The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 102 119 114
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -5
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 20 11 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.108% 0.545% 0.596%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.689% 2.850% 3.892%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 11
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Development Applications
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
299 386 334
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 16.57% 19.11% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 275 343 291
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
JIRA
Cambridgeshire

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge JIRA Jobs Demand Trend

JIRA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JIRA across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge JIRA Salary Trend

JIRA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JIRA across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge JIRA Salary Histogram

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited JIRA.

1 32 (68.09%) QuickTest Pro
1 32 (68.09%) Selenium
2 29 (61.70%) Software Testing
3 27 (57.45%) Test Scripting
4 26 (55.32%) Manual Testing
5 23 (48.94%) Linux
6 21 (44.68%) Python
7 19 (40.43%) Automated Testing
7 19 (40.43%) C++
7 19 (40.43%) C
7 19 (40.43%) Perl
7 19 (40.43%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (38.30%) HTML
9 17 (36.17%) SQL
10 15 (31.91%) Java
10 15 (31.91%) Finance
11 14 (29.79%) XML
12 13 (27.66%) UNIX
12 13 (27.66%) HP
12 13 (27.66%) HP Quality Center
13 10 (21.28%) QA
13 10 (21.28%) Agile Software Development
13 10 (21.28%) ISEB
14 9 (19.15%) User Acceptance Testing
15 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
16 5 (10.64%) Internet
16 5 (10.64%) Test Management
17 4 (8.511%) Release Management
18 3 (6.383%) Microsoft
18 3 (6.383%) Business Analysis

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited JIRA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (38.30%) HTML
2 14 (29.79%) XML
3 3 (6.383%) .NET
3 3 (6.383%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.383%) CSS
3 3 (6.383%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (6.383%) HTML5
3 3 (6.383%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 3 (6.383%) jQuery
4 2 (4.255%) CSS3
4 2 (4.255%) WSE
4 2 (4.255%) Struts2
4 2 (4.255%) JSP
4 2 (4.255%) Struts
4 2 (4.255%) Web Services
4 2 (4.255%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.128%) Ajax
5 1 (2.128%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.383%) SharePoint
1 3 (6.383%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (6.383%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (4.255%) Confluence
2 2 (4.255%) nginx
2 2 (4.255%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (4.255%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (4.255%) Apache
2 2 (4.255%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (6.383%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Internet
2 2 (4.255%) SSL
2 2 (4.255%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.383%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.255%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.255%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.255%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (68.09%) QuickTest Pro
1 32 (68.09%) Selenium
2 2 (4.255%) FishEye
2 2 (4.255%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.255%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.255%) IntelliJ
2 2 (4.255%) Bugzilla
3 1 (2.128%) Ant
3 1 (2.128%) PHPUnit
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 2 (4.255%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 21 (44.68%) Software Developer
2 21 (44.68%) Senior Developer
2 21 (44.68%) Senior Software Developer
3 13 (27.66%) Analyst
3 13 (27.66%) Test Analyst
4 4 (8.511%) Release Manager
4 4 (8.511%) Environment Manager
5 3 (6.383%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.383%) Tester
6 2 (4.255%) Junior Software Tester
6 2 (4.255%) Junior
6 2 (4.255%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.255%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Junior Tester
7 1 (2.128%) Software Manager
7 1 (2.128%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.128%) Software Configuration Manager
7 1 (2.128%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (40.43%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (48.94%) Linux
2 13 (27.66%) UNIX
3 2 (4.255%) Android
3 2 (4.255%) CentOS
3 2 (4.255%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Software Testing
2 27 (57.45%) Test Scripting
3 26 (55.32%) Manual Testing
4 19 (40.43%) Automated Testing
5 10 (21.28%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (19.15%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (10.64%) Test Management
8 4 (8.511%) Release Management
9 3 (6.383%) Business Analysis
9 3 (6.383%) CRM
9 3 (6.383%) OOD
9 3 (6.383%) OO
10 2 (4.255%) Automation Testing
11 1 (2.128%) TDD
11 1 (2.128%) Project Management
11 1 (2.128%) Configuration Management
11 1 (2.128%) Test Automation
11 1 (2.128%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (2.128%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Python
2 19 (40.43%) C++
2 19 (40.43%) C
2 19 (40.43%) Perl
3 17 (36.17%) SQL
4 15 (31.91%) Java
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.383%) C#
7 1 (2.128%) PHP
7 1 (2.128%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) ISEB
2 2 (4.255%) HNC
2 2 (4.255%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) HP
2 3 (6.383%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.383%) Perforce
2 3 (6.383%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.128%) Zend
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