JIRA Contracts in West Sussex

Atlassian JIRA
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 32 23
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 10 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 6.67% 3.69% 7.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 55.56% 24.32% 53.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile £285 £256 £471
25th Percentile £304 £350 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +1.92% -2.37%
75th Percentile £472 £600 £547
90th Percentile £550 £675 £577
South East median daily rate £480 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year - +73.74% -58.58%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18 37 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 12.00% 15.16% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 31
10th Percentile £285 £290 £465
25th Percentile £290 £357 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £425 £547
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% -22.30% +10.95%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £698
90th Percentile £560 £593 -
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £549
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.01% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £25.94 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year - +17.04% -40.82%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £56.47
% change year-on-year -15.38% +15.11% -5.88%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in West Sussex

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in West Sussex

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in West Sussex over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in West Sussex

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in West Sussex

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Burgess Hill +4 6 £319 - 4
Worthing +10 4 £379 -36.79% 6
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 3 (30.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Subversion
2 3 (30.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (40.00%) gRPC
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) BDD
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Kanban
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Defect Management
3 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (30.00%) Validation
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Go
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) webMethods
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft