JIRA Contracts in Yorkshire

Atlassian JIRA
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 55 49
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 91 49 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.97% 2.90% 3.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 51.12% 27.53% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 50
10th Percentile £357 £378 £245
25th Percentile £400 £416 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £553 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £624 £643
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.47% +47.96%

All Development Application Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 178 178 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.54% 10.55% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 124 198
10th Percentile £357 £366 £353
25th Percentile £413 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £658 £617 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £40.54
25th Percentile - £61.25 £44.84
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.74% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £68.00
90th Percentile - - £75.20
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Yorkshire

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Yorkshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Yorkshire

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in Yorkshire

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South Yorkshire +33 49 £513 -14.58% 6
West Yorkshire +17 40 £475 +5.56% 30
North Yorkshire +12 5 £400 +14.29% 3
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 48 (52.75%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.20%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) AWS
2 13 (14.29%) Azure
3 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.69%) GitHub
5 7 (7.69%) Slack
6 6 (6.59%) GCP
6 6 (6.59%) Lucidchart
7 5 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.40%) IaaS
9 2 (2.20%) npm
9 2 (2.20%) OCI
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.10%) Asana
10 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.10%) Kong
10 1 (1.10%) Miro
10 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) HTTP
2 5 (5.49%) Firewall
3 4 (4.40%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.20%) DNS
4 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.10%) NAS
5 1 (1.10%) Network Security
5 1 (1.10%) NGN
5 1 (1.10%) SAN
5 1 (1.10%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) MongoDB
1 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (9.89%) Power BI
2 8 (8.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (8.79%) MySQL
3 5 (5.49%) Tableau
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.20%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Git
2 19 (20.88%) Cucumber
3 16 (17.58%) Selenium
4 13 (14.29%) JUnit
5 11 (12.09%) Postman
6 9 (9.89%) IntelliJ
6 9 (9.89%) Jenkins
6 9 (9.89%) Maven
7 8 (8.79%) Jasmine
8 6 (6.59%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.49%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
10 4 (4.40%) GitLab
10 4 (4.40%) Gradle
10 4 (4.40%) HP UFT
10 4 (4.40%) SoapUI
10 4 (4.40%) TestRail
10 4 (4.40%) Vagrant
11 2 (2.20%) webpack
12 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (31.87%) Finance
2 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Banking
4 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Analyst
2 16 (17.58%) Senior
3 15 (16.48%) Business Analyst
4 13 (14.29%) Tester
5 10 (10.99%) Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Lead
6 7 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (6.59%) QA Tester
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Automation Tester
8 5 (5.49%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Technical Business Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.40%) QA Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.40%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) RESTful
2 8 (8.79%) Spring
2 8 (8.79%) Spring Boot
3 7 (7.69%) Spring Security
3 7 (7.69%) Swagger
4 6 (6.59%) Gherkin
4 6 (6.59%) OpenAPI
4 6 (6.59%) Spring Batch
5 4 (4.40%) OAuth
5 4 (4.40%) OpenID
5 4 (4.40%) REST
5 4 (4.40%) SAML
6 3 (3.30%) CSS
6 3 (3.30%) HTML
6 3 (3.30%) Web Services
7 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.20%) Flask
7 2 (2.20%) JSON
7 2 (2.20%) pytest
8 1 (1.10%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.59%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.20%) NHS
4 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.10%) PKI
4 1 (1.10%) PMI
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Unix
4 2 (2.20%) Windows
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.10%) VMS
5 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) Agile
2 31 (34.07%) Test Automation
3 20 (21.98%) DevOps
3 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (20.88%) CI/CD
5 17 (18.68%) Migration
6 15 (16.48%) Continuous Delivery
6 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.29%) BDD
7 13 (14.29%) Project Management
8 12 (13.19%) Business Analysis
8 12 (13.19%) Scrum
8 12 (13.19%) TDD
9 11 (12.09%) API Testing
9 11 (12.09%) OWASP
9 11 (12.09%) Test Strategy
10 10 (10.99%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.99%) Mentoring
10 10 (10.99%) Microservices
10 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) Java
2 17 (18.68%) SQL
3 14 (15.38%) Python
4 11 (12.09%) Bash
5 5 (5.49%) Groovy
6 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.30%) Ruby
7 2 (2.20%) JCL
7 2 (2.20%) REXX
7 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.10%) Go
8 1 (1.10%) PHP
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.10%) Rust
8 1 (1.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) APMP
3 4 (4.40%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) CBAP
4 2 (2.20%) CCNP
4 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) CSPO
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.88%) QA
2 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) PMO
4 2 (2.20%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (12.09%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) VirtualBox
3 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.99%) Ansible
3 5 (5.49%) Puppet
4 4 (4.40%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.20%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.20%) Terraform
6 1 (1.10%) Consul
6 1 (1.10%) Grafana
6 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.10%) Istio
6 1 (1.10%) linkerd
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.10%) Rancher
6 1 (1.10%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Atlassian
2 6 (6.59%) Splunk
3 5 (5.49%) Cisco
3 5 (5.49%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.30%) Dell
5 3 (3.30%) Veritas
6 2 (2.20%) Google
6 2 (2.20%) Snow
6 2 (2.20%) VMware
7 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.10%) Commvault
7 1 (1.10%) ESET
7 1 (1.10%) F5
7 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.10%) Okta
7 1 (1.10%) Workday