JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 47 39
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,347 2,419 4,179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.64% 4.79% 5.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.02% 31.91% 32.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,701 2,857
10th Percentile £350 £330 £364
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +4.85% +8.42%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 46 78
10th Percentile £22.00 £40.70 £35.35
25th Percentile £33.00 £52.56 £39.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.84 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +47.96% -13.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.58 £65.51
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.77% +46.07% -3.26%

All Development Application Skills
England

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,207 7,581 12,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.00% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 5,351 9,039
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 225 184
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £38.30
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £84.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
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 JIRA within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -4 690 £550 -4.35% 205
South East +7 194 £500 +1.52% 116
South West +19 171 £550 +4.76% 72
North of England -19 139 £505 +1.00% 88
North West -5 85 £510 +13.33% 55
Midlands -57 57 £450 -5.26% 80
East of England -21 54 £410 -18.00% 31
Yorkshire -8 49 £450 -14.29% 29
West Midlands -46 40 £504 -6.33% 48
East Midlands -12 17 £355 +7.58% 32
North East -21 5 £533 -5.75% 5
JIRA
UK

JIRA
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
1 515 (38.23%) Confluence
2 72 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.60%) SharePoint Server
4 31 (2.30%) Apache
5 30 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (1.78%) CMS
7 22 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (1.41%) Apache Spark
9 16 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.59%) IIS
10 8 (0.59%) JBoss
10 8 (0.59%) SAS
11 7 (0.52%) Drupal
11 7 (0.52%) nginx
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.22%) Appian
13 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.15%) Mule
14 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 89 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (3.86%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (3.34%) MS Visio
5 36 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.74%) Trello
8 7 (0.52%) Windchill
9 3 (0.22%) Simulink
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.15%) InDesign
10 2 (0.15%) Mingle
10 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.15%) Sketch
11 1 (0.074%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.074%) InVision
11 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.45%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.30%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.30%) Workfront
7 3 (0.22%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.22%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.15%) Eikon
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 278 (20.64%) Azure
2 221 (16.41%) AWS
3 84 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (6.24%) GitHub
4 77 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 53 (3.93%) GCP
6 51 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (2.90%) Azure Stack
7 39 (2.90%) SaaS
8 38 (2.82%) Serverless
9 34 (2.52%) Slack
10 28 (2.08%) PowerApps
11 23 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 23 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.63%) npm
12 22 (1.63%) Power Automate
13 19 (1.41%) PaaS
14 18 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.34%) IaaS
14 18 (1.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.64%) Firewall
2 54 (4.01%) BGP
3 48 (3.56%) DNS
4 39 (2.90%) VPN
5 36 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 30 (2.23%) DHCP
7 21 (1.56%) HTTP
8 16 (1.19%) MPLS
8 16 (1.19%) Radio Access Network
9 15 (1.11%) SNMP
10 14 (1.04%) 5G
10 14 (1.04%) Internet
11 13 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
11 13 (0.97%) Software-Defined Radio
11 13 (0.97%) VLAN
11 13 (0.97%) Wireless
12 12 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
12 12 (0.89%) NAS
13 11 (0.82%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.90%) Power BI
3 58 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.30%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (1.78%) Big Data
9 23 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (1.63%) Tableau
11 18 (1.34%) MySQL
12 14 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.89%) Metadata
14 10 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.74%) Hadoop
15 9 (0.67%) Apache Hive
16 8 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.45%) HBase
Development Applications
1 185 (13.73%) Git
2 182 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 90 (6.68%) Bitbucket
4 86 (6.38%) GitLab
5 59 (4.38%) Selenium
6 52 (3.86%) Cucumber
7 45 (3.34%) JMeter
8 44 (3.27%) TeamCity
9 30 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 30 (2.23%) TestRail
10 28 (2.08%) Postman
11 27 (2.00%) Robot Framework
12 25 (1.86%) Maven
13 24 (1.78%) Cypress.io
13 24 (1.78%) Eclipse
13 24 (1.78%) webpack
14 22 (1.63%) Subversion
15 20 (1.48%) GoogleTest
15 20 (1.48%) JUnit
16 18 (1.34%) SonarQube
General
1 534 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 278 (20.64%) Analytical Skills
3 261 (19.38%) Finance
4 97 (7.20%) Banking
5 86 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 70 (5.20%) Front Office
7 56 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
8 46 (3.41%) Marketing
9 38 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (2.82%) Retail
9 38 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.75%) Aerospace
11 34 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 31 (2.30%) Investment Banking
13 29 (2.15%) Manufacturing
14 27 (2.00%) Military
15 20 (1.48%) Legal
16 18 (1.34%) Law
