JIRA Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Atlassian JIRA
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 41 30
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 13 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 3.78% 0.88% 3.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.21% 8.57% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £222 - £414
25th Percentile £265 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £413 £511
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% -19.32% -10.31%
75th Percentile £375 £431 £545
90th Percentile £426 - £596
Wales median daily rate £341 £413 £511
% change year-on-year -17.27% -19.32% -10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.88 - -
90th Percentile £87.25 - -
Wales median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 38 35 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 11.05% 10.26% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 44
10th Percentile £256 £161 £186
25th Percentile £357 £177 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £425 £511
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -16.87% -10.31%
75th Percentile £539 £548 £615
90th Percentile £730 £550 £633
Wales median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 £15.20 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £15.41 -
Median % change year-on-year +435.54% - -
75th Percentile £86.88 £21.05 -
90th Percentile £87.25 £24.32 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £15.41 -
% change year-on-year +419.31% - -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in South Wales

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in South Wales

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JIRA

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 31 December 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 9 £308 - 20
Gwent - 3 - -
Newport +4 1 - - 18
Monmouthshire - 1 - -
JIRA
Wales

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) BrowserStack
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) VSAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
1 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
1 4 (30.77%) Zephyr
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
2 2 (15.38%) JMeter
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Dutch Language
3 2 (15.38%) French Language
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Billing
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Developer
1 2 (15.38%) Quality Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) DBA
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
1 2 (15.38%) Playwright
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
1 2 (15.38%) React
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
1 2 (15.38%) Swagger
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) OOP
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) BDD
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Management
6 2 (15.38%) CRM
6 2 (15.38%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Check_MK
1 2 (15.38%) Nessus
1 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
2 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
2 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Tenable
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) McAfee
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
38 JIRA jobs in South Wales