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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank - 80 -
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 0 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 0.297% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 1.471% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £37,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
63 136 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 14.13% 20.18% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 59 114 64
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside JIRA Salary Trend

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 10 (90.91%) Scrum
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 9 (81.82%) Retail
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
2 9 (81.82%) Hibernate
2 9 (81.82%) Swing
2 9 (81.82%) Oracle 10g
2 9 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) J2EE
2 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 9 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (81.82%) EJB
2 9 (81.82%) HND
2 9 (81.82%) UNIX
2 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 9 (81.82%) Use Case
2 9 (81.82%) jQuery
2 9 (81.82%) EJB 3.0
2 9 (81.82%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (9.091%) Zend
4 1 (9.091%) ISEB
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) LAMP
4 1 (9.091%) Games
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Apache
4 1 (9.091%) MySQL

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (81.82%) J2EE
1 9 (81.82%) EJB
1 9 (81.82%) Swing
1 9 (81.82%) Hibernate
1 9 (81.82%) Spring
1 9 (81.82%) jQuery
1 9 (81.82%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (9.091%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) SQL Server
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 9 (81.82%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Software Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Java Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Java Software Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Software Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Java Swing Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Lead PHP Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Games Tester
6 1 (9.091%) Lead Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Software Tester
6 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Scrum
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 9 (81.82%) Use Case
2 9 (81.82%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 1 (9.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) HND
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) ISEB
2 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Zend