JIRA Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Atlassian JIRA
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring JIRA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 34 55
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 22 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.13% 3.08% 1.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 66.67% 42.86% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £200 £435 £239
25th Percentile £269 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +15.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £554 £500
90th Percentile £540 £565 £538
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £325 £463 £400
% change year-on-year -29.73% +15.63% -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 33 21 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 13.69% 7.19% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 32
10th Percentile £242 £446 £325
25th Percentile £286 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% +12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £453 £631 £625
90th Percentile £538 £758 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £338 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -35.71% +7.69% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -74.02%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Milton Keynes

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Milton Keynes

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 6 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
1 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (22.73%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (18.18%) ChatGPT
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) dbt
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (18.18%) Big Data
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) MSTest
3 1 (4.55%) NUnit
3 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Test Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Data Scientist
3 4 (18.18%) Integration Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Integration Test Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) JIRA Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Release Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Environment And Release Manager
6 1 (4.55%) JIRA Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Report Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.55%) UAT Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Hugging Face
1 4 (18.18%) NumPy
1 4 (18.18%) Pandas
1 4 (18.18%) PyTorch
1 4 (18.18%) scikit-learn
1 4 (18.18%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (13.64%) Prophet
3 2 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (9.09%) SAP PI
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) Defect Management
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
4 7 (31.82%) Test Planning
5 6 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 6 (27.27%) Logistics
5 6 (27.27%) Migration
5 6 (27.27%) Test Management
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (22.73%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (18.18%) A/B Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (18.18%) Data Science
7 4 (18.18%) LLM
7 4 (18.18%) SDLC
7 4 (18.18%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) C#
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) VB
5 3 (13.64%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Sage
2 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) JDA