JIRA Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Atlassian JIRA
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 26 27 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 +18
Contract jobs citing JIRA 11 5 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.51% 2.06% 16.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.45% 33.33% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 51
10th Percentile £408 £473 £400
25th Percentile £484 £501 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -5.75% +2.73%
75th Percentile £603 £580 £613
90th Percentile £650 £637 £836
North East median daily rate £525 £533 £565
% change year-on-year -1.41% -5.75% +5.12%

All Development Application Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 49 15 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.08% 6.17% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 8 104
10th Percentile £335 £391 £476
25th Percentile £378 £444 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -14.22% -
75th Percentile £564 £549 £700
90th Percentile £626 £588 £775
North East median daily rate £475 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -10.80% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £46.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year +12.60% -5.76% -11.71%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Tyne and Wear

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Tyne and Wear

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Tyne and Wear

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 11 £525 -1.41% 32
JIRA
North East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (63.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Miro
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) ScriptRunner
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) French Language
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) ERP Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) API Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Groovy
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Atlassian
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) New Relic