Issue Tracking Contracts

Issue Tracking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 548 678
Rank change year-on-year +56 +130 +112
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 28 34 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.078% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.090% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 18
10th Percentile - £232 £318
25th Percentile £275 £306 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £475 £663 £678
90th Percentile £630 £696 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £300 £369
% change year-on-year +41.67% -18.59% -22.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £23.27 - £25.27
25th Percentile £28.56 - £28.56
Median hourly rate £37.42 £40.00 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +17.51% -46.92%
75th Percentile £46.23 - £39.52
90th Percentile £51.49 - £42.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.42 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -6.46% -11.11% -31.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Issue Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Issue Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking.

Daily rate trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Issue Tracking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking.

Hourly rate trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Issue Tracking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +63 16 £425 +41.67% 53
Work from Home +48 16 £300 -4.00% 32
England +46 16 £388 -36.69% 64
Scotland +15 7 £450 +56.52%
London +28 6 £368 -38.67% 14
South East +49 4 £401 - 25
South West +39 2 £725 +16.00% 5
Midlands - 2 £350 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 4
North of England +19 1 £638 - 6
North West - 1 £638 - 3

Issue Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Misys Midas
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
1 1 (3.57%) VoIP
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Bitbucket
3 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.57%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.57%) Maven
4 1 (3.57%) PyCharm
4 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Retail
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Project Officer
1 7 (25.00%) Project Support Officer
1 7 (25.00%) Support Officer
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) PMO Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Digital Product Owner
6 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Penetration Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Workday Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) ADO
1 2 (7.14%) Spring
1 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.57%) Ajax
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) CSS3
2 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.57%) HTML5
2 1 (3.57%) J2EE
2 1 (3.57%) jQuery
2 1 (3.57%) React
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) Spring Batch
2 1 (3.57%) Vue
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Blog
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (21.43%) Project Management
6 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (21.43%) Time Management
7 5 (17.86%) Build Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (17.86%) SDLC
8 4 (14.29%) Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 4 (14.29%) Software Distribution
8 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (10.71%) Resource Allocation
9 3 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (10.71%) Validation
10 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) C#
3 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) MBA
2 1 (3.57%) OSCP
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
2 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) PMO
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Firmware
1 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.57%) Avaloq
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix
3 1 (3.57%) HP
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Moogsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Workday