JIRA Contracts in the North West

Atlassian JIRA
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 55 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -20 +19
Contract jobs citing JIRA 98 112 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.53% 3.69% 5.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.91% 32.46% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 82 153
10th Percentile £312 £285 £350
25th Percentile £413 £335 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -9.95% +21.21%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £560
90th Percentile £682 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +2.62% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 20
10th Percentile - £44.63 £51.30
25th Percentile £37.55 £52.19 £65.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £56.38 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% -24.83% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £58.96 £77.50
90th Percentile £47.93 £63.60 £81.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +37.64% -19.82%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 289 345 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.40% 11.35% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 263 466
10th Percentile £360 £325 £363
25th Percentile £418 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £615
90th Percentile £680 £655 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 25
10th Percentile £37.55 £37.79 £41.08
25th Percentile £39.63 £38.25 £57.95
Median hourly rate £46.69 £49.16 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -29.78% +118.75%
75th Percentile £69.69 £55.32 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.45 £57.41 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North West.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North West over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Cheshire +27 53 £510 +7.37% 18
Manchester -20 30 £500 +11.11% 28
Lancashire +8 12 £740 +34.55% 5
Cumbria - 1 £450 - 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 27 (27.55%) Confluence
2 6 (6.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (5.10%) Apache
3 5 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) Mule
4 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) MS Visio
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Temenos T24
2 4 (4.08%) Misys Midas
3 1 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.47%) AWS
2 18 (18.37%) Azure
3 7 (7.14%) Apigee
3 7 (7.14%) Kong
3 7 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.10%) GitHub
5 5 (5.10%) Serverless
6 4 (4.08%) SaaS
7 3 (3.06%) BrowserStack
7 3 (3.06%) IaaS
8 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.04%) GCP
8 2 (2.04%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) FTP
1 5 (5.10%) HTTP
2 3 (3.06%) SSL
3 2 (2.04%) DNS
3 2 (2.04%) Internet
3 2 (2.04%) Network Security
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) Link 16
4 1 (1.02%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
2 7 (7.14%) OLAP
2 7 (7.14%) OLTP
3 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle OLAP
3 6 (6.12%) Power BI
4 5 (5.10%) Big Data
5 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.04%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.04%) Tableau
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.02%) Metadata
7 1 (1.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) Bitbucket
1 15 (15.31%) Git
2 13 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.10%) GitLab
4 4 (4.08%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.08%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (4.08%) Selenium
5 3 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.06%) Zephyr
6 2 (2.04%) Appium
6 2 (2.04%) Gatling
6 2 (2.04%) JMeter
6 2 (2.04%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.04%) Log4j
6 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.04%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.02%) Maven
7 1 (1.02%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (39.80%) Finance
2 31 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.39%) Banking
4 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.10%) Military
6 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Front Office
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) Avionics
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (16.33%) Architect
1 16 (16.33%) Project Manager
2 14 (14.29%) Analyst
3 8 (8.16%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Senior
5 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.08%) Developer
7 4 (4.08%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Consultant
8 3 (3.06%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) Kafka
1 11 (11.22%) Spring
1 11 (11.22%) Web Services
2 7 (7.14%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (7.14%) J2EE
2 7 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (7.14%) SOAP
2 7 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.12%) Apache Camel
3 6 (6.12%) Spring Integration
4 5 (5.10%) JSON
4 5 (5.10%) XML
5 3 (3.06%) JDBC
5 3 (3.06%) JPA
5 3 (3.06%) JWT
5 3 (3.06%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.04%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.04%) pytest
6 2 (2.04%) REST
6 2 (2.04%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) DataPower
2 6 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.10%) Cyberattack
3 5 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) CMDB
5 2 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) ASIC
6 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.02%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.02%) Life Science
6 1 (1.02%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.18%) Unix
2 8 (8.16%) Windows
3 5 (5.10%) Linux
4 2 (2.04%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.02%) Android
5 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) Agile
2 39 (39.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (29.59%) DevOps
4 23 (23.47%) Project Management
5 20 (20.41%) Software Engineering
6 16 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (16.33%) Design Patterns
6 16 (16.33%) Test Automation
7 15 (15.31%) Risk Management
8 13 (13.27%) Microservices
8 13 (13.27%) OO
8 13 (13.27%) Scrum
9 12 (12.24%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (9.18%) CRM
11 9 (9.18%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (8.16%) Change Management
12 8 (8.16%) Data Management
12 8 (8.16%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) Java
2 14 (14.29%) SQL
3 12 (12.24%) Python
4 7 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.10%) C#
5 5 (5.10%) C++
6 3 (3.06%) Groovy
7 2 (2.04%) Go
7 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) Scala
7 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) CCSA
5 1 (1.02%) CCSE
5 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) MISRA
2 4 (4.08%) MISRA C
2 4 (4.08%) NIST
3 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) EMIR
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (1.02%) GRC
4 1 (1.02%) GxP
System Software
1 13 (13.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (4.08%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.06%) Ansible
3 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.06%) Terraform
4 1 (1.02%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.02%) Istio
4 1 (1.02%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Oracle
3 7 (7.14%) Avaloq
3 7 (7.14%) IBM
3 7 (7.14%) TSYS
4 5 (5.10%) Informatica
4 5 (5.10%) Talend
5 4 (4.08%) Cadence
5 4 (4.08%) SAP
6 3 (3.06%) Tanium
7 2 (2.04%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco
8 1 (1.02%) HP
8 1 (1.02%) Intel
8 1 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.02%) Pega
8 1 (1.02%) VMware
8 1 (1.02%) Workday