Issue Tracking Contracts in the South West

Issue Tracking
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Issue Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Issue Tracking 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 109 148 163
Rank change year-on-year +39 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 2 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.28% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.34% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £568 - -
25th Percentile £613 £588 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £333
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +87.97% -30.00%
75th Percentile £838 £663 £408
90th Percentile £883 - £493
England median daily rate £388 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -36.69% +11.36% -0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £34.04
% change year-on-year +37.50% +17.51% -49.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Issue Tracking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Issue Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Issue Tracking in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Issue Tracking in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Issue Tracking in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Issue Tracking in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Issue Tracking within the South West 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
Wiltshire +32 2 £725 +16.00%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Workday Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Workday Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Workday