JDA Contract Job Trends in the South East

JDA
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of JDA products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JDA over the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within JDA Software Group.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JDA 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £645 - -
England median daily rate £550 £800 £631
% change year-on-year -31.25% +26.78% +29.44%

All Vendors
South East

JDA falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,975 2,066 2,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.29% 49.58% 53.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,289 1,841
10th Percentile £205 £254 £205
25th Percentile £375 £403 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £608
90th Percentile £650 £691 £678
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 68 126
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.53 £25.31 £20.06
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +96.57%
75th Percentile £33.94 £67.14 £65.19
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.51% -20.94% +76.24%

JDA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JDA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

JDA job vacancy trend in the South East

JDA
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JDA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JDA

JDA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JDA in the South East over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JDA in the South East

JDA
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JDA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JDA

JDA
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 JDA within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Buckinghamshire - 4 £550 -
Thames Valley - 4 £550 -
JDA
England

JDA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP