JIRA Contracts in the South East

Atlassian JIRA
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 59 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 -21 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 194 227 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.51% 3.89% 5.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.26% 30.07% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 133 277
10th Percentile £300 £308 £333
25th Percentile £370 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +3.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £580 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £625
England median daily rate £525 £540 £515
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.85% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 22 15
10th Percentile £26.38 £25.07 £47.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.56 £52.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.13 £65.52
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.84 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.47% +47.96% -13.59%

All Development Application Skills
South East

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 535 755 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.68% 12.95% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 492 662
10th Percentile £325 £376 £352
25th Percentile £413 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £600
90th Percentile £675 £698 £673
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 29
10th Percentile £38.65 £35.74 £40.28
25th Percentile £50.75 £50.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.24 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% +2.25% +19.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
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 JIRA within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +13 98 £509 +2.57% 36
Berkshire -3 74 £550 +12.53% 20
Hampshire -1 50 £538 +13.16% 24
Surrey +5 30 £413 -2.94% 22
Buckinghamshire +34 17 £374 -25.25% 7
West Sussex -6 10 £450 -22.41% 20
Oxfordshire +11 8 £468 -6.50% 9
Middlesex - 2 £538 -
East Sussex +5 1 - - 4
Sussex -5 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Kent -7 1 - - 3
Home Counties - 1 - -
JIRA
England

JIRA
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:

