JIRA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 64 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 98 90 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.66% 3.06% 4.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.13% 27.52% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 58 116
10th Percentile £300 £350 £288
25th Percentile £360 £400 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £496 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% +13.43% +2.94%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £500
90th Percentile £688 £683 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £493 £475
% change year-on-year +1.52% +3.68% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £35.50 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £53.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 257 327 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.60% 11.13% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 219 267
10th Percentile £328 £363 £333
25th Percentile £422 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +11.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.13 £55.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.94 £58.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -6.49% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.94 £67.25
90th Percentile - £68.38 £67.85
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.24 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.14% +2.25% +19.57%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Berkshire -3 74 £550 +12.53% 20
Buckinghamshire +34 17 £374 -25.25% 7
Oxfordshire +11 8 £468 -6.50% 9
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 24 (24.49%) Confluence
2 11 (11.22%) Apache
2 11 (11.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.06%) Appian
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) nginx
5 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.49%) Azure
2 23 (23.47%) AWS
3 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.08%) SaaS
5 3 (3.06%) Azure Stack
5 3 (3.06%) IaaS
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.06%) PaaS
6 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.02%) Figma
6 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.27%) VPN
2 12 (12.24%) BGP
2 12 (12.24%) MPLS
3 11 (11.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (11.22%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (4.08%) Wireless
5 2 (2.04%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) MongoDB
1 11 (11.22%) NoSQL
1 11 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.16%) Big Data
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.04%) Tableau
5 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 26 (26.53%) GitLab
2 14 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.29%) Selenium
3 13 (13.27%) Cucumber
3 13 (13.27%) SonarQube
4 12 (12.24%) REST Assured
5 11 (11.22%) Robot Framework
5 11 (11.22%) TestRail
6 7 (7.14%) Git
7 5 (5.10%) Subversion
8 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (2.04%) Maven
9 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.02%) Android Studio
10 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.02%) LabVIEW
10 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.02%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 32 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 13 (13.27%) Finance
5 9 (9.18%) Law
6 8 (8.16%) Police
7 5 (5.10%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.08%) Billing
8 4 (4.08%) Marketing
9 3 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.06%) Retail
10 2 (2.04%) Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.02%) Automotive
11 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Analyst
2 11 (11.22%) Developer
2 11 (11.22%) Senior
2 11 (11.22%) Test Engineer
3 10 (10.20%) Network Engineer
3 10 (10.20%) Software Engineer
4 7 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) Scrum Master
5 6 (6.12%) Architect
5 6 (6.12%) Java Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Server Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.49%) REST
2 13 (13.27%) Java EE
3 12 (12.24%) ARM Templates
4 11 (11.22%) NETCONF
4 11 (11.22%) RESTCONF
4 11 (11.22%) SOAP
4 11 (11.22%) YANG
5 4 (4.08%) HTML
6 2 (2.04%) .NET
6 2 (2.04%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.04%) PySpark
6 2 (2.04%) React
7 1 (1.02%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.02%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.02%) JSON
7 1 (1.02%) NHibernate
7 1 (1.02%) RESTful
7 1 (1.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.12%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.08%) Credit Risk
3 4 (4.08%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.06%) Life Science
4 3 (3.06%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.04%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.04%) Linux
3 2 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) Agile
2 29 (29.59%) Test Automation
3 27 (27.55%) DevOps
4 26 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (26.53%) Scrum
5 23 (23.47%) Containerisation
6 21 (21.43%) Workflow
7 18 (18.37%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (18.37%) Software Engineering
8 17 (17.35%) Decision-Making
9 16 (16.33%) CI/CD
10 15 (15.31%) Configuration Management
10 15 (15.31%) Unit Testing
11 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (13.27%) Security Testing
12 13 (13.27%) Software Architecture
13 11 (11.22%) Integration Testing
13 11 (11.22%) Performance Testing
13 11 (11.22%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.37%) Python
1 18 (18.37%) SQL
2 17 (17.35%) Java
3 5 (5.10%) C#
4 4 (4.08%) Assembly Language
4 4 (4.08%) C
4 4 (4.08%) C++
4 4 (4.08%) MATLAB
4 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.06%) F#
6 2 (2.04%) Go
6 2 (2.04%) Scala
7 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Degree
2 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.08%) PhD
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) MBA
7 1 (1.02%) CBAP
7 1 (1.02%) CSPO
7 1 (1.02%) IIBA
7 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) JTAG
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (24.49%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (4.08%) Firmware
3 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.31%) Ansible
1 15 (15.31%) Kubernetes
1 15 (15.31%) Terraform
2 12 (12.24%) Docker Swarm
2 12 (12.24%) Podman
3 2 (2.04%) Kibana
3 2 (2.04%) Rancher
4 1 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.18%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.10%) Dell
3 5 (5.10%) HP
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.08%) Oracle
5 3 (3.06%) Adobe
6 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.04%) Citrix
6 2 (2.04%) Reuters
6 2 (2.04%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) VMware
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.02%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.02%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.02%) Juniper
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Workday