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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 59 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 100 95 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.80% 3.34% 4.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.02% 30.25% 45.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 54 126
10th Percentile £296 £350 £331
25th Percentile £351 £413 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £500
90th Percentile £688 £693 £614
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +2.15%
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 £67.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -0.83%

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 263 314 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.98% 11.04% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 209 272
10th Percentile £308 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year - +15.18% +12.35%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £728 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -0.46% +8.00% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile - £23.25 £55.33
25th Percentile £46.25 £33.75 £58.81
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -18.52% +28.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.88 £67.58
90th Percentile - £66.75 £67.98
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £56.47 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.11% -5.88% +6.19%

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

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -4 79 £538 +4.88% 9
Buckinghamshire +32 15 £358 -30.24% 13
Oxfordshire +11 7 £450 -11.76% 6
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 23 (23.00%) Confluence
2 7 (7.00%) Apache
2 7 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.00%) Appian
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Sketch
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.00%) Azure
2 24 (24.00%) AWS
3 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.00%) Figma
5 3 (3.00%) IaaS
6 2 (2.00%) Azure Stack
6 2 (2.00%) GCP
6 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.00%) PaaS
6 2 (2.00%) SaaS
7 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) BGP
1 15 (15.00%) MPLS
2 11 (11.00%) VPN
3 7 (7.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 7 (7.00%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (4.00%) Wireless
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.00%) DMVPN
5 2 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (2.00%) IPsec
5 2 (2.00%) Network Security
5 2 (2.00%) OSPF
5 2 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.00%) Sourcefire
5 2 (2.00%) WAN
5 2 (2.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) Big Data
2 7 (7.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (7.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.00%) Impala
4 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.00%) Tableau
5 1 (1.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 22 (22.00%) GitLab
2 15 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.00%) Selenium
3 13 (13.00%) Cucumber
4 12 (12.00%) REST Assured
4 12 (12.00%) SonarQube
5 8 (8.00%) Git
5 8 (8.00%) TestRail
6 7 (7.00%) Robot Framework
7 5 (5.00%) Subversion
8 3 (3.00%) Maven
8 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (1.00%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.00%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.00%) Postman
9 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Telecoms
4 12 (12.00%) Finance
5 9 (9.00%) Law
6 8 (8.00%) Police
7 5 (5.00%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (5.00%) Retail
8 4 (4.00%) Billing
8 4 (4.00%) Marketing
9 3 (3.00%) Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.00%) Automotive
11 1 (1.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 21 (21.00%) Analyst
2 16 (16.00%) Senior
3 14 (14.00%) Developer
4 12 (12.00%) Test Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Architect
7 6 (6.00%) IP Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.00%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Senior IP Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.00%) REST
2 13 (13.00%) Java EE
3 12 (12.00%) ARM Templates
4 7 (7.00%) NETCONF
4 7 (7.00%) RESTCONF
4 7 (7.00%) SOAP
4 7 (7.00%) YANG
5 6 (6.00%) HTML
6 4 (4.00%) PySpark
7 3 (3.00%) CSS
7 3 (3.00%) React
8 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.00%) Kafka
8 2 (2.00%) Spring
9 1 (1.00%) .NET
9 1 (1.00%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.00%) JSON
9 1 (1.00%) Redux
9 1 (1.00%) RESTful
9 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.00%) Biopharmaceutical
3 4 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.00%) Device Driver
3 4 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 4 (4.00%) Linux
3 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.00%) Unix
4 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.00%) Android
5 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) Agile
2 27 (27.00%) DevOps
3 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (26.00%) Test Automation
4 19 (19.00%) Containerisation
4 19 (19.00%) Scrum
5 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
5 17 (17.00%) Workflow
6 16 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (16.00%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.00%) Configuration Management
8 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.00%) Software Architecture
8 13 (13.00%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (11.00%) CI/CD
9 11 (11.00%) Migration
9 11 (11.00%) Project Management
10 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (10.00%) Unit Testing
11 9 (9.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.00%) Java
2 15 (15.00%) Python
2 15 (15.00%) SQL
3 4 (4.00%) Assembly Language
3 4 (4.00%) C
3 4 (4.00%) C#
3 4 (4.00%) C++
3 4 (4.00%) MATLAB
3 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.00%) F#
4 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.00%) Scala
5 2 (2.00%) Go
6 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Degree
2 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.00%) PhD
6 2 (2.00%) CCNA
6 2 (2.00%) CCNP
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.00%) MBA
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) JTAG
3 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (19.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (4.00%) Firmware
3 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.00%) Terraform
3 14 (14.00%) Ansible
4 12 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (12.00%) Podman
5 2 (2.00%) Control-M
5 2 (2.00%) Rancher
6 1 (1.00%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.00%) Juniper
3 7 (7.00%) Dell
3 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.00%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.00%) HP
5 3 (3.00%) Adobe
6 2 (2.00%) Apple
6 2 (2.00%) Aruba
6 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.00%) Blue Coat
6 2 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco
6 2 (2.00%) Citrix
6 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.00%) McAfee
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle
6 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.00%) Reuters
6 2 (2.00%) VMware