The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 22 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 9 2 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing JIRA 6 33 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 20.69% 47.14% -
As % of the Development Applications category 66.67% 80.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
9 41 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 31.03% 58.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 0
Average daily rate £330 £330 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JIRA
Staffordshire

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 6 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 6 (100.00%) SOA
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) SEO
1 6 (100.00%) Document Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 6 (100.00%) AccuRev
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Games
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Android
4 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (50.00%) WURFL
4 3 (50.00%) BlackBerry OS

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 6 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 6 (100.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Web Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 3 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (50.00%) WURFL
2 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (50.00%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) SOA
1 6 (100.00%) SEO
1 6 (100.00%) Document Management
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Web Application Development
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) AccuRev