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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 25 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JIRA 38 46 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.09% 5.46% 4.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.55% 30.07% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 37
10th Percentile £398 £404 £315
25th Percentile £455 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £578 £500 £575
90th Percentile £653 £550 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -1.55% +1.58% -5.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 110 153 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.75% 18.17% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 123 104
10th Percentile £375 £390 £363
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -10.04% -2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £650
90th Percentile £675 £600 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JIRA

JIRA
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -4 34 £488 +8.33% 34
Halifax -7 2 £525 -7.69%
Bradford -15 1 £650 +57.96% 5
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 21 (55.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP MRS
1 1 (2.63%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Azure
3 6 (15.79%) GCP
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) IaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Serverless
4 4 (10.53%) Slack
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (5.26%) dbt
6 2 (5.26%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.63%) Figma
7 1 (2.63%) npm
7 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.63%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.26%) Bigtable
2 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) Postman
4 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.63%) TestRail
4 1 (2.63%) webpack
4 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Business Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Software Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.89%) JIRA Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Designer
5 2 (5.26%) Developer
5 2 (5.26%) GCP Architect
5 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Network Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) REST
2 4 (10.53%) Node.js
2 4 (10.53%) React
3 3 (7.89%) Kafka
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.63%) BAPI
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) Flask
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) Playwright
5 1 (2.63%) pytest
5 1 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (2.63%) Swagger
5 1 (2.63%) Web Services
5 1 (2.63%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) Scrum
3 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) DevOps
4 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.42%) Migration
5 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (18.42%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (15.79%) User Stories
7 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
7 5 (13.16%) Incident Management
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (13.16%) Kanban
7 5 (13.16%) User Experience
7 5 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) Groovy
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (5.26%) Scala
4 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.63%) ABAP
5 1 (2.63%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) APMP
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) CBAP
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) COBIT
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) P3O
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
2 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Control-M
3 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.26%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (5.26%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.89%) CheckPoint
2 3 (7.89%) Dell
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco
3 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Veritas
4 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.63%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.63%) F5
4 1 (2.63%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk