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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 158 190 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.35% 3.37% 4.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 46.20% 34.93% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 113 133
10th Percentile £357 £300 £308
25th Percentile £407 £350 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £575
90th Percentile £598 £655 £670
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 25
10th Percentile - £30.53 £51.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £63.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £71.28
90th Percentile £59.85 £75.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +34.83%

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 342 544 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.59% 9.64% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 329 466
10th Percentile £350 £312 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £546
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -1.56% +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £623
90th Percentile £625 £675 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 37 41
10th Percentile £47.50 £42.45 £34.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £56.47
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.11% -5.88%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +41 65 £463 -13.95% 281
Thames Valley -2 57 £500 +5.26% 556
Berkshire -1 45 £500 -6.98% 316
Surrey +9 18 £496 +30.10% 151
Buckinghamshire +12 11 £450 +25.87% 159
West Sussex +16 10 £373 -25.50% 92
Kent +9 8 £375 - 152
Oxfordshire -2 1 - - 81
East Sussex - 1 - - 80
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 59 (37.34%) Confluence
2 4 (2.53%) Apache
2 4 (2.53%) CMS
2 4 (2.53%) Drupal
2 4 (2.53%) WordPress
3 3 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.27%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.27%) Camunda
4 2 (1.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.63%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.63%) Smallworld
Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.42%) Azure
2 27 (17.09%) AWS
3 9 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.16%) GCP
4 5 (3.16%) GitHub
5 4 (2.53%) Asana
5 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.53%) Figma
5 4 (2.53%) PaaS
5 4 (2.53%) SaaS
5 4 (2.53%) Serverless
6 3 (1.90%) Datadog
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
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) SNMP
1 6 (3.80%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (3.16%) DHCP
2 5 (3.16%) DNS
2 5 (3.16%) SSL
2 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.16%) VLAN
2 5 (3.16%) VPN
3 4 (2.53%) HTTP
3 4 (2.53%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.53%) Internet
4 2 (1.27%) 5G
4 2 (1.27%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (1.27%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (1.27%) SMS
4 2 (1.27%) SS7
4 2 (1.27%) VoLTE
4 2 (1.27%) VoWiFi
4 2 (1.27%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.06%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.43%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.16%) MySQL
5 3 (1.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) Parquet
7 1 (0.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.63%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (27.22%) Jenkins
2 29 (18.35%) Git
3 24 (15.19%) GitLab
4 16 (10.13%) Bitbucket
4 16 (10.13%) GoogleTest
4 16 (10.13%) Selenium
5 15 (9.49%) Cucumber
6 13 (8.23%) REST Assured
7 12 (7.59%) Robot Framework
8 11 (6.96%) SonarQube
8 11 (6.96%) Visual Studio
9 9 (5.70%) Eclipse
10 8 (5.06%) SoapUI
11 7 (4.43%) TestRail
12 6 (3.80%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (2.53%) Subversion
14 3 (1.90%) Postman
14 3 (1.90%) Toad
15 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.66%) Finance
4 9 (5.70%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.06%) Law
6 5 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.53%) Police
8 3 (1.90%) Automotive
8 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Billing
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (18.35%) Developer
2 25 (15.82%) Software Engineer
3 24 (15.19%) Analyst
4 18 (11.39%) Senior
5 13 (8.23%) Business Analyst
6 11 (6.96%) Delphi Developer
6 11 (6.96%) Embedded Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.96%) Test Analyst
6 11 (6.96%) Tester
7 10 (6.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Software Test Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Consultant
10 6 (3.80%) Lead
10 6 (3.80%) Senior Tester
11 5 (3.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.82%) REST
2 13 (8.23%) Java EE
2 13 (8.23%) SOAP
3 11 (6.96%) XML
4 10 (6.33%) ARM Templates
4 10 (6.33%) CSS
4 10 (6.33%) HTML
5 9 (5.70%) Web Services
6 8 (5.06%) Kafka
6 8 (5.06%) RESTful
6 8 (5.06%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.80%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.53%) Ajax
8 4 (2.53%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (2.53%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.53%) gRPC
8 4 (2.53%) jQuery
8 4 (2.53%) LAMP
8 4 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.53%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.53%) SCADA
5 3 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.63%) CMDB
7 1 (0.63%) CUDA
7 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) PMI
7 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.99%) Windows
2 27 (17.09%) Linux
3 6 (3.80%) Unix
4 5 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.53%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (49.37%) Agile
2 51 (32.28%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (29.11%) Test Automation
4 44 (27.85%) Scrum
5 38 (24.05%) Software Engineering
6 37 (23.42%) DevOps
7 28 (17.72%) Validation
8 25 (15.82%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (14.56%) CI/CD
10 22 (13.92%) Software Testing
10 22 (13.92%) Waterfall
11 20 (12.66%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (12.03%) Test Scripting
12 19 (12.03%) Test Strategy
13 18 (11.39%) Migration
14 17 (10.76%) Project Management
15 16 (10.13%) Design Patterns
15 16 (10.13%) Kanban
15 16 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (10.13%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.25%) SQL
2 29 (18.35%) Java
3 17 (10.76%) C#
4 16 (10.13%) PL/SQL
5 15 (9.49%) C++
6 12 (7.59%) Python
7 11 (6.96%) Delphi
8 8 (5.06%) Go
8 8 (5.06%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.80%) Perl
10 4 (2.53%) PHP
11 2 (1.27%) VB
12 1 (0.63%) Bicep
12 1 (0.63%) Korn
12 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.63%) Ruby
12 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.03%) Degree
4 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.06%) ISTQB
6 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.80%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.53%) ISEB
8 4 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.90%) PMP
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.27%) OCP
10 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CISA
11 1 (0.63%) CISSP
11 1 (0.63%) MBA
11 1 (0.63%) PgMP
11 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.23%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.27%) NCSC
3 2 (1.27%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
4 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (10.76%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.16%) vSphere
3 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.53%) Firmware
3 4 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (8.86%) Kubernetes
1 14 (8.86%) Terraform
2 10 (6.33%) Ansible
3 9 (5.70%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (5.70%) Podman
4 5 (3.16%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.27%) Kibana
5 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.29%) Oracle
3 18 (11.39%) Google
4 13 (8.23%) Atlassian
5 9 (5.70%) VMware
6 8 (5.06%) Citrix
7 6 (3.80%) Intel
8 5 (3.16%) SAP
8 5 (3.16%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.16%) Veeam
9 4 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (2.53%) Zend
10 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.90%) webMethods
11 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.27%) Palantir
11 2 (1.27%) Splunk
11 2 (1.27%) Virgin Media