JIRA Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Atlassian JIRA
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 1.34% - 4.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.67% - 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £297
25th Percentile £409 - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 - £349
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.74%
75th Percentile £426 - £386
90th Percentile - - £427
East Midlands median daily rate £393 £463 £418
% change year-on-year -15.03% +10.58% +26.74%

All Development Application Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 12 11 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 8.05% 10.00% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 19
10th Percentile £379 £366 £288
25th Percentile £409 £390 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £418
Median % change year-on-year - +10.65% +10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £469 £530
90th Percentile £675 £497 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.54 - -
Median hourly rate £14.48 - -
75th Percentile £15.41 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.48 £18.20 -
% change year-on-year -20.47% - -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
Coalville - 1 - - 1
Leicester - 1 £418 - 2
JIRA
East Midlands

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tester
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (50.00%) BPMN
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) JD Edwards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow