JIRA Contracts in Sheffield

Atlassian JIRA
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 12 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 -38
Contract jobs citing JIRA 41 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.85% 3.69% 1.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.62% 28.57% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 7
10th Percentile £375 £378 £463
25th Percentile £411 £431 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £743
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -19.25% +65.11%
75th Percentile £538 £635 -
90th Percentile £626 £645 £826
South Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £600 £743
% change year-on-year -14.79% -19.25% +65.11%

All Development Application Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 81 49 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 25.39% 12.93% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 36 57
10th Percentile £373 £384 £437
25th Percentile £409 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -19.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £552 £623 £700
90th Percentile £650 £648 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £472 £650
% change year-on-year +8.32% -27.38% +36.84%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Sheffield

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Sheffield

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Sheffield

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 23 (56.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (9.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) AWS
1 7 (17.07%) GitHub
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.76%) IaaS
3 4 (9.76%) Lucidchart
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
2 2 (4.88%) Tableau
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Cucumber
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.63%) Visual Studio
4 5 (12.20%) JUnit
4 5 (12.20%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (9.76%) Gradle
5 4 (9.76%) HP UFT
5 4 (9.76%) IntelliJ
5 4 (9.76%) Maven
5 4 (9.76%) Selenium
5 4 (9.76%) TestRail
6 3 (7.32%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.44%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
General
1 17 (41.46%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) QA Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Test Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Tester
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) IT Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) Gherkin
2 4 (9.76%) OAuth
2 4 (9.76%) OpenID
2 4 (9.76%) SAML
3 2 (4.88%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) CSS
4 1 (2.44%) HTML
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) RAML
4 1 (2.44%) SOAP
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) XML
4 1 (2.44%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Agile
2 13 (31.71%) Migration
3 10 (24.39%) DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
5 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Workflow
7 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
7 5 (12.20%) Identity Management
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
7 5 (12.20%) Test Strategy
8 4 (9.76%) Document Management
8 4 (9.76%) Incident Management
8 4 (9.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) Python
2 5 (12.20%) Groovy
2 5 (12.20%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) Java
4 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.32%) Ruby
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) JCL
5 1 (2.44%) REXX
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) CCNP
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) SLA
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Ansible
2 4 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.32%) Puppet
4 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.32%) Splunk
3 2 (4.88%) Snow
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Commvault
4 1 (2.44%) Dell
4 1 (2.44%) F5
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Intel
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle