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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JIRA 20 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.93% 5.45% 8.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.55% 23.68% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 12
10th Percentile £431 £440 -
25th Percentile £500 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £566 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +25.83% -16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £775
90th Percentile £638 £631 £843
North East median daily rate £525 £573 £450
% change year-on-year -8.30% +27.22% -16.28%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 47 38 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.98% 23.03% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 16
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £447 £410 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £470 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -3.59% -11.36%
75th Percentile £561 £560 £606
90th Percentile £584 £605 £813
North East median daily rate £494 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +4.50% -0.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.60 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile £50.40 - -
North East median hourly rate £44.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.72% - -16.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Tyne and Wear

JIRA
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 20 £523 +0.48% 13
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 16 (80.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Miro
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
1 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Gatling
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.00%) TestRail
General
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Manual Tester
5 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Node.js
1 4 (20.00%) RESTful
1 4 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.00%) Spring MVC
2 3 (15.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) boto
3 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) MVC
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (15.00%) SFIA
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (10.00%) API Testing
6 2 (10.00%) QA Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Bash
1 5 (25.00%) Go
1 5 (25.00%) Java
1 5 (25.00%) Python
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Groovy
2 4 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Pega