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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 37 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 21 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.51% 3.72% 4.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 77.78% 34.62% 48.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 15
10th Percentile £265 £389 £374
25th Percentile £308 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% -7.61%
75th Percentile £411 £565 £500
90th Percentile £538 - £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £350 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% -7.61%

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 27 26 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.09% 10.74% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 25
10th Percentile £268 £412 £343
25th Percentile £319 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +22.22% -13.88%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £575 £656 £619
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £356 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -35.23% +18.92% -22.92%

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 13 January 2026.

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 13 (61.90%) Confluence
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Anypoint
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) dbt
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
1 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (19.05%) Star Schema
2 2 (9.52%) SAP HANA
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) MSTest
2 1 (4.76%) NUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Data Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Release Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Manual Tester
4 2 (9.52%) PMO Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Test Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Tester
4 2 (9.52%) Web Tester
5 1 (4.76%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Director
5 1 (4.76%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Report Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) UAT Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (9.52%) SAP PI
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (23.81%) Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Regression Testing
3 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Data Lineage
4 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Defect Management
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 4 (19.05%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Validation
5 3 (14.29%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) PMO
2 2 (9.52%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
1 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft