JIRA Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Atlassian JIRA
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 8 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 8.99% 5.88% 1.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 80.00% 31.82% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £435 £620 £424
25th Percentile £450 £621 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £646 £520
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +24.28% -22.96%
75th Percentile £534 £672 £554
90th Percentile £540 £680 £574
Devon median daily rate £500 £650 £520
% change year-on-year -23.08% +25.00% -22.96%

All Development Application Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 10 22 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 11.24% 18.49% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 20
10th Percentile £435 £525 £508
25th Percentile £450 £609 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -10.71%
75th Percentile £534 £680 -
90th Percentile £540 £685 -
Devon median daily rate £475 £643 £588
% change year-on-year -26.07% +9.36% +23.68%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Exeter

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) CRM
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (75.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow