JIRA Contracts in Berkshire

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 47 49 47
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 47 76 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.01% 3.83% 4.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.87% 37.44% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 44
10th Percentile £400 £300 £350
25th Percentile £475 £403 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £506
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +6.17% +21.99%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £623
90th Percentile £618 £710 £718
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 143 203 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.19% 10.23% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 125 158
10th Percentile £400 £333 £363
25th Percentile £476 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £618
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £50.20 - -
25th Percentile £53.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.87%
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.80 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Berkshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Berkshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Berkshire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Berkshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Berkshire 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
Reading +8 26 £504 -17.80% 37
Wokingham -5 9 £500 -35.48% 2
Bracknell +19 7 £475 -7.32% 1
Slough -9 4 £650 +116.67% 23
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (17.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.51%) PaaS
5 3 (6.38%) Figma
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) Azure API Management
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.26%) Miro
7 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.13%) IaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) SaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) 5G
1 2 (4.26%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
1 2 (4.26%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (4.26%) SMS
1 2 (4.26%) SS7
1 2 (4.26%) VoLTE
1 2 (4.26%) VoWiFi
1 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.13%) BGP
2 1 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.13%) MPLS
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Parquet
3 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) GitLab
2 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (27.66%) Cucumber
3 13 (27.66%) REST Assured
3 13 (27.66%) Selenium
4 9 (19.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.26%) DBeaver
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) Git
6 1 (2.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.13%) Subversion
6 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Law
3 8 (17.02%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.51%) Police
5 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.26%) Automotive
6 2 (4.26%) Electronics
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.13%) Billing
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Java Engineer
1 9 (19.15%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Tester
6 3 (6.38%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.38%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) DBA
7 2 (4.26%) Network Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Network Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.26%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.91%) REST
2 13 (27.66%) Java EE
3 10 (21.28%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.26%) .NET
4 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.26%) JSON
4 2 (4.26%) RESTful
4 2 (4.26%) SOAP
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.13%) NETCONF
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth
5 1 (2.13%) OpenID
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) RESTCONF
5 1 (2.13%) SAML
5 1 (2.13%) XML
5 1 (2.13%) YAML
5 1 (2.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.51%) SCADA
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) CMDB
4 1 (2.13%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.13%) Life Science
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) PMI
4 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (42.55%) DevOps
3 16 (34.04%) Test Automation
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 13 (27.66%) Configuration Management
5 13 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (27.66%) Software Architecture
5 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.66%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (23.40%) Decision-Making
7 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
8 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (19.15%) Validation
9 7 (14.89%) Scrum
10 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
10 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.64%) Test Management
10 5 (10.64%) Test Strategy
11 4 (8.51%) Test Assurance
11 4 (8.51%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) Java
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) Perl
3 4 (8.51%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.38%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) Bicep
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) SC Cleared
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.13%) CISA
3 1 (2.13%) CISM
3 1 (2.13%) CISSP
3 1 (2.13%) ISEB
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.13%) PgMP
3 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) NFS
2 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Kubernetes
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Ansible
2 9 (19.15%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (19.15%) Podman
3 2 (4.26%) vRealize
3 2 (4.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (2.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Virgin Media
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) BMC
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.13%) Remedy
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow