JIRA Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Atlassian JIRA
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 30 42
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 34 32 30
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 4.71% 5.24% 3.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.66% 27.83% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 18
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £400 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -3.61% -13.54%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £678
90th Percentile £581 £776 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -22.92%

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 157 115 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.75% 18.82% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 77 69
10th Percentile £375 £381 £361
25th Percentile £409 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.86% -10.23%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Leeds

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Leeds

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 22 (64.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Storage
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.76%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 4 (11.76%) Slack
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) OCI
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.94%) Miro
7 1 (2.94%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) TestRail
3 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Retail
5 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Legal
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.94%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.94%) Military
7 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Tester
2 4 (11.76%) Analyst
2 4 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Security Tester
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Software Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Implementation Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Scrum Master
4 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 1 (2.94%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) JWT
1 5 (14.71%) OAuth
1 5 (14.71%) SAML
2 4 (11.76%) Node.js
2 4 (11.76%) React
2 4 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) FHIR
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) Playwright
3 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) Agile
2 11 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (23.53%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (20.59%) Scrum
5 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (17.65%) Coaching
6 6 (17.65%) ITIL
6 6 (17.65%) Manual Testing
6 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 6 (17.65%) Test Strategy
6 6 (17.65%) Validation
6 6 (17.65%) Waterfall
7 5 (14.71%) Project Management
8 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (11.76%) Kanban
8 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
8 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Go
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) GCIH
4 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) COBIT
1 2 (5.88%) P3O
1 2 (5.88%) PMO
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) HL7
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) SNOMED CT
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) Ansible
3 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Splunk
2 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.88%) Dell
3 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) F5
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) HP
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) Brio
4 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.94%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft