JIRA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 41 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 869 1,142 1,764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.23% 4.86% 5.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.11% 34.46% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 807 1,258
10th Percentile £343 £304 £350
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +1.03% +10.10%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £654 £627
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £521
% change year-on-year - +0.68% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 40 31
10th Percentile £35.68 £41.58 £31.50
25th Percentile £40.94 £52.69 £38.68
Median hourly rate £57.50 £66.69 £52.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +26.54% +14.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £58.25
90th Percentile - £82.92 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.42% +46.07% -2.20%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,222 3,314 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.10% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,344 3,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 177 104
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.75 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.75 £78.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +24 219 £500 +11.11% 34
South East +2 200 £500 - 106
South West +24 182 £538 +7.50% 67
North of England -21 133 £500 -3.15% 79
North West -8 73 £510 +13.33% 45
Midlands -47 61 £468 +0.54% 90
East of England -19 60 £450 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire +9 55 £450 -14.29% 31
West Midlands -54 36 £500 -4.76% 54
East Midlands -1 25 £363 +9.85% 36
Wales +19 13 £520 +4.00% 11
North East -21 5 £566 +0.22% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 383 (44.07%) Confluence
2 57 (6.56%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.14%) SharePoint Server
4 34 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (3.11%) Apache
6 18 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (1.50%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.81%) JBoss
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.46%) Appian
12 3 (0.35%) CMS
12 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.23%) Mule
13 2 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.23%) WildFly
14 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 55 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 24 (2.76%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 4 (0.46%) Windchill
8 3 (0.35%) Sketch
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
10 1 (0.12%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.12%) InVision
10 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.27%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.58%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 169 (19.45%) Azure
2 106 (12.20%) AWS
3 53 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (5.64%) Power Platform
5 42 (4.83%) GitHub
6 37 (4.26%) Azure Stack
7 27 (3.11%) GCP
8 23 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 20 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.73%) SaaS
11 15 (1.73%) Serverless
12 13 (1.50%) PaaS
12 13 (1.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 12 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.38%) Apigee
13 12 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.27%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.33%) Firewall
2 52 (5.98%) BGP
3 29 (3.34%) DNS
4 26 (2.99%) VPN
5 25 (2.88%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.84%) DHCP
6 16 (1.84%) SNMP
7 15 (1.73%) MPLS
7 15 (1.73%) Radio Access Network
7 15 (1.73%) Software-Defined Radio
8 14 (1.61%) HTTP
9 12 (1.38%) 5G
10 11 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (1.27%) VSAN
11 8 (0.92%) Wireless
12 7 (0.81%) SSL
13 6 (0.69%) FTP
13 6 (0.69%) VoIP
14 5 (0.58%) WAN
14 5 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.60%) Power BI
2 30 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 28 (3.22%) MongoDB
5 15 (1.73%) Big Data
5 15 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.04%) MySQL
9 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.81%) Tableau
11 6 (0.69%) Metadata
11 6 (0.69%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.58%) OLAP
12 5 (0.58%) OLTP
12 5 (0.58%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 120 (13.81%) Jenkins
2 115 (13.23%) Git
3 71 (8.17%) Bitbucket
4 54 (6.21%) GitLab
5 38 (4.37%) Cucumber
6 34 (3.91%) Selenium
7 30 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (3.11%) Robot Framework
9 26 (2.99%) GoogleTest
10 22 (2.53%) Eclipse
11 21 (2.42%) Subversion
12 20 (2.30%) Postman
13 18 (2.07%) SonarQube
14 16 (1.84%) JMeter
14 16 (1.84%) JUnit
14 16 (1.84%) TestRail
15 14 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (1.38%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.38%) REST Assured
17 9 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 326 (37.51%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
2 150 (17.26%) Finance
3 122 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 41 (4.72%) Aerospace
5 40 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
6 34 (3.91%) Banking
7 29 (3.34%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.88%) Retail
11 24 (2.76%) Military
12 21 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (2.07%) Marketing
14 17 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.38%) Legal
16 11 (1.27%) Automotive
16 11 (1.27%) Law
17 8 (0.92%) Electronics
17 8 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 129 (14.84%) Analyst
2 113 (13.00%) Developer
3 92 (10.59%) Senior
4 70 (8.06%) Lead
5 64 (7.36%) Project Manager
6 53 (6.10%) Test Engineer
