The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 104 129 118
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -11
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 22 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.233% 0.250% 0.119%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.914% 1.475% 0.775%
Number of salaries quoted 20 1 2
Average salary £35,000 £27,000 £18,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.62% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,000 £17,200
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £27,000 £18,800
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Development Applications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
278 339 258
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 15.58% 16.93% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 226 304 248
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -6.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire JIRA Salary Trend

JIRA
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire JIRA Salary Histogram

JIRA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 6 £42,500 -
Warrington +13 5 £31,000 -
Northwich - 4 £26,000 -
Knutsford - 1 £27,500 -
Macclesfield - 1 £37,500 -
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 15 (45.45%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) Oracle
2 14 (42.42%) JUnit
2 14 (42.42%) Web Services
2 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 14 (42.42%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (42.42%) Spring
2 14 (42.42%) Git (software)
3 13 (39.39%) Subversion
3 13 (39.39%) SQL
4 12 (36.36%) PHP
4 12 (36.36%) XML
5 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 10 (30.30%) HTML
6 10 (30.30%) Ant
6 10 (30.30%) JDBC
6 10 (30.30%) JSP
6 10 (30.30%) SOAP
6 10 (30.30%) Struts
6 10 (30.30%) Tomcat
6 10 (30.30%) Maven
6 10 (30.30%) Ajax
6 10 (30.30%) Hibernate
6 10 (30.30%) Waterfall
6 10 (30.30%) REST
6 10 (30.30%) jQuery
7 9 (27.27%) ISEB
7 9 (27.27%) MVC
8 8 (24.24%) Eclipse
8 8 (24.24%) JPA

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 14 (42.42%) Web Services
1 14 (42.42%) Spring
2 12 (36.36%) XML
3 10 (30.30%) HTML
3 10 (30.30%) JDBC
3 10 (30.30%) JSP
3 10 (30.30%) SOAP
3 10 (30.30%) Struts
3 10 (30.30%) Ajax
3 10 (30.30%) Hibernate
3 10 (30.30%) REST
3 10 (30.30%) jQuery
4 8 (24.24%) JPA
5 7 (21.21%) CSS
6 6 (18.18%) Servlets
6 6 (18.18%) XSLT
6 6 (18.18%) JAXB
6 6 (18.18%) Flash
6 6 (18.18%) JMS
6 6 (18.18%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 10 (30.30%) Tomcat
2 6 (18.18%) Apache
2 6 (18.18%) Jetty
3 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.030%) Magento
4 1 (3.030%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Project
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.061%) FTP
1 2 (6.061%) SAN
2 1 (3.030%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MySQL
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (9.091%) DB2
4 2 (6.061%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.030%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) JUnit
1 14 (42.42%) Git (software)
2 13 (39.39%) Subversion
3 10 (30.30%) Ant
3 10 (30.30%) Maven
4 8 (24.24%) Eclipse
5 6 (18.18%) Log4j
5 6 (18.18%) Bugzilla
5 6 (18.18%) Mercurial
6 5 (15.15%) ClearCase
7 4 (12.12%) Mockito
8 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (3.030%) GitHub
General
1 4 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.030%) Billing
2 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Developer
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
2 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Test Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Team Leader
5 5 (15.15%) Software Configuration Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Test Project Leader
5 5 (15.15%) Lead Test Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Release Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Project Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Build Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Software Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Configuration Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Project Leader
6 4 (12.12%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 4 (12.12%) J2EE Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.061%) QA Analyst
7 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) LIMS
1 4 (12.12%) Life Science
2 2 (6.061%) AS400
2 2 (6.061%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) UNIX
2 6 (18.18%) Solaris
3 2 (6.061%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (30.30%) Waterfall
3 9 (27.27%) MVC
4 7 (21.21%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (21.21%) Project Management
5 6 (18.18%) RAD
5 6 (18.18%) High Availability
5 6 (18.18%) TDD
6 5 (15.15%) Scrum
6 5 (15.15%) Performance Testing
6 5 (15.15%) Release Management
6 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
7 4 (12.12%) Workflow
8 2 (6.061%) PRINCE2
8 2 (6.061%) Regression Testing
8 2 (6.061%) PRINCE
8 2 (6.061%) Software Testing
8 2 (6.061%) Programme Management
9 1 (3.030%) Load Testing
9 1 (3.030%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) SQL
3 12 (36.36%) PHP
4 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) Perl
6 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.030%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.030%) Ruby
7 1 (3.030%) Python
7 1 (3.030%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.030%) RPG
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) ISEB
2 7 (21.21%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.030%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) Zend
2 5 (15.15%) IBM
3 2 (6.061%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.061%) Planview
4 1 (3.030%) AccuRev
4 1 (3.030%) Facebook
4 1 (3.030%) Twitter
4 1 (3.030%) Perforce
4 1 (3.030%) Remedy
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