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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.90% 6.31% 1.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.67% 53.85% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £550
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -59.09% +10.00%
East of England median daily rate £510 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +27.50% -27.27% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £63.75 £67.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.85% +11.67% -17.24%

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 13 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 5.37% 11.71% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 5
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £493 £225 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £413 £225
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% +83.33% -55.00%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 - -
East of England median daily rate £507 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +7.87% -1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £53.00 £16.38
25th Percentile - £57.50 £16.99
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £17.99
Median % change year-on-year - +289.11% -68.71%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.60
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +1.96% -12.07%

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 17 August 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 -15 1 - - 2
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Hudson
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fiserv
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Ingenico
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft