JIRA Contract Job Trends in the North West

Atlassian JIRA
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +20
Contract jobs citing JIRA 132 90 141
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 5.32% 4.15% 5.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.65% 34.62% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 59 109
10th Percentile £300 £333 £265
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -11.63% +13.16%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £618 £662 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile - £31.81 £56.17
25th Percentile £39.00 £41.58 £59.44
Median hourly rate £54.43 £52.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -16.60% +31.58%
75th Percentile £66.12 £60.81 £64.06
90th Percentile £77.48 £70.83 £64.63
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 381 260 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.36% 12.00% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 159 275
10th Percentile £313 £316 £350
25th Percentile £363 £360 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.62% -1.90%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £613
90th Percentile £635 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 37
10th Percentile £39.00 £39.92 £45.88
25th Percentile £42.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +1.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.71 £80.50 £78.00
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 West

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the North West

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the North West over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 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
Cheshire +13 70 £434 -16.18% 20
Manchester -16 48 £475 +2.70% 43
Merseyside -4 7 £300 - 5
Lancashire -7 5 £400 - 19
Cumbria +3 2 - - 1
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 57 (43.18%) Confluence
2 13 (9.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.27%) JBoss
4 2 (1.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
5 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (5.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.52%) Trello
7 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.76%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) Maximo
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.97%) Azure
2 27 (20.45%) AWS
3 16 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.06%) Smartsheet
5 7 (5.30%) GitHub
6 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.55%) Figma
6 6 (4.55%) Serverless
7 5 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.79%) Miro
7 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.27%) Slack
10 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) SSH
2 2 (1.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.76%) Internet
3 1 (0.76%) SSL
3 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) VPN
3 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.55%) Tableau
2 4 (3.03%) Power BI
3 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.52%) Looker
4 2 (1.52%) Metadata
4 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.76%) Big Data
5 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) DataStage
5 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (16.67%) Git
2 12 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (4.55%) GitLab
5 5 (3.79%) Selenium
6 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.03%) JUnit
6 4 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.27%) Maven
7 3 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (2.27%) TestRail
8 2 (1.52%) Appium
8 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.52%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (1.52%) Mockito
8 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.76%) Postman
9 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 42 (31.82%) Finance
3 37 (28.03%) Banking
4 25 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.30%) Legal
7 3 (2.27%) Automotive
7 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Marketing
8 2 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Analyst
2 20 (15.15%) Developer
3 16 (12.12%) Business Analyst
4 11 (8.33%) Lead
4 11 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 10 (7.58%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.82%) Change Manager
7 7 (5.30%) Senior
8 6 (4.55%) Architect
8 6 (4.55%) ITIL Change Manager
8 6 (4.55%) ITIL Manager
8 6 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.79%) Salesforce Analyst
10 4 (3.03%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Test Analyst
10 4 (3.03%) Tester
11 3 (2.27%) Operations Manager
11 3 (2.27%) Technical Manager
11 3 (2.27%) Technical Project Manager
11 3 (2.27%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) REST
1 17 (12.88%) Spring Boot
2 13 (9.85%) Spring
3 11 (8.33%) JMS
4 6 (4.55%) Node.js
5 5 (3.79%) React
6 4 (3.03%) .NET
6 4 (3.03%) HTML
6 4 (3.03%) OAuth
6 4 (3.03%) RESTful
6 4 (3.03%) SOAP
6 4 (3.03%) XML
7 3 (2.27%) CSS
7 3 (2.27%) Jest
7 3 (2.27%) JSON
7 3 (2.27%) Kafka
7 3 (2.27%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.27%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 11 (8.33%) Tandem
5 6 (4.55%) PMI
6 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.27%) PKI
7 3 (2.27%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.76%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.76%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Windows
2 13 (9.85%) Unix
3 8 (6.06%) Linux
4 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.52%) Agile
2 49 (37.12%) DevOps
3 47 (35.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (26.52%) Change Management
6 34 (25.76%) CI/CD
7 26 (19.70%) Project Management
8 22 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 22 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 22 (16.67%) Scrum
8 22 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (15.91%) ITIL
10 20 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (12.88%) Containerisation
11 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (12.88%) Release Management
11 17 (12.88%) Service Management
12 16 (12.12%) Computer Science
12 16 (12.12%) Test Automation
13 15 (11.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.70%) Java
2 21 (15.91%) Python
2 21 (15.91%) SQL
3 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.03%) C#
4 4 (3.03%) Perl
4 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.27%) Bash
5 3 (2.27%) C++
5 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.52%) Ruby
6 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (19.70%) Degree
2 16 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (6.06%) PMI Certification
6 7 (5.30%) PMP
7 5 (3.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.03%) CBAP
9 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.27%) SAFe Agilist
10 2 (1.52%) CISM
10 2 (1.52%) CISSP
10 2 (1.52%) CSPO
10 2 (1.52%) MBA
11 1 (0.76%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.76%) ISEB
11 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.91%) QA
2 15 (11.36%) PSD2
3 13 (9.85%) ISO 20022
4 12 (9.09%) SEPA
5 8 (6.06%) GDPR
6 6 (4.55%) Accessibility
7 4 (3.03%) PCI DSS
7 4 (3.03%) PMO
8 3 (2.27%) P3O
8 3 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.52%) Basel III
9 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (1.52%) NIST
9 2 (1.52%) WCAG
10 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.76%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Ansible
3 5 (3.79%) Terraform
4 3 (2.27%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.27%) Podman
4 3 (2.27%) SELinux
5 2 (1.52%) Kibana
5 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Control-M
6 1 (0.76%) SCCM
6 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.64%) Oracle
3 14 (10.61%) ServiceNow
4 13 (9.85%) IBM
5 6 (4.55%) Gemalto
5 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.55%) Thales
6 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.27%) HP
6 3 (2.27%) Planview
7 2 (1.52%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.52%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.52%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.52%) Google
7 2 (1.52%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.52%) Splunk
7 2 (1.52%) Veracode
7 2 (1.52%) Zoho
8 1 (0.76%) Optimizely