JIRA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring JIRA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 45 51 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.47% 3.35% 4.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.37% 37.78% 38.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 52
10th Percentile - £357 £231
25th Percentile £225 £408 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +18.92% -8.23%
75th Percentile £429 £586 £556
90th Percentile £580 £638 £636
England median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.10% +1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 11
10th Percentile £63.70 £52.00 £55.00
25th Percentile £65.25 £54.70 £61.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -17.24% +45.00%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.20 £64.88 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £69.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% +10.40% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 139 135 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.73% 8.88% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 42 114
10th Percentile £235 £221 £302
25th Percentile £400 £335 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -7.81%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 61
10th Percentile £60.80 £50.00 £55.00
25th Percentile - £55.65 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £90.00
90th Percentile £75.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the East of England

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the East of England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Hertfordshire +9 19 £400 +6.67% 14
Cambridgeshire +2 15 £250 -54.55% 18
Essex +4 7 £225 -59.09% 9
Bedfordshire -19 4 £510 -9.38% 7
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
1 5 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.89%) Simulink
2 4 (8.89%) Windchill
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) SAP PLM
2 2 (4.44%) SAP ERP
2 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) AWS
2 10 (22.22%) npm
3 8 (17.78%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (11.11%) Azure
5 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.89%) GitHub
5 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) DNS
2 5 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 5 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.22%) Power BI
1 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (37.78%) GitLab
2 12 (26.67%) Artifactory
3 9 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 8 (17.78%) TeamCity
5 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
5 4 (8.89%) JMeter
5 4 (8.89%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (8.89%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (6.67%) LoadRunner
6 3 (6.67%) NeoLoad
7 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.44%) TestRail
8 1 (2.22%) Redmine
8 1 (2.22%) Selenium
8 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Law
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Administrator
2 6 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (8.89%) Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) RF Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Development Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 9 (20.00%) .NET
2 9 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (20.00%) CSS
2 9 (20.00%) HTML
2 9 (20.00%) Node.js
2 9 (20.00%) React
2 9 (20.00%) Svelte
2 9 (20.00%) Vue
3 2 (4.44%) Playwright
4 1 (2.22%) Express.js
4 1 (2.22%) NgRx
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (2.22%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.67%) FMCG
3 3 (6.67%) Life Science
3 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.22%) FPGA
5 1 (2.22%) Mali
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.22%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) CentOS
2 5 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.89%) Windows
4 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 16 (35.56%) Computer Science
4 13 (28.89%) ITSM
5 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 10 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (22.22%) SDLC
6 10 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 9 (20.00%) Microservices
7 9 (20.00%) OOP
7 9 (20.00%) TDD
8 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (17.78%) DevOps
9 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 6 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (13.33%) Service Management
11 5 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 5 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) TypeScript
3 10 (22.22%) C#
3 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (15.56%) C++
6 4 (8.89%) MATLAB
6 4 (8.89%) Perl
7 3 (6.67%) Bash
8 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) SQL
8 1 (2.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) A+ Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.67%) GxP
2 3 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) ECSS
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Ansible
2 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Terraform
4 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.89%) Puppet
4 4 (8.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) ServiceNow
2 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.56%) SAP
4 5 (11.11%) VMware
5 3 (6.67%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.22%) Ariba
6 1 (2.22%) Cadence
6 1 (2.22%) HP
6 1 (2.22%) Ingenico
6 1 (2.22%) Planview
6 1 (2.22%) Snow
6 1 (2.22%) Synopsys