JIRA Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 105 62 87
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 5.08% 3.07% 3.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.48% 24.51% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 28 50
10th Percentile £310 £348 £317
25th Percentile £377 £437 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £540 £458
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% +18.03% +1.67%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £550
90th Percentile £646 £644 £600
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £505
% change year-on-year - -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £69.58 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 £51.25 £58.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 £52.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.72% -11.02% -
75th Percentile £93.66 £53.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £100.55 - -
South East median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.00% - -3.85%

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 208 253 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.06% 12.51% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 149 170
10th Percentile £319 £350 £380
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £620
90th Percentile £638 £653 £651
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.19% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 2
10th Percentile £70.55 £52.64 £59.65
25th Percentile £74.00 £54.72 £61.38
Median hourly rate £85.82 £56.75 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.23% -12.02% -
75th Percentile £90.97 £57.62 £67.38
90th Percentile £99.50 - £68.95
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.97% -3.20% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the Thames Valley

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 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
Berkshire +15 67 £500 -7.41% 15
Buckinghamshire +18 24 £350 -30.00% 15
Oxfordshire -3 14 £538 +13.16% 10
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 45 (42.86%) Confluence
2 18 (17.14%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.57%) CMS
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.95%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.86%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.90%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.90%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.76%) Azure
2 22 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (13.33%) AWS
4 11 (10.48%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.76%) Serverless
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (3.81%) ChatGPT
6 4 (3.81%) GitHub
6 4 (3.81%) OCI
6 4 (3.81%) SaaS
7 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.90%) Contentstack
8 2 (1.90%) dbt
8 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) VPN
2 4 (3.81%) DHCP
2 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Power BI
2 6 (5.71%) Big Data
2 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.90%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.90%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.90%) Tableau
6 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata
6 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.86%) Selenium
3 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.90%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.95%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.95%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) MSTest
4 1 (0.95%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.95%) NUnit
4 1 (0.95%) Postman
4 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (59.05%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Finance
5 9 (8.57%) Retail
6 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.76%) Automotive
8 4 (3.81%) Marketing
8 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.81%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.90%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.90%) Law
11 1 (0.95%) Billing
11 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Electronics
11 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (25.71%) Analyst
2 18 (17.14%) Project Manager
3 11 (10.48%) Business Analyst
4 8 (7.62%) Lead
4 8 (7.62%) Test Analyst
5 7 (6.67%) Architect
5 7 (6.67%) Senior
5 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.71%) Service Manager
6 6 (5.71%) Test Leader
7 5 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.81%) Consultant
8 4 (3.81%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (3.81%) E-Commerce Project Manager
8 4 (3.81%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) Hugging Face
1 4 (3.81%) NumPy
1 4 (3.81%) Pandas
1 4 (3.81%) PyTorch
1 4 (3.81%) SAP PI
1 4 (3.81%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.86%) ADO
2 3 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (2.86%) Prophet
2 3 (2.86%) Visualforce
3 2 (1.90%) HTML
3 2 (1.90%) React
3 2 (1.90%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.90%) SOAP
3 2 (1.90%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (0.95%) .NET
4 1 (0.95%) OAuth
4 1 (0.95%) REST
4 1 (0.95%) RESTful
4 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.62%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.76%) Life Science
6 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.86%) PKI
7 3 (2.86%) PMI
7 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.86%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.95%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) SCADA
9 1 (0.95%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) Windows
2 6 (5.71%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.81%) Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.95%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.05%) Agile
2 36 (34.29%) DevOps
2 36 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (22.86%) Scrum
5 21 (20.00%) Project Management
6 20 (19.05%) Change Management
7 19 (18.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (16.19%) Roadmaps
9 16 (15.24%) Migration
9 16 (15.24%) PRINCE2
10 15 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (13.33%) CRM
12 12 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 12 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (10.48%) CI/CD
13 11 (10.48%) End-to-End Testing
13 11 (10.48%) Test Automation
14 10 (9.52%) Analytics
14 10 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) SQL
2 12 (11.43%) Python
3 4 (3.81%) C#
3 4 (3.81%) Java
4 3 (2.86%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.90%) VB
6 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.24%) PMI Certification
4 13 (12.38%) PMP
5 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.76%) CISSP
7 4 (3.81%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.81%) CISM
7 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.95%) CEH
9 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) QA
2 14 (13.33%) PMO
3 10 (9.52%) GDPR
4 5 (4.76%) NIST
5 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.95%) Docker
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.43%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.52%) Oracle
4 9 (8.57%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 5 (4.76%) SAP
6 4 (3.81%) Cisco
6 4 (3.81%) HP
6 4 (3.81%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.81%) Remedy
7 3 (2.86%) Sage
8 2 (1.90%) Workday
9 1 (0.95%) Citrix
9 1 (0.95%) Google
9 1 (0.95%) JDA
9 1 (0.95%) Pega
9 1 (0.95%) Splunk