JIRA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 45 51 70
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing JIRA 58 100 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.84% 3.72% 2.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.77% 38.61% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 58 52
10th Percentile £400 £300 £349
25th Percentile £450 £361 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +1.80% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £638
90th Percentile £588 £688 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 177 259 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.71% 9.64% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 158 212
10th Percentile £359 £329 £363
25th Percentile £452 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.04% +12.37%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £53.13
25th Percentile £34.43 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -10.20% -6.49%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £73.60 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the Thames Valley

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the Thames Valley

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +2 47 £501 -6.88% 55
Buckinghamshire +8 9 £450 +20.40% 31
Oxfordshire -1 2 £575 +22.99% 32
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (27.59%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Azure
2 18 (31.03%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.34%) PaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Figma
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.45%) Miro
6 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) IaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) 5G
1 2 (3.45%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (3.45%) iSCSI
1 2 (3.45%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (3.45%) SMS
1 2 (3.45%) SS7
1 2 (3.45%) VoLTE
1 2 (3.45%) VoWiFi
1 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.72%) BGP
2 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.72%) MPLS
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) Parquet
4 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) GitLab
1 16 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.41%) Cucumber
2 13 (22.41%) REST Assured
2 13 (22.41%) Selenium
3 9 (15.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.45%) DBeaver
4 2 (3.45%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) Git
5 1 (1.72%) Postman
5 1 (1.72%) Subversion
5 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Law
3 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Police
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Automotive
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Electronics
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Analyst
2 9 (15.52%) Java Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Software Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) Consultant
4 5 (8.62%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Tester
6 3 (5.17%) Administrator
6 3 (5.17%) JIRA Administrator
6 3 (5.17%) JIRA Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Scrum Master
6 3 (5.17%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) DBA
7 2 (3.45%) Senior
7 2 (3.45%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) REST
2 13 (22.41%) Java EE
3 10 (17.24%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.45%) JSON
4 2 (3.45%) Kafka
4 2 (3.45%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.45%) OpenJDK
4 2 (3.45%) RESTful
4 2 (3.45%) SOAP
4 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.72%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) OpenID
5 1 (1.72%) React
5 1 (1.72%) XML
5 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) SCADA
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) CMDB
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) PMI
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (34.48%) DevOps
3 19 (32.76%) Agile
4 16 (27.59%) Test Automation
5 13 (22.41%) Configuration Management
5 13 (22.41%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (22.41%) Software Architecture
5 13 (22.41%) Software Engineering
5 13 (22.41%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (18.97%) Decision-Making
7 10 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 10 (17.24%) Test Management
7 10 (17.24%) Test Strategy
8 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (15.52%) Validation
9 8 (13.79%) Scrum
10 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (10.34%) Waterfall
12 5 (8.62%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Java
2 10 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (6.90%) Perl
3 4 (6.90%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.17%) Python
5 2 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) Bicep
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) SC Cleared
1 18 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.72%) CISA
5 1 (1.72%) CISM
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) ISEB
5 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PgMP
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) NCSC
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) NFS
2 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.52%) Ansible
3 9 (15.52%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (15.52%) Podman
4 2 (3.45%) vRealize
4 2 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (1.72%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.45%) Google
2 2 (3.45%) SAP
2 2 (3.45%) Virgin Media
2 2 (3.45%) VMware
3 1 (1.72%) BMC
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco
3 1 (1.72%) PagerDuty
3 1 (1.72%) Remedy
3 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow