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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 21 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.72% 4.32% 2.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 75.00% 44.83% 40.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 14
10th Percentile £200 £435 £250
25th Percentile £269 £450 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +15.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £434 £554 £488
90th Percentile £540 £565 £538
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £338 £463 £400
% change year-on-year -27.03% +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 28 29 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.29% 9.63% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 25
10th Percentile £218 £413 £325
25th Percentile £311 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% +15.79% -10.59%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £575
90th Percentile £546 £671 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £413 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -23.26% +13.16% -15.18%
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 - £52.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +200.00% -74.02%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

JIRA job vacancy trend 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 25 October 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 & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
1 10 (47.62%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (19.05%) ChatGPT
3 4 (19.05%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) MSTest
3 1 (4.76%) NUnit
3 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Data Scientist
3 4 (19.05%) Integration Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Integration Test Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Release Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.76%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Environment And Release Manager
6 1 (4.76%) JIRA Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Manual Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.76%) UAT Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Hugging Face
1 4 (19.05%) NumPy
1 4 (19.05%) Pandas
1 4 (19.05%) PyTorch
1 4 (19.05%) scikit-learn
1 4 (19.05%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (14.29%) Prophet
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (9.52%) SAP PI
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Defect Management
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Test Planning
5 6 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 6 (28.57%) Logistics
5 6 (28.57%) Migration
5 6 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Test Management
6 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Data Science
7 4 (19.05%) LLM
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (19.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 4 (19.05%) VB
5 3 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
2 3 (14.29%) Sage
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) JDA