JIRA Contract Job Trends in Devon

Atlassian JIRA
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 12 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 6.94% 6.10% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 70.59% 31.91% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £435 £620 £424
25th Percentile £450 £621 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +25.00% -22.96%
75th Percentile £534 £680 £554
90th Percentile £540 £685 £574
South West median daily rate £566 £590 £559
% change year-on-year -4.03% +5.59% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.74 - -
South West median hourly rate £15.74 £70.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -77.51% +34.91% -31.58%

All Development Application Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 17 47 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 9.83% 19.11% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 22
10th Percentile £279 £500 £463
25th Percentile £416 £572 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £643 £588
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +9.36% +23.68%
75th Percentile £539 £683 £600
90th Percentile £547 £685 -
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate £15.74 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.53%
75th Percentile - - £70.63
90th Percentile - - £80.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Devon

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Devon region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Exeter +6 8 £500 -22.63% 1
Plymouth -2 3 - - 1
JIRA
South West

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) GitHub
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Developer
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) System Testing
3 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (8.33%) Human Resource Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (8.33%) PMP
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow