JIRA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 41 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 866 1,135 1,804
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.25% 4.83% 5.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.19% 34.47% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 797 1,278
10th Percentile £344 £304 £355
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -0.51% +9.80%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £560
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - +0.10% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 44
10th Percentile £36.75 £41.14 £37.07
25th Percentile £40.94 £53.63 £45.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.72 £57.23
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +16.58% +17.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £83.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £66.69 £44.85
% change year-on-year -31.20% +48.70% -2.51%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,210 3,293 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.85% 14.01% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,428 2,325 3,211
10th Percentile £350 £346 £362
25th Percentile £413 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 173 114
10th Percentile £40.94 £46.26 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.06 £52.50 £44.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.51
90th Percentile £80.70 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
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 JIRA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +24 217 £500 +12.36% 29
South East +3 201 £475 -5.00% 117
South West +26 185 £538 +7.50% 61
North of England -21 134 £500 - 86
North West -10 73 £510 +13.33% 46
Midlands -48 61 £468 +3.03% 90
Yorkshire +3 56 £450 -14.29% 35
East of England -23 55 £450 -10.00% 36
West Midlands -51 36 £500 -4.76% 56
East Midlands +4 25 £363 +9.85% 34
Wales +20 12 £515 +3.00% 11
North East -22 5 £566 -0.66% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
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
1 381 (44.00%) Confluence
2 57 (6.58%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.16%) SharePoint Server
4 35 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (2.66%) Apache
6 16 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (1.15%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.81%) JBoss
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.46%) Appian
12 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.23%) CMS
13 2 (0.23%) Mule
13 2 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.23%) WildFly
14 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 54 (6.24%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (3.00%) MS Visio
5 24 (2.77%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 4 (0.46%) Windchill
8 3 (0.35%) Sketch
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
10 1 (0.12%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.12%) InVision
10 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.27%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.58%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 170 (19.63%) Azure
2 105 (12.12%) AWS
3 52 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 46 (5.31%) GitHub
6 37 (4.27%) Azure Stack
7 29 (3.35%) GCP
8 23 (2.66%) PowerApps
9 21 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.08%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.62%) SaaS
12 13 (1.50%) Kong
12 13 (1.50%) PaaS
12 13 (1.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 12 (1.39%) Apigee
13 12 (1.39%) Serverless
13 12 (1.39%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.58%) Firewall
2 52 (6.00%) BGP
3 32 (3.70%) DNS
4 28 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 27 (3.12%) VPN
6 17 (1.96%) DHCP
7 16 (1.85%) HTTP
8 15 (1.73%) MPLS
8 15 (1.73%) SNMP
9 14 (1.62%) Radio Access Network
9 14 (1.62%) Software-Defined Radio
10 12 (1.39%) 5G
11 11 (1.27%) VSAN
12 10 (1.15%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (1.04%) SSL
14 8 (0.92%) Wireless
15 6 (0.69%) FTP
15 6 (0.69%) VoIP
16 5 (0.58%) WAN
16 5 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.62%) Power BI
2 29 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.12%) MongoDB
5 14 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.50%) Big Data
6 13 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.04%) MySQL
8 7 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.81%) Tableau
9 6 (0.69%) Metadata
9 6 (0.69%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.58%) OLAP
10 5 (0.58%) OLTP
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle OLAP
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 121 (13.97%) Jenkins
2 113 (13.05%) Git
3 69 (7.97%) Bitbucket
4 54 (6.24%) GitLab
5 38 (4.39%) Cucumber
6 35 (4.04%) Selenium
7 32 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 26 (3.00%) GoogleTest
9 25 (2.89%) Robot Framework
10 21 (2.42%) Subversion
11 20 (2.31%) Eclipse
11 20 (2.31%) Postman
12 18 (2.08%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.85%) JMeter
13 16 (1.85%) JUnit
13 16 (1.85%) TestRail
14 14 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (1.39%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.39%) REST Assured
16 9 (1.04%) Cypress.io
General
1 323 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (17.32%) Finance
4 119 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 41 (4.73%) Aerospace
6 40 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (3.93%) Banking
8 28 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.12%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.89%) Military
11 24 (2.77%) Retail
12 21 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.96%) Marketing
14 12 (1.39%) Automotive
15 11 (1.27%) Law
16 10 (1.15%) Legal
17 8 (0.92%) Police
18 7 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 130 (15.01%) Analyst
2 111 (12.82%) Developer
3 91 (10.51%) Senior
4 71 (8.20%) Lead
5 63 (7.27%) Project Manager
6 55 (6.35%) Test Engineer
7 47 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 45 (5.20%) Software Engineer
9 38 (4.39%) Architect
10 33 (3.81%) Data Analyst
11 32 (3.70%) Java Developer
12 31 (3.58%) Project Leader
13 30 (3.46%) Java Engineer
14 27 (3.12%) Java Software Engineer
15 25 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
16 24 (2.77%) Product Manager
17 22 (2.54%) C++ Software Engineer
17 22 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (2.54%) Integration Engineer
17 22 (2.54%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.47%) REST
2 40 (4.62%) .NET
3 36 (4.16%) HTML
3 36 (4.16%) Kafka
4 30 (3.46%) CSS
5 28 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 28 (3.23%) Spring
6 27 (3.12%) Spring Boot
7 26 (3.00%) XML
8 25 (2.89%) SOAP
9 24 (2.77%) JSON
9 24 (2.77%) Web Services
10 20 (2.31%) React
11 19 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (1.85%) Apache Camel
13 15 (1.73%) J2EE
13 15 (1.73%) Java EE
14 14 (1.62%) YAML
15 13 (1.50%) Qt
15 13 (1.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 45 (5.20%) Private Cloud
3 31 (3.58%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.89%) PKI
5 21 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.58%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.58%) Clustering
14 5 (0.58%) DataPower
14 5 (0.58%) Device Driver
14 5 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (13.86%) Linux
2 116 (13.39%) Windows
3 32 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.54%) Unix
4 22 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.58%) AIX
8 5 (0.58%) VMS
9 4 (0.46%) Android
9 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.35%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) CentOS
12 1 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (55.20%) Agile
2 169 (19.52%) DevOps
3 162 (18.71%) Project Management
4 160 (18.48%) Scrum
5 153 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 109 (12.59%) CI/CD
8 103 (11.89%) Project Delivery
9 88 (10.16%) Test Automation
10 87 (10.05%) Software Engineering
11 83 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
12 77 (8.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 74 (8.55%) Service Management
14 69 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (7.85%) ITIL
15 68 (7.85%) Roadmaps
16 66 (7.62%) Workflow
17 63 (7.27%) Migration
18 55 (6.35%) Configuration Management
18 55 (6.35%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 135 (15.59%) Python
2 122 (14.09%) Java
3 119 (13.74%) SQL
4 69 (7.97%) PowerShell
5 53 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 50 (5.77%) C++
7 28 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.89%) Bash
9 23 (2.66%) C#
10 21 (2.42%) C
11 15 (1.73%) Scala
12 14 (1.62%) Groovy
13 11 (1.27%) Go
13 11 (1.27%) Perl
14 8 (0.92%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.81%) ABAP
15 7 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 283 (32.68%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 103 (11.89%) Degree
4 75 (8.66%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.89%) APMP
6 23 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (1.96%) MCSE
8 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.85%) MCSA
9 16 (1.85%) PMP
10 13 (1.50%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.81%) CCNA
12 7 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.46%) ISEB
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.16%) PMO
2 48 (5.54%) QA
3 39 (4.50%) Government Security Classifications
4 15 (1.73%) MISRA
5 13 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.15%) SLA
7 9 (1.04%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.92%) GxP
9 7 (0.81%) GDPR
9 7 (0.81%) NCSC
10 6 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
10 6 (0.69%) NIST
11 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.46%) JTAG
13 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.23%) MISRA C
14 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (8.31%) Docker
2 49 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 41 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.19%) Firmware
5 14 (1.62%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.15%) vSphere
8 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.69%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.12%) HDFS
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) NFS
12 1 (0.12%) Snort
12 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (8.43%) Ansible
2 59 (6.81%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.66%) Terraform
4 26 (3.00%) SCOM
5 25 (2.89%) PowerCLI
6 24 (2.77%) Kibana
7 20 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
8 16 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.39%) Grafana
9 12 (1.39%) Podman
10 11 (1.27%) Puppet
11 10 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.15%) Prometheus
11 10 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.92%) logstash
13 5 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.46%) Autotask
14 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 164 (18.94%) Atlassian
2 150 (17.32%) Microsoft
3 50 (5.77%) SAP
3 50 (5.77%) VMware
4 43 (4.97%) Oracle
5 34 (3.93%) Dell
5 34 (3.93%) Google
6 30 (3.46%) HP
7 29 (3.35%) Splunk
8 27 (3.12%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.54%) Cisco
9 22 (2.54%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.42%) Avaloq
11 15 (1.73%) Adobe
12 12 (1.39%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.15%) Juniper
14 9 (1.04%) IBM
14 9 (1.04%) Informatica
15 8 (0.92%) Cadence
16 7 (0.81%) Talend