JIRA Contracts in the South West

Atlassian JIRA
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 50 39
Rank change year-on-year +27 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 180 163 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.63% 4.50% 5.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 52.17% 35.13% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 129 141
10th Percentile £457 £349 £356
25th Percentile £475 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £670
England median daily rate £525 £540 £517
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.40% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile - £57.13 £49.55
25th Percentile £40.00 £62.42 £50.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £78.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +50.00% -5.45%
75th Percentile - £86.66 £54.00
90th Percentile - £89.01 £54.45
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +46.07% -13.59%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 345 464 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.79% 12.81% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 326 409
10th Percentile £425 £375 £370
25th Percentile £475 £422 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +4.90% +8.51%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £645
England median daily rate £532 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 54 27
10th Percentile £56.00 £50.36 £42.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £55.56 £49.38
Median hourly rate £67.25 £61.50 £55.84
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +10.14% +11.68%
75th Percentile £71.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.40 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.45%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Wiltshire +24 85 £538 +7.50% 9
Gloucestershire +8 47 £550 -4.35% 11
Bristol +17 34 £570 +3.64% 29
Devon -6 6 £425 -10.53% 7
Somerset -2 4 £450 +16.13% 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 98 (54.44%) Confluence
2 45 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 35 (19.44%) SharePoint Server
4 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 34 (18.89%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (14.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (14.44%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
1 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.56%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.44%) Azure
2 34 (18.89%) Azure Stack
3 13 (7.22%) AWS
4 10 (5.56%) GitHub
5 8 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.89%) GCP
6 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.22%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.11%) PaaS
9 1 (0.56%) Apigee
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.56%) Google Container Engine
9 1 (0.56%) IaaS
9 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (21.11%) Firewall
2 35 (19.44%) BGP
3 9 (5.00%) DNS
4 8 (4.44%) DHCP
5 7 (3.89%) VSAN
6 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.11%) Skype
7 2 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.11%) Tactical Data Link
7 2 (1.11%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.56%) Broadband
8 1 (0.56%) HbbTV
8 1 (0.56%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.67%) MySQL
1 3 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.11%) Power BI
3 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 24 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (3.89%) GoogleTest
5 4 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.22%) GitLab
5 4 (2.22%) Selenium
6 3 (1.67%) Git
7 2 (1.11%) JUnit
7 2 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.56%) GoCD
8 1 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 125 (69.44%) Social Skills
2 69 (38.33%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (19.44%) Finance
4 26 (14.44%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (11.67%) Aerospace
6 19 (10.56%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.00%) Legal
9 7 (3.89%) Military
10 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Aviation
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (18.33%) Lead
2 28 (15.56%) Developer
3 26 (14.44%) Analyst
4 24 (13.33%) Project Leader
5 18 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) Test Engineer
7 12 (6.67%) Senior
8 10 (5.56%) Architect
8 10 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.56%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Compliance Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.00%) .NET
2 25 (13.89%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.89%) Qt
4 5 (2.78%) Flash
5 3 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.56%) CSS
6 1 (0.56%) CSS3
6 1 (0.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.56%) HTML
6 1 (0.56%) HTML5
6 1 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.56%) J2EE
6 1 (0.56%) Kafka
6 1 (0.56%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.56%) OSGi
6 1 (0.56%) PySpark
6 1 (0.56%) Spring
6 1 (0.56%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 11 (6.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (5.56%) PKI
4 7 (3.89%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.78%) Clustering
6 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (30.00%) Windows
2 39 (21.67%) Linux
3 8 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.67%) Unix
4 3 (1.67%) VMS
4 3 (1.67%) Windows 2000
4 3 (1.67%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.11%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.33%) Agile
2 52 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (25.00%) Service Management
4 42 (23.33%) ITIL
5 36 (20.00%) Project Management
6 34 (18.89%) Capacity Management
6 34 (18.89%) CI/CD
6 34 (18.89%) Network Management
6 34 (18.89%) Security Monitoring
7 31 (17.22%) Project Delivery
7 31 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 29 (16.11%) ITSM
10 26 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (13.89%) OO
11 25 (13.89%) Project Planning
11 25 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
12 24 (13.33%) Data Management
12 24 (13.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.67%) PowerShell
1 39 (21.67%) Python
2 14 (7.78%) Java
3 11 (6.11%) SQL
4 10 (5.56%) C++
5 7 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.33%) Bash
7 5 (2.78%) C
8 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 137 (76.11%) Security Cleared
2 68 (37.78%) DV Cleared
2 68 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.33%) APMP
3 24 (13.33%) Degree
4 11 (6.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.89%) MCSE
6 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.33%) CCNA
7 6 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.33%) MCSA
8 4 (2.22%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.56%) CCNP
11 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 28 (15.56%) PMO
3 7 (3.89%) MISRA
4 4 (2.22%) NCSC
5 3 (1.67%) QA
6 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (7.22%) VMware NSX
3 10 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.33%) vSphere
6 4 (2.22%) Docker
7 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (19.44%) Ansible
2 26 (14.44%) SCOM
3 24 (13.33%) PowerCLI
4 11 (6.11%) Terraform
5 6 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.33%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.11%) Puppet
6 2 (1.11%) WSUS
7 1 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.56%) OPNET
7 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (42.78%) Atlassian
2 74 (41.11%) Microsoft
3 23 (12.78%) VMware
4 22 (12.22%) Dell
4 22 (12.22%) HP
5 10 (5.56%) Splunk
6 8 (4.44%) Google
7 7 (3.89%) Cisco
8 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.67%) Juniper
9 3 (1.67%) SAP
10 2 (1.11%) Adobe
10 2 (1.11%) Oracle
10 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.11%) Veeam
11 1 (0.56%) Citrix
11 1 (0.56%) Cognos
11 1 (0.56%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) Red Hat