JIRA Contracts in Leeds

Atlassian JIRA
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 25 32 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 35 32 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.53% 4.01% 3.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.45% 29.91% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 33
10th Percentile £263 £400 £401
25th Percentile £300 £414 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £716 £489 £600
90th Percentile £779 £549 £678
West Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +9.72% -17.05% +8.50%

All Development Application Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 77 107 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 16.56% 13.39% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 71 129
10th Percentile £285 £313 £411
25th Percentile £422 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £527 £675
90th Percentile £746 £585 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.80
25th Percentile - - £59.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +272.22%
75th Percentile - - £74.00
90th Percentile - - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - +272.22%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Leeds

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Leeds

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Leeds

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Leeds

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 23 (65.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Slack
3 6 (17.14%) Azure
4 5 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) IaaS
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) Lucidchart
7 2 (5.71%) npm
7 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.86%) Asana
8 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.86%) Miro
8 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) HTTP
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) MongoDB
1 9 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.86%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (22.86%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) Power BI
3 2 (5.71%) Tableau
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git
2 8 (22.86%) Cucumber
2 8 (22.86%) Jasmine
2 8 (22.86%) JUnit
3 4 (11.43%) Cypress.io
3 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 4 (11.43%) Postman
3 4 (11.43%) ScriptRunner
3 4 (11.43%) Selenium
3 4 (11.43%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.71%) webpack
5 1 (2.86%) DBeaver
5 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Business Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Network Delivery Manager
5 4 (11.43%) QA Tester
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Tester
6 3 (8.57%) JIRA Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Angular Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) RESTful
2 8 (22.86%) Spring
2 8 (22.86%) Spring Boot
3 7 (20.00%) Spring Security
3 7 (20.00%) Swagger
4 6 (17.14%) OpenAPI
4 6 (17.14%) Spring Batch
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) Flask
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) pytest
5 2 (5.71%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) Web Services
6 1 (2.86%) cloud-init
6 1 (2.86%) Kafka
6 1 (2.86%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.71%) NHS
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 9 (25.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) CentOS
3 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) Test Automation
3 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) OWASP
4 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.71%) Microservices
5 8 (22.86%) BDD
5 8 (22.86%) Coaching
5 8 (22.86%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
5 8 (22.86%) Project Management
5 8 (22.86%) TDD
6 7 (20.00%) API Design
6 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (20.00%) Kernel Tuning
6 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (17.14%) High Availability
7 6 (17.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Bash
2 10 (28.57%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) Groovy
5 3 (8.57%) Python
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) APMP
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CBAP
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) PMO
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.71%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (5.71%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.86%) Consul
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.86%) Istio
4 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.86%) linkerd
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.86%) Packer
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Rancher
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
2 4 (11.43%) Cisco
2 4 (11.43%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.71%) Dell
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Veritas
4 1 (2.86%) Apple
4 1 (2.86%) ESET
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Okta
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk