JIRA Contract Job Trends in the South West

Atlassian JIRA
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 39 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -25
Contract jobs citing JIRA 144 105 114
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 6.21% 4.97% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.14% 39.03% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 64 100
10th Percentile £339 £425 £400
25th Percentile £478 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £564 £559
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +0.89% -2.83%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £632
90th Percentile - £725 £676
England median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile - - £38.46
25th Percentile £15.60 £66.25 £42.16
Median hourly rate £15.74 £67.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -76.68% +30.10% -32.32%
75th Percentile £28.76 £70.00 £55.70
90th Percentile £76.36 - £55.84
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 350 269 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.11% 12.74% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 149 254
10th Percentile £357 £405 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 57
10th Percentile £15.74 £61.25 £47.76
25th Percentile £47.22 £62.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the South West

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the South West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 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
Wiltshire +22 71 £725 +16.00% 10
Bristol +23 44 £506 +12.50% 25
Gloucestershire -17 15 £406 -23.44% 27
Devon -1 5 £450 -32.08% 13
Somerset -8 5 £450 -28.85% 11
Dorset 0 3 £650 +33.33% 24
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 82 (56.94%) Confluence
2 9 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 49 (34.03%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (30.56%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (4.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
5 4 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.58%) Azure
2 9 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.86%) Power Automate
4 6 (4.17%) AWS
5 5 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.78%) GitHub
7 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.39%) Miro
9 1 (0.69%) Asana
9 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.69%) Figma
9 1 (0.69%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.69%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.69%) SaaS
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.17%) HTTP
2 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.78%) VoIP
3 3 (2.08%) DNS
4 2 (1.39%) LAN
4 2 (1.39%) Skype
4 2 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.69%) BGP
5 1 (0.69%) DHCP
5 1 (0.69%) Firewall
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) OSPF
5 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.69%) SSL
5 1 (0.69%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.78%) Metadata
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.69%) MySQL
4 1 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (12.50%) Git
2 12 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 10 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.08%) GitLab
5 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.69%) JUnit
6 1 (0.69%) MSI
6 1 (0.69%) NUnit
6 1 (0.69%) Postman
6 1 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 82 (56.94%) Social Skills
2 49 (34.03%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.69%) Military
4 22 (15.28%) Public Sector
5 19 (13.19%) Finance
6 13 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Advertising
9 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.69%) Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (22.22%) Architect
2 30 (20.83%) Service Architect
3 16 (11.11%) Analyst
4 14 (9.72%) Administrator
5 12 (8.33%) Developer
6 11 (7.64%) Technical Manager
7 9 (6.25%) Project Manager
8 8 (5.56%) Consultant
9 7 (4.86%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.17%) Lead
10 6 (4.17%) Senior
11 5 (3.47%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.47%) JIRA Administrator
11 5 (3.47%) JIRA Consultant
11 5 (3.47%) Programme Manager
11 5 (3.47%) Technical Delivery Manager
11 5 (3.47%) Technical Programme Manager
12 4 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Service Management Specialist
12 4 (2.78%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.89%) REST
2 9 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 9 (6.25%) SOAP
3 8 (5.56%) XML
4 6 (4.17%) JMS
4 6 (4.17%) React
4 6 (4.17%) XSD
5 5 (3.47%) JSON
6 4 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.08%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.08%) CSS
7 3 (2.08%) HTML
8 2 (1.39%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.69%) HTML5
9 1 (0.69%) Kafka
9 1 (0.69%) OAuth
9 1 (0.69%) OpenID
9 1 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (24.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.39%) CMDB
5 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.69%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.69%) Contactless
5 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.69%) PKI
5 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.50%) Windows
2 9 (6.25%) Linux
3 7 (4.86%) Android
4 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Embedded Compact
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (75.00%) Agile
2 55 (38.19%) ITIL
3 54 (37.50%) Service Management
4 40 (27.78%) Critical Thinking
5 36 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 35 (24.31%) Analytical Thinking
7 33 (22.92%) Knowledge Transfer
8 31 (21.53%) DevOps
9 30 (20.83%) Business Continuity
9 30 (20.83%) Security Patching
9 30 (20.83%) Service Design
9 30 (20.83%) TOGAF
10 25 (17.36%) Project Management
11 24 (16.67%) ITSM
12 23 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (13.19%) PRINCE2
14 18 (12.50%) Project Delivery
15 17 (11.81%) Change Management
15 17 (11.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.53%) PowerShell
2 23 (15.97%) Python
3 9 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 9 (6.25%) SQL
4 2 (1.39%) C#
5 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.69%) C
5 1 (0.69%) C++
5 1 (0.69%) Java
5 1 (0.69%) R
5 1 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 104 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 95 (65.97%) SC Cleared
3 49 (34.03%) Degree
4 30 (20.83%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (9.72%) APMP
6 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.47%) MCSA
8 5 (3.47%) MCSE
9 4 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.08%) OCA
10 3 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) PMO
2 6 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.69%) Firmware
5 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (20.83%) OPNET
2 8 (5.56%) Terraform
3 6 (4.17%) Ansible
4 5 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.08%) PowerCLI
6 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.69%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.69%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.69%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.69%) Packer
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (45.14%) Atlassian
2 46 (31.94%) ServiceNow
3 31 (21.53%) Remedy
4 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.56%) Oracle
6 6 (4.17%) Blue Prism
7 5 (3.47%) SAP
7 5 (3.47%) VMware
8 3 (2.08%) HP
8 3 (2.08%) NetApp
8 3 (2.08%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.08%) Veeam
9 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.69%) BMC
10 1 (0.69%) Cisco
10 1 (0.69%) Dell
10 1 (0.69%) F5
10 1 (0.69%) IBM
10 1 (0.69%) Progress
10 1 (0.69%) Splunk