Atlassian JIRA
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 41 35 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,078 4,593 4,918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.67% 5.97% 5.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.73% 34.33% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 3,095 3,441
10th Percentile £350 £375 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +8.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 72 54
10th Percentile £42.36 £22.24 £25.83
25th Percentile £50.63 £46.64 £44.89
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +17.10% +14.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.16 £59.50
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.62 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +19.80%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,816 13,378 16,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.08% 17.40% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 9,133 11,776
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +5.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £767 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.05% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 283 229
10th Percentile £45.37 £40.96 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +15.49% +18.33%
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £74.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +28.37% +12.52%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. 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 -14 1,611 £538 -0.46% 749
UK excluding London -4 964 £525 - 538
London -3 837 £550 -4.35% 275
Work from Home +4 815 £500 -7.41% 393
South East -1 273 £509 +1.75% 166
Scotland +18 225 £543 +20.56% 41
North of England +4 210 £510 -2.86% 132
North West +16 142 £538 +13.16% 70
South West -26 111 £559 -2.83% 63
East of England 0 74 £450 -12.20% 36
Yorkshire -8 62 £450 -21.74% 49
Midlands -56 56 £494 -5.95% 93
West Midlands -47 49 £500 -6.37% 76
Wales -10 15 £515 -9.65% 12
Northern Ireland +14 10 £625 +17.37% 6
North East -6 6 £445 -19.09% 14
East Midlands -23 6 £524 +12.78% 17
Isle of Man - 3 £475 -

JIRA
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
1 925 (44.51%) Confluence
2 123 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.02%) Apache
4 39 (1.88%) nginx
5 32 (1.54%) CMS
6 25 (1.20%) IIS
7 23 (1.11%) Tomcat
8 20 (0.96%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
10 12 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
10 12 (0.58%) SAS
10 12 (0.58%) WebLogic
11 11 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
12 7 (0.34%) WordPress
13 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.14%) Camunda
14 3 (0.14%) JBoss
14 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
14 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 127 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (3.42%) MS Visio
5 68 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
6 43 (2.07%) Trello
7 18 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.14%) InVision
8 3 (0.14%) Mingle
8 3 (0.14%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.14%) Simulink
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.096%) Windchill
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.67%) SAP HCM
4 11 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.43%) Shopify
7 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.38%) Workfront
8 7 (0.34%) CA PPM
8 7 (0.34%) Magento
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.19%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.19%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 346 (16.65%) Azure
2 313 (15.06%) AWS
3 130 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (5.44%) Power Platform
5 106 (5.10%) GitHub
6 78 (3.75%) SaaS
7 77 (3.71%) GCP
8 54 (2.60%) Serverless
9 48 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (2.31%) PaaS
10 40 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
12 34 (1.64%) Slack
13 32 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (1.49%) npm
15 27 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 26 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
17 25 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
18 24 (1.15%) IaaS
18 24 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.80%) Firewall
2 48 (2.31%) DNS
3 36 (1.73%) 5G
4 35 (1.68%) VLAN
5 32 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.44%) IPv4
7 28 (1.35%) HTTP
8 27 (1.30%) DSL
9 25 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 22 (1.06%) BGP
11 21 (1.01%) VPN
11 21 (1.01%) WAN
12 20 (0.96%) SAN
13 19 (0.91%) DHCP
13 19 (0.91%) SNMP
14 17 (0.82%) LAN
15 16 (0.77%) NAS
16 15 (0.72%) Software-Defined Radio
17 14 (0.67%) Kerberos
18 13 (0.63%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 93 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (4.38%) Relational Database
4 90 (4.33%) Power BI
5 86 (4.14%) MySQL
6 45 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.68%) Tableau
8 31 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.77%) Big Data
13 14 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.67%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.67%) Power Query
14 12 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (0.53%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 354 (17.04%) Git
2 227 (10.92%) Jenkins
3 152 (7.31%) Bitbucket
4 88 (4.23%) GitLab
4 88 (4.23%) Postman
5 78 (3.75%) Selenium
6 63 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 50 (2.41%) JUnit
8 41 (1.97%) Eclipse
8 41 (1.97%) Maven
9 40 (1.92%) SoapUI
10 39 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 39 (1.88%) TeamCity
11 38 (1.83%) Robot Framework
12 37 (1.78%) Cypress.io
13 32 (1.54%) Visual Studio
14 30 (1.44%) IntelliJ
15 29 (1.40%) JMeter
15 29 (1.40%) webpack
16 28 (1.35%) Subversion
General
1 662 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 430 (20.69%) Finance
3 248 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 184 (8.85%) Banking
6 74 (3.56%) Marketing
7 73 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 65 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 64 (3.08%) Front Office
10 59 (2.84%) Retail
11 48 (2.31%) Investment Banking
12 46 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (1.78%) Legal
15 31 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 23 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 17 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 17 (0.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 384 (18.48%) Analyst
2 288 (13.86%) Developer
3 235 (11.31%) Senior
4 180 (8.66%) Business Analyst
5 136 (6.54%) Architect
6 131 (6.30%) Project Manager
7 119 (5.73%) Lead
8 103 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 80 (3.85%) Tester
10 76 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
11 66 (3.18%) Test Engineer
12 59 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
13 58 (2.79%) Test Analyst
14 52 (2.50%) Administrator
15 51 (2.45%) Consultant
16 46 (2.21%) Scrum Master
16 46 (2.21%) Senior Manager
16 46 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (2.02%) Data Engineer
18 41 (1.97%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.10%) REST
2 106 (5.10%) .NET
3 93 (4.48%) React
4 89 (4.28%) HTML
5 77 (3.71%) Kafka
6 72 (3.46%) JSON
7 70 (3.37%) XML
8 69 (3.32%) CSS
9 62 (2.98%) Spring
10 60 (2.89%) Node.js
11 56 (2.69%) Middleware
12 54 (2.60%) RESTful
13 53 (2.55%) AngularJS
14 44 (2.12%) Web Services
15 42 (2.02%) Spring Boot
15 42 (2.02%) Swagger
16 37 (1.78%) SOAP
17 33 (1.59%) OpenAPI
18 32 (1.54%) WebSockets
19 30 (1.44%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 121 (5.82%) Product Ownership
2 54 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
4 45 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 40 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 38 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 35 (1.68%) PKI
8 34 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.59%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 31 (1.49%) Derivative
12 26 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.20%) Market Risk
14 23 (1.11%) Equities
14 23 (1.11%) Fixed Income
14 23 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 23 (1.11%) Private Cloud
15 22 (1.06%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 20 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 294 (14.15%) Linux
2 195 (9.38%) Windows
3 71 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 70 (3.37%) Unix
5 49 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.20%) Solaris
7 24 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
7 24 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.48%) Android
9 10 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.34%) AIX
11 7 (0.34%) CentOS
12 6 (0.29%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.096%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.048%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,144 (55.05%) Agile
2 480 (23.10%) DevOps
3 367 (17.66%) Scrum
4 362 (17.42%) Project Management
5 320 (15.40%) Test Automation
6 306 (14.73%) CI/CD
7 251 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 245 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
9 166 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 162 (7.80%) Software Engineering
11 161 (7.75%) Migration
11 161 (7.75%) Waterfall
12 156 (7.51%) Roadmaps
13 155 (7.46%) Project Delivery
14 145 (6.98%) User Acceptance Testing
15 143 (6.88%) User Stories
16 132 (6.35%) Analytics
17 130 (6.26%) SDLC
18 125 (6.02%) Continuous Integration
19 104 (5.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 307 (14.77%) SQL
2 298 (14.34%) Python
3 261 (12.56%) Java
4 176 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 120 (5.77%) C#
6 107 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 101 (4.86%) C++
8 86 (4.14%) Bash
9 73 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 62 (2.98%) Go
11 60 (2.89%) C
12 45 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.78%) Ruby
14 34 (1.64%) Rust
15 23 (1.11%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.96%) R
16 20 (0.96%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.91%) Scala
18 17 (0.82%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 453 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 393 (18.91%) SC Cleared
3 239 (11.50%) Degree
4 59 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 33 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 28 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 20 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.87%) ISEB
11 17 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 17 (0.82%) PMP
12 15 (0.72%) CCNA
13 14 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 13 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 10 (0.48%) APMP
16 9 (0.43%) A+ Certification
16 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (8.18%) QA
2 79 (3.80%) PMO
3 35 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.68%) SLA
4 30 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
6 19 (0.91%) GDPR
7 14 (0.67%) EMIR
8 13 (0.63%) MiFID
8 13 (0.63%) NCSC
9 12 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
9 12 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 11 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.34%) NIST
12 7 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 5 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
14 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 177 (8.52%) Docker
2 106 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 29 (1.40%) vSphere
5 25 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
7 15 (0.72%) Firmware
8 14 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.58%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.38%) NFS
11 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.14%) HDFS
12 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.096%) XYGATE
14 1 (0.048%) Postfix
14 1 (0.048%) Snort
14 1 (0.048%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 149 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 141 (6.79%) Ansible
3 140 (6.74%) Terraform
4 60 (2.89%) Packer
5 38 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 37 (1.78%) Puppet
7 36 (1.73%) Consul
8 26 (1.25%) Kibana
9 25 (1.20%) PowerBroker
10 22 (1.06%) HP ALM
11 21 (1.01%) CFEngine
12 20 (0.96%) Grafana
13 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.67%) SCOM
15 13 (0.63%) Data Guard
16 12 (0.58%) NetBackup
17 11 (0.53%) PowerCLI
18 10 (0.48%) Prometheus
18 10 (0.48%) WSUS
19 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 283 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 274 (13.19%) Atlassian
3 168 (8.08%) Oracle
4 116 (5.58%) VMware
5 113 (5.44%) SAP
6 100 (4.81%) Salesforce
7 89 (4.28%) ServiceNow
8 83 (3.99%) Google
9 43 (2.07%) HP
10 39 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 39 (1.88%) Red Hat
11 38 (1.83%) Splunk
12 33 (1.59%) IBM
13 28 (1.35%) Cisco
14 27 (1.30%) Adobe
15 17 (0.82%) Cognos
15 17 (0.82%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.72%) CA
16 15 (0.72%) Informatica
17 14 (0.67%) Remedy