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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 6.36% 5.49% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 100.00% 33.33% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £325 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -40.91% +0.55%
75th Percentile £425 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £425 £409 £450
% change year-on-year +3.85% -9.06% -13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £65.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.70 £48.75
% change year-on-year +9.89% +30.67% -25.00%

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 7 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 6.36% 16.48% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile - £213 £485
25th Percentile £300 £265 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £321 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% -41.57% +10.00%
75th Percentile £425 £481 £600
90th Percentile - £653 £601
East of England median daily rate £478 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +9.26% -7.89% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £65.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +15.38%

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
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 6 February 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 +1 4 £300 - 5
Witham - 2 £425 -
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 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Contentful
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (28.57%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Android Studio
1 2 (28.57%) Appium
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) Rational Rhapsody
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Sourcetree
1 2 (28.57%) Xcode
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UI Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Framer.js
1 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) WCF
2 1 (14.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Fintech
3 2 (28.57%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (28.57%) Interaction Design
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Usability Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) UX Design
3 2 (28.57%) White-Box Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kibana
1 2 (28.57%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) OpenText
2 1 (14.29%) Serena