JIRA Contracts in Bedfordshire

Atlassian JIRA
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 8 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.13% 4.88% 8.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 57.14% 80.00% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £530 £425 £331
25th Percentile £575 £474 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £539 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% +19.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £680 £608 £588
90th Percentile £824 £644 £610
East of England median daily rate £456 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +11.28% -18.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
East of England median hourly rate - £53.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -25.86% +29.46%

All Development Application Skills
Bedfordshire

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 14 15 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 8.97% 6.10% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 19
10th Percentile £500 £381 £326
25th Percentile £550 £403 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £458 £513
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -10.73% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £546 £534
90th Percentile £728 £620 £605
East of England median daily rate £494 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £27.94 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.78% - -
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.31% - +18.18%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Bedfordshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Bedfordshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Bedfordshire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Bedfordshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton +2 6 £600 +3.00% 22
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (25.00%) SAP ERP
3 1 (12.50%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) OSPF
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (37.50%) NeoLoad
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Life Science
2 3 (37.50%) FMCG
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Test Management
1 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Matrix Management
2 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Service Management
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCA
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GxP
1 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Ariba
3 1 (12.50%) Anaplan
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) Hyperion
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk