Issue Tracking Contracts in England

Issue Tracking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Issue Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Issue Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 515 615
Rank change year-on-year +46 +100 +115
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 16 27 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.073% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.084% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 17
10th Percentile £343 £428 £317
25th Percentile £353 £431 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.69% +11.36% -0.54%
75th Percentile £566 £688 £700
90th Percentile £682 £704 £743
UK median daily rate £368 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -18.22% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £25.27
25th Percentile - - £28.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +17.51% -49.57%
75th Percentile - - £39.52
90th Percentile - - £42.81
UK median hourly rate £37.42 £40.00 £34.04
% change year-on-year -6.46% +17.51% -46.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Issue Tracking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Issue Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Issue Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in England.

Daily rate trend for Issue Tracking in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Issue Tracking in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Issue Tracking in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Issue Tracking in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Issue Tracking within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +28 6 £368 -38.67% 14
South East +49 4 £401 - 26
South West +39 2 £725 +16.00% 5
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 4
Midlands - 2 £350 - 7
North of England +19 1 £638 - 6
North West - 1 £638 - 3
Issue Tracking
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Issue Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Misys Midas
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) VoIP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Tester
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) PMO Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
3 1 (6.25%) Development Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Security Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Voice Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Workday Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Workday Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) Vue
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Blog
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (12.50%) Artefact Management
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
6 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) MBA
2 1 (6.25%) OSCP
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
2 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
1 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Avaloq
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Moogsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Workday