JIRA Contracts in Kent

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JIRA 8 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 6.45% 1.10% 3.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 72.73% 11.76% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £369 - £189
25th Percentile - - £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £440 £348
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +26.62% -30.50%
75th Percentile £448 - £597
90th Percentile £480 - £638
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £67.02 £66.74
Median % change year-on-year - +0.42% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -0.60%

All Development Application Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 11 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 8.87% 9.34% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile - £433 £189
25th Percentile £375 £434 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £453 £348
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +30.22% -30.50%
75th Percentile £503 £483 £597
90th Percentile £630 £492 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £47.62 £53.06
25th Percentile - £50.81 £53.90
Median hourly rate - £53.00 £60.87
Median % change year-on-year - -12.93% -
75th Percentile - £54.27 £69.81
90th Percentile - £60.69 £75.32
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Kent

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing JIRA

JIRA
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Kent region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dover - 5 £375 - 1
Chatham - 2 £480 -
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (62.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Asana
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) SSL
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
1 5 (62.50%) VLAN
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Desktop Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
1 5 (62.50%) vSphere
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) SolarWinds
2 5 (62.50%) Veeam
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft