JIRA Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Atlassian JIRA
Hampshire > Southampton

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing JIRA 4 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 3.15% 3.01% 2.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.44% 83.33% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £353 - £370
25th Percentile £394 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -28.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £494 - £553
90th Percentile £498 £405 £577
Hampshire median daily rate £463 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -13.95% -2.27% +2.33%

All Development Application Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9 6 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 7.09% 3.61% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £372 - £378
25th Percentile £430 £350 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £356 £518
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -31.21% +1.47%
75th Percentile £497 - £551
90th Percentile £506 £405 £665
Hampshire median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -70.83%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% +14.29% -5.77%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Southampton

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Southampton over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Southampton

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Qt
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) GNSS
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Market Research
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MBA
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Rsyslog
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM