The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 17 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 79 101 100
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -1
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 2 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.210% 0.718% 0.310%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.575% 3.333% 2.073%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 1
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £53,894
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -11.86%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
127 300 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 13.35% 21.54% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 109 253 165
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex JIRA Salary Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Brentwood - 1 - -
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 6 (42.86%) HTML
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 6 (42.86%) FTP
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
1 6 (42.86%) Bugzilla
1 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Embedded Linux
2 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
2 5 (35.71%) ClearCase
2 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 5 (35.71%) ISEB
2 5 (35.71%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (35.71%) C
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) QA
2 5 (35.71%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (28.57%) Trac
3 4 (28.57%) Broadband
3 4 (28.57%) TELNET
3 4 (28.57%) HTTP
3 4 (28.57%) Wireless
4 3 (21.43%) Back Office
4 3 (21.43%) MVC
4 3 (21.43%) Streaming Video
4 3 (21.43%) WinForms
4 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (21.43%) Quicktime
4 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 6 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) CGI
2 3 (21.43%) WinForms
2 3 (21.43%) Ajax
2 3 (21.43%) WCF
2 3 (21.43%) jQuery
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 3 (21.43%) HTML5
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Quicktime
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) FTP
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
3 4 (28.57%) HTTP
3 4 (28.57%) Broadband
3 4 (28.57%) Wireless
3 4 (28.57%) TELNET
4 3 (21.43%) 4G
4 3 (21.43%) DLNA
4 3 (21.43%) UPnP
4 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (21.43%) WAN
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) 802.11
4 3 (21.43%) DSL
4 3 (21.43%) DVB
5 1 (7.143%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Bugzilla
2 5 (35.71%) ClearCase
2 5 (35.71%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (28.57%) Trac
4 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
4 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
4 3 (21.43%) Mercurial
4 3 (21.43%) NUnit
5 1 (7.143%) Selenium
5 1 (7.143%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (7.143%) Redmine
5 1 (7.143%) JUnit
General
1 3 (21.43%) Back Office
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Test Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Tester
4 1 (7.143%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) MPEG
1 3 (21.43%) DTV
1 3 (21.43%) Streaming Video
2 1 (7.143%) STB
2 1 (7.143%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (21.43%) OO
2 3 (21.43%) SOA
2 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
2 3 (21.43%) MVC
2 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.143%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) C
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) ISEB
1 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (21.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) DevExpress