JIRA Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 37 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 -27
Contract jobs citing JIRA 43 20 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.89% 3.36% 0.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.26% 32.26% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 5
10th Percentile £302 £322 £220
25th Percentile £330 £419 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £459 £473
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% -2.91% +6.18%
75th Percentile £451 £510 £613
90th Percentile £500 £524 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -0.37%

All Development Application Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 95 62 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.80% 10.40% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 43
10th Percentile £304 £319 £300
25th Percentile £358 £356 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -3.41% -7.37%
75th Percentile £473 £488 £547
90th Percentile £600 £534 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the East Midlands

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Northamptonshire +9 29 £358 -18.64% 14
Nottinghamshire -10 8 £465 -6.06% 10
Derbyshire +1 2 £395 -13.90% 14
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 21 (48.84%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.33%) assyst
2 1 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) Power Platform
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
3 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) AWS
4 1 (2.33%) GCP
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) LAN
1 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) Power BI
2 8 (18.60%) Tableau
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.65%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Postman
2 2 (4.65%) Selenium
2 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.33%) JMeter
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Banking
4 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.33%) Front Office
8 1 (2.33%) Law
8 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Analyst
2 11 (25.58%) Business Analyst
3 8 (18.60%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Salesforce Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Lead
5 4 (9.30%) Security Specialist
6 3 (6.98%) Onboarding Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.65%) DevOps Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Junior
7 2 (4.65%) Junior Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Consultant
8 1 (2.33%) Developer
8 1 (2.33%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.33%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.65%) Playwright
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) ADO
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) Spring
3 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Onboarding
2 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.30%) PMI
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (53.49%) Agile
3 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (27.91%) Change Management
5 10 (23.26%) Kanban
5 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (18.60%) Project Management
6 8 (18.60%) Regulatory Compliance
6 8 (18.60%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (16.28%) DevOps
7 7 (16.28%) Fintech
7 7 (16.28%) Regulatory Change
7 7 (16.28%) Scrum
8 6 (13.95%) IT Audit
8 6 (13.95%) KYC
8 6 (13.95%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (13.95%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
9 5 (11.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) CISA
2 6 (13.95%) CISM
2 6 (13.95%) CISSP
2 6 (13.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) PMI Certification
4 4 (9.30%) PMP
5 3 (6.98%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.98%) MBA
5 3 (6.98%) SAFe Agilist
6 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) COBIT
1 6 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 6 (13.95%) NIST
1 6 (13.95%) NIST 800
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) Basel III
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) GRC
3 2 (4.65%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) RSA Archer
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Istio
3 2 (4.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
1 9 (20.93%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.95%) Rapid7
3 5 (11.63%) Alteryx
3 5 (11.63%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.65%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Siemens