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 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 24 52 58
Rank change year-on-year +28 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing JIRA 86 57 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.77% 3.34% 2.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.56% 27.40% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 41 37
10th Percentile £359 £400 £200
25th Percentile £400 £419 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £529 £600 £550
90th Percentile £575 £638 £596
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +34.83%

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 193 208 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.43% 12.18% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 146 183
10th Percentile £359 £395 £326
25th Percentile £413 £416 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £650
90th Percentile £600 £624 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £52.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.74% +29.05%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

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 7 June 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 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
South Yorkshire +30 52 £510 -15.00% 10
West Yorkshire +5 33 £475 +5.56% 45
North Yorkshire - 4 £400 - 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 45 (52.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (6.98%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.60%) AWS
1 16 (18.60%) Azure
2 11 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (11.63%) GCP
3 10 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 8 (9.30%) GitHub
5 6 (6.98%) Lucidchart
6 4 (4.65%) IaaS
7 3 (3.49%) npm
8 2 (2.33%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.33%) dbt
9 1 (1.16%) Asana
9 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.16%) Miro
9 1 (1.16%) OCI
9 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) Firewall
2 5 (5.81%) HTTP
3 4 (4.65%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.16%) DNS
4 1 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.16%) NAS
4 1 (1.16%) NGN
4 1 (1.16%) SAN
4 1 (1.16%) SNA
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Power BI
2 5 (5.81%) Tableau
3 4 (4.65%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.33%) Bigtable
4 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Git
2 15 (17.44%) Selenium
3 11 (12.79%) Cucumber
4 9 (10.47%) IntelliJ
4 9 (10.47%) Maven
4 9 (10.47%) Postman
5 7 (8.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.98%) JUnit
6 6 (6.98%) Visual Studio
7 5 (5.81%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.65%) GitLab
8 4 (4.65%) Gradle
8 4 (4.65%) HP UFT
8 4 (4.65%) SoapUI
8 4 (4.65%) TestRail
9 3 (3.49%) Vagrant
9 3 (3.49%) webpack
10 1 (1.16%) DBeaver
10 1 (1.16%) REST Assured
General
1 28 (32.56%) Finance
1 28 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.47%) Banking
4 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (31.40%) Analyst
2 19 (22.09%) Business Analyst
3 13 (15.12%) Tester
4 9 (10.47%) Senior
5 7 (8.14%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Lead
6 6 (6.98%) QA Tester
7 5 (5.81%) Automation Tester
7 5 (5.81%) Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.65%) JIRA Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.65%) QA Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Technical Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.81%) REST
3 4 (4.65%) CSS
3 4 (4.65%) HTML
3 4 (4.65%) OAuth
3 4 (4.65%) OpenID
3 4 (4.65%) RESTful
3 4 (4.65%) SAML
3 4 (4.65%) Web Services
4 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.49%) Flask
4 3 (3.49%) pytest
5 2 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.16%) SOAP
6 1 (1.16%) Spring
6 1 (1.16%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.16%) Spring Security
6 1 (1.16%) XML
6 1 (1.16%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.33%) Derivative
3 2 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.33%) Equities
3 2 (2.33%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.16%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.16%) NHS
4 1 (1.16%) PMI
4 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Unix
3 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) Agile
2 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (26.74%) Test Automation
3 20 (23.26%) DevOps
4 19 (22.09%) Migration
5 16 (18.60%) Scrum
6 15 (17.44%) Business Analysis
7 14 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (15.12%) CI/CD
9 12 (13.95%) Data Protection
9 12 (13.95%) Project Management
9 12 (13.95%) Requirements Gathering
9 12 (13.95%) User Stories
10 10 (11.63%) API Testing
10 10 (11.63%) Test Strategy
11 9 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (10.47%) Decision-Making
11 9 (10.47%) Kanban
11 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.28%) Python
2 13 (15.12%) Java
2 13 (15.12%) SQL
3 5 (5.81%) Groovy
4 4 (4.65%) Bash
4 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.49%) Ruby
5 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.33%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (2.33%) JCL
6 2 (2.33%) REXX
6 2 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (1.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 4 (4.65%) APMP
5 2 (2.33%) CBAP
5 2 (2.33%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.16%) CCNP
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.16%) CSPO
6 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) PMO
3 2 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) VirtualBox
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Ansible
2 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.65%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.65%) Puppet
3 4 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.33%) Control-M
5 2 (2.33%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (2.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.16%) SCOM
6 1 (1.16%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) Atlassian
3 5 (5.81%) Cisco
4 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.65%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle
4 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.65%) Splunk
5 3 (3.49%) Dell
5 3 (3.49%) Veritas
6 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.33%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) IBM
6 2 (2.33%) Snow
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix
7 1 (1.16%) Commvault
7 1 (1.16%) EMC
7 1 (1.16%) F5
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft