JIRA Contracts in Hertfordshire

Atlassian JIRA
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 38 48 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 7 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.18% 3.24% 4.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.92% 36.49% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £281 £350 £350
25th Percentile £399 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £452 £444 £572
90th Percentile £472 £468 £638
East of England median daily rate £456 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +11.28% -18.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - - £47.69
25th Percentile - £45.00 £56.53
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% +28.89%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £53.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -25.86% +29.46%

All Development Application Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 26 74 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.10% 8.87% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 45
10th Percentile £350 £350 £310
25th Percentile £399 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £520
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -27.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £481 £463 £638
90th Percentile £575 £508 £676
East of England median daily rate £494 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 44 59
10th Percentile £64.63 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £65.06 £61.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +17.12%
75th Percentile £84.06 £89.06 £74.13
90th Percentile £87.75 £90.00 £78.56
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Hertfordshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Hertfordshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Hertfordshire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Hertfordshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Hertfordshire 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
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £400 - 2
Rickmansworth +1 2 £175 -50.00%
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £463 - 19
JIRA
East of England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Product Vision
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) VBA
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft