JIRA Contracts in West Yorkshire

Atlassian JIRA
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 39 36 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.12% 3.60% 4.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.15% 31.30% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 41
10th Percentile £263 £400 £406
25th Percentile £375 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £543
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -17.05% +8.50%
75th Percentile £672 £500 £575
90th Percentile £778 £550 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 81 115 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.78% 11.51% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 78 148
10th Percentile £293 £330 £411
25th Percentile £425 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £534 £641
90th Percentile £744 £584 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.80
25th Percentile - - £59.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +272.22%
75th Percentile - - £74.00
90th Percentile - - £77.60
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +15.74% +38.46%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +7 35 £475 +5.56% 27
Halifax -1 3 £513 -2.38%
JIRA
Yorkshire

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 26 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Slack
3 6 (15.38%) Azure
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) IaaS
6 3 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (5.13%) Lucidchart
7 2 (5.13%) npm
7 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.56%) Asana
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.56%) Miro
8 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) HTTP
2 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (20.51%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Tableau
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
2 8 (20.51%) Cucumber
2 8 (20.51%) Jasmine
2 8 (20.51%) JUnit
3 5 (12.82%) Postman
3 5 (12.82%) Selenium
4 4 (10.26%) Cypress.io
4 4 (10.26%) GitLab
4 4 (10.26%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (10.26%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.13%) webpack
6 1 (2.56%) DBeaver
6 1 (2.56%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Senior
2 9 (23.08%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Tester
6 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead
6 4 (10.26%) Network Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.26%) QA Tester
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.26%) Technical Manager
7 3 (7.69%) JIRA Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) RESTful
2 8 (20.51%) Spring
2 8 (20.51%) Spring Boot
3 7 (17.95%) Spring Security
3 7 (17.95%) Swagger
4 6 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 6 (15.38%) Spring Batch
5 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) CSS
5 2 (5.13%) Flask
5 2 (5.13%) HTML
5 2 (5.13%) pytest
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Web Services
6 1 (2.56%) cloud-init
6 1 (2.56%) Kafka
6 1 (2.56%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) CentOS
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
2 14 (35.90%) Test Automation
3 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) OWASP
4 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 9 (23.08%) Microservices
5 8 (20.51%) BDD
5 8 (20.51%) Coaching
5 8 (20.51%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
5 8 (20.51%) Project Management
5 8 (20.51%) TDD
6 7 (17.95%) API Design
6 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (17.95%) DevOps
6 7 (17.95%) Kernel Tuning
6 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (15.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Bash
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Groovy
5 3 (7.69%) Python
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) Go
7 1 (2.56%) JCL
7 1 (2.56%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) APMP
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CBAP
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Accessibility
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) PMO
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.13%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (5.13%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.56%) Consul
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.56%) Istio
4 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.56%) linkerd
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.56%) Packer
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Rancher
4 1 (2.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) Tivoli NetView
4 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
2 4 (10.26%) Cisco
2 4 (10.26%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.13%) Dell
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Veritas
4 1 (2.56%) Apple
4 1 (2.56%) ESET
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Okta
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk