JIRA Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Atlassian JIRA
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 18 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.14% 4.67% 11.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.86% 19.44% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 16
10th Percentile £500 £424 £350
25th Percentile £519 £460 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +1.46% -4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £618
90th Percentile £643 £641 £813
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £531 £566 £513
% change year-on-year -6.18% +10.49% -2.38%

All Development Application Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 43 36 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.83% 24.00% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 23
10th Percentile £425 £363 £350
25th Percentile £458 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £503 £555
90th Percentile £588 £595 £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.60 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile £50.40 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £44.00 - -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Newcastle upon Tyne

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Newcastle upon Tyne

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Newcastle upon Tyne

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 16 (88.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Miro
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (61.11%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (16.67%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Node.js
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
1 4 (22.22%) Spring
2 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) MVC
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (22.22%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (16.67%) SFIA
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 4 (22.22%) Go
2 4 (22.22%) Groovy
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Perl
2 4 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) Pega