JIRA Contracts in the North East

Atlassian JIRA
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 33 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -21 +21
Contract jobs citing JIRA 12 6 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.79% 1.76% 14.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.43% 26.09% 47.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 53
10th Percentile £400 £479 £376
25th Percentile £463 £516 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -5.75% +5.12%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £645 £824
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 56 23 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 17.67% 6.76% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 9 108
10th Percentile £335 £402 £400
25th Percentile £380 £450 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -7.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £700
90th Percentile £620 £615 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate £52.00 £46.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -5.76% -11.71%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the North East

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North East.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the North East

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the North East

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -1 10 £525 -1.41% 13
Durham - 2 £494 -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 7 (58.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Trello
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Miro
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) French Language
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
1 4 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Change Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) APMG
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (8.33%) PMP
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) New Relic