JIRA Contracts in Essex

Atlassian JIRA
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA 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 14 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 6 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.50% - 6.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.00% - 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £333 - £500
25th Percentile £345 - £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 - £533
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £395 - £568
90th Percentile £409 - £592
East of England median daily rate £456 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +11.28% -18.00% +1.01%

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 12 10 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 15.00% 4.50% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 31
10th Percentile £323 £485 £259
25th Percentile £325 £489 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £533
90th Percentile £660 £575 £583
East of England median daily rate £494 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.78
25th Percentile - - £33.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £45.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.87%
75th Percentile - - £56.19
90th Percentile - - £61.93
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.31% - +18.18%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Essex

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Essex

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Essex

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 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
Basildon - 4 £413 - 24
Brentwood - 1 £325 - 2
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) TestRail
2 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) POSIX
1 1 (16.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Device Driver
1 1 (16.67%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) API Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Management
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) Fraud Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ingenico
1 1 (16.67%) SAP