JIRA Contracts in the North of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 48 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 139 250 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.96% 4.30% 5.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.69% 31.29% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 183 278
10th Percentile £363 £290 £356
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.94%
75th Percentile £595 £579 £538
90th Percentile £634 £650 £608
England median daily rate £525 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -2.78% +3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £40.88 £42.28 £29.55
25th Percentile - £46.31 £37.96
Median hourly rate £45.88 £56.38 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +36.33% +37.85%
75th Percentile - - £45.38
90th Percentile £56.60 £62.57 £49.11
England median hourly rate £55.00 £66.69 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.52% +49.85% -12.32%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 502 799 1,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.70% 13.75% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 612 835
10th Percentile £372 £358 £360
25th Percentile £417 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £575
90th Percentile £647 £700 £650
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £37.10
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.01 £38.68
Median hourly rate £53.09 £51.00 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +14.15% +39.63%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.10 £54.23
90th Percentile £80.82 £61.54 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.97% +17.39% +13.10%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 -4 80 £510 +13.33% 48
Yorkshire -3 53 £450 -14.29% 34
North East -22 6 £533 -5.75% 6
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 37 (26.62%) Confluence
2 5 (3.60%) Apache
2 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.44%) Mule
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (12.95%) MS Visio
2 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.72%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.06%) Azure
2 31 (22.30%) AWS
3 17 (12.23%) GitHub
4 15 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.91%) Apigee
5 11 (7.91%) Kong
6 10 (7.19%) GCP
6 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.76%) SaaS
8 7 (5.04%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.32%) Serverless
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.88%) IaaS
12 3 (2.16%) BrowserStack
12 3 (2.16%) Miro
12 3 (2.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) HTTP
2 10 (7.19%) DNS
2 10 (7.19%) Firewall
3 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.04%) VPN
4 5 (3.60%) FTP
5 3 (2.16%) DSL
5 3 (2.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.72%) DMZ
6 1 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.72%) PPP
6 1 (0.72%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) MongoDB
1 10 (7.19%) Power BI
2 6 (4.32%) Big Data
2 6 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.60%) OLAP
3 5 (3.60%) OLTP
3 5 (3.60%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.44%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.44%) Tableau
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) Metadata
6 1 (0.72%) MySQL
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (20.14%) Git
2 25 (17.99%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.19%) GitLab
4 9 (6.47%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.47%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.76%) Selenium
6 6 (4.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.32%) CircleCI
6 6 (4.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.32%) Travis CI
7 5 (3.60%) JMeter
7 5 (3.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.88%) Gatling
8 4 (2.88%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.16%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.44%) Appium
10 2 (1.44%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.44%) Log4j
10 2 (1.44%) Postman
10 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.90%) Finance
3 22 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.63%) Banking
5 11 (7.91%) Retail
6 10 (7.19%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.16%) Marketing
10 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.44%) Front Office
12 1 (0.72%) Billing
12 1 (0.72%) Games
12 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.72%) Military
12 1 (0.72%) Publishing
12 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (17.99%) Analyst
2 21 (15.11%) Project Manager
3 18 (12.95%) Business Analyst
4 13 (9.35%) Senior
5 11 (7.91%) Developer
5 11 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Architect
6 7 (5.04%) Lead
7 6 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Architect
8 5 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Pega Business Analyst
8 5 (3.60%) SAP Manager
8 5 (3.60%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) SQL BI Developer
8 5 (3.60%) SQL Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.07%) JSON
2 11 (7.91%) Kafka
2 11 (7.91%) Web Services
2 11 (7.91%) XML
3 8 (5.76%) Spring
4 7 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (5.04%) YAML
5 6 (4.32%) SOAP
6 5 (3.60%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (3.60%) J2EE
6 5 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (2.88%) Apache Camel
7 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.88%) Spring Integration
8 3 (2.16%) JDBC
8 3 (2.16%) JPA
8 3 (2.16%) JWT
8 3 (2.16%) REST
8 3 (2.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.32%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.60%) DataPower
3 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.16%) FMCG
5 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.44%) CMDB
6 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) iPad
7 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.76%) Linux
1 8 (5.76%) Windows
2 7 (5.04%) Unix
3 4 (2.88%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.44%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (64.03%) Agile
2 52 (37.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (35.25%) DevOps
4 32 (23.02%) Project Management
5 28 (20.14%) Scrum
6 27 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (16.55%) CI/CD
8 16 (11.51%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (11.51%) Project Delivery
8 16 (11.51%) Risk Management
8 16 (11.51%) Software Engineering
8 16 (11.51%) Test Automation
9 15 (10.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 15 (10.79%) Use Case
10 14 (10.07%) Design Patterns
10 14 (10.07%) Migration
11 13 (9.35%) Requirements Gathering
11 13 (9.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (9.35%) Workflow
12 12 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.99%) Java
2 21 (15.11%) SQL
3 19 (13.67%) Python
4 8 (5.76%) PL/SQL
4 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.32%) Bash
5 6 (4.32%) C#
6 5 (3.60%) Groovy
6 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.88%) Scala
8 3 (2.16%) Ruby
9 2 (1.44%) Go
10 1 (0.72%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.47%) Degree
4 2 (1.44%) CCSA
4 2 (1.44%) CCSE
4 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.44%) PMP
5 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.67%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.44%) GRC
3 2 (1.44%) NIST
3 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.44%) PMO
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.72%) EMIR
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (0.72%) GxP
4 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.72%) MISRA
4 1 (0.72%) MISRA C
System Software
1 11 (7.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (10.07%) Ansible
2 11 (7.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.19%) Terraform
4 9 (6.47%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.47%) Puppet
5 6 (4.32%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (4.32%) Grafana
5 6 (4.32%) Kibana
5 6 (4.32%) logstash
5 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.16%) CFEngine
7 3 (2.16%) PowerBroker
8 1 (0.72%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.91%) Oracle
3 9 (6.47%) SAP
4 7 (5.04%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.04%) Avaloq
4 7 (5.04%) Splunk
5 5 (3.60%) IBM
5 5 (3.60%) Informatica
5 5 (3.60%) Pega
5 5 (3.60%) Talend
5 5 (3.60%) TSYS
6 4 (2.88%) Cadence
6 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco
8 2 (1.44%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.44%) Google
8 2 (1.44%) Perfecto Mobile