JIRA Contracts in the West Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -46 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 40 199 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.08% 8.36% 8.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.70% 58.53% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 151 206
10th Percentile £275 £281 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £538 £469
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +14.67% +28.07%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £540
90th Percentile £700 £600 £625
England median daily rate £525 £540 £515
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.85% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £10.50 - £39.00
75th Percentile £21.63 - £41.00
90th Percentile £41.65 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.84 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.47% +47.96% -13.59%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 203 340 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.55% 14.29% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 251 387
10th Percentile £260 £363 £380
25th Percentile £358 £437 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £490
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +9.80% +22.50%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £540
90th Percentile £572 £700 £625
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £10.50 - -
25th Percentile £43.88 £31.69 £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £33.39 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.49% -14.40% +95.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.08 £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham -4 12 £488 - 9
Coventry -6 8 £525 +16.67% 4
Warwickshire -11 7 £650 +35.42% 10
Worcestershire +7 5 £475 -19.49% 8
Staffordshire +7 1 - - 4
Shropshire -15 1 £523 -3.24% 1
Solihull -16 1 £450 +56.52% 5
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (22.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.00%) Trello
3 1 (2.50%) Simulink
3 1 (2.50%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) SAP CO
2 2 (5.00%) SAP FI
2 2 (5.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (5.00%) SAP SD
3 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.50%) Boomi
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) Miro
5 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Intranet
1 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) Internet
2 2 (5.00%) Junos
2 2 (5.00%) LAN
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.50%) Impala
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) GitLab
1 1 (2.50%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Automotive
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Consultant
3 4 (10.00%) Scrum Master
3 4 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Administrator
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Technical Administrator
4 3 (7.50%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Test Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Test Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) SAP CO Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) SAP FI Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) ADO
2 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) OLE
3 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) PMI
3 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 8 (20.00%) Project Management
5 8 (20.00%) Scrum
6 7 (17.50%) Project Delivery
7 6 (15.00%) Defect Management
7 6 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 4 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy
9 3 (7.50%) Coaching
9 3 (7.50%) Data Engineering
9 3 (7.50%) Epics
9 3 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (7.50%) SDLC
9 3 (7.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) ABAP
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) Bicep
4 1 (2.50%) HiveQL
4 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 3 (7.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) APMG
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) CCNP
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) HDFS
2 1 (2.50%) Snort
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) HP ALM
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Kibana
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.50%) SAP
1 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.50%) HP
2 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.50%) Cadence
4 1 (2.50%) Denodo
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Planview
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Talend