JIRA Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Atlassian JIRA
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing JIRA 9 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 11.39% 7.53% 1.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 90.00% 53.85% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £419 £352 -
25th Percentile £498 £404 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £465 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% - -
75th Percentile £631 £588 -
90th Percentile £806 £650 -
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £503
% change year-on-year - -5.47% +0.50%

All Development Application Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 10 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 12.66% 13.98% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 8
10th Percentile £414 £313 £438
25th Percentile £464 £351 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% -11.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £611 £556 £545
90th Percentile £775 £650 £547
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in East Sussex

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in East Sussex over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in East Sussex

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 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
Brighton +14 7 £565 +13.00% 1
Hove - 1 £485 -
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 5 (55.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (44.44%) Couchbase
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Toad
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Test Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Open Source
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Regression Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Story Mapping
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Go
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CSPO
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) Ariba
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce