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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 517 609
Rank change year-on-year +64 +92 +106
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 20 24 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.084% 0.065% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.076% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 19
10th Percentile £343 £431 £323
25th Percentile £352 £563 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £641 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +28.10% -10.39%
75th Percentile £578 £688 £657
90th Percentile £674 £709 £743
UK median daily rate £356 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -40.63% +20.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +73.31% -64.49%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £23.08
% change year-on-year +31.25% +73.31% -63.51%

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 21,854 31,539 42,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.92% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,225 20,657 30,069
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,292 1,514
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +51 9 £597 -7.56% 18
South East +47 5 £450 - 68
Midlands - 3 £350 - 38
West Midlands - 3 £350 - 22
South West +35 1 £575 -8.00% 20
North of England +9 1 £638 - 37
North West - 1 £638 - 14
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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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Misys Midas
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) VoIP
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Billing
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Analyst
1 3 (15.00%) Developer
1 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
1 3 (15.00%) Tester
2 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Project Officer
3 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Implementation Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (15.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) Flash
3 1 (5.00%) JSF
3 1 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) SysML
6 3 (15.00%) UML
6 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Validation
7 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) MBA
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) MiFID
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix
2 1 (5.00%) Conga
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Moogsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Workday