JIRA Contracts in Cheshire

Atlassian JIRA
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 20 19 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 40 44 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.91% 8.73% 3.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.45% 66.67% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 16
10th Percentile £318 £330 £284
25th Percentile £356 £441 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £510 £463
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +10.27% +12.74%
75th Percentile £455 £584 £503
90th Percentile £498 £614 £594
North West median daily rate £425 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £56.38
% change year-on-year +63.47% -18.62% +36.33%

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 88 66 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.60% 13.10% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 87
10th Percentile £325 £311 £326
25th Percentile £358 £376 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -1.10% +17.10%
75th Percentile £492 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £613 £627
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Cheshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Cheshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Cheshire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Cheshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford -5 23 £393 -31.35% 6
Crewe - 7 £410 - 5
Warrington -3 4 £425 +30.77% 15
Macclesfield +7 1 £500 -1.96%
Chester -7 1 £600 -4.00% 14
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 19 (47.50%) Confluence
2 5 (12.50%) JBoss
2 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) InVision
1 2 (5.00%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
1 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.50%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 5 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (12.50%) TeamCity
5 4 (10.00%) Selenium
6 2 (5.00%) Axure RP
6 2 (5.00%) Gradle
6 2 (5.00%) HP UFT
6 2 (5.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.00%) JUnit
6 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 2 (5.00%) NetBeans
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Automotive
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Tester
4 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Developer
5 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Scrum Master
6 1 (2.50%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Change Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (2.50%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.50%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Programme Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (10.00%) CSS
3 4 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.00%) HTML5
4 2 (5.00%) J2EE
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) Spring
4 2 (5.00%) Spring Integration
4 2 (5.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (5.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.50%) CSS3
5 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.50%) RAML
5 1 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Android
3 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile
2 13 (32.50%) DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
4 11 (27.50%) Migration
5 9 (22.50%) Microservices
5 9 (22.50%) Scrum
6 8 (20.00%) Change Management
6 8 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (17.50%) Task Automation
7 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.00%) Analytics
8 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
8 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
9 5 (12.50%) Build Automation
9 5 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
9 5 (12.50%) SDLC
9 5 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.00%) SQL
5 5 (12.50%) Perl
6 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.50%) VB
7 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) IIBA
3 4 (10.00%) ISEB
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CBAP
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) MCP
5 1 (2.50%) MCSA
5 1 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) PSD2
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Progress Chef
2 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.50%) Kibana
4 4 (10.00%) Ansible
5 3 (7.50%) HP ALM
6 2 (5.00%) Puppet
6 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) AppDynamics
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle
1 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 5 (12.50%) Splunk
2 4 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Cloudera
3 3 (7.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) McAfee
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Symantec
4 1 (2.50%) VMware