JIRA Contracts in South Wales

Atlassian JIRA
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 5 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.05% 4.46% 2.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.33% 30.61% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 10
10th Percentile £407 £489 £386
25th Percentile £428 £497 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +8.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £505 £532 £547
90th Percentile £520 £593 £665
Wales median daily rate £475 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% -13.64%

All Development Application Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 15 49 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 6.15% 14.58% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 42 42
10th Percentile £305 £358 £413
25th Percentile £322 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £511 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% -0.39% -2.84%
75th Percentile £441 £550 £625
90th Percentile £530 £620 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -18.88% +1.70% -5.21%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in South Wales

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in South Wales

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cardiff -6 4 £530 +2.91% 35
Newport - 1 £413 - 19
JIRA
Wales

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) Puppeteer
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow