JIRA Contracts in the South West

Atlassian JIRA
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 40 27 47
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 80 177 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.75% 5.53% 4.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.45% 52.37% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 121 130
10th Percentile £341 £460 £341
25th Percentile £489 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £681 £700 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 8
10th Percentile - - £57.13
25th Percentile £66.25 £40.00 £62.42
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -10.26% +50.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £86.66
90th Percentile - - £89.01
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 176 338 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.45% 10.57% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 208 321
10th Percentile £354 £425 £375
25th Percentile £449 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +5.85% +1.59%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £619
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 49 55
10th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £50.48
25th Percentile £65.63 £57.39 £56.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +9.35% +10.14%
75th Percentile £80.23 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £80.00 £81.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
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 JIRA within the South West 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
Wiltshire -5 29 £575 +6.98% 12
Gloucestershire -8 19 £575 +4.55% 34
Bristol +10 17 £450 -21.05% 26
Dorset - 9 £550 - 9
Devon +14 3 £500 +17.65% 7
Somerset +1 1 £275 -38.89% 6
JIRA
England

JIRA
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 48 (60.00%) Confluence
2 9 (11.25%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.75%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) GitHub
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.00%) GCP
6 3 (3.75%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.25%) Matillion
8 1 (1.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) DNS
2 5 (6.25%) DHCP
3 3 (3.75%) Skype
3 3 (3.75%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.50%) Firewall
4 2 (2.50%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Metadata
1 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.25%) MySQL
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Bitbucket
2 13 (16.25%) Git
3 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.25%) GitLab
5 1 (1.25%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 28 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 18 (22.50%) Finance
5 3 (3.75%) Electronics
5 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Military
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (15.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 7 (8.75%) Analyst
2 7 (8.75%) Senior
3 5 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (6.25%) Developer
3 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 4 (5.00%) Architect
4 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (5.00%) Lead
4 4 (5.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
5 3 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Product Lead
5 3 (3.75%) Programme Controller
5 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Scrum Master
6 2 (2.50%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (2.50%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (2.50%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (2.50%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) Flash
2 8 (10.00%) REST
3 7 (8.75%) SOAP
4 3 (3.75%) React
5 2 (2.50%) Node.js
5 2 (2.50%) RESTful
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) PySpark
6 1 (1.25%) RAML
6 1 (1.25%) Swagger
6 1 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Clustering
2 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.75%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.75%) Windows
2 16 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (15.00%) Linux
4 5 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.50%) VMS
7 1 (1.25%) Android
7 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.25%) Unix
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (71.25%) Agile
2 28 (35.00%) Service Management
3 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (28.75%) System Testing
4 22 (27.50%) Waterfall
5 21 (26.25%) NsoIT
5 21 (26.25%) Validation
6 19 (23.75%) Critical Thinking
7 17 (21.25%) Computer Science
7 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (20.00%) DevOps
9 15 (18.75%) Scrum
10 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
12 12 (15.00%) High Availability
12 12 (15.00%) Power Management
13 10 (12.50%) Configuration Management
13 10 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
14 9 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (11.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
1 18 (22.50%) Python
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) Bash
4 7 (8.75%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (2.50%) Go
6 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.25%) VB
7 1 (1.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (51.25%) Security Cleared
2 38 (47.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (27.50%) Degree
3 22 (27.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (23.75%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (18.75%) Master's Degree
6 12 (15.00%) CCNA
7 9 (11.25%) CCNP
8 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 8 (10.00%) OCA
8 8 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (8.75%) RHCA
9 7 (8.75%) RHCE
10 6 (7.50%) MCSA
10 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (6.25%) MCSE
12 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
13 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) PMO
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.25%) NCSC
3 1 (1.25%) PMBOK
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (15.00%) VMware NSX
3 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.50%) Docker
7 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (10.00%) Ansible
3 7 (8.75%) Progress Chef
3 7 (8.75%) Puppet
4 6 (7.50%) Terraform
5 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.75%) WSUS
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.50%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.50%) SCOM
6 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) Atlassian
2 25 (31.25%) VMware
3 19 (23.75%) Cisco
4 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
5 9 (11.25%) Oracle
6 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.00%) Veeam
7 3 (3.75%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) BMC
8 1 (1.25%) Databricks
8 1 (1.25%) McAfee
8 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.25%) Remedy
8 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.25%) Symantec
8 1 (1.25%) Workday