JIRA Contract Job Trends in Central London

Atlassian JIRA
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 31 48
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 116 124 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.60% 6.24% 4.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.49% 43.36% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 87 59
10th Percentile £387 £310 £329
25th Percentile £473 £378 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £662 £638 £617
90th Percentile £735 £693 £735
London median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% +165.15% -
75th Percentile £31.13 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £44.75 £32.75
% change year-on-year -29.61% +36.64% -39.35%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 273 286 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.82% 14.39% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 195 204
10th Percentile £413 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £657 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £716 £781
London median daily rate £528 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £18.17 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -46.43%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Central London

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Central London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Central London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in Central London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in Central London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
City of London -12 110 £550 +8.37% 49
City of Westminster -5 7 £425 +13.33% 1
West End of London - 5 £425 -
Southwark -3 2 £625 - 1
JIRA
London

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (37.07%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) JBoss
5 1 (0.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.17%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.86%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.86%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.86%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.86%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.24%) Azure
2 19 (16.38%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.62%) Serverless
5 9 (7.76%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.76%) GitHub
5 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.03%) SaaS
8 6 (5.17%) GCP
9 5 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.48%) DNS
2 10 (8.62%) VPN
3 8 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.17%) DHCP
5 3 (2.59%) Firewall
6 2 (1.72%) HTTP
6 2 (1.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.86%) Internet
7 1 (0.86%) Network Security
7 1 (0.86%) NGFW
7 1 (0.86%) SSH
7 1 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) Power BI
2 9 (7.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.03%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.59%) Tableau
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.86%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.86%) Looker
7 1 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.86%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (13.79%) Git
2 14 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.76%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) JUnit
5 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.45%) Mockito
5 4 (3.45%) Postman
6 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.59%) Selenium
6 3 (2.59%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.72%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.72%) Xcode
8 1 (0.86%) Gatling
8 1 (0.86%) JMeter
8 1 (0.86%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (43.10%) Finance
2 45 (38.79%) Social Skills
3 28 (24.14%) Banking
4 20 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.31%) Front Office
6 5 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.45%) Retail
8 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Back Office
9 2 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Law
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (15.52%) Analyst
2 17 (14.66%) Developer
3 9 (7.76%) Business Analyst
4 8 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.90%) Senior
5 7 (6.03%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) IT Support
6 6 (5.17%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.31%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.45%) Lead
8 4 (3.45%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Tester
9 3 (2.59%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Terraform
2 7 (6.03%) SOAP
3 6 (5.17%) REST
4 5 (4.31%) JSON
4 5 (4.31%) Spring
5 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.45%) HTML
5 4 (3.45%) Kafka
5 4 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.59%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.59%) React
6 3 (2.59%) SwiftUI
6 3 (2.59%) UIKit
6 3 (2.59%) WireMock
6 3 (2.59%) YAML
7 2 (1.72%) .NET
7 2 (1.72%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.72%) Playwright
7 2 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.31%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.45%) Derivative
6 3 (2.59%) Clustering
6 3 (2.59%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.86%) CSOC
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.07%) Windows
2 6 (5.17%) Linux
3 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.59%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.59%) Unix
5 2 (1.72%) Android
6 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.86%) SUSE
6 1 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.86%) VMS
6 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (53.45%) Agile
2 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (30.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (23.28%) Migration
4 26 (22.41%) Scrum
5 22 (18.97%) CI/CD
6 21 (18.10%) DevOps
7 19 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (14.66%) Sprint Planning
8 17 (14.66%) Test Automation
9 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (11.21%) ITSM
11 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.34%) Sprint Retrospective
11 12 (10.34%) User Stories
12 11 (9.48%) Customer Service
12 11 (9.48%) Data Migration
12 11 (9.48%) Incident Management
12 11 (9.48%) Project Management
13 10 (8.62%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.52%) SQL
2 17 (14.66%) Python
3 10 (8.62%) Java
4 9 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.17%) C#
7 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.59%) Bash
8 3 (2.59%) Swift
9 2 (1.72%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.72%) Korn
10 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) Degree
4 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.72%) PMP
6 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CBAP
6 1 (0.86%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.86%) CISM
6 1 (0.86%) CISSP
6 1 (0.86%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.86%) IIBA
6 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) PMO
3 5 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.59%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.86%) GDPR
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.86%) P3O
6 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.03%) Docker
3 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.59%) Grafana
2 3 (2.59%) Istio
2 3 (2.59%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.59%) SCOM
2 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.72%) Ansible
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.72%) SCCM
4 1 (0.86%) Consul
4 1 (0.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.38%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.76%) Remedy
4 7 (6.03%) Oracle
5 6 (5.17%) Google
6 4 (3.45%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.45%) VMware
7 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.59%) BMC
7 3 (2.59%) Commvault
7 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.59%) Okta
7 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.59%) Splunk
8 2 (1.72%) Adobe
8 2 (1.72%) Citrix
8 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.72%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.72%) Refinitiv