Issue Tracking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Issue Tracking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Issue Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Issue Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 383 427
Rank change year-on-year +61 +44 +50
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 17 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.077% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.091% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile £350 £244 £313
25th Percentile £356 £263 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £369
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -18.59% -22.42%
75th Percentile £544 £319 £518
90th Percentile £656 £525 £550
UK median daily rate £368 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -18.22% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.87 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -31.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile £54.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.04
% change year-on-year +25.00% +17.51% -46.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Issue Tracking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Issue Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Issue Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London

Issue Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London

Issue Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London

Issue Tracking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London

Issue Tracking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Issue Tracking in the UK excluding London

Issue Tracking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Issue Tracking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +15 7 £450 +56.52%
South East +50 5 £401 - 27
South West +36 2 £725 +16.00% 5
Midlands - 2 £350 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 4
North of England +23 1 £638 - 6
North West - 1 £638 - 3
Issue Tracking
UK

Issue Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JIRA
2 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket
3 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) Git
5 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
5 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
5 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Developer
3 2 (11.76%) PMO Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Project Officer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Support Officer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Officer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ADO
1 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) RESTful
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Software Distribution
6 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Project Management
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
8 2 (11.76%) Artefact Management
8 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 2 (11.76%) Microservices
8 2 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Moogsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Workday