Issue Tracking Contracts in the South East

Issue Tracking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Issue Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Issue Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 198 209
Rank change year-on-year +47 +11 +42
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.018% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.021% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
England median daily rate £397 £641 £500
% change year-on-year -38.10% +28.10% -10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £23.08
% change year-on-year +37.50% +73.31% -64.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Issue Tracking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Issue Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Issue Tracking in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Issue Tracking in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Issue Tracking within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Hampshire - 3 - - 11
Thames Valley +37 2 £450 - 22
Berkshire +30 1 £425 - 10
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Voice Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) SysML
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Order Management
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Conga
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce