Atlassian JIRA
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 44 45 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,746 2,893 5,204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 4.84% 5.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.10% 31.94% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 1,996 3,572
10th Percentile £350 £333 £363
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £613
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £485 £480
% change year-on-year +4.64% +1.04% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 51 94
10th Percentile £22.30 £39.60 £32.55
25th Percentile £39.19 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +46.07% -3.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £55.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.19 £66.69 £53.50
% change year-on-year -26.24% +24.64% +16.30%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -6 1,347 £525 -2.78% 612
UK excluding London +1 858 £508 +4.64% 424
London -4 690 £550 -4.35% 205
Work from Home +3 680 £500 -3.85% 294
Scotland +24 227 £500 +12.36% 33
South East +7 194 £500 +1.52% 116
South West +19 171 £550 +4.76% 72
North of England -19 139 £505 +1.00% 88
North West -5 85 £510 +13.33% 55
Midlands -57 57 £450 -5.26% 80
East of England -21 54 £410 -18.00% 31
Yorkshire -8 49 £450 -14.29% 29
West Midlands -46 40 £504 -6.33% 48
East Midlands -12 17 £355 +7.58% 32
Wales +20 15 £515 +14.44% 10
North East -21 5 £533 -5.75% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 698 (39.98%) Confluence
2 84 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (2.12%) SharePoint Server
5 36 (2.06%) Apache
6 26 (1.49%) CMS
7 23 (1.32%) Apache Spark
8 22 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
9 16 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.63%) IIS
11 10 (0.57%) JBoss
12 8 (0.46%) Drupal
12 8 (0.46%) SAS
13 7 (0.40%) nginx
14 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.29%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.17%) Appian
15 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.11%) Mule
16 2 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 108 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 99 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (3.72%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (3.15%) MS Visio
5 47 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 22 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.69%) Trello
8 7 (0.40%) Windchill
9 3 (0.17%) Simulink
9 3 (0.17%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 2 (0.11%) Mingle
10 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.057%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.057%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 16 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
3 9 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.34%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.23%) Workfront
7 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 331 (18.96%) Azure
2 263 (15.06%) AWS
3 114 (6.53%) GitHub
4 104 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 103 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (3.72%) GCP
7 57 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.52%) SaaS
8 44 (2.52%) Serverless
9 42 (2.41%) PowerApps
10 39 (2.23%) Azure Stack
10 39 (2.23%) Slack
11 37 (2.12%) Power Automate
12 29 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.37%) Amazon S3
14 22 (1.26%) npm
14 22 (1.26%) PaaS
15 21 (1.20%) IaaS
16 20 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.09%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.87%) Firewall
2 55 (3.15%) DNS
3 54 (3.09%) BGP
4 40 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 40 (2.29%) VPN
5 31 (1.78%) DHCP
6 22 (1.26%) HTTP
7 20 (1.15%) 5G
8 19 (1.09%) Intranet
9 16 (0.92%) Internet
9 16 (0.92%) MPLS
9 16 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
10 15 (0.86%) SNMP
10 15 (0.86%) VSAN
11 14 (0.80%) VLAN
11 14 (0.80%) Wireless
12 13 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
12 13 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
13 12 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
13 12 (0.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.10%) Power BI
3 70 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.92%) Relational Database
5 37 (2.12%) MongoDB
6 32 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 30 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (1.55%) Tableau
10 25 (1.43%) Big Data
11 21 (1.20%) MySQL
12 18 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.74%) Hadoop
15 13 (0.74%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.69%) Apache Hive
16 12 (0.69%) Metadata
17 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
18 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 241 (13.80%) Git
2 217 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 98 (5.61%) Bitbucket
3 98 (5.61%) GitLab
4 71 (4.07%) Cucumber
5 69 (3.95%) Selenium
6 52 (2.98%) Postman
7 50 (2.86%) TeamCity
8 45 (2.58%) JMeter
9 35 (2.00%) JUnit
10 33 (1.89%) Cypress.io
11 32 (1.83%) TestRail
12 31 (1.78%) Maven
13 30 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 28 (1.60%) Eclipse
15 27 (1.55%) Robot Framework
16 26 (1.49%) Subversion
17 24 (1.37%) webpack
18 20 (1.15%) GoogleTest
18 20 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 632 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 328 (18.79%) Finance
3 311 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.10%) Banking
6 70 (4.01%) Front Office
7 67 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (2.98%) Marketing
9 45 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 43 (2.46%) Retail
11 41 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (2.18%) Aerospace
13 38 (2.18%) Manufacturing
14 36 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
15 33 (1.89%) Investment Banking
16 29 (1.66%) Military
17 22 (1.26%) Legal
18 20 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 267 (15.29%) Analyst
