JIRA Contract Job Trends in Watford

Atlassian JIRA
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing JIRA 6 5 25
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 10.53% 7.14% 16.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 75.00% 62.50% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £313 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -21.88% -27.27%
75th Percentile £472 £336 £584
90th Percentile £601 £367 £608
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £348 £450
% change year-on-year +22.30% -22.78% -21.74%

All Development Application Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 8 8 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 14.04% 11.43% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £331 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.79% -17.19% -46.67%
75th Percentile £616 £381 £578
90th Percentile £681 £394 £603
Hertfordshire median daily rate £440 £400 £431
% change year-on-year +10.14% -7.36% -21.59%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Watford

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Watford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Watford over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Watford

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Apigee
1 2 (33.33%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DataStage
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Integration Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (33.33%) BMC
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Talend
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle