JIRA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 46 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +18
Contract jobs citing JIRA 626 1,129 2,817
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.27% 4.66% 6.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.81% 32.08% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 748 1,958
10th Percentile £325 £325 £359
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £612
90th Percentile £685 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 39 76
10th Percentile £10.50 £37.40 £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £51.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +29.21% -11.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.14
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -9.84% +37.08% -16.43%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,748 3,519 8,154
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.94% 14.52% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 2,543 5,857
10th Percentile £360 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.89% +7.07%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 99 104
10th Percentile £24.37 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.57
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +18.90% +14.27%
75th Percentile £81.75 £70.64 £65.32
90th Percentile £90.00 £82.96 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

JIRA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JIRA trend for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JIRA.

JIRA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JIRA over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

JIRA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JIRA.

JIRA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JIRA over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

JIRA hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 255 (40.73%) Confluence
2 35 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (2.24%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (1.76%) CMS
6 7 (1.12%) nginx
7 5 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.64%) IIS
8 4 (0.64%) JBoss
9 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.48%) Appian
9 3 (0.48%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.32%) Apache
10 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Mule
11 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.99%) MS Visio
4 19 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.80%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.76%) SAP Hybris
2 7 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.96%) Maximo
4 5 (0.80%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.32%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.32%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 146 (23.32%) Azure
2 109 (17.41%) AWS
3 49 (7.83%) GitHub
4 48 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (6.39%) Power Platform
6 34 (5.43%) GCP
7 29 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (3.35%) SaaS
9 17 (2.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 17 (2.72%) Slack
10 15 (2.40%) Azure Stack
10 15 (2.40%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.24%) Miro
11 14 (2.24%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.76%) IaaS
13 10 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.60%) Serverless
14 9 (1.44%) Asana
14 9 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.44%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 41 (6.55%) Firewall
2 23 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 21 (3.35%) Intranet
4 20 (3.19%) DNS
5 16 (2.56%) BGP
6 11 (1.76%) VPN
7 10 (1.60%) DHCP
8 7 (1.12%) VLAN
9 6 (0.96%) HTTP
9 6 (0.96%) Internet
9 6 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.80%) NAS
10 5 (0.80%) SAN
10 5 (0.80%) Wireless
11 4 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
11 4 (0.64%) tcpdump
11 4 (0.64%) VSAN
11 4 (0.64%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.11%) Power BI
2 30 (4.79%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 16 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.76%) Tableau
8 8 (1.28%) MySQL
8 8 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.96%) PowerCenter
11 5 (0.80%) OLAP
11 5 (0.80%) OLTP
11 5 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (13.10%) Git
2 72 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 37 (5.91%) GitLab
4 36 (5.75%) Bitbucket
5 24 (3.83%) Selenium
6 18 (2.88%) TeamCity
7 17 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 17 (2.72%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.72%) JMeter
8 11 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.60%) Postman
10 9 (1.44%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.28%) Appium
11 8 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (1.28%) Eclipse
11 8 (1.28%) Maven
11 8 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (1.12%) JUnit
12 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 7 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 215 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 131 (20.93%) Finance
3 94 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.63%) Banking
6 22 (3.51%) Retail
7 21 (3.35%) Marketing
8 20 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.04%) Front Office
10 17 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.76%) Law
12 11 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.28%) Military
13 8 (1.28%) Police
14 7 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.96%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.96%) Publishing
16 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 120 (19.17%) Analyst
2 71 (11.34%) Business Analyst
3 63 (10.06%) Developer
4 59 (9.42%) Senior
5 46 (7.35%) Project Manager
6 37 (5.91%) Lead
7 35 (5.59%) Architect
8 26 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (3.83%) Technical Analyst
10 23 (3.67%) Consultant
11 19 (3.04%) Test Engineer
12 18 (2.88%) Technical Writer
13 17 (2.72%) Software Engineer
13 17 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.56%) Data Engineer
14 16 (2.56%) Test Analyst
15 14 (2.24%) Administrator
15 14 (2.24%) Full Stack Developer
15 14 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.24%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.19%) REST
2 41 (6.55%) HTML
3 37 (5.91%) CSS
4 28 (4.47%) React
5 24 (3.83%) XML
6 22 (3.51%) SOAP
7 21 (3.35%) Web Services
8 20 (3.19%) JSON
9 18 (2.88%) Middleware
10 15 (2.40%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.24%) RESTful
12 13 (2.08%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.92%) Kafka
13 12 (1.92%) Spring
14 11 (1.76%) .NET
14 11 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (1.76%) Node.js
15 10 (1.60%) LDAP
16 9 (1.44%) Java EE
16 9 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.31%) Product Ownership
2 18 (2.88%) Data Centre
2 18 (2.88%) Private Cloud
3 15 (2.40%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 11 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (0.80%) Clustering
10 5 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.80%) DataPower
10 5 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.80%) Replication
11 4 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (0.64%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.06%) Windows
2 55 (8.79%) Linux
3 18 (2.88%) Unix
4 15 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.12%) Android
7 6 (0.96%) AIX
7 6 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.80%) Solaris
8 5 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.32%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.32%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.16%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (52.40%) Agile
2 154 (24.60%) DevOps
3 105 (16.77%) Scrum
4 102 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 90 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (13.74%) Project Management
7 74 (11.82%) CI/CD
8 69 (11.02%) Test Automation
9 63 (10.06%) User Stories
10 54 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (8.63%) Software Engineering
11 52 (8.31%) Kanban
12 51 (8.15%) Migration
13 47 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (7.35%) Continuous Integration
15 45 (7.19%) Roadmaps
16 43 (6.87%) Project Delivery
17 41 (6.55%) Service Management
18 40 (6.39%) ITIL
18 40 (6.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.26%) Python
1 83 (13.26%) SQL
2 70 (11.18%) JavaScript
3 56 (8.95%) Java
4 43 (6.87%) PowerShell
5 30 (4.79%) C#
6 24 (3.83%) Bash
7 23 (3.67%) TypeScript
8 22 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.56%) C++
10 13 (2.08%) Go
11 11 (1.76%) C
12 9 (1.44%) Groovy
13 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.12%) Perl
15 6 (0.96%) Ruby
15 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.80%) ABAP
16 5 (0.80%) F#
16 5 (0.80%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 142 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 78 (12.46%) Degree
4 23 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.76%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.96%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.96%) PMP
10 5 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.64%) CSPO
11 4 (0.64%) ISEB
11 4 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.64%) PhD
12 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.48%) MCSA
12 3 (0.48%) MCSE
12 3 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.90%) QA
2 26 (4.15%) PMO
3 18 (2.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 12 (1.92%) GDPR
5 10 (1.60%) NIST
6 9 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.96%) NCSC
9 5 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.80%) GxP
9 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.64%) JTAG
10 4 (0.64%) SLA
11 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (7.19%) Docker
2 32 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.08%) vSphere
5 8 (1.28%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.80%) Firmware
9 4 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.64%) Snort
10 3 (0.48%) vCloud
10 3 (0.48%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.16%) HDFS
11 1 (0.16%) iptables
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (9.58%) Terraform
2 58 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 49 (7.83%) Ansible
4 16 (2.56%) Kibana
5 14 (2.24%) Progress Chef
5 14 (2.24%) Puppet
5 14 (2.24%) SCOM
6 13 (2.08%) Grafana
7 12 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (1.44%) Packer
9 8 (1.28%) Podman
10 7 (1.12%) logstash
10 7 (1.12%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.96%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.96%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.80%) Consul
12 5 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 92 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 73 (11.66%) Atlassian
3 50 (7.99%) Oracle
4 32 (5.11%) SAP
5 31 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 27 (4.31%) Splunk
7 23 (3.67%) VMware
8 21 (3.35%) Google
9 19 (3.04%) Salesforce
10 13 (2.08%) Dell
10 13 (2.08%) IBM
11 12 (1.92%) Adobe
12 11 (1.76%) Palo Alto
13 10 (1.60%) HP
14 9 (1.44%) Cisco
15 8 (1.28%) Avaloq
15 8 (1.28%) Informatica
16 7 (1.12%) Red Hat
17 6 (0.96%) Bloomberg
17 6 (0.96%) Genesys