2 237 (13.57%) Developer
3 179 (10.25%) Senior
4 126 (7.22%) Project Manager
5 123 (7.04%) Lead
6 115 (6.59%) Business Analyst
7 70 (4.01%) Test Engineer
8 68 (3.89%) Architect
9 57 (3.26%) Java Developer
10 50 (2.86%) Software Engineer
10 50 (2.86%) Test Analyst
11 49 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.69%) Support Engineer
13 43 (2.46%) Data Engineer
14 40 (2.29%) Consultant
15 39 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 39 (2.23%) Tester
16 38 (2.18%) Data Analyst
16 38 (2.18%) Test Manager
17 37 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (7.85%) REST
2 74 (4.24%) CSS
3 73 (4.18%) React
4 70 (4.01%) HTML
5 63 (3.61%) .NET
6 61 (3.49%) XML
7 57 (3.26%) JSON
8 53 (3.04%) Spring
9 50 (2.86%) SOAP
10 47 (2.69%) Kafka
10 47 (2.69%) Web Services
11 42 (2.41%) AngularJS
12 41 (2.35%) ADO
13 40 (2.29%) Spring Boot
14 39 (2.23%) Node.js
15 34 (1.95%) .NET Core
16 30 (1.72%) RESTful
17 29 (1.66%) LDAP
18 26 (1.49%) WebSockets
19 25 (1.43%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 51 (2.92%) Data Centre
3 48 (2.75%) Private Cloud
4 34 (1.95%) Fixed Income
5 33 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 26 (1.49%) PKI
8 25 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 23 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 23 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 22 (1.26%) Derivative
10 22 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.20%) Mobile App
12 16 (0.92%) Clustering
12 16 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 189 (10.82%) Windows
2 182 (10.42%) Linux
3 74 (4.24%) Unix
4 54 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 12 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.57%) Solaris
10 9 (0.52%) AIX
10 9 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.34%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.29%) VMS
14 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.17%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (54.75%) Agile
2 358 (20.50%) DevOps
3 325 (18.61%) Scrum
4 294 (16.84%) Project Management
5 276 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
6 258 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 213 (12.20%) Test Automation
8 202 (11.57%) CI/CD
9 156 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 147 (8.42%) Software Engineering
11 143 (8.19%) Project Delivery
12 140 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
13 135 (7.73%) Migration
14 119 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
15 116 (6.64%) Roadmaps
16 115 (6.59%) User Stories
17 114 (6.53%) Workflow
18 111 (6.36%) Kanban
19 108 (6.19%) SDLC
20 107 (6.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 271 (15.52%) SQL
2 260 (14.89%) Python
3 215 (12.31%) Java
4 146 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 110 (6.30%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.52%) C#
7 63 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 61 (3.49%) C++
9 50 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 49 (2.81%) Bash
11 34 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 30 (1.72%) C
13 29 (1.66%) Go
14 21 (1.20%) Scala
15 20 (1.15%) Perl
16 19 (1.09%) Groovy
17 18 (1.03%) Ruby
18 17 (0.97%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.40%) Assembly Language
19 7 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 441 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 347 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 215 (12.31%) Degree
4 80 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.78%) ISTQB
8 30 (1.72%) PMP
9 21 (1.20%) APMP
9 21 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.92%) MCSE
12 15 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 15 (0.86%) MCSA
13 13 (0.74%) ISEB
14 12 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.46%) CCNA
17 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (9.16%) QA
2 92 (5.27%) PMO
3 39 (2.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 34 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.20%) GDPR
7 16 (0.92%) SLA
8 15 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
9 14 (0.80%) NIST
10 13 (0.74%) NCSC
11 12 (0.69%) GxP
12 10 (0.57%) EMIR
13 8 (0.46%) MiFID
13 8 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
14 7 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
14 7 (0.40%) MISRA
15 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 117 (6.70%) Docker
2 81 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 58 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.03%) Firmware
5 18 (1.03%) vSphere
6 14 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.40%) HDFS
10 6 (0.34%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.23%) Snort
12 3 (0.17%) vCloud
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.057%) NFS
14 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 116 (6.64%) Ansible
2 113 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 92 (5.27%) Terraform
4 33 (1.89%) Kibana
5 30 (1.72%) Puppet
6 28 (1.60%) Grafana
6 28 (1.60%) PowerCLI
7 26 (1.49%) SCOM
8 25 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
10 19 (1.09%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.80%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.69%) HP ALM
12 12 (0.69%) Podman
13 10 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.57%) logstash
14 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.52%) VxRail
15 8 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
15 8 (0.46%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 281 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 233 (13.34%) Atlassian
3 126 (7.22%) Oracle
4 84 (4.81%) SAP
5 80 (4.58%) VMware
6 73 (4.18%) ServiceNow
7 53 (3.04%) Splunk
8 51 (2.92%) Google
9 48 (2.75%) Dell
10 45 (2.58%) HP
11 40 (2.29%) Salesforce
12 34 (1.95%) Cisco
13 23 (1.32%) Adobe
13 23 (1.32%) Avaloq
14 20 (1.15%) IBM
15 18 (1.03%) Bloomberg
16 16 (0.92%) CyberArk
16 16 (0.92%) Informatica
16 16 (0.92%) Red Hat
17 13 (0.74%) Palo Alto