JIRA Contracts in the South East

Atlassian JIRA
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 50 62
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing JIRA 157 200 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.24% 3.60% 3.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.23% 36.90% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 119 127
10th Percentile £362 £300 £303
25th Percentile £425 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.71%
75th Percentile £550 £607 £590
90th Percentile £626 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 22
10th Percentile £48.60 £26.38 £25.07
25th Percentile £51.42 £55.00 £52.56
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £64.63 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.47% +47.96%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 355 542 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.84% 9.76% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 332 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +34 69 £425 -20.93% 43
Thames Valley +2 58 £501 -1.67% 59
Berkshire +1 47 £501 -9.00% 34
Surrey +4 19 £500 +21.21% 21
Buckinghamshire +7 9 £450 +20.40% 13
West Sussex +10 7 £386 -14.22% 13
East Sussex +1 3 £650 - 7
Kent +10 2 £500 - 12
Oxfordshire -1 2 £575 +22.99% 22
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 68 (43.31%) Confluence
2 4 (2.55%) Apache
2 4 (2.55%) CMS
2 4 (2.55%) Drupal
2 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.55%) WordPress
3 3 (1.91%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.27%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.27%) Camunda
4 2 (1.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.27%) Trello
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.64%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.20%) Azure
2 25 (15.92%) AWS
3 8 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.82%) PaaS
5 5 (3.18%) GCP
5 5 (3.18%) GitHub
5 5 (3.18%) SaaS
6 3 (1.91%) Figma
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.27%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.27%) Miro
7 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.64%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.64%) IaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.64%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (5.73%) SNMP
3 4 (2.55%) Internet
4 3 (1.91%) HTTP
4 3 (1.91%) LTE
4 3 (1.91%) NAS
5 2 (1.27%) 5G
5 2 (1.27%) Diameter Protocol
5 2 (1.27%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.27%) MPLS
5 2 (1.27%) SIGTRAN
5 2 (1.27%) SMS
5 2 (1.27%) SS7
5 2 (1.27%) VoLTE
5 2 (1.27%) VoWiFi
5 2 (1.27%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.64%) BGP
6 1 (0.64%) Intranet
6 1 (0.64%) VPN
6 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (4.46%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.18%) MySQL
4 3 (1.91%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.64%) Parquet
6 1 (0.64%) Power BI
6 1 (0.64%) QlikView
6 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (28.03%) Jenkins
2 32 (20.38%) Git
3 28 (17.83%) Bitbucket
4 24 (15.29%) GitLab
5 22 (14.01%) GoogleTest
6 16 (10.19%) Visual Studio
7 15 (9.55%) Cucumber
7 15 (9.55%) Robot Framework
7 15 (9.55%) Selenium
8 13 (8.28%) REST Assured
9 12 (7.64%) Eclipse
10 11 (7.01%) SonarQube
10 11 (7.01%) TestRail
11 7 (4.46%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (3.82%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (2.55%) SoapUI
14 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.91%) Toad
15 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
15 2 (1.27%) JMeter
General
1 53 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.47%) Finance
3 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.55%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.73%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.10%) Law
7 4 (2.55%) Automotive
7 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Marketing
7 4 (2.55%) Police
8 3 (1.91%) Electronics
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Aviation
9 1 (0.64%) Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Billing
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (19.11%) Developer
2 28 (17.83%) Software Engineer
3 24 (15.29%) Analyst
4 20 (12.74%) Senior
5 16 (10.19%) Delphi Developer
6 14 (8.92%) Embedded Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Business Analyst
7 13 (8.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.73%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Test Analyst
9 9 (5.73%) Test Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Software Test Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.10%) REST
2 14 (8.92%) CSS
2 14 (8.92%) HTML
2 14 (8.92%) Java EE
3 11 (7.01%) XML
4 10 (6.37%) ARM Templates
4 10 (6.37%) SOAP
5 7 (4.46%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.18%) Kafka
6 5 (3.18%) RESTful
6 5 (3.18%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.18%) Web Services
7 4 (2.55%) Ajax
7 4 (2.55%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (2.55%) jQuery
7 4 (2.55%) LAMP
8 3 (1.91%) .NET
8 3 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.91%) Node.js
8 3 (1.91%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.55%) Legacy Code
3 4 (2.55%) SCADA
3 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.91%) Verilog
4 3 (1.91%) VHDL
5 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.64%) CMDB
6 1 (0.64%) CUDA
6 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.64%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.64%) Life Science
6 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.64%) PMI
6 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.57%) Linux
2 28 (17.83%) Windows
3 7 (4.46%) Embedded Linux
3 7 (4.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.64%) CentOS
5 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (51.59%) Agile
2 57 (36.31%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (31.21%) Scrum
4 40 (25.48%) Software Engineering
5 38 (24.20%) Test Automation
6 36 (22.93%) DevOps
7 27 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (17.20%) Validation
8 21 (13.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 19 (12.10%) Software Testing
10 18 (11.46%) Functional Testing
10 18 (11.46%) Project Management
10 18 (11.46%) Test Strategy
11 17 (10.83%) CI/CD
11 17 (10.83%) Kanban
12 16 (10.19%) Design Patterns
13 15 (9.55%) Decision-Making
14 14 (8.92%) Migration
14 14 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.20%) SQL
2 26 (16.56%) Java
3 24 (15.29%) C#
4 21 (13.38%) C++
4 21 (13.38%) PL/SQL
5 16 (10.19%) Delphi
5 16 (10.19%) Python
6 13 (8.28%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) Perl
8 5 (3.18%) Go
9 4 (2.55%) PHP
10 3 (1.91%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.91%) Tcl
11 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.64%) Bicep
12 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) Ruby
12 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.01%) Degree
4 10 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.73%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.18%) ISEB
6 5 (3.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.55%) PMP
8 3 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.27%) OCP
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.64%) CISA
10 1 (0.64%) CISM
10 1 (0.64%) CISSP
10 1 (0.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) PMO
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (8.92%) Docker
2 7 (4.46%) Firmware
3 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.27%) NFS
5 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.28%) Terraform
3 10 (6.37%) Ansible
4 9 (5.73%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.73%) Podman
5 2 (1.27%) Kibana
5 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.27%) vRealize
5 2 (1.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.64%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.56%) Oracle
3 24 (15.29%) Google
4 20 (12.74%) Atlassian
5 9 (5.73%) SAP
6 6 (3.82%) Intel
7 4 (2.55%) Zend
8 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.91%) VMware
8 3 (1.91%) webMethods
8 3 (1.91%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.27%) Cisco
9 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.27%) Palantir
9 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.27%) Splunk
9 2 (1.27%) Virgin Media