JIRA Contracts in Wales

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 7 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.37% 3.74% 2.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.89% 27.78% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 10
10th Percentile £408 £489 £386
25th Percentile £428 £497 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £509 £532 £547
90th Percentile £522 £593 £665
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18 54 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 6.10% 13.47% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 50
10th Percentile £306 £356 £398
25th Percentile £331 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +1.60% -5.21%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £625
90th Percentile £529 £611 £651
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Wales

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Wales

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South Wales -4 5 £471 -8.50% 18
West Wales - 1 £475 -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OCI
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Development Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Jest
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) JWT
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Puppeteer
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Natural
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow