JIRA Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Atlassian JIRA
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 2.00% 1.80% 2.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.11% 14.29% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £339
25th Percentile £334 £468 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £485 £360
Median % change year-on-year -24.43% +34.72% -48.57%
75th Percentile £399 £503 £426
90th Percentile - - £546
Gloucestershire median daily rate £412 £485 £455
% change year-on-year -15.15% +6.59% -24.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £96.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £77.82 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +15.29% - -

All Development Application Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18 14 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 18.00% 12.61% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 16
10th Percentile £425 £466 £360
25th Percentile £463 £492 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -21.43%
75th Percentile £578 £552 £688
90th Percentile £621 £575 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £41.28 - -
25th Percentile £49.19 - -
Median hourly rate £64.25 - £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £81.19 - -
90th Percentile £90.23 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £76.07 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +12.69% -13.46% +38.67%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Project Control Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (50.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft