JIRA Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Atlassian JIRA
South West > Dorset

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 +32 -21
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.11% 9.17% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 55.56% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - - £520
25th Percentile £625 £469 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £506 £575
90th Percentile - - £590
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £558
% change year-on-year - -1.35% -6.26%

All Development Application Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 8 18 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 8.42% 16.51% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 26
10th Percentile - £313 £416
25th Percentile £270 £381 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -22.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £638
90th Percentile £635 - £650
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 14
Median hourly rate - - £56.49
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Dorset

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Bournemouth -9 1 £650 +33.33% 1
JIRA
South West

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Contactless
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Android Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Xamarin