Application Platforms
1 92 (47.42%) Confluence
2 13 (6.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (6.70%) Apache
3 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.55%) Appian
6 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.03%) nginx
6 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.03%) Sketch
5 1 (0.52%) FileZilla
5 1 (0.52%) InVision
5 1 (0.52%) Simulink
5 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (5.15%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.59%) Azure
2 31 (15.98%) AWS
3 20 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.19%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 7 (3.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.09%) SaaS
7 5 (2.58%) GitHub
7 5 (2.58%) PaaS
7 5 (2.58%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.55%) IaaS
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.03%) Figma
10 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.22%) SNMP
1 14 (7.22%) VPN
2 13 (6.70%) Software-Defined Radio
3 12 (6.19%) BGP
3 12 (6.19%) MPLS
4 11 (5.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (5.67%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (4.64%) DHCP
5 9 (4.64%) DNS
6 6 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.58%) Wireless
8 3 (1.55%) Firewall
8 3 (1.55%) SSL
9 2 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (1.03%) WebEx
10 1 (0.52%) FTP
10 1 (0.52%) HTTP
10 1 (0.52%) NFC
10 1 (0.52%) PPP
10 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.70%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.12%) Big Data
6 7 (3.61%) Power BI
7 4 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.06%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.03%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.03%) MySQL
8 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.03%) Tableau
9 1 (0.52%) Ataccama
9 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.52%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 41 (21.13%) Git
2 36 (18.56%) GitLab
3 28 (14.43%) Bitbucket
4 26 (13.40%) Jenkins
5 24 (12.37%) Robot Framework
6 17 (8.76%) Selenium
7 14 (7.22%) Cucumber
7 14 (7.22%) Eclipse
7 14 (7.22%) GoogleTest
7 14 (7.22%) TestRail
8 13 (6.70%) SonarQube
9 12 (6.19%) REST Assured
10 8 (4.12%) Subversion
11 5 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (2.06%) Artifactory
12 4 (2.06%) Visual Studio
13 3 (1.55%) JMeter
14 2 (1.03%) Maven
14 2 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
14 2 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.43%) Finance
4 14 (7.22%) Telecoms
5 12 (6.19%) Retail
6 11 (5.67%) Military
7 10 (5.15%) Aerospace
8 9 (4.64%) Law
9 8 (4.12%) Police
10 7 (3.61%) Marketing
11 5 (2.58%) Automotive
11 5 (2.58%) Publishing
12 4 (2.06%) Banking
12 4 (2.06%) Billing
12 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.52%) Back Office
14 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.07%) Analyst
2 27 (13.92%) Software Engineer
2 27 (13.92%) Test Engineer
3 20 (10.31%) Developer
4 18 (9.28%) Senior
5 14 (7.22%) Business Analyst
5 14 (7.22%) Project Manager
6 13 (6.70%) Java Engineer
6 13 (6.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (5.67%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (5.67%) Integration Engineer
7 11 (5.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 10 (5.15%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Scrum Master
9 8 (4.12%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.61%) Digital Analyst
10 7 (3.61%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Digital Business Analyst
11 6 (3.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.04%) REST
2 23 (11.86%) HTML
3 18 (9.28%) CSS
4 17 (8.76%) SOAP
5 13 (6.70%) Java EE
6 12 (6.19%) ARM Templates
7 11 (5.67%) NETCONF
7 11 (5.67%) RESTCONF
7 11 (5.67%) YANG
8 10 (5.15%) XML
9 8 (4.12%) RESTful
10 7 (3.61%) React
11 5 (2.58%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.58%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.58%) JSON
11 5 (2.58%) Kafka
11 5 (2.58%) Node.js
12 4 (2.06%) .NET
13 3 (1.55%) .NET Core
13 3 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) PKI
2 11 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.15%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.09%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.06%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.06%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.55%) Life Science
7 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.03%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.03%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.62%) Windows
2 31 (15.98%) Linux
3 17 (8.76%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.03%) Unix
7 2 (1.03%) VMS
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.52%) Android
8 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.52%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (64.95%) Agile
2 57 (29.38%) Scrum
3 50 (25.77%) DevOps
4 44 (22.68%) Test Automation
5 43 (22.16%) Software Engineering
6 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (15.46%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (14.95%) CI/CD
9 24 (12.37%) Containerisation
9 24 (12.37%) Validation
10 23 (11.86%) Regression Testing
11 22 (11.34%) Workflow
12 21 (10.82%) Project Management
13 20 (10.31%) Computer Science
13 20 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (9.79%) Test Scripting
15 17 (8.76%) Decision-Making
15 17 (8.76%) Unit Testing
15 17 (8.76%) Waterfall
16 16 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.16%) SQL
2 34 (17.53%) Python
3 28 (14.43%) Java
4 23 (11.86%) C++
5 22 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.15%) C#
7 9 (4.64%) Go
8 8 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.61%) Scala
10 5 (2.58%) Assembly Language
10 5 (2.58%) C
10 5 (2.58%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.06%) F#
12 2 (1.03%) Bash
12 2 (1.03%) Groovy
13 1 (0.52%) ABAP
13 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.04%) Degree
3 30 (15.46%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.64%) MCSA
5 9 (4.64%) MCSE
5 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.58%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.06%) PhD
9 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.55%) PMP
10 2 (1.03%) HNC
10 2 (1.03%) MBA
10 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.52%) CBAP
11 1 (0.52%) IIBA
11 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.25%) QA
2 8 (4.12%) PMO
3 4 (2.06%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.06%) JTAG
4 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) GxP
6 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) MISRA
6 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (16.49%) Docker
2 17 (8.76%) Firmware
3 15 (7.73%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.09%) VirtualBox
5 4 (2.06%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.79%) Terraform
3 15 (7.73%) Ansible
4 12 (6.19%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.19%) Podman
5 2 (1.03%) Kibana
5 2 (1.03%) Rancher
6 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (12.37%) Atlassian
2 23 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.28%) VMware
4 17 (8.76%) SAP
5 15 (7.73%) Google
6 14 (7.22%) Adobe
7 12 (6.19%) Oracle
8 10 (5.15%) ServiceNow
9 9 (4.64%) Salesforce
10 6 (3.09%) Databricks
10 6 (3.09%) Dell
11 5 (2.58%) HP
12 3 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (1.55%) Citrix
13 2 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.03%) Reuters
14 1 (0.52%) Avaloq
14 1 (0.52%) Talend