JIRA Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Atlassian JIRA
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 12 7 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 121 47 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 15.80% 14.03% 2.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 47.83% 61.04% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 32 7
10th Percentile £301 £401 -
25th Percentile £372 £460 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £404
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +27.59% -19.35%
75th Percentile £537 £581 £544
90th Percentile £644 £620 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -1.07% +8.94% -20.00%

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 253 77 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 33.03% 22.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 54 41
10th Percentile £320 £413 £400
25th Percentile £400 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £529 £433
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +22.31% -26.38%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £538
90th Percentile £606 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £493 £445
% change year-on-year -1.12% +10.78% -17.20%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in South Yorkshire

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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 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
Sheffield -6 121 £480 -6.80% 19
JIRA
Yorkshire

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 62 (51.24%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) Mule
3 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) CICS
4 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.65%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (7.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.45%) GCP
2 26 (21.49%) Azure
3 25 (20.66%) AWS
4 24 (19.83%) GitHub
5 9 (7.44%) CloudBees
6 6 (4.96%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.96%) SaaS
7 4 (3.31%) Cohesity
8 3 (2.48%) npm
8 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.65%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.83%) Apigee
10 1 (0.83%) Kong
10 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.83%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) Firewall
2 4 (3.31%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.48%) DNS
3 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.65%) NGFW
4 2 (1.65%) SMS
4 2 (1.65%) SSH
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.83%) FCoE
5 1 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.83%) HTTP
5 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.83%) LAN
5 1 (0.83%) Multicast
5 1 (0.83%) NAS
5 1 (0.83%) SAN
5 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.13%) MySQL
4 3 (2.48%) Power BI
5 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.83%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 41 (33.88%) Jenkins
2 19 (15.70%) GitLab
3 18 (14.88%) Postman
4 14 (11.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (9.09%) SoapUI
6 9 (7.44%) Selenium
7 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.79%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.96%) Git
9 5 (4.13%) TestRail
10 3 (2.48%) Babel
10 3 (2.48%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.48%) webpack
11 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.65%) Maven
11 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.65%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.83%) Gradle
12 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (33.06%) Finance
1 40 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.79%) Banking
3 20 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.48%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (1.65%) Law
6 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.83%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Retail
6 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (20.66%) Analyst
2 15 (12.40%) Architect
2 15 (12.40%) Business Analyst
3 14 (11.57%) Lead
4 13 (10.74%) Automation Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 10 (8.26%) Security Architect
6 10 (8.26%) Technical Analyst
6 10 (8.26%) Technical Business Analyst
7 9 (7.44%) Data Protection Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Security Solutions Architect
7 9 (7.44%) Test Analyst
8 8 (6.61%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Incident Manager
9 7 (5.79%) Lead Architect
9 7 (5.79%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.96%) Python Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.57%) REST
2 11 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (8.26%) FastAPI
3 10 (8.26%) LDAP
4 8 (6.61%) OpenID
4 8 (6.61%) SailPoint
5 6 (4.96%) Middleware
6 5 (4.13%) .NET
7 4 (3.31%) OAuth
7 4 (3.31%) SAML
8 3 (2.48%) Anaconda
8 3 (2.48%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.48%) CSS
8 3 (2.48%) CSS3
8 3 (2.48%) HTML
8 3 (2.48%) HTML5
8 3 (2.48%) Jest
8 3 (2.48%) Kafka
8 3 (2.48%) React
8 3 (2.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.13%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.48%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.65%) Clustering
8 2 (1.65%) IVR
8 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.65%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.83%) PDA
9 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.96%) Linux
1 6 (4.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Solaris
2 2 (1.65%) Unix
2 2 (1.65%) zOS
3 1 (0.83%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (47.93%) CI/CD
2 49 (40.50%) Agile
2 49 (40.50%) DevOps
3 37 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 31 (25.62%) Scrum
6 26 (21.49%) Privileged Access Management
7 25 (20.66%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (20.66%) Decision-Making
7 25 (20.66%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.53%) Data Protection
9 19 (15.70%) Containerisation
10 18 (14.88%) Incident Response
10 18 (14.88%) Secrets Management
10 18 (14.88%) User Stories
11 17 (14.05%) API Testing
11 17 (14.05%) Sprint Retrospective
11 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (14.05%) UML
12 15 (12.40%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.75%) Python
2 16 (13.22%) Bash
3 14 (11.57%) SQL
4 13 (10.74%) Java
5 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.13%) PHP
7 3 (2.48%) Go
7 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.65%) Groovy
8 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (21.49%) CISM
1 26 (21.49%) CISSP
2 21 (17.36%) Degree
3 12 (9.92%) Master's Degree
4 11 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (8.26%) PhD
6 9 (7.44%) ISTQB
7 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
8 4 (3.31%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.31%) PMP
9 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) QA
2 14 (11.57%) GDPR
3 8 (6.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.96%) NIST
4 6 (4.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.65%) PMO
5 2 (1.65%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (11.57%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.65%) KVM
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.83%) NFS
4 1 (0.83%) SRDF
4 1 (0.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (23.97%) Ansible
2 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.74%) Grafana
3 13 (10.74%) NetBackup
4 12 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.26%) Control-M
5 10 (8.26%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (8.26%) Nessus
6 7 (5.79%) Puppet
7 6 (4.96%) Terraform
8 4 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.83%) Kibana
10 1 (0.83%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.18%) CyberArk
3 17 (14.05%) BiZZdesign
3 17 (14.05%) ServiceNow
4 15 (12.40%) Google
5 14 (11.57%) Red Hat
5 14 (11.57%) Thycotic
6 13 (10.74%) Commvault
7 12 (9.92%) Centrify
8 10 (8.26%) Tenable
9 9 (7.44%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (7.44%) Veritas
10 7 (5.79%) Sonatype
11 5 (4.13%) Cisco
11 5 (4.13%) Oracle
12 4 (3.31%) Splunk
13 3 (2.48%) AppDynamics
13 3 (2.48%) Genesys
13 3 (2.48%) VMware
14 2 (1.65%) NetApp