JIRA Contract Job Trends in the North East

Atlassian JIRA
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 33 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 16 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 4.04% 3.31% 2.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.05% 13.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 3
10th Percentile £305 £378 £374
25th Percentile £406 £431 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +1.12% -19.09%
75th Percentile £520 £471 £450
90th Percentile £525 £526 £452
England median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -0.37%

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 84 75 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 21.21% 24.83% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 39 6
10th Percentile £376 £311 £391
25th Percentile £425 £351 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £452
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -0.44% -21.39%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £475
90th Percentile £600 £613 £513
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the North East

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North East over the 6 months to 19 December 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 19 December 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 -6 15 £488 +8.33% 11
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 9 (56.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) Postman
2 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
2 3 (18.75%) TestRail
3 2 (12.50%) Gatling
3 2 (12.50%) JMeter
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Local Government
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 2 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Test Management
5 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (18.75%) API Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
5 3 (18.75%) QA Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Bash
1 4 (25.00%) Go
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Pega
1 1 (6.25%) SAP