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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 52 42
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JIRA 34 39 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.78% 3.55% 4.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.57% 27.86% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 19
10th Percentile £428 £475 £437
25th Percentile £472 £525 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £631
90th Percentile £582 £688 £660
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +22.29%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 70 140 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.90% 12.73% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 88 103
10th Percentile £359 £403 £363
25th Percentile £450 £511 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £590
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +3.81% +31.11%
75th Percentile £583 £650 £638
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £556
% change year-on-year -6.98% -3.37% +20.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.75 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.42% - -

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

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Reading over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Reading

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing JIRA

JIRA
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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SAP PM
2 2 (5.88%) SAP HR
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.94%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) OCI
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) 5G
1 2 (5.88%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (5.88%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (5.88%) SMS
1 2 (5.88%) SS7
1 2 (5.88%) VoLTE
1 2 (5.88%) VoWiFi
1 2 (5.88%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.94%) BGP
2 1 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.94%) MPLS
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) GitLab
1 11 (32.35%) Selenium
2 10 (29.41%) Cucumber
2 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 10 (29.41%) REST Assured
3 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.94%) Subversion
4 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Law
3 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.76%) Police
5 2 (5.88%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Java Engineer
1 9 (26.47%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (26.47%) Software Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) REST
2 10 (29.41%) Java EE
3 6 (17.65%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.82%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (8.82%) Visualforce
5 2 (5.88%) JSON
5 2 (5.88%) SAP PI
5 2 (5.88%) SOAP
5 2 (5.88%) XML
6 1 (2.94%) HTML
6 1 (2.94%) NETCONF
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.94%) Playwright
6 1 (2.94%) RESTCONF
6 1 (2.94%) RESTful
6 1 (2.94%) YAML
6 1 (2.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) CMDB
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) CentOS
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 15 (44.12%) Agile
4 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (32.35%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (29.41%) Software Architecture
6 10 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
7 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 8 (23.53%) Validation
8 7 (20.59%) High Availability
8 7 (20.59%) Test Scripting
9 6 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (17.65%) Load Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Performance Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Risk Analysis
9 6 (17.65%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) Ansible
2 6 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (17.65%) Podman
2 6 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Remedy
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Pega