JIRA Contracts in the East of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -27 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 40 56 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.48% 2.95% 5.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.04% 36.84% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 63
10th Percentile £223 £359 £270
25th Percentile £238 £405 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £528 £581 £597
90th Percentile £603 £638 £670
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 13
10th Percentile - £45.00 £44.44
25th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +45.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +6.12% +19.51%

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 111 152 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.67% 8.00% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 45 169
10th Percentile £225 £347 £310
25th Percentile £344 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £485 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -1.02% -2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £606
90th Percentile £600 £642 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 61 64
10th Percentile £32.73 £48.00 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £57.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.25 £78.95
90th Percentile £85.50 £70.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the East of England

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the East of England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the East of England

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 6 July 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
Cambridgeshire +16 17 £500 +21.21% 62
Essex +20 9 £275 -50.00% 52
Hertfordshire +13 8 £450 -2.70% 72
Bedfordshire -12 6 £600 +6.67% 31
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 10 (25.00%) Confluence
2 5 (12.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.00%) Simulink
2 2 (5.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) SAP ERP
2 2 (5.00%) SAP PLM
3 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (10.00%) GitHub
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) npm
6 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 5 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (5.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.50%) BGP
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Firewall
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) Network Security
4 1 (2.50%) OSPF
4 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) GitLab
2 8 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.00%) JMeter
5 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.50%) LoadRunner
5 3 (7.50%) NeoLoad
6 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.00%) Git
6 2 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (5.00%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (5.00%) TestRail
7 1 (2.50%) Gerrit
7 1 (2.50%) Redmine
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) Subversion
7 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Administrator
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) QA Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) RF Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.50%) Insight Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.00%) Express.js
1 2 (5.00%) NgRx
1 2 (5.00%) Playwright
1 2 (5.00%) REST
1 2 (5.00%) RESTful
1 2 (5.00%) RxJS
2 1 (2.50%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) POSIX
2 1 (2.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (10.00%) Life Science
4 3 (7.50%) FMCG
4 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.50%) Device Driver
6 1 (2.50%) FPGA
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) STB
6 1 (2.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) CentOS
2 5 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 4 (10.00%) Windows
4 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.50%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) ITSM
2 14 (35.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (20.00%) Service Management
5 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (15.00%) Validation
7 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.50%) Waterfall
8 4 (10.00%) Data Science
8 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy
9 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.50%) Project Management
9 3 (7.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) Perl
4 2 (5.00%) MATLAB
4 2 (5.00%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) A+ Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (7.50%) GxP
3 3 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.50%) ECSS
4 1 (2.50%) PMO
4 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) Docker
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Ansible
2 8 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (10.00%) Puppet
3 4 (10.00%) Salt
4 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.50%) Avamar
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize
5 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) ServiceNow
2 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) SAP
3 6 (15.00%) VMware
4 3 (7.50%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) IBM
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.00%) Ariba
5 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Dell
6 1 (2.50%) F5
6 1 (2.50%) HP
6 1 (2.50%) Ingenico
6 1 (2.50%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Planview
6 1 (2.50%) Snow
6 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.50%) Splunk