Issue Tracking Contracts

Issue Tracking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Issue Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Issue Tracking over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 659 797
Rank change year-on-year +106 +138 -170
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 33 39 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.067% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.075% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 35
10th Percentile £259 £313 £415
25th Percentile £395 £337 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £675
90th Percentile £698 £743 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £333 £475
% change year-on-year -9.77% -30.00% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.08 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +73.31% -63.51% +40.56%
75th Percentile - - £67.65
90th Percentile - - £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +40.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Issue Tracking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Issue Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Issue Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking.

Daily rate trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Issue Tracking over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Issue Tracking.

Hourly rate trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Issue Tracking within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +101 27 £613 +9.13% 30
London +90 16 £600 -7.16% 10
UK excluding London +63 16 £300 -9.77% 19
South West +19 9 £625 +92.31% 3
Work from Home +110 8 £381 -39.00% 13
Scotland +45 5 £288 +4.55%
South East +17 1 - - 6
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 7

Issue Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Boomi
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Broadband
1 2 (6.06%) HbbTV
2 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) MySQL
1 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.21%) Power BI
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (60.61%) JIRA
2 7 (21.21%) ERwin
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Legal
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
1 7 (21.21%) Architect
1 7 (21.21%) Data Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Compliance Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Data Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Project Officer
3 5 (15.15%) Project Support Officer
3 5 (15.15%) Support Officer
4 4 (12.12%) QA Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) QA Test Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Centre Technician
6 2 (6.06%) Data Technician
6 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Test Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Deployment Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Gherkin
1 4 (12.12%) Jest
1 4 (12.12%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile
1 13 (39.39%) DevOps
2 12 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) Workflow
5 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) CRM
5 7 (21.21%) Data Integration
5 7 (21.21%) Data Migration
5 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
5 7 (21.21%) ETL
5 7 (21.21%) Migration
5 7 (21.21%) Quality Management
6 6 (18.18%) Data Security
6 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 6 (18.18%) SIEM
6 6 (18.18%) SOAR
6 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
2 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.06%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.03%) ISEB
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Data Quality
1 7 (21.21%) GDPR
2 6 (18.18%) QA
3 4 (12.12%) PMO
4 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) PowerCLI
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (3.03%) Puppet
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle
2 7 (21.21%) Informatica
2 7 (21.21%) Salesforce
3 6 (18.18%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.06%) Dell
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) HP
5 1 (3.03%) JDA
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft