JIRA Contracts in South Yorkshire

Atlassian JIRA
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 10 42 48
Rank change year-on-year +32 +6 -35
Contract jobs citing JIRA 48 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.87% 3.06% 1.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.53% 23.73% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 11 7
10th Percentile £386 £378 £463
25th Percentile £429 £431 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £600 £743
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% -19.25% +65.11%
75th Percentile £538 £635 -
90th Percentile £600 £645 £826
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%

All Development Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 95 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 25.47% 12.91% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 43 57
10th Percentile £385 £393 £437
25th Percentile £431 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £472 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -27.38% +36.84%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in South Yorkshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in South Yorkshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in South Yorkshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +29 41 £500 -16.67% 26
Barnsley - 1 £400 -
JIRA
Yorkshire

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 24 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) AWS
1 7 (14.58%) GitHub
2 5 (10.42%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.33%) IaaS
3 4 (8.33%) Lucidchart
4 3 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Power BI
2 3 (6.25%) Tableau
3 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Git
2 10 (20.83%) Cucumber
3 9 (18.75%) Selenium
4 8 (16.67%) IntelliJ
4 8 (16.67%) Maven
5 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 5 (10.42%) JUnit
6 5 (10.42%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (8.33%) Gradle
7 4 (8.33%) HP UFT
7 4 (8.33%) Postman
7 4 (8.33%) TestRail
8 3 (6.25%) Vagrant
9 1 (2.08%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (37.50%) Finance
2 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Tester
3 7 (14.58%) Business Analyst
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 4 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) QA Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Test Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) IT Administrator
7 2 (4.17%) Manual Tester
7 2 (4.17%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.17%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 4 (8.33%) OAuth
2 4 (8.33%) OpenID
2 4 (8.33%) SAML
3 2 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) CSS
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) RAML
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Web Services
4 1 (2.08%) XML
4 1 (2.08%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.08%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Migration
2 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
3 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.83%) DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 6 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 6 (12.50%) Workflow
7 5 (10.42%) Analytics
7 5 (10.42%) API Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Change Management
7 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.42%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) Java
1 9 (18.75%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) Groovy
4 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) JCL
5 1 (2.08%) REXX
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.08%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) CCNP
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CBAP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) CSPO
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (4.17%) Snow
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco
4 1 (2.08%) Commvault
4 1 (2.08%) Dell
4 1 (2.08%) F5
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Intel
4 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle