JIRA Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Atlassian JIRA
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 4.03% - 10.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.00% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £387
25th Percentile £163 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.69%
75th Percentile £188 - £675
90th Percentile - - £705
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £10.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £10.50
% change year-on-year -56.52% +447.62% -

All Development Application Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 25 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 16.78% 5.00% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 8
10th Percentile £163 - £393
25th Percentile £563 £669 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £610
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +12.70% +2.52%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £664
90th Percentile £850 £736 £690
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £10.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -37.39% +2.22% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
Pershore - 3 £175 -
JIRA
West Midlands

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Chocolatey
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
1 3 (50.00%) IT Technician
1 3 (50.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft