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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 561 641
Rank change year-on-year +61 +80 +161
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 39 29 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.067% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.078% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 25
10th Percentile £275 £285 £313
25th Percentile £281 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £475 £688 £575
90th Percentile £550 £702 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £300 £397
% change year-on-year +50.00% -24.43% -8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £31.85 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +37.50% - -

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 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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
England +61 26 £356 -44.38% 51
UK excluding London +33 17 £450 +50.00% 34
Work from Home +40 15 £325 -14.75% 31
London +48 14 £325 -49.63% 28
South East +45 6 £450 -18.18% 13
Scotland +1 6 £500 +73.91% 7
Midlands - 3 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £350 - 1
South West +26 1 £575 - 3
North of England +7 1 £475 - 4
Yorkshire +5 1 £475 - 1

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 8 (20.51%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Misys Midas
1 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.56%) Primavera
1 1 (2.56%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) VoIP
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Power Query
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (56.41%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.26%) IntelliJ
4 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.26%) PyCharm
4 4 (10.26%) Visual Studio
4 4 (10.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.56%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.56%) GitLab
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Retail
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Billing
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Project Officer
1 7 (17.95%) Project Support Officer
1 7 (17.95%) Support Officer
2 6 (15.38%) Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Test Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Tester
5 2 (5.13%) Administrator
5 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Project Administrator
5 2 (5.13%) Project Support Administrator
5 2 (5.13%) Report Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Spring
1 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
1 5 (12.82%) Web Services
2 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
2 4 (10.26%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) RESTful
3 2 (5.13%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) Ajax
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) CSS3
4 1 (2.56%) Flash
4 1 (2.56%) HTML
4 1 (2.56%) HTML5
4 1 (2.56%) J2EE
4 1 (2.56%) jQuery
4 1 (2.56%) JSF
4 1 (2.56%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
1 5 (12.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Agile
2 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 9 (23.08%) SDLC
6 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.95%) DevOps
7 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (15.38%) Time Management
9 5 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (12.82%) Test Strategy
10 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
10 4 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (10.26%) Microservices
10 4 (10.26%) Project Management
10 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
10 4 (10.26%) Scrum
10 4 (10.26%) SysML
10 4 (10.26%) UML
10 4 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) Java
2 4 (10.26%) C#
2 4 (10.26%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) CISM
3 1 (2.56%) CISSP
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) MBA
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.56%) PMP
3 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) PMO
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) MiFID
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Ansible
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.13%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Conga
4 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.56%) Dell
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Sage
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Thycotic
4 1 (2.56%) Workday