JIRA Contract Job Trends in Essex

Atlassian JIRA
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 5 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.62% 8.11% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.78% 64.29% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £275 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -50.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £375 £381 -
90th Percentile £420 £409 -
East of England median daily rate £425 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +6.25% -21.95% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% -24.14%

All Development Application Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 5.83% 12.61% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 2
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £402 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £473 -
90th Percentile £595 £550 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +9.59% -3.95% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £51.50 £16.38
25th Percentile - £53.75 £16.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £17.99
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +233.52% -70.75%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £19.00
90th Percentile - £72.50 £19.60
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -7.14%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Essex

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Essex over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Essex

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Essex region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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
Basildon -11 4 £300 -27.27%
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (40.00%) TestFlight
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Android Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Appium
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Sourcetree
2 2 (40.00%) Xcode
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Hudson
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer in Test
1 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
1 1 (20.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) WCF
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) White-Box Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Conflict Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Fiserv
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Ingenico
2 1 (20.00%) OpenText
2 1 (20.00%) Serena