JIRA Contracts in the Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 81 27
Rank change year-on-year +55 -54 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 121 57 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.33% 2.07% 7.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 47.08% 22.62% 53.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 37 195
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £415 £318 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% +0.42%
75th Percentile £516 £538 £540
90th Percentile £575 £650 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £10.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +447.62% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £21.63 -
90th Percentile - £41.65 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.47% +47.96%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 257 252 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.45% 9.16% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 183 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £358 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £626 £570 £638
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the Midlands

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the Midlands

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the Midlands

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the Midlands

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
West Midlands +52 96 £500 -0.70% 89
East Midlands +17 24 £490 +38.03% 25
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 48 (39.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.48%) SAS
3 2 (1.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.31%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.65%) Open Workbench
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.83%) Actimize
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.97%) AWS
2 11 (9.09%) Azure
3 6 (4.96%) GCP
4 5 (4.13%) Asana
4 5 (4.13%) AWS CodeBuild
4 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.31%) SaaS
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.65%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (1.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.65%) Boomi
7 2 (1.65%) Figma
7 2 (1.65%) GitHub
7 2 (1.65%) IaaS
7 2 (1.65%) OCI
7 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) DHCP
1 2 (1.65%) DNS
1 2 (1.65%) Firewall
1 2 (1.65%) HTTP
1 2 (1.65%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (1.65%) SAN
1 2 (1.65%) SSL
1 2 (1.65%) VLAN
2 1 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.83%) Converged Networks
2 1 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.96%) Big Data
2 6 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.96%) MySQL
3 5 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.31%) Power BI
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.65%) IDMS
5 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Looker
6 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.83%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 15 (12.40%) Git
2 11 (9.09%) GitLab
3 9 (7.44%) Bitbucket
3 9 (7.44%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.61%) Selenium
5 6 (4.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (4.96%) Maven
5 6 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.31%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.31%) JUnit
8 3 (2.48%) JMeter
8 3 (2.48%) Postman
8 3 (2.48%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.48%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (2.48%) TestNG
8 3 (2.48%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.65%) CA Gen
9 2 (1.65%) Gradle
General
1 43 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.88%) Finance
3 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.96%) Automotive
5 5 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.65%) Military
7 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Humanities
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Local Government
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (11.57%) Analyst
1 14 (11.57%) Tester
2 13 (10.74%) Project Manager
3 12 (9.92%) Developer
4 11 (9.09%) Engagement Manager
4 11 (9.09%) Senior
5 9 (7.44%) Lead
6 6 (4.96%) IT Manager
6 6 (4.96%) IT Project Manager
6 6 (4.96%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.13%) OAT Analyst
7 5 (4.13%) Technical Manager
8 4 (3.31%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.31%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Data Manager
8 4 (3.31%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Test Analyst
9 3 (2.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.61%) React
2 6 (4.96%) Node.js
2 6 (4.96%) REST
2 6 (4.96%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.13%) .NET
3 5 (4.13%) HTML
3 5 (4.13%) Middleware
4 4 (3.31%) CSS
4 4 (3.31%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.48%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.48%) Kafka
5 3 (2.48%) RESTful
5 3 (2.48%) Spring
5 3 (2.48%) YAML
6 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.65%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.65%) Jest
6 2 (1.65%) MACH
6 2 (1.65%) Redux
6 2 (1.65%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) SCADA
2 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) PMI
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Linux
2 8 (6.61%) Unix
3 6 (4.96%) Windows
4 2 (1.65%) CentOS
4 2 (1.65%) Debian
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (60.33%) Agile
2 26 (21.49%) Project Management
3 24 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (17.36%) CI/CD
5 18 (14.88%) Project Delivery
6 17 (14.05%) DevOps
6 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (14.05%) Scrum
7 16 (13.22%) Test Strategy
8 15 (12.40%) Microservices
9 13 (10.74%) Migration
9 13 (10.74%) Workflow
10 12 (9.92%) Agile Project Management
10 12 (9.92%) Analytics
10 12 (9.92%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
11 11 (9.09%) Test Management
12 10 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.26%) Performance Testing
12 10 (8.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.83%) SQL
2 16 (13.22%) Python
3 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (6.61%) Java
4 8 (6.61%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.79%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.13%) C#
6 5 (4.13%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.48%) Bash
7 3 (2.48%) Groovy
8 2 (1.65%) COBOL
8 2 (1.65%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) Perl
8 2 (1.65%) R
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.79%) Degree
4 6 (4.96%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.31%) CISSP
6 3 (2.48%) CEH
6 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.48%) ISEB
6 3 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.48%) PMP
7 2 (1.65%) CBAP
7 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ACCA
8 1 (0.83%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.83%) IIBA
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.48%) PMO
4 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (9.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.83%) Firmware
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) HP ALM
2 5 (4.13%) Kibana
3 4 (3.31%) Progress Chef
3 4 (3.31%) Puppet
4 3 (2.48%) Terraform
5 2 (1.65%) Nessus
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
6 1 (0.83%) Argo
6 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.83%) logstash
6 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) QRadar
6 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Atlassian
2 15 (12.40%) Oracle
3 13 (10.74%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.13%) HP
4 5 (4.13%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.31%) IBM
5 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.48%) SAP
7 2 (1.65%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.65%) Sophos
7 2 (1.65%) Splunk
7 2 (1.65%) Veracode
7 2 (1.65%) VMware
8 1 (0.83%) Databricks
8 1 (0.83%) IFS
8 1 (0.83%) Infor
8 1 (0.83%) Talend