7 47 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 45 (5.18%) Software Engineer
9 38 (4.37%) Architect
10 33 (3.80%) Data Analyst
11 32 (3.68%) Java Developer
12 31 (3.57%) Project Leader
13 28 (3.22%) Java Engineer
14 25 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
14 25 (2.88%) Java Software Engineer
15 24 (2.76%) Product Manager
16 22 (2.53%) C++ Software Engineer
17 21 (2.42%) Administrator
17 21 (2.42%) Integration Engineer
17 21 (2.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.79%) REST
2 41 (4.72%) .NET
3 37 (4.26%) HTML
3 37 (4.26%) Kafka
4 31 (3.57%) CSS
5 28 (3.22%) .NET Core
5 28 (3.22%) Spring
6 27 (3.11%) Spring Boot
7 26 (2.99%) SOAP
8 25 (2.88%) Web Services
8 25 (2.88%) XML
9 24 (2.76%) JSON
10 20 (2.30%) React
11 18 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (1.84%) Apache Camel
13 15 (1.73%) J2EE
13 15 (1.73%) Java EE
14 13 (1.50%) RESTful
15 12 (1.38%) ARM Templates
15 12 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 45 (5.18%) Private Cloud
3 30 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.76%) PKI
5 19 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
6 17 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 17 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 8 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.69%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.58%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.58%) DataPower
12 5 (0.58%) Device Driver
12 5 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 121 (13.92%) Linux
2 116 (13.35%) Windows
3 31 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.53%) Unix
5 21 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.58%) AIX
9 5 (0.58%) VMS
10 4 (0.46%) Android
10 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.35%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.12%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (55.12%) Agile
2 165 (18.99%) DevOps
3 164 (18.87%) Scrum
4 162 (18.64%) Project Management
5 152 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 108 (12.43%) CI/CD
8 104 (11.97%) Project Delivery
9 89 (10.24%) Test Automation
10 87 (10.01%) Software Engineering
11 82 (9.44%) Continuous Integration
12 78 (8.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 74 (8.52%) Service Management
14 70 (8.06%) Roadmaps
15 69 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (7.83%) ITIL
17 64 (7.36%) Workflow
18 63 (7.25%) Migration
19 55 (6.33%) Configuration Management
19 55 (6.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 136 (15.65%) Python
2 125 (14.38%) Java
3 121 (13.92%) SQL
4 67 (7.71%) PowerShell
5 56 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 50 (5.75%) C++
7 29 (3.34%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.22%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.88%) C#
10 23 (2.65%) Bash
11 21 (2.42%) C
12 15 (1.73%) Scala
13 13 (1.50%) Groovy
14 11 (1.27%) Go
14 11 (1.27%) Perl
15 8 (0.92%) Assembly Language
16 7 (0.81%) ABAP
16 7 (0.81%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 282 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 194 (22.32%) SC Cleared
3 104 (11.97%) Degree
4 75 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.88%) APMP
6 23 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.84%) MCSE
9 16 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.84%) PMP
10 15 (1.73%) MCSA
11 12 (1.38%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.81%) CCNA
12 7 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.46%) ISEB
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.13%) PMO
2 45 (5.18%) QA
3 39 (4.49%) Government Security Classifications
4 14 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 13 (1.50%) MISRA
6 11 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.15%) SLA
8 9 (1.04%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.92%) GxP
10 7 (0.81%) GDPR
10 7 (0.81%) NCSC
11 6 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
11 6 (0.69%) NIST
12 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.46%) JTAG
14 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 2 (0.23%) GRC
15 2 (0.23%) IFRS
15 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (8.17%) Docker
2 48 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 40 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.30%) Firmware
5 14 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.15%) vSphere
8 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.69%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.23%) HDFS
13 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.12%) NFS
13 1 (0.12%) Snort
13 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (8.17%) Ansible
2 57 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.64%) Terraform
4 26 (2.99%) SCOM
5 25 (2.88%) PowerCLI
6 22 (2.53%) Kibana
7 18 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
8 14 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.38%) Podman
10 10 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.15%) Grafana
10 10 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.04%) Puppet
12 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.69%) logstash
14 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.46%) Autotask
15 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 166 (19.10%) Atlassian
2 149 (17.15%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.10%) SAP
4 49 (5.64%) VMware
5 44 (5.06%) Oracle
6 34 (3.91%) Google
7 33 (3.80%) Dell
8 30 (3.45%) HP
9 27 (3.11%) ServiceNow
9 27 (3.11%) Splunk
10 22 (2.53%) Cisco
10 22 (2.53%) Salesforce
11 21 (2.42%) Avaloq
12 15 (1.73%) Adobe
13 12 (1.38%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.27%) Informatica
15 9 (1.04%) IBM
15 9 (1.04%) Juniper
15 9 (1.04%) Talend
16 8 (0.92%) Cadence