JIRA Contracts in Cardiff

Atlassian JIRA
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 5 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.07% 6.03% 3.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.41% 27.91% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £419 £465 £338
25th Percentile £437 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £515 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +17.71% -16.67%
75th Percentile £502 £538 £488
90th Percentile £519 £599 £519
South Wales median daily rate £413 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -19.90% +3.00% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 17 43 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.43% 21.61% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 36 18
10th Percentile £306 £375 £383
25th Percentile £326 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £509 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +7.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £439 £550 £609
90th Percentile £522 £599 £629
South Wales median daily rate £405 £509 £600
% change year-on-year -20.35% -15.25% +14.29%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Cardiff

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Cardiff

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Test Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Puppeteer
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) XML Messaging
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) SEPA
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat