JIRA Contracts

Atlassian JIRA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 42 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,567 2,198 4,984
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.29% 4.65% 6.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.69% 35.52% 34.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,430 3,365
10th Percentile £319 £350 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -5.35% -2.05% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 59 87
10th Percentile £36.20 £44.04 £20.65
25th Percentile £54.68 £51.25 £49.24
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +16.07%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +15.04%

All Development Application Skills
UK

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,793 6,188 14,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 13.09% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,003 4,308 9,817
10th Percentile £348 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +5.71%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £723 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -3.47% -3.81% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 240 283
10th Percentile £24.98 £45.75 £40.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +19.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.53 £65.75
90th Percentile £74.31 £86.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.01%

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 8 November 2024.

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 8 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 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 8 November 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
England +4 1,325 £500 -5.66% 569
UK excluding London +2 766 £486 -5.35% 434
London -3 648 £525 -4.55% 167
Work from Home -1 515 £500 - 860
North of England +9 210 £500 - 136
South East -5 185 £450 -10.89% 82
South West +18 119 £590 +4.89% 57
Scotland -5 119 £450 -16.81% 22
North West -6 108 £500 -4.76% 89
Yorkshire +25 90 £500 +11.11% 39
Midlands +36 89 £477 -4.60% 62
West Midlands +4 53 £550 +9.24% 46
East of England +4 43 £425 -7.36% 58
East Midlands +32 35 £445 -15.04% 16
North East -4 12 £454 +7.46% 10
Wales -3 5 £490 -3.45% 8
Northern Ireland -14 3 £225 -64.00% 16

