JIRA Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring JIRA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 10 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.99% 2.44% 4.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 76.92% 50.00% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - £275 £229
25th Percentile - £304 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £355 £510
Median % change year-on-year +54.93% -30.39% -16.73%
75th Percentile - £404 £543
90th Percentile - £432 £551
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +5.56% -11.76% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - £58.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 £16.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +460.19% -72.88% -
75th Percentile - - £59.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -3.85%

All Development Application Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 13 8 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.09% 4.88% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 17
10th Percentile £458 £283 -
25th Percentile £517 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -26.09%
75th Percentile - £500 £515
90th Percentile - £560 £574
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £71.60 - £51.98
25th Percentile £72.50 - £53.06
Median hourly rate £89.63 £16.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +460.19% -71.30% -
75th Percentile - - £58.06
90th Percentile - - £58.93
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -9.16%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Oxfordshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Oxford -1 6 - - 3
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Lucidchart
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
1 4 (40.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (30.00%) Retail
5 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Service Support Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (30.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (20.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) BPMN
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) ITSM
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) Time Management
3 3 (30.00%) Business Case
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (30.00%) Presales
3 3 (30.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) System Testing
3 3 (30.00%) UML
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) A+ Certification
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle