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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 43 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 872 1,103 1,797
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.30% 4.79% 5.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.88% 34.45% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 773 1,275
10th Percentile £350 £304 £356
25th Percentile £419 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% +10.31%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £563
90th Percentile £698 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 36 45
10th Percentile £36.99 £40.70 £37.10
25th Percentile £40.94 £56.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.04 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.73% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £84.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £66.69 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +48.20% -2.17%

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 2,243 3,202 4,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.05% 13.92% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,258 3,178
10th Percentile £350 £342 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £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 176 166 111
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.45 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.19 £52.50 £44.85
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 £66.88
90th Percentile £79.59 £79.00 £76.64
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +22 209 £500 +12.36% 25
South East +1 200 £480 -4.00% 104
South West +24 187 £538 +7.50% 64
North of England -16 143 £500 - 88
North West -6 81 £510 +13.33% 52
Midlands -38 68 £465 +3.33% 82
Yorkshire +3 57 £450 -14.29% 30
East of England -23 54 £450 -10.00% 31
West Midlands -48 37 £500 -3.61% 50
East Midlands 0 31 £445 +34.85% 32
Wales +17 12 £515 +3.00% 11
North East -24 5 £566 +0.22% 9
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
1 376 (43.12%) Confluence
2 57 (6.54%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.13%) SharePoint Server
4 35 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (2.52%) Apache
6 15 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.15%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.80%) JBoss
9 6 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.46%) Appian
11 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.23%) Mule
12 2 (0.23%) SAS
12 2 (0.23%) WildFly
13 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.11%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
13 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 55 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (3.33%) MS Visio
5 24 (2.75%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.57%) Trello
8 4 (0.46%) Windchill
9 3 (0.34%) Sketch
10 2 (0.23%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.26%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.80%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.69%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 170 (19.50%) Azure
2 114 (13.07%) AWS
3 51 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (5.62%) GitHub
4 49 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 37 (4.24%) Azure Stack
6 31 (3.56%) GCP
7 23 (2.64%) PowerApps
8 20 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.06%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.83%) Kong
11 14 (1.61%) Apigee
11 14 (1.61%) SaaS
12 13 (1.49%) PaaS
12 13 (1.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 13 (1.49%) Serverless
13 12 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.65%) Firewall
2 51 (5.85%) BGP
3 33 (3.78%) DNS
4 28 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 27 (3.10%) VPN
6 18 (2.06%) DHCP
7 17 (1.95%) HTTP
8 16 (1.83%) SNMP
9 15 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
10 14 (1.61%) MPLS
11 13 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (1.26%) VSAN
13 10 (1.15%) SSL
14 9 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (0.92%) 5G
15 8 (0.92%) Wireless
16 6 (0.69%) FTP
16 6 (0.69%) VoIP
17 5 (0.57%) WAN
17 5 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.59%) Power BI
2 29 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (3.21%) MongoDB
3 28 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.49%) Big Data
6 13 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.03%) MySQL
9 7 (0.80%) OLAP
9 7 (0.80%) OLTP
9 7 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.80%) Tableau
10 6 (0.69%) Metadata
10 6 (0.69%) Oracle OLAP
10 6 (0.69%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (14.56%) Jenkins
2 118 (13.53%) Git
3 70 (8.03%) Bitbucket
4 53 (6.08%) GitLab
5 35 (4.01%) Selenium
6 34 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 34 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 28 (3.21%) GoogleTest
8 25 (2.87%) Robot Framework
9 21 (2.41%) Eclipse
9 21 (2.41%) Subversion
10 18 (2.06%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.83%) JMeter
12 15 (1.72%) Postman
13 14 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
13 14 (1.61%) TestRail
14 12 (1.38%) JUnit
14 12 (1.38%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.15%) IntelliJ
16 9 (1.03%) CircleCI
General
1 317 (36.35%) Social Skills
2 155 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (17.66%) Finance
4 116 (13.30%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.82%) Aerospace
5 42 (4.82%) Banking
6 39 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (3.44%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.98%) Military
10 24 (2.75%) Retail
11 21 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 19 (2.18%) Marketing
13 17 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.38%) Automotive
14 12 (1.38%) Law
15 10 (1.15%) Legal
16 8 (0.92%) Police
17 7 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (15.02%) Analyst
2 110 (12.61%) Developer
3 88 (10.09%) Senior
4 70 (8.03%) Lead
5 64 (7.34%) Project Manager
6 55 (6.31%) Test Engineer
7 50 (5.73%) Architect
8 47 (5.39%) Business Analyst
9 46 (5.28%) Software Engineer
10 34 (3.90%) Data Analyst
11 31 (3.56%) Java Developer
11 31 (3.56%) Project Leader
12 30 (3.44%) Java Engineer
13 27 (3.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (2.75%) Product Manager
15 23 (2.64%) C++ Software Engineer
16 22 (2.52%) Integration Engineer
16 22 (2.52%) Test and Integration Engineer
17 21 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.96%) REST
2 39 (4.47%) .NET
3 35 (4.01%) HTML
3 35 (4.01%) Kafka
4 30 (3.44%) CSS
5 27 (3.10%) .NET Core
5 27 (3.10%) Spring
5 27 (3.10%) XML
6 26 (2.98%) SOAP
6 26 (2.98%) Web Services
7 25 (2.87%) Spring Boot
8 24 (2.75%) JSON
9 20 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (2.18%) React
11 15 (1.72%) Java EE
11 15 (1.72%) Qt
11 15 (1.72%) YAML
12 14 (1.61%) Apache Camel
12 14 (1.61%) J2EE
13 13 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 45 (5.16%) Private Cloud
3 30 (3.44%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.98%) PKI
5 23 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.03%) Credit Risk
13 8 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.80%) DataPower
14 7 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.69%) Security Posture
16 5 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
16 5 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.53%) Linux
2 113 (12.96%) Windows
3 32 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (2.52%) Unix
6 15 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.57%) AIX
9 5 (0.57%) VMS
10 4 (0.46%) Android
10 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.34%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (54.70%) Agile
2 179 (20.53%) DevOps
3 163 (18.69%) Scrum
4 162 (18.58%) Project Management
5 153 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 112 (12.84%) CI/CD
8 103 (11.81%) Project Delivery
9 89 (10.21%) Software Engineering
10 84 (9.63%) Test Automation
11 81 (9.29%) Continuous Integration
12 77 (8.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 73 (8.37%) Service Management
14 69 (7.91%) Roadmaps
15 67 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (7.57%) ITIL
16 66 (7.57%) Workflow
17 61 (7.00%) Migration
18 57 (6.54%) Waterfall
19 55 (6.31%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (15.83%) Python
2 121 (13.88%) Java
3 118 (13.53%) SQL
4 70 (8.03%) PowerShell
5 53 (6.08%) C++
6 52 (5.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 27 (3.10%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.98%) Bash
10 22 (2.52%) C#
11 21 (2.41%) C
12 15 (1.72%) Scala
13 14 (1.61%) Groovy
14 11 (1.26%) Go
14 11 (1.26%) Perl
15 8 (0.92%) Assembly Language
15 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.80%) ABAP
17 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 283 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 196 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 104 (11.93%) Degree
4 75 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.87%) APMP
6 23 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 18 (2.06%) MCSE
8 18 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.95%) MCSA
9 17 (1.95%) PMP
10 16 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.38%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.92%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.80%) CCNA
13 7 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.46%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.46%) ISEB
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.88%) PMO
2 49 (5.62%) QA
3 39 (4.47%) Government Security Classifications
4 17 (1.95%) MISRA
5 13 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.15%) SLA
7 9 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.92%) GxP
9 7 (0.80%) GDPR
9 7 (0.80%) NCSC
9 7 (0.80%) NIST
10 6 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
11 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.46%) JTAG
13 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.23%) MISRA C
System Software
1 70 (8.03%) Docker
2 49 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 42 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.29%) Firmware
5 14 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.15%) vSphere
8 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.69%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.11%) HDFS
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.11%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) Snort
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (8.37%) Ansible
2 61 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.73%) Terraform
4 26 (2.98%) SCOM
5 25 (2.87%) PowerCLI
6 24 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 23 (2.64%) Kibana
8 21 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
9 13 (1.49%) Grafana
10 12 (1.38%) Podman
11 11 (1.26%) Prometheus
11 11 (1.26%) Puppet
12 10 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (1.15%) vCenter Server
13 9 (1.03%) logstash
14 7 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
16 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
16 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 164 (18.81%) Atlassian
2 152 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 51 (5.85%) VMware
4 50 (5.73%) SAP
5 43 (4.93%) Oracle
6 38 (4.36%) Google
7 34 (3.90%) Dell
8 30 (3.44%) Splunk
9 29 (3.33%) HP
10 26 (2.98%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.52%) Cisco
11 22 (2.52%) Salesforce
12 21 (2.41%) Avaloq
13 15 (1.72%) Adobe
14 12 (1.38%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.26%) IBM
16 10 (1.15%) Juniper
17 9 (1.03%) Informatica
18 8 (0.92%) Cadence
19 7 (0.80%) TSYS