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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 44 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 58 45 81
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.80% 3.51% 4.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.94% 33.33% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 44
10th Percentile £225 £306 £278
25th Percentile £400 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £409 £459
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -10.79% -12.54%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £575
90th Percentile £673 £688 £654
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £64.38 £50.94 £51.25
25th Percentile £66.63 £52.35 £55.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £59.40 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% -15.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £67.75 £66.05 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.22 -
England median hourly rate £63.40 £69.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.12% +15.00% -

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 166 135 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.87% 10.54% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 45 91
10th Percentile £311 £278 £313
25th Percentile £413 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -13.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £572 £503 £575
90th Percentile £625 £690 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 56
10th Percentile £62.73 £46.25 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.18 £67.55
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.25 £67.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

JIRA job vacancy trend 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 25 November 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 25 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
Hertfordshire +12 40 £425 +13.33% 19
Cambridgeshire -11 10 £488 +14.71% 10
Essex +3 5 £225 - 8
Bedfordshire -16 2 £441 -21.60% 9
Norfolk - 2 £463 - 3
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 15 (25.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.90%) Simulink
2 4 (6.90%) Windchill
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.45%) Sketch
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) SAP PLM
2 3 (5.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.72%) Primavera
3 1 (1.72%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) npm
2 7 (12.07%) Azure
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
4 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.45%) Apigee
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) Boomi
6 2 (3.45%) Contentful
6 2 (3.45%) Figma
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.72%) SAN
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) DataStage
1 2 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) GitLab
2 9 (15.52%) Artifactory
2 9 (15.52%) Visual Studio
3 7 (12.07%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.90%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (5.17%) Git
5 3 (5.17%) PVCS
5 3 (5.17%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.72%) TestRail
7 1 (1.72%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Finance
2 7 (12.07%) Law
3 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Electronics
5 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Software Engineer
2 7 (12.07%) Developer
3 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) RF Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior
6 3 (5.17%) Administrator
6 3 (5.17%) Applications Tester
6 3 (5.17%) Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Development Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Manual Tester
6 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Service Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Software Development Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Tester
7 2 (3.45%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) CSS
1 11 (18.97%) HTML
2 10 (17.24%) AngularJS
2 10 (17.24%) React
3 9 (15.52%) .NET
3 9 (15.52%) .NET Framework
3 9 (15.52%) Node.js
3 9 (15.52%) Svelte
3 9 (15.52%) Vue
4 2 (3.45%) Framer.js
4 2 (3.45%) Playwright
5 1 (1.72%) FHIR
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) Middleware
5 1 (1.72%) NgRx
5 1 (1.72%) Redux
5 1 (1.72%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) RxJS
5 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Data Structures
2 9 (15.52%) Algorithms
2 9 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Synthetic Data
4 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.72%) LIMS
6 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.72%) Mali
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) CentOS
4 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Agile
2 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
2 14 (24.14%) DevOps
2 14 (24.14%) SDLC
3 12 (20.69%) Containerisation
3 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (17.24%) Computer Science
5 10 (17.24%) Microservices
5 10 (17.24%) Software Testing
6 9 (15.52%) Design Patterns
6 9 (15.52%) OOP
6 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
6 9 (15.52%) TDD
7 8 (13.79%) ITSM
7 8 (13.79%) Scenario Testing
7 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.07%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
1 11 (18.97%) TypeScript
2 10 (17.24%) C#
2 10 (17.24%) C++
3 6 (10.34%) Python
4 4 (6.90%) MATLAB
5 3 (5.17%) C
5 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.17%) SQL
6 2 (3.45%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.45%) Embedded C++
6 2 (3.45%) Java
6 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Perl
7 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.72%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) A+ Certification
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.17%) PMO
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) HL7
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
3 1 (1.72%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.90%) Firmware
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Ansible
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Control-M
3 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.45%) Puppet
3 2 (3.45%) Salt
4 1 (1.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) ServiceNow
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) SAP
4 4 (6.90%) VMware
5 3 (5.17%) ANSYS
5 3 (5.17%) IBM
5 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.45%) BMC
6 2 (3.45%) Dell
6 2 (3.45%) HP
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle
6 2 (3.45%) Talend
7 1 (1.72%) Avature
7 1 (1.72%) Cadence
7 1 (1.72%) Cerner
7 1 (1.72%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.72%) MEDITECH
7 1 (1.72%) Planview
7 1 (1.72%) Snow
7 1 (1.72%) Synopsys