The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 18 June 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 West Midlands 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 93 61 99
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +38
Contract jobs citing JIRA 5 45 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.294% 1.985% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.846% 20.93% 0.752%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 1
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
130 215 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 7.634% 9.484% 6.888%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 104 71
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £373 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
Average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
JIRA
England

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands JIRA Daily Rate Trend

JIRA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Staffordshire -13 5 £325 - 1
Warwickshire - - - -
Worcestershire - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Coventry - - - -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 8 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) XHTML
2 7 (70.00%) N-Tier
2 7 (70.00%) SOA
2 7 (70.00%) VB.NET
2 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) XML
2 7 (70.00%) XSLT
2 7 (70.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (70.00%) SEO
2 7 (70.00%) TDD
2 7 (70.00%) Document Management
2 7 (70.00%) Ajax
2 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (70.00%) AccuRev
2 7 (70.00%) HTML5
2 7 (70.00%) CSS3
3 4 (40.00%) Games
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (40.00%) Android
3 4 (40.00%) Web Application Development

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (70.00%) .NET
1 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (70.00%) CSS
1 7 (70.00%) XML
1 7 (70.00%) XSLT
1 7 (70.00%) XHTML
1 7 (70.00%) Ajax
1 7 (70.00%) HTML5
1 7 (70.00%) CSS3
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) GPRS
1 1 (10.00%) 3G
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
2 6 (60.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (60.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (40.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Web Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (40.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (30.00%) WURFL
4 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Android
1 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (30.00%) BlackBerry OS
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) E-Commerce
1 7 (70.00%) SOA
1 7 (70.00%) SEO
1 7 (70.00%) TDD
1 7 (70.00%) Document Management
1 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Web Application Development
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Web Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) VB.NET
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) AccuRev
2 1 (10.00%) Google
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Major eCommerce Co requires experienced .Net Web Applications Developer (VB.NET/C#.NET/ASP.NET/SQL) with strong UI, rich client side development and data access skills to...
Applause IT Innovation
Rate: £310 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 June 2013
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