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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing JIRA 16 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.45% 5.05% 4.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.24% 35.48% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 15
10th Percentile £316 £383 -
25th Percentile £322 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £400 £588 £500
90th Percentile £578 - £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £350 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -22.22% +9.09% -14.51%

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 37 31 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.97% 14.22% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 28
10th Percentile £322 £376 £337
25th Percentile £356 £413 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £469
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +20.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £600
90th Percentile £613 £647 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% -17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -

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 26 February 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 10 (62.50%) Confluence
2 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (25.00%) Star Schema
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Data Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Manual Tester
5 2 (12.50%) PMO Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Web Tester
6 1 (6.25%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Delivery Director
6 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Manual Test Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Programme Delivery Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) Project Management
1 6 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
2 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 4 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Resource Management
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) APMP
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) ISEB
3 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
2 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce