JIRA Contracts in the North of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 30 63 45
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 192 141 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.86% 2.94% 4.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.48% 28.03% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 104 190
10th Percentile £324 £363 £287
25th Percentile £393 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £506
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -0.25% +5.47%
75th Percentile £529 £595 £577
90th Percentile £640 £634 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £62.15 - £42.28
25th Percentile £72.50 - £46.31
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year +63.47% -18.62% +36.33%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.35 -
90th Percentile £82.65 £58.39 £62.57
England median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.47% +47.96%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 499 503 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.24% 10.50% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 367 620
10th Percentile £335 £372 £350
25th Percentile £400 £418 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £582 £600
90th Percentile £628 £647 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the North of England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the North of England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the North of England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the North of England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the North of England

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +15 95 £425 -16.67% 109
Yorkshire +36 91 £500 +11.11% 43
North East +6 12 £525 -1.41% 13
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 89 (46.35%) Confluence
2 8 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) CICS
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Liferay
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 16 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.65%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.60%) Trello
5 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.04%) InVision
6 2 (1.04%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.52%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.04%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.58%) AWS
2 23 (11.98%) Azure
3 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.73%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.21%) GCP
5 10 (5.21%) Slack
6 9 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.17%) GitHub
8 6 (3.13%) Lucidchart
8 6 (3.13%) SaaS
9 5 (2.60%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.60%) Serverless
10 4 (2.08%) Apigee
10 4 (2.08%) IaaS
11 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.56%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.04%) Asana
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) HTTP
2 6 (3.13%) Firewall
3 4 (2.08%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.56%) DNS
5 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.52%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.52%) NAS
6 1 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.52%) NGN
6 1 (0.52%) SAN
6 1 (0.52%) Skype
6 1 (0.52%) SNA
6 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.85%) MongoDB
1 17 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.77%) MySQL
3 11 (5.73%) Power BI
4 10 (5.21%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (4.17%) Tableau
6 6 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.60%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.04%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 38 (19.79%) Git
2 21 (10.94%) Cucumber
2 21 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.94%) Selenium
3 17 (8.85%) JUnit
4 12 (6.25%) Postman
5 11 (5.73%) IntelliJ
5 11 (5.73%) Maven
6 10 (5.21%) Jasmine
6 10 (5.21%) Visual Studio
7 8 (4.17%) GitLab
8 7 (3.65%) CA Release Automation
9 6 (3.13%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.13%) Gradle
9 6 (3.13%) HP UFT
9 6 (3.13%) ScriptRunner
9 6 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 6 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.60%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.92%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Banking
5 15 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.65%) Automotive
6 7 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.56%) Legal
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.04%) French Language
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Military
9 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (20.31%) Analyst
2 26 (13.54%) Business Analyst
2 26 (13.54%) Senior
3 20 (10.42%) Tester
4 19 (9.90%) Lead
5 17 (8.85%) Developer
6 15 (7.81%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.21%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.69%) Technical Manager
9 8 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.13%) QA Tester
10 6 (3.13%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Test Manager
11 5 (2.60%) Automation Tester
11 5 (2.60%) IT Manager
11 5 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
11 5 (2.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.90%) RESTful
2 17 (8.85%) Spring Boot
3 12 (6.25%) Spring
4 11 (5.73%) Swagger
5 10 (5.21%) OpenAPI
6 9 (4.69%) CSS
6 9 (4.69%) HTML
6 9 (4.69%) Spring Security
7 8 (4.17%) Spring Batch
8 7 (3.65%) OAuth
9 6 (3.13%) Gherkin
9 6 (3.13%) Kafka
9 6 (3.13%) REST
10 5 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.60%) Node.js
10 5 (2.60%) Web Services
11 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.08%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.08%) OpenID
11 4 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (2.60%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.60%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.56%) Tandem
6 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.04%) NHS
6 2 (1.04%) PMI
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.42%) Linux
2 18 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.69%) Windows
4 5 (2.60%) Unix
5 3 (1.56%) Android
5 3 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.04%) zOS
7 1 (0.52%) CentOS
7 1 (0.52%) VMS
7 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (53.13%) Agile
2 47 (24.48%) Test Automation
3 45 (23.44%) DevOps
4 42 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 39 (20.31%) Project Management
7 36 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (17.19%) Migration
9 30 (15.63%) Microservices
10 29 (15.10%) Scrum
11 25 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (11.46%) Change Management
13 20 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (10.42%) Decision-Making
14 17 (8.85%) BDD
14 17 (8.85%) Business Analysis
14 17 (8.85%) Continuous Delivery
15 16 (8.33%) Containerisation
15 16 (8.33%) Kanban
16 15 (7.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.67%) Java
2 31 (16.15%) SQL
3 26 (13.54%) Python
4 19 (9.90%) Bash
5 10 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.13%) Groovy
7 6 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.60%) Perl
9 3 (1.56%) JCL
9 3 (1.56%) Ruby
10 2 (1.04%) C#
10 2 (1.04%) REXX
10 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) PHP
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) VB
11 1 (0.52%) VBScript
11 1 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.90%) Degree
4 8 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.65%) PMP
6 5 (2.60%) APMP
7 4 (2.08%) IIBA
7 4 (2.08%) ISEB
8 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.56%) CBAP
8 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.04%) CCNP
9 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.02%) QA
2 8 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.13%) PMO
4 5 (2.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (11.98%) Docker
2 11 (5.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.08%) VirtualBox
4 3 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.29%) Ansible
3 11 (5.73%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.65%) Puppet
5 6 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.60%) Kibana
6 5 (2.60%) Terraform
7 4 (2.08%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.56%) Grafana
8 3 (1.56%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.56%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.04%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.52%) SCCM
10 1 (0.52%) SCSM
10 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.29%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.25%) Splunk
4 11 (5.73%) Oracle
5 10 (5.21%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.13%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.13%) Cisco
6 6 (3.13%) Google
6 6 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.13%) SAP
7 5 (2.60%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (2.08%) Dell
8 4 (2.08%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.56%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.56%) HP
9 3 (1.56%) IBM
9 3 (1.56%) Veritas
9 3 (1.56%) VMware
10 2 (1.04%) New Relic