JIRA Contracts in Reading

Atlassian JIRA
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 42 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing JIRA 26 50 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.36% 4.19% 3.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.89% 34.25% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 17
10th Percentile £445 £474 £370
25th Percentile £470 £530 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £613 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% +17.79% +30.00%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £614
90th Percentile £563 £705 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £538 £506
% change year-on-year -6.88% +6.17% +21.99%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 87 146 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.57% 12.25% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 96 103
10th Percentile £409 £419 £400
25th Percentile £477 £501 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +15.57% +17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £623
90th Percentile - £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.87%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Reading.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) 5G
1 2 (7.69%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (7.69%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (7.69%) SMS
1 2 (7.69%) SS7
1 2 (7.69%) VoLTE
1 2 (7.69%) VoWiFi
1 2 (7.69%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.85%) BGP
2 1 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (3.85%) MPLS
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) GitLab
1 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
2 10 (38.46%) Cucumber
2 10 (38.46%) REST Assured
2 10 (38.46%) Selenium
3 6 (23.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) Subversion
4 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 5 (19.23%) Law
5 4 (15.38%) Police
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Java Engineer
1 9 (34.62%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (34.62%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Scrum Master
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Transformation Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) JIRA Expert
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) REST
2 10 (38.46%) Java EE
3 6 (23.08%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
4 1 (3.85%) RESTCONF
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) XML
4 1 (3.85%) YAML
4 1 (3.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) CentOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 10 (38.46%) Configuration Management
3 10 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (38.46%) Software Architecture
3 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 10 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
8 3 (11.54%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (11.54%) Backlog Refinement
8 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (11.54%) User Stories
8 3 (11.54%) Validation
8 3 (11.54%) Workflow
9 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (23.08%) Podman
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Virgin Media
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) BMC
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy