JIRA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 42 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 871 1,125 1,784
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.25% 4.82% 5.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.11% 34.35% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 792 1,260
10th Percentile £341 £304 £350
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - +10.80%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £555
90th Percentile £688 £650 £635
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £521
% change year-on-year - +0.68% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 38 45
10th Percentile £36.83 £41.14 £37.10
25th Percentile £40.94 £53.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.72 £57.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +15.13% +24.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £83.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.44 £66.69 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.36% +48.19% -1.10%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,227 3,275 4,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.87% 14.02% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 2,313 3,174
10th Percentile £350 £349 £361
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.61%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 173 115
10th Percentile £40.94 £46.26 £38.68
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £44.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.65
90th Percentile £80.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.63
% change year-on-year +5.69% +16.85% +16.96%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Scotland +26 217 £500 +11.61% 27
South East +4 203 £480 -4.00% 105
South West +21 185 £538 +7.50% 60
North of England -21 135 £500 - 82
North West -14 73 £510 +13.33% 45
Midlands -48 61 £468 +3.03% 86
Yorkshire +5 57 £450 -14.29% 32
East of England -19 56 £450 -10.00% 36
West Midlands -59 36 £500 -4.76% 51
East Midlands +1 25 £363 +9.85% 35
Wales +20 13 £520 +4.00% 11
North East -20 5 £566 -0.66% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 382 (43.86%) Confluence
2 57 (6.54%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.13%) SharePoint Server
4 35 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (2.76%) Apache
6 16 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (1.26%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.80%) JBoss
10 5 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.46%) Appian
12 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.23%) CMS
13 2 (0.23%) Mule
13 2 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.23%) WildFly
14 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 55 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (4.25%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 24 (2.76%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 4 (0.46%) Windchill
8 3 (0.34%) Sketch
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.26%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.57%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.11%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 171 (19.63%) Azure
2 106 (12.17%) AWS
3 53 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (5.63%) Power Platform
5 46 (5.28%) GitHub
6 37 (4.25%) Azure Stack
7 29 (3.33%) GCP
8 23 (2.64%) PowerApps
9 21 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.72%) SaaS
12 13 (1.49%) Kong
12 13 (1.49%) PaaS
12 13 (1.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 13 (1.49%) Serverless
13 12 (1.38%) Apigee
13 12 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.54%) Firewall
2 52 (5.97%) BGP
3 32 (3.67%) DNS
4 28 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 27 (3.10%) VPN
6 17 (1.95%) DHCP
7 16 (1.84%) HTTP
7 16 (1.84%) SNMP
8 15 (1.72%) MPLS
8 15 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
9 14 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
10 12 (1.38%) 5G
11 11 (1.26%) VSAN
12 10 (1.15%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (1.03%) SSL
14 8 (0.92%) Wireless
15 6 (0.69%) FTP
15 6 (0.69%) VoIP
16 5 (0.57%) WAN
16 5 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.59%) Power BI
2 29 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.10%) MongoDB
4 14 (1.61%) Big Data
4 14 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.03%) MySQL
6 7 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.80%) Tableau
7 6 (0.69%) Metadata
7 6 (0.69%) RDBMS
7 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.57%) OLAP
8 5 (0.57%) OLTP
8 5 (0.57%) Oracle OLAP
9 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 122 (14.01%) Jenkins
2 115 (13.20%) Git
3 71 (8.15%) Bitbucket
4 54 (6.20%) GitLab
5 38 (4.36%) Cucumber
6 35 (4.02%) Selenium
7 32 (3.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 28 (3.21%) GoogleTest
9 26 (2.99%) Robot Framework
10 22 (2.53%) Eclipse
11 21 (2.41%) Subversion
12 20 (2.30%) Postman
13 18 (2.07%) SonarQube
14 17 (1.95%) TestRail
15 16 (1.84%) JMeter
15 16 (1.84%) JUnit
16 14 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
17 12 (1.38%) IntelliJ
17 12 (1.38%) REST Assured
18 9 (1.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 326 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (17.22%) Finance
4 119 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 41 (4.71%) Aerospace
6 40 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (3.90%) Banking
8 28 (3.21%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.87%) Military
11 24 (2.76%) Retail
12 21 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.95%) Marketing
14 12 (1.38%) Automotive
15 11 (1.26%) Law
16 10 (1.15%) Legal
17 8 (0.92%) Police
18 7 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 130 (14.93%) Analyst
2 112 (12.86%) Developer
3 92 (10.56%) Senior
4 71 (8.15%) Lead
5 64 (7.35%) Project Manager
6 55 (6.31%) Test Engineer
7 47 (5.40%) Business Analyst
7 47 (5.40%) Software Engineer
8 38 (4.36%) Architect
9 33 (3.79%) Data Analyst
10 32 (3.67%) Java Developer
11 31 (3.56%) Project Leader
12 30 (3.44%) Java Engineer
13 27 (3.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 25 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (2.76%) Product Manager
16 23 (2.64%) C++ Software Engineer
17 22 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (2.53%) Integration Engineer
17 22 (2.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.66%) REST
2 41 (4.71%) .NET
3 37 (4.25%) HTML
4 36 (4.13%) Kafka
5 31 (3.56%) CSS
6 28 (3.21%) .NET Core
6 28 (3.21%) Spring
7 27 (3.10%) Spring Boot
7 27 (3.10%) XML
8 25 (2.87%) JSON
8 25 (2.87%) SOAP
8 25 (2.87%) Web Services
9 20 (2.30%) React
10 19 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (1.84%) Apache Camel
12 15 (1.72%) J2EE
12 15 (1.72%) Java EE
13 14 (1.61%) YAML
14 13 (1.49%) Qt
14 13 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.51%) Product Ownership
2 45 (5.17%) Private Cloud
3 31 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.87%) PKI
5 21 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.57%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.57%) Clustering
14 5 (0.57%) Device Driver
14 5 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 123 (14.12%) Linux
2 117 (13.43%) Windows
3 32 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.64%) Unix
5 22 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.03%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.57%) AIX
9 5 (0.57%) VMS
10 4 (0.46%) Android
10 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.34%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (55.22%) Agile
2 170 (19.52%) DevOps
3 164 (18.83%) Scrum
4 163 (18.71%) Project Management
5 155 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 109 (12.51%) CI/CD
8 104 (11.94%) Project Delivery
9 89 (10.22%) Software Engineering
9 89 (10.22%) Test Automation
10 84 (9.64%) Continuous Integration
11 77 (8.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 74 (8.50%) Service Management
13 70 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (7.81%) ITIL
14 68 (7.81%) Roadmaps
15 66 (7.58%) Workflow
16 63 (7.23%) Migration
17 55 (6.31%) Configuration Management
17 55 (6.31%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 138 (15.84%) Python
2 124 (14.24%) Java
3 120 (13.78%) SQL
4 69 (7.92%) PowerShell
5 55 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 52 (5.97%) C++
7 29 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.21%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.87%) Bash
9 25 (2.87%) C#
10 21 (2.41%) C
11 15 (1.72%) Scala
12 14 (1.61%) Groovy
13 11 (1.26%) Go
13 11 (1.26%) Perl
14 8 (0.92%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.80%) ABAP
15 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 283 (32.49%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.06%) Degree
4 75 (8.61%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.87%) APMP
6 24 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.95%) MCSE
8 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.84%) MCSA
9 16 (1.84%) PMP
10 13 (1.49%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.80%) CCNA
12 7 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.46%) ISEB
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.12%) PMO
2 49 (5.63%) QA
3 39 (4.48%) Government Security Classifications
4 15 (1.72%) MISRA
5 13 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.15%) SLA
7 9 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.92%) GxP
9 7 (0.80%) GDPR
9 7 (0.80%) NCSC
10 6 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
10 6 (0.69%) NIST
11 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.46%) JTAG
13 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.23%) MISRA C
System Software
1 72 (8.27%) Docker
2 49 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 41 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.30%) Firmware
5 14 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.15%) vSphere
8 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.69%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.11%) HDFS
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.11%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) Snort
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (8.38%) Ansible
2 59 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.63%) Terraform
4 26 (2.99%) SCOM
5 25 (2.87%) PowerCLI
6 24 (2.76%) Kibana
7 20 (2.30%) Docker Swarm
8 16 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.38%) Grafana
9 12 (1.38%) Podman
10 11 (1.26%) Puppet
11 10 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.15%) Prometheus
11 10 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.92%) logstash
13 5 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.46%) Autotask
14 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 166 (19.06%) Atlassian
2 151 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 50 (5.74%) SAP
3 50 (5.74%) VMware
4 43 (4.94%) Oracle
5 36 (4.13%) Google
6 34 (3.90%) Dell
7 30 (3.44%) HP
8 29 (3.33%) Splunk
9 27 (3.10%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.53%) Cisco
10 22 (2.53%) Salesforce
11 21 (2.41%) Avaloq
12 15 (1.72%) Adobe
13 12 (1.38%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.15%) Juniper
15 9 (1.03%) IBM
15 9 (1.03%) Informatica
16 8 (0.92%) Cadence
17 7 (0.80%) Talend