JIRA Contracts in the North West

Atlassian JIRA
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 38 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 95 86 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.87% 3.10% 3.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.67% 28.29% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 64 91
10th Percentile £321 £358 £285
25th Percentile £379 £459 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £595 £530
90th Percentile £620 £634 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 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 - -
90th Percentile £82.65 - £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 274 304 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.04% 10.95% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 234 322
10th Percentile £328 £375 £325
25th Percentile £392 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £537 £598 £600
90th Percentile £600 £668 £656
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +31 43 £450 -9.55% 64
Cheshire -3 40 £402 -21.18% 26
Lancashire +3 8 £600 -18.92% 42
Cumbria +2 3 - - 3
Merseyside - 1 - - 5
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 40 (42.11%) Confluence
2 8 (8.42%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.26%) JBoss
4 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.05%) CICS
5 1 (1.05%) CMS
5 1 (1.05%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.05%) Liferay
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.11%) InVision
3 2 (2.11%) UserZoom
4 1 (1.05%) CATIA
4 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.11%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.63%) AWS
2 8 (8.42%) Azure
3 6 (6.32%) SaaS
4 5 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.21%) Apigee
5 4 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.21%) GCP
5 4 (4.21%) Serverless
6 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.16%) Slack
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.11%) IaaS
7 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.05%) Contentful
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) DNS
1 1 (1.05%) Firewall
1 1 (1.05%) FlexRay
1 1 (1.05%) Skype
1 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.32%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.26%) MySQL
3 5 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.16%) Tableau
5 2 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.11%) Power BI
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Git
1 12 (12.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.37%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (5.26%) Selenium
3 5 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 5 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.21%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.21%) GitLab
4 4 (4.21%) JUnit
5 3 (3.16%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (2.11%) Gradle
6 2 (2.11%) HP UFT
6 2 (2.11%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.11%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.11%) Maven
6 2 (2.11%) NetBeans
6 2 (2.11%) Subversion
6 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Finance
4 9 (9.47%) Banking
5 7 (7.37%) Automotive
5 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.16%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.05%) Avionics
9 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Military
9 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Publishing
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (15.79%) Analyst
2 12 (12.63%) Senior
3 11 (11.58%) Lead
3 11 (11.58%) Project Manager
4 9 (9.47%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Tester
6 5 (5.26%) Developer
6 5 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (5.26%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Architect
7 3 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.11%) JIRA Engineer
8 2 (2.11%) Sales Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.47%) Spring Boot
2 7 (7.37%) RESTful
3 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.26%) Kafka
3 5 (5.26%) Node.js
4 4 (4.21%) CSS
4 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.21%) HTML
4 4 (4.21%) OpenAPI
4 4 (4.21%) React
4 4 (4.21%) Spring
4 4 (4.21%) Swagger
5 3 (3.16%) OAuth
5 3 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.11%) HTML5
6 2 (2.11%) J2EE
6 2 (2.11%) REST
6 2 (2.11%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.11%) Spring Security
6 2 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.16%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) Tandem
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Linux
1 7 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (7.37%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Android
2 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.42%) Agile
2 24 (25.26%) DevOps
3 23 (24.21%) Project Management
3 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.95%) CI/CD
5 18 (18.95%) Microservices
6 17 (17.89%) Migration
7 16 (16.84%) Scrum
8 15 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.68%) Change Management
10 11 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (10.53%) Project Delivery
12 9 (9.47%) Decision-Making
12 9 (9.47%) ITIL
12 9 (9.47%) Kanban
12 9 (9.47%) PRINCE2
12 9 (9.47%) Task Automation
13 8 (8.42%) Risk Management
13 8 (8.42%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.74%) Java
2 13 (13.68%) SQL
3 12 (12.63%) Python
4 8 (8.42%) Bash
5 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.26%) Perl
8 3 (3.16%) Groovy
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) JCL
9 1 (1.05%) R
9 1 (1.05%) VB
9 1 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.74%) Degree
4 6 (6.32%) PMI Certification
4 6 (6.32%) PMP
5 4 (4.21%) IIBA
5 4 (4.21%) ISEB
6 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.11%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.05%) CBAP
7 1 (1.05%) CCSA
7 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.05%) MCP
7 1 (1.05%) MCSA
7 1 (1.05%) MCSE
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) PMO
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
3 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.05%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.05%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) Docker
2 8 (8.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.05%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.58%) Progress Chef
3 5 (5.26%) Kibana
4 4 (4.21%) Ansible
5 3 (3.16%) HP ALM
6 2 (2.11%) Grafana
6 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.11%) Puppet
6 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.11%) Terraform
7 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.05%) CA Endevor
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.05%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.05%) SCCM
7 1 (1.05%) SCSM
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Atlassian
3 6 (6.32%) Oracle
3 6 (6.32%) SAP
3 6 (6.32%) Splunk
4 5 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.21%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (4.21%) Google
6 3 (3.16%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.16%) HP
7 2 (2.11%) Brio
7 2 (2.11%) Databricks
7 2 (2.11%) IBM
7 2 (2.11%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.05%) Symantec
8 1 (1.05%) VMware