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
1 732 (46.71%) Confluence
2 79 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.74%) CMS
4 17 (1.08%) Drupal
4 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.02%) Apache
6 15 (0.96%) nginx
6 15 (0.96%) SAS
7 13 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.83%) Camunda
8 11 (0.70%) Headless CMS
9 10 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.45%) WordPress
12 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.32%) JBoss
12 5 (0.32%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.26%) StreamWeaver
13 4 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 83 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.74%) Trello
5 40 (2.55%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.45%) Sketch
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.32%) EngageOne
7 5 (0.32%) InVision
7 5 (0.32%) OmniGraffle
7 5 (0.32%) Zeplin
8 3 (0.19%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.064%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.064%) InDesign
9 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.064%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
7 7 (0.45%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.26%) Maximo
9 4 (0.26%) Shopify
9 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.19%) Endur
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.19%) PORTIA
11 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.13%) SAP GTS
11 2 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 286 (18.25%) Azure
2 256 (16.34%) AWS
3 173 (11.04%) GitHub
4 107 (6.83%) GCP
5 88 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (5.36%) Power Platform
7 61 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (3.13%) Serverless
9 42 (2.68%) SaaS
10 41 (2.62%) OpenShift
11 31 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 26 (1.66%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.60%) PaaS
15 23 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (1.47%) PowerApps
16 22 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (1.40%) Azure Functions
16 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.83%) VPN
2 39 (2.49%) BGP
3 38 (2.43%) Firewall
3 38 (2.43%) MPLS
4 37 (2.36%) DNS
5 24 (1.53%) SNMP
6 21 (1.34%) Ethernet
7 20 (1.28%) Network Security
7 20 (1.28%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.21%) SSL
9 18 (1.15%) HTTP
9 18 (1.15%) Kerberos
10 17 (1.08%) Ethernet VPN
11 15 (0.96%) FTP
11 15 (0.96%) Internet
11 15 (0.96%) SSH
11 15 (0.96%) WAN
11 15 (0.96%) Wireless
12 14 (0.89%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.11%) Power BI
2 65 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (4.02%) NoSQL
4 60 (3.83%) SQL Server
5 50 (3.19%) MySQL
6 44 (2.81%) MongoDB
7 43 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 42 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (1.66%) Big Data
10 24 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 22 (1.40%) Tableau
12 19 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
12 19 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 16 (1.02%) Informix
13 16 (1.02%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.96%) Metadata
15 13 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 241 (15.38%) Git
2 207 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 117 (7.47%) GitLab
4 113 (7.21%) Bitbucket
5 57 (3.64%) Selenium
6 46 (2.94%) GoogleTest
7 45 (2.87%) Postman
8 37 (2.36%) Cucumber
9 33 (2.11%) TeamCity
10 30 (1.91%) Cypress.io
11 29 (1.85%) JUnit
12 26 (1.66%) Maven
13 25 (1.60%) Artifactory
14 22 (1.40%) Eclipse
15 21 (1.34%) Visual Studio
16 20 (1.28%) Robot Framework
16 20 (1.28%) Zephyr
17 19 (1.21%) JMeter
17 19 (1.21%) TestRail
18 18 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 509 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 430 (27.44%) Finance
3 255 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (11.93%) Banking
5 109 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 48 (3.06%) Retail
7 44 (2.81%) Marketing
7 44 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (2.23%) Investment Banking
10 34 (2.17%) Financial Institution
11 32 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.66%) Military
14 24 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.28%) Legal
16 17 (1.08%) German Language
17 16 (1.02%) Front Office
18 15 (0.96%) Back Office
18 15 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (15.06%) Analyst
2 217 (13.85%) Developer
3 164 (10.47%) Senior
4 126 (8.04%) Project Manager
5 113 (7.21%) Architect
6 112 (7.15%) Business Analyst
7 81 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 75 (4.79%) Lead
9 61 (3.89%) Consultant
10 59 (3.77%) Software Engineer
11 52 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 46 (2.94%) Test Engineer
13 41 (2.62%) Java Developer
14 38 (2.43%) Technical Architect
15 36 (2.30%) C++ Software Engineer
15 36 (2.30%) Senior Developer
16 35 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.17%) Tester
18 31 (1.98%) Data Engineer
18 31 (1.98%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.36%) REST
2 90 (5.74%) HTML
3 85 (5.42%) CSS
4 75 (4.79%) .NET
5 66 (4.21%) React
6 65 (4.15%) Web Services
7 63 (4.02%) Kafka
8 58 (3.70%) Spring
9 54 (3.45%) Spring Boot
10 51 (3.25%) XML
11 49 (3.13%) JSON
11 49 (3.13%) SOAP
12 45 (2.87%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.55%) Node.js
13 40 (2.55%) RESTful
14 38 (2.43%) Middleware
15 31 (1.98%) NETCONF
16 29 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (1.85%) Swagger
17 27 (1.72%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 71 (4.53%) Virtual Team
3 50 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 45 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
7 36 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 31 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 26 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.60%) PKI
11 24 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.47%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.02%) Private Cloud
15 15 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.89%) CMDB
16 14 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (0.89%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.77%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 245 (15.63%) Linux
2 133 (8.49%) Windows
3 98 (6.25%) Unix
4 27 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.21%) CentOS
8 12 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.77%) Solaris
9 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.64%) Android
11 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.45%) VMS
13 6 (0.38%) AIX
14 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.26%) OS/400
16 3 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (55.78%) Agile
2 383 (24.44%) DevOps
3 306 (19.53%) Scrum
4 299 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (16.72%) Project Management
6 237 (15.12%) CI/CD
7 194 (12.38%) Test Automation
8 172 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 152 (9.70%) Migration
10 145 (9.25%) Software Engineering
11 127 (8.10%) Project Delivery
12 120 (7.66%) Waterfall
13 116 (7.40%) SDLC
14 115 (7.34%) Kanban
15 113 (7.21%) Change Management
16 111 (7.08%) Roadmaps
17 109 (6.96%) Analytics
18 106 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 96 (6.13%) ITIL
20 91 (5.81%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 273 (17.42%) Python
2 260 (16.59%) SQL
3 186 (11.87%) Java
4 131 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 93 (5.93%) Bash
6 91 (5.81%) C++
7 74 (4.72%) C#
8 65 (4.15%) TypeScript
9 64 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.23%) Perl
11 34 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 31 (1.98%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.47%) Ruby
14 20 (1.28%) Go
14 20 (1.28%) PHP
15 17 (1.08%) Groovy
16 14 (0.89%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.89%) R
17 12 (0.77%) C
17 12 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 260 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 223 (14.23%) Degree
3 213 (13.59%) SC Cleared
4 45 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.98%) PMP
8 22 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.15%) CCNP
12 16 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.64%) CCNA
14 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.57%) MCSE
16 8 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.51%) MCSA
17 7 (0.45%) Azure Certification
17 7 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.62%) QA
2 53 (3.38%) PMO
3 41 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.66%) MISRA
6 21 (1.34%) GDPR
7 12 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.70%) NIST
8 11 (0.70%) SLA
9 10 (0.64%) NCSC
10 6 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.38%) GRC
10 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.26%) MiFID
13 3 (0.19%) COBIT
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.19%) PMBOK
System Software
1 164 (10.47%) Docker
2 62 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 51 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (2.11%) Firmware
6 9 (0.57%) Microcode
7 8 (0.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 8 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.45%) NFS
8 7 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.38%) HDFS
9 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.38%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.32%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.26%) Lustre
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.19%) vSphere
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 127 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 108 (6.89%) Ansible
3 84 (5.36%) Terraform
4 48 (3.06%) Grafana
5 39 (2.49%) Puppet
6 30 (1.91%) Kibana
7 29 (1.85%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
10 17 (1.08%) logstash
10 17 (1.08%) Packer
11 15 (0.96%) HP ALM
11 15 (0.96%) Rancher
12 14 (0.89%) Consul
12 14 (0.89%) SCCM
13 10 (0.64%) HP Quality Center
14 9 (0.57%) Control-M
14 9 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
14 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 229 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 156 (9.96%) Atlassian
3 143 (9.13%) Oracle
4 110 (7.02%) Google
5 72 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 65 (4.15%) Cisco
6 65 (4.15%) Red Hat
7 60 (3.83%) Splunk
7 60 (3.83%) VMware
8 58 (3.70%) SAP
9 43 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 32 (2.04%) IBM
11 29 (1.85%) Dell
12 21 (1.34%) Informatica
13 19 (1.21%) Adobe
13 19 (1.21%) Confluent
14 18 (1.15%) HP
15 17 (1.08%) EMC
16 16 (1.02%) F5
17 13 (0.83%) CyberArk