36.67%) Eclipse
5 9 (30.00%) Selenium
5 9 (30.00%) Cucumber
6 6 (20.00%) Hudson
6 6 (20.00%) CruiseControl
7 3 (10.00%) Trac
7 3 (10.00%) WATIR
7 3 (10.00%) RSpec
7 3 (10.00%) Bugzilla
8 2 (6.667%) JUnit
8 2 (6.667%) TortoiseSVN
8 2 (6.667%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (3.333%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.333%) FogBugz
9 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (3.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Agile Coach
4 3 (10.00%) Build Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Java Applications Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Software Tester
6 1 (3.333%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Tester
6 1 (3.333%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 4 (13.33%) Clustering
4 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.667%) Derivative
5 2 (6.667%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.333%) Equities
6 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
6 1 (3.333%) Fixed Income
6 1 (3.333%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) UNIX
2 5 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Vista
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.333%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.333%) Android
4 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (50.00%) Scrum
3 10 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
4 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (20.00%) SOA
5 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.00%) Product Management
6 5 (16.67%) Workflow
7 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
7 4 (13.33%) Waterfall
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.00%) TDD
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.00%) Release Management
8 3 (10.00%) Time Management
8 3 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Ruby
5 2 (6.667%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.667%) C#
5 2 (6.667%) Python
5 2 (6.667%) Bash shell
5 2 (6.667%) Jython
5 2 (6.667%) Korn
6 1 (3.333%) XPath
6 1 (3.333%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
1 3 (10.00%) PMP
1 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.667%) ISEB
2 2 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.333%) Section 508
2 1 (3.333%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Sybase
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) JBoss
3 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle
4 1 (3.333%) VMware
4 1 (3.333%) HP
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