JIRA Contracts in Lancashire

Atlassian JIRA
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 21 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 8 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.57% 3.59% 4.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.00% 41.18% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £432 £638 -
25th Percentile £495 £676 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £740 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +34.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile - £745 -
90th Percentile - £748 £595
North West median daily rate £425 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.86
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year - -18.62% +36.33%
75th Percentile - - £58.96
90th Percentile - - £63.60
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £56.38
% change year-on-year +63.47% -18.62% +36.33%

All Development Application Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 16 17 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.14% 8.72% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 16
10th Percentile £406 £505 £413
25th Percentile £413 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £698 £625
90th Percentile £600 £742 £659
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £33.36 £37.80
25th Percentile - £41.41 £43.68
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - -11.99% +25.61%
75th Percentile - - £55.65
90th Percentile - - £57.41
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Lancashire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Lancashire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Lancashire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Lancashire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Lancashire 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
Preston +1 5 £600 -19.46% 12
Blackpool - 2 - - 2
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA Agile
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Avionics
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Coach
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Kanban
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Coaching
3 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Agile Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk