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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 41 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 862 1,197 1,756
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.15% 4.96% 5.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.59% 34.77% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 845 1,265
10th Percentile £350 £303 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% - +9.71%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £691 £669 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 41 35
10th Percentile £27.08 £41.80 £33.70
25th Percentile £40.94 £52.50 £40.59
Median hourly rate £49.19 £66.69 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +24.64% +16.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £58.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.77% +46.07% -3.26%

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 2,234 3,443 4,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.75% 14.26% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 2,429 3,222
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 186 115
10th Percentile £40.00 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £51.88 £52.19 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.63% +20.00% +13.26%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +25 230 £500 +12.36% 32
South East +4 195 £500 +3.09% 108
South West +18 169 £550 +10.00% 66
North of England -19 141 £505 -0.25% 89
North West -3 85 £510 +13.33% 58
Midlands -54 57 £450 -3.23% 80
East of England -19 54 £410 -18.00% 37
Yorkshire -6 51 £450 -14.29% 28
West Midlands -49 40 £504 -5.09% 49
East Midlands -9 17 £355 +7.58% 31
Wales +19 15 £515 +8.42% 7
North East -20 5 £533 -5.75% 3
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
1 390 (45.24%) Confluence
2 62 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 38 (4.41%) SharePoint Server
4 35 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (3.25%) Apache
6 17 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (1.51%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.81%) JBoss
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.46%) IIS
11 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.35%) Appian
12 3 (0.35%) CMS
13 2 (0.23%) Mule
13 2 (0.23%) nginx
13 2 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.23%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.23%) WildFly
14 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 58 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (3.13%) MS Visio
5 18 (2.09%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.46%) Windchill
8 3 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
9 2 (0.23%) Sketch
10 1 (0.12%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.12%) InVision
10 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.28%) SAP Hybris
2 7 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.58%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.35%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.35%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 171 (19.84%) Azure
2 110 (12.76%) AWS
3 54 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 37 (4.29%) Azure Stack
5 37 (4.29%) GitHub
6 23 (2.67%) GCP
7 22 (2.55%) PowerApps
8 21 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.09%) SaaS
10 16 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 13 (1.51%) Serverless
12 12 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.39%) Apigee
13 11 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.28%) IaaS
13 11 (1.28%) Kong
13 11 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.73%) Firewall
2 49 (5.68%) BGP
3 34 (3.94%) DNS
4 27 (3.13%) VPN
5 25 (2.90%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.97%) DHCP
7 15 (1.74%) Radio Access Network
8 14 (1.62%) HTTP
8 14 (1.62%) SNMP
9 13 (1.51%) Software-Defined Radio
9 13 (1.51%) VSAN
10 12 (1.39%) 5G
10 12 (1.39%) MPLS
11 11 (1.28%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.93%) Wireless
13 7 (0.81%) DSL
13 7 (0.81%) SSL
14 6 (0.70%) FTP
14 6 (0.70%) VoIP
15 5 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.06%) Power BI
2 34 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 30 (3.48%) MongoDB
5 16 (1.86%) Big Data
5 16 (1.86%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.04%) MySQL
8 9 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.81%) Tableau
10 6 (0.70%) Metadata
10 6 (0.70%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.58%) OLAP
11 5 (0.58%) OLTP
11 5 (0.58%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 120 (13.92%) Jenkins
2 118 (13.69%) Git
3 69 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 55 (6.38%) GitLab
5 38 (4.41%) Cucumber
6 31 (3.60%) Selenium
7 30 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 25 (2.90%) Robot Framework
9 21 (2.44%) Postman
10 20 (2.32%) Eclipse
10 20 (2.32%) GoogleTest
11 19 (2.20%) Subversion
12 18 (2.09%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.86%) JUnit
14 15 (1.74%) JMeter
14 15 (1.74%) TestRail
15 14 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (1.39%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.39%) REST Assured
17 9 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 333 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 152 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
3 146 (16.94%) Finance
4 137 (15.89%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.29%) Aerospace
6 36 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (3.25%) Telecoms
9 27 (3.13%) Banking
10 24 (2.78%) Retail
11 23 (2.67%) Military
12 19 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (2.09%) Marketing
14 16 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.28%) Automotive
15 11 (1.28%) Legal
16 10 (1.16%) Law
17 9 (1.04%) Electronics
18 8 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 138 (16.01%) Analyst
2 105 (12.18%) Developer
3 96 (11.14%) Senior
4 69 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 66 (7.66%) Lead
6 50 (5.80%) Business Analyst
7 48 (5.57%) Test Engineer
8 37 (4.29%) Software Engineer
9 34 (3.94%) Architect
10 32 (3.71%) Data Analyst
11 28 (3.25%) Java Developer
12 26 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
13 25 (2.90%) Project Leader
14 23 (2.67%) Administrator
14 23 (2.67%) Java Engineer
14 23 (2.67%) Product Manager
15 21 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
15 21 (2.44%) Test Analyst
15 21 (2.44%) Test and Integration Engineer
16 20 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.19%) REST
2 44 (5.10%) .NET
3 34 (3.94%) Kafka
4 33 (3.83%) HTML
5 29 (3.36%) .NET Core
6 27 (3.13%) CSS
6 27 (3.13%) XML
7 26 (3.02%) JSON
7 26 (3.02%) Spring
8 24 (2.78%) SOAP
8 24 (2.78%) Spring Boot
9 21 (2.44%) Web Services
10 18 (2.09%) React
11 17 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (1.86%) Apache Camel
13 15 (1.74%) J2EE
13 15 (1.74%) Java EE
14 13 (1.51%) RESTful
15 12 (1.39%) ARM Templates
16 11 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 45 (5.22%) Private Cloud
3 30 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.90%) PKI
5 20 (2.32%) Public Cloud
6 17 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.51%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.70%) Clustering
14 5 (0.58%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.58%) Device Driver
14 5 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 130 (15.08%) Windows
2 121 (14.04%) Linux
3 36 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.90%) Unix
5 22 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.16%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.70%) AIX
10 5 (0.58%) VMS
11 4 (0.46%) Android
11 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.35%) Windows 2000
12 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
13 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.23%) Solaris
13 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (54.29%) Agile
2 167 (19.37%) DevOps
3 161 (18.68%) Scrum
4 156 (18.10%) Project Management
5 150 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 106 (12.30%) CI/CD
8 102 (11.83%) Project Delivery
9 87 (10.09%) Test Automation
10 84 (9.74%) Continuous Integration
11 78 (9.05%) Software Engineering
12 73 (8.47%) Service Management
13 72 (8.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 68 (7.89%) ITIL
14 68 (7.89%) Roadmaps
15 67 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (7.31%) Workflow
17 58 (6.73%) Migration
18 56 (6.50%) Waterfall
19 54 (6.26%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (15.55%) Python
2 118 (13.69%) SQL
3 112 (12.99%) Java
4 72 (8.35%) PowerShell
5 52 (6.03%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.64%) C++
7 26 (3.02%) PL/SQL
7 26 (3.02%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.90%) Bash
9 22 (2.55%) C#
10 19 (2.20%) C
11 15 (1.74%) Scala
12 13 (1.51%) Groovy
13 12 (1.39%) Go
14 11 (1.28%) Perl
15 9 (1.04%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.81%) Assembly Language
16 7 (0.81%) Ruby
17 6 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 283 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 104 (12.06%) Degree
4 70 (8.12%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 19 (2.20%) APMP
8 18 (2.09%) PMP
9 16 (1.86%) MCSE
9 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.74%) MCSA
11 14 (1.62%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.93%) CCNA
12 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.93%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (0.46%) ISEB
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.96%) PMO
2 49 (5.68%) QA
3 39 (4.52%) Government Security Classifications
4 15 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.16%) SLA
6 7 (0.81%) GDPR
6 7 (0.81%) GxP
6 7 (0.81%) MISRA
6 7 (0.81%) NCSC
7 6 (0.70%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (0.70%) NIST
8 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.46%) JTAG
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (7.89%) Docker
2 53 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 40 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.97%) Firmware
5 15 (1.74%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.16%) vSphere
8 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.70%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.23%) HDFS
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.12%) NFS
13 1 (0.12%) Snort
13 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (8.58%) Ansible
2 53 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.34%) Terraform
4 26 (3.02%) SCOM
5 24 (2.78%) Kibana
5 24 (2.78%) PowerCLI
6 19 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.09%) Docker Swarm
8 15 (1.74%) Puppet
9 12 (1.39%) Podman
9 12 (1.39%) vCenter Server
10 10 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.93%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.81%) CFEngine
12 7 (0.81%) Grafana
12 7 (0.81%) PowerBroker
13 6 (0.70%) logstash
13 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 178 (20.65%) Atlassian
2 147 (17.05%) Microsoft
3 50 (5.80%) VMware
4 49 (5.68%) SAP
5 46 (5.34%) Oracle
6 32 (3.71%) Dell
6 32 (3.71%) HP
7 26 (3.02%) Google
8 25 (2.90%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.90%) Splunk
9 22 (2.55%) Cisco
9 22 (2.55%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.44%) Avaloq
11 16 (1.86%) Adobe
12 14 (1.62%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.28%) Informatica
14 9 (1.04%) Talend
15 8 (0.93%) Cadence
15 8 (0.93%) IBM
16 7 (0.81%) Pega