JIRA Contracts in Manchester

Atlassian JIRA
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 71 43
Rank change year-on-year +38 -28 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 47 27 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.26% 1.90% 3.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.54% 14.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 49
10th Percentile £344 £368 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £547 £575
90th Percentile £700 £615 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £39.60
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £56.38
% change year-on-year +63.47% -18.62% -24.83%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 149 189 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.67% 13.29% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 144 162
10th Percentile £350 £375 £326
25th Percentile £400 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £625
90th Percentile £656 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £447 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £71.63 £61.38 -
25th Percentile £72.19 £65.31 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - +89.39% -47.20%
75th Percentile £77.81 £81.38 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.05 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £52.13
% change year-on-year +41.67% +1.55% -25.53%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 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
Salford - 4 £625 - 2
Bolton - 3 - - 3
Audenshaw - 1 £500 -
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 19 (40.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) CICS
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Liferay
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.26%) Trello
4 1 (2.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Apigee
2 5 (10.64%) GCP
3 4 (8.51%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) SaaS
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.38%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) Slack
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.13%) Asana
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.13%) Contentful
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) Skype
1 1 (2.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.26%) Tableau
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) CircleCI
1 5 (10.64%) GitLab
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) Jasmine
3 2 (4.26%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Appium
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (2.13%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.13%) Automotive
7 1 (2.13%) Aviation
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Senior
2 8 (17.02%) Lead
2 8 (17.02%) Project Manager
3 4 (8.51%) Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) IT Manager
3 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Technical Manager
4 3 (6.38%) Developer
4 3 (6.38%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Manual Tester
5 2 (4.26%) Programme Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Programme Planner
5 2 (4.26%) Report Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) RESTful
2 4 (8.51%) GraphQL
2 4 (8.51%) Kafka
2 4 (8.51%) Node.js
2 4 (8.51%) OAuth
2 4 (8.51%) OpenAPI
2 4 (8.51%) React
2 4 (8.51%) Swagger
3 3 (6.38%) Playwright
3 3 (6.38%) Puppeteer
3 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.26%) Spring
4 2 (4.26%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.26%) Spring Security
5 1 (2.13%) Chai
5 1 (2.13%) Express.js
5 1 (2.13%) ISPF
5 1 (2.13%) React Native
5 1 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.26%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.26%) Tandem
3 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Agile
2 14 (29.79%) Project Management
3 11 (23.40%) DevOps
4 10 (21.28%) Microservices
4 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.02%) ITIL
6 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.77%) Change Management
7 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
7 6 (12.77%) Scrum
7 6 (12.77%) Service Management
8 5 (10.64%) API Development
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.64%) PRINCE2
8 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) Kanban
9 4 (8.51%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) Java
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.64%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Python
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) JCL
6 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.38%) PMP
3 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.13%) APMP
4 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) CCSA
4 1 (2.13%) CCSE
4 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) PMO
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Grafana
2 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.13%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.13%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Atlassian
1 5 (10.64%) Google
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.38%) PagerDuty
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) IBM
4 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) Brio
5 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Dell
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Remedy
5 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.13%) StreamSets