17 15 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 202 (15.00%) Analyst
2 184 (13.66%) Developer
3 124 (9.21%) Senior
4 102 (7.57%) Project Manager
5 88 (6.53%) Business Analyst
5 88 (6.53%) Lead
6 68 (5.05%) Test Engineer
7 58 (4.31%) Architect
8 48 (3.56%) Software Engineer
9 41 (3.04%) Test Analyst
10 38 (2.82%) Support Engineer
11 37 (2.75%) Java Developer
12 35 (2.60%) Data Engineer
12 35 (2.60%) Test Manager
13 34 (2.52%) Tester
14 31 (2.30%) Consultant
14 31 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
16 26 (1.93%) Data Analyst
16 26 (1.93%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (7.72%) REST
2 64 (4.75%) React
3 54 (4.01%) XML
4 51 (3.79%) .NET
5 48 (3.56%) JSON
6 47 (3.49%) CSS
7 42 (3.12%) HTML
8 40 (2.97%) SOAP
9 38 (2.82%) ADO
10 36 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 35 (2.60%) Spring
11 35 (2.60%) Web Services
12 33 (2.45%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.30%) Kafka
14 29 (2.15%) LDAP
15 27 (2.00%) Node.js
16 26 (1.93%) WebSockets
17 25 (1.86%) Spring Boot
18 22 (1.63%) RxJS
19 21 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 77 (5.72%) Product Ownership
2 41 (3.04%) Private Cloud
3 35 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 34 (2.52%) Fixed Income
5 27 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 26 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (1.93%) PKI
7 24 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 22 (1.63%) Derivative
9 21 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.19%) Clustering
13 16 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.19%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 174 (12.92%) Windows
2 150 (11.14%) Linux
3 66 (4.90%) Unix
4 50 (3.71%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.89%) Android
9 11 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.74%) Solaris
11 9 (0.67%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
12 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.45%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.37%) VMS
14 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.22%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.22%) Windows XP
16 2 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (54.94%) Agile
2 282 (20.94%) DevOps
3 258 (19.15%) Scrum
4 233 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (15.81%) Project Management
6 205 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 178 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 177 (13.14%) Test Automation
9 139 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 134 (9.95%) Software Engineering
11 123 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
12 102 (7.57%) Project Delivery
13 98 (7.28%) Migration
14 93 (6.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 90 (6.68%) ITIL
16 88 (6.53%) Kanban
17 87 (6.46%) SDLC
18 86 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
18 86 (6.38%) Workflow
19 85 (6.31%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 228 (16.93%) Python
2 222 (16.48%) SQL
3 181 (13.44%) Java
4 107 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 85 (6.31%) PowerShell
6 69 (5.12%) C#
7 59 (4.38%) C++
7 59 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 38 (2.82%) Bash
8 38 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 29 (2.15%) C
10 26 (1.93%) Go
11 18 (1.34%) Groovy
11 18 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.19%) Scala
13 15 (1.11%) Perl
13 15 (1.11%) Ruby
14 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.52%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.52%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 330 (24.50%) Security Cleared
2 247 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 166 (12.32%) Degree
4 75 (5.57%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.93%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.56%) APMP
8 21 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.19%) MCSE
10 16 (1.19%) PMP
11 15 (1.11%) MCSA
12 14 (1.04%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.67%) ISEB
15 8 (0.59%) CCNA
16 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (10.47%) QA
2 67 (4.97%) PMO
3 39 (2.90%) Government Security Classifications
4 23 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.34%) GDPR
7 10 (0.74%) EMIR
7 10 (0.74%) GxP
8 8 (0.59%) MiFID
8 8 (0.59%) NCSC
8 8 (0.59%) NIST
8 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
9 7 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.52%) MISRA
10 6 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.37%) SLA
12 4 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.30%) JTAG
System Software
1 94 (6.98%) Docker
2 66 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 53 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.34%) Firmware
5 17 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.82%) vSphere
8 7 (0.52%) HDFS
9 6 (0.45%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.074%) iptables
12 1 (0.074%) NFS
12 1 (0.074%) Snort
12 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (7.80%) Ansible
2 101 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 76 (5.64%) Terraform
4 28 (2.08%) PowerCLI
5 26 (1.93%) SCOM
6 25 (1.86%) Grafana
7 24 (1.78%) Puppet
8 22 (1.63%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
9 20 (1.48%) Kibana
10 17 (1.26%) Prometheus
11 12 (0.89%) Podman
12 10 (0.74%) logstash
13 9 (0.67%) HP ALM
13 9 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.67%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.59%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.59%) Netcool
14 8 (0.59%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 231 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 158 (11.73%) Atlassian
3 92 (6.83%) Oracle
4 70 (5.20%) VMware
5 62 (4.60%) SAP
6 59 (4.38%) ServiceNow
7 48 (3.56%) Splunk
8 44 (3.27%) Dell
8 44 (3.27%) HP
9 43 (3.19%) Google
10 33 (2.45%) Salesforce
11 31 (2.30%) Cisco
12 22 (1.63%) Adobe
13 19 (1.41%) IBM
14 18 (1.34%) Bloomberg
15 14 (1.04%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.89%) ION Trading
17 11 (0.82%) MarketAxess
17 11 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 11 (0.82%) Tradeweb