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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 213 162 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.30% 3.38% 3.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.73% 30.80% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 117 158
10th Percentile £334 £372 £282
25th Percentile £389 £419 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% - -
75th Percentile £520 £600 £575
90th Percentile £600 £647 £709
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £70.08 - £44.63
25th Percentile £70.75 £37.55 £52.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year +63.47% -18.62% -24.83%
75th Percentile £78.44 £47.16 £58.96
90th Percentile £82.00 £54.83 £63.60
England median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +34.83%

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 523 526 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.47% 10.97% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 368 517
10th Percentile £347 £366 £331
25th Percentile £392 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -7.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £645 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 11
10th Percentile £52.14 £37.55 £37.80
25th Percentile £70.00 £43.80 £38.70
Median hourly rate £72.50 £46.84 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -10.15% -25.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.94 £56.19
90th Percentile £80.05 £80.09 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

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 7 June 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
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 7 June 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 +20 118 £420 -16.58% 162
Yorkshire +28 86 £500 +11.11% 77
North East +4 15 £550 +0.69% 40
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
1 105 (49.30%) Confluence
2 12 (5.63%) JBoss
3 9 (4.23%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.41%) Apache
6 3 (1.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.47%) CICS
8 1 (0.47%) CMS
8 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.47%) Liferay
8 1 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.69%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (2.82%) Trello
5 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.94%) InVision
6 2 (0.94%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.47%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (18.78%) AWS
2 24 (11.27%) Azure
3 16 (7.51%) GCP
4 14 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.63%) OpenShift
5 12 (5.63%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.69%) GitHub
7 6 (2.82%) Lucidchart
7 6 (2.82%) SaaS
8 5 (2.35%) Apigee
8 5 (2.35%) Serverless
9 4 (1.88%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.88%) IaaS
9 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.41%) Miro
10 3 (1.41%) npm
10 3 (1.41%) Slack
11 2 (0.94%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (0.94%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Firewall
2 5 (2.35%) HTTP
3 4 (1.88%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.94%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.47%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) NGN
5 1 (0.47%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) SMS
5 1 (0.47%) SNA
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.16%) Power BI
2 10 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.69%) RDBMS
2 10 (4.69%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.82%) Tableau
5 4 (1.88%) MySQL
5 4 (1.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.94%) Bigtable
7 2 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (20.19%) Git
2 31 (14.55%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.86%) Selenium
4 18 (8.45%) Maven
5 15 (7.04%) JUnit
6 13 (6.10%) Gradle
7 12 (5.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (5.16%) Cucumber
8 11 (5.16%) IntelliJ
8 11 (5.16%) Postman
9 10 (4.69%) GitLab
10 8 (3.76%) CA Release Automation
11 7 (3.29%) Cypress.io
11 7 (3.29%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.82%) HP UFT
12 6 (2.82%) ScriptRunner
12 6 (2.82%) TeamCity
12 6 (2.82%) Visual Studio
13 5 (2.35%) CircleCI
General
1 65 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.00%) Finance
3 39 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.27%) Banking
5 13 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.29%) Automotive
6 7 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.88%) Legal
10 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Military
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (22.54%) Analyst
2 33 (15.49%) Business Analyst
3 20 (9.39%) Developer
3 20 (9.39%) Senior
3 20 (9.39%) Tester
4 16 (7.51%) Lead
4 16 (7.51%) Project Manager
5 10 (4.69%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (3.76%) Technical Analyst
6 8 (3.76%) Technical Manager
7 7 (3.29%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (3.29%) IT Manager
7 7 (3.29%) Java Developer
8 6 (2.82%) IT Project Manager
8 6 (2.82%) QA Tester
8 6 (2.82%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (2.35%) Architect
9 5 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.35%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.51%) Spring Boot
2 14 (6.57%) REST
3 13 (6.10%) RESTful
4 12 (5.63%) CSS
4 12 (5.63%) HTML
4 12 (5.63%) Spring
5 9 (4.23%) Node.js
5 9 (4.23%) React
6 8 (3.76%) Kafka
6 8 (3.76%) OAuth
7 7 (3.29%) SOAP
7 7 (3.29%) Web Services
8 6 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.82%) Gherkin
9 5 (2.35%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.35%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.35%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (2.35%) Spring MVC
10 4 (1.88%) jQuery
10 4 (1.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.35%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.94%) Derivative
8 2 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.94%) Equities
8 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.94%) PMI
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.47%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.45%) Linux
2 11 (5.16%) Unix
3 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.76%) Windows
4 3 (1.41%) Android
4 3 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.94%) zOS
6 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (57.28%) Agile
2 56 (26.29%) DevOps
3 52 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (20.66%) Scrum
5 41 (19.25%) Test Automation
6 40 (18.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (18.31%) Project Management
8 38 (17.84%) CI/CD
9 37 (17.37%) Microservices
10 36 (16.90%) Migration
11 30 (14.08%) Change Management
12 28 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (12.68%) Decision-Making
14 22 (10.33%) Business Analysis
15 20 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (9.39%) User Stories
16 19 (8.92%) Kanban
17 18 (8.45%) Process Improvement
17 18 (8.45%) Requirements Gathering
18 17 (7.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.66%) Java
2 29 (13.62%) Python
3 28 (13.15%) SQL
4 13 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.63%) Bash
6 10 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.76%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.29%) Perl
10 6 (2.82%) Groovy
11 3 (1.41%) JCL
11 3 (1.41%) Ruby
12 2 (0.94%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (0.94%) REXX
12 2 (0.94%) Scala
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) VB
13 1 (0.47%) VBScript
13 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.45%) Degree
4 8 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.29%) PMP
6 4 (1.88%) APMP
6 4 (1.88%) IIBA
6 4 (1.88%) ISEB
7 3 (1.41%) CBAP
7 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.94%) CSPO
8 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.94%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.27%) QA
2 10 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.35%) PMO
3 5 (2.35%) SLA
4 3 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) PSD2
5 1 (0.47%) SEPA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (8.45%) Docker
2 11 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.41%) VirtualBox
4 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.04%) Ansible
3 12 (5.63%) Progress Chef
4 6 (2.82%) Kibana
4 6 (2.82%) Puppet
4 6 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.35%) Terraform
6 4 (1.88%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.41%) Grafana
7 3 (1.41%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.41%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.94%) Control-M
8 2 (0.94%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
9 1 (0.47%) SCOM
9 1 (0.47%) SCSM
9 1 (0.47%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 21 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.51%) Oracle
2 16 (7.51%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.63%) Atlassian
4 11 (5.16%) Splunk
5 8 (3.76%) AppDynamics
6 7 (3.29%) Google
6 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.82%) Cisco
8 5 (2.35%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.35%) SAP
9 4 (1.88%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.88%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.88%) Dell
9 4 (1.88%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.88%) HP
9 4 (1.88%) IBM
10 3 (1.41%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.41%) Veritas
11 2 (0.94%) Salesforce