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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing JIRA 48 60 78
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.54% 4.16% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.57% 39.74% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 40
10th Percentile £225 £306 £170
25th Percentile £250 £359 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.10% +5.26% -8.39%
75th Percentile £556 £581 £595
90th Percentile £665 £663 £641
England median daily rate £500 £503 £535
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.07% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £63.70 £52.82 £55.13
25th Percentile £65.25 £57.35 £64.69
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -15.79% +42.50%
75th Percentile - £62.05 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.20 £65.66 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -1.19%

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 143 151 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.54% 10.46% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 46 89
10th Percentile £248 £281 £280
25th Percentile £405 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £575
90th Percentile £625 £641 £640
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 39 61
10th Percentile £61.50 £49.25 £65.00
25th Percentile - £55.95 £67.56
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 £73.75 £65.50 -
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 13 October 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 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
Hertfordshire +9 23 £600 +87.50% 13
Cambridgeshire -8 17 £250 -54.55% 15
Essex +4 5 £225 -59.09% 5
Bedfordshire -19 2 £441 -21.60% 3
Norfolk -13 1 £463 -7.50% 5
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 9 (18.75%) Confluence
2 5 (10.42%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.33%) Simulink
2 4 (8.33%) Windchill
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) SAP PLM
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.08%) Primavera
2 1 (2.08%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.83%) npm
3 8 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (12.50%) Azure
5 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.08%) OCI
8 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) DNS
2 5 (10.42%) iSCSI
2 5 (10.42%) SAN
3 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) GitLab
2 12 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 9 (18.75%) Visual Studio
4 8 (16.67%) TeamCity
5 4 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (8.33%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.08%) JMeter
7 1 (2.08%) Redmine
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
7 1 (2.08%) Subversion
7 1 (2.08%) TestRail
7 1 (2.08%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 25 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Law
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Administrator
2 7 (14.58%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (8.33%) RF Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Development Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.25%) Service Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) PMO Lead
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) AngularJS
1 10 (20.83%) CSS
1 10 (20.83%) HTML
1 10 (20.83%) React
2 9 (18.75%) .NET
2 9 (18.75%) .NET Framework
2 9 (18.75%) Node.js
2 9 (18.75%) Svelte
2 9 (18.75%) Vue
3 2 (4.17%) Playwright
4 1 (2.08%) Express.js
4 1 (2.08%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) NgRx
4 1 (2.08%) Redux
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) RxJS
4 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Data Structures
2 9 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 9 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (10.42%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) FPGA
6 1 (2.08%) Mali
6 1 (2.08%) NHS
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.08%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) CentOS
2 5 (10.42%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.33%) Windows
4 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Agile
2 18 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 16 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 14 (29.17%) ITSM
5 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (22.92%) SDLC
7 10 (20.83%) Microservices
7 10 (20.83%) Software Testing
8 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
8 9 (18.75%) DevOps
8 9 (18.75%) OOP
8 9 (18.75%) TDD
8 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 5 (10.42%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 10 (20.83%) C#
4 9 (18.75%) Shell Script
5 7 (14.58%) C++
6 4 (8.33%) MATLAB
6 4 (8.33%) Perl
7 3 (6.25%) Bash
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) SQL
8 1 (2.08%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) A+ Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) ECSS
3 1 (2.08%) GRC
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Ansible
2 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Terraform
4 4 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.33%) Puppet
4 4 (8.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) ServiceNow
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) SAP
3 5 (10.42%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) IBM
4 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Avature
5 1 (2.08%) Cadence
5 1 (2.08%) HP
5 1 (2.08%) Ingenico
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Planview
5 1 (2.08%) Snow
5 1 (2.08%) Synopsys