JIRA Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Atlassian JIRA
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JIRA 19 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 16.24% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 61.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £633 £400
% change year-on-year -24.90% +58.13% +23.08%

All Development Application Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 31 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 26.50% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.19%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £595 £450
% change year-on-year -20.13% +32.17% -27.38%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Taunton

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Taunton over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Taunton

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 18 (94.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
1 14 (73.68%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
1 9 (47.37%) MSI
2 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Agile Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Delivery Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.26%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) .NET
1 9 (47.37%) .NET Core
1 9 (47.37%) .NET Framework
1 9 (47.37%) ATL
1 9 (47.37%) COM
1 9 (47.37%) CSS
1 9 (47.37%) CSS3
1 9 (47.37%) GeoJSON
1 9 (47.37%) HTML
1 9 (47.37%) HTML5
1 9 (47.37%) MFC
1 9 (47.37%) REST
1 9 (47.37%) RESTful
1 9 (47.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Cloud Native
1 9 (47.37%) Onboarding
2 7 (36.84%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (15.79%) PMI
4 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) DevOps
2 15 (78.95%) Agile
3 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
4 10 (52.63%) Dependency Management
5 9 (47.37%) API Design
5 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
5 9 (47.37%) Deployment Automation
5 9 (47.37%) Design Patterns
5 9 (47.37%) DevSecOps
5 9 (47.37%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (47.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (47.37%) Knowledge Transfer
5 9 (47.37%) Microservices
5 9 (47.37%) SOLID
5 9 (47.37%) Static Application Security Testing
5 9 (47.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (47.37%) Virtual Environments
6 7 (36.84%) API Development
6 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Bicep
1 9 (47.37%) C#
1 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
1 9 (47.37%) Python
1 9 (47.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) Accessibility
1 9 (47.37%) NCSC
1 9 (47.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Atlassian