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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -52 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 33 138 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.70% 6.18% 8.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.35% 52.47% 54.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 95 208
10th Percentile £265 £275 £379
25th Percentile £403 £394 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +25.33%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £540
90th Percentile £644 £600 £629
England median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £10.50 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £63.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +43.26% -19.09%

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 215 263 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.07% 11.78% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 182 378
10th Percentile £260 £313 £379
25th Percentile £358 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.28% +21.98%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £549
90th Percentile £582 £700 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £10.50 - -
25th Percentile £43.88 £31.69 -
Median hourly rate £56.88 £33.39 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.36% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.08 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year +5.69% +22.51% +0.40%

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 28 May 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
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 28 May 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 -2 8 £488 -7.14% 13
Worcestershire +4 5 £475 -19.49% 3
Coventry -7 5 £525 +11.41% 4
Warwickshire -23 5 £650 +43.65% 19
Staffordshire +11 3 - - 8
Solihull -13 1 £450 +58.59% 3
Shropshire -24 1 £523 -3.24%
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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.09%) Trello
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.03%) Simulink
3 1 (3.03%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.06%) SAP CO
2 2 (6.06%) SAP FI
2 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (6.06%) SAP SD
3 1 (3.03%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (6.06%) Serverless
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.03%) Boomi
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Intranet
1 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (6.06%) Internet
2 2 (6.06%) Junos
2 2 (6.06%) LAN
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 2 (6.06%) WAN
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.03%) SSL
3 1 (3.03%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Hive
3 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.06%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.03%) Impala
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.06%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Automotive
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Analyst
2 4 (12.12%) Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Technical Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Test Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) SAP CO Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) SAP FI Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Scrum Master
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Support Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) ADO
2 1 (3.03%) BREW
2 1 (3.03%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) OLE
2 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) SAML
2 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) PMI
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
4 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 6 (18.18%) Project Management
5 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Scrum
7 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (9.09%) Data Modelling
8 3 (9.09%) Defect Management
8 3 (9.09%) Functional Testing
8 3 (9.09%) Migration
8 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (6.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) ABAP
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) HiveQL
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.06%) PMP
3 1 (3.03%) APMG
3 1 (3.03%) CCNA
3 1 (3.03%) CCNP
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) HDFS
2 1 (3.03%) Snort
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Kibana
2 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.12%) SAP
2 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco
3 2 (6.06%) Juniper
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) Denodo
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Informatica
4 1 (3.03%) Planview
4 1 (3.03%) Sage
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Talend