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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 49 54
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing JIRA 134 98 110
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.80% 4.12% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.95% 31.82% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 59 66
10th Percentile £318 £256 £350
25th Percentile £410 £419 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -10.83% +2.13%
75th Percentile £638 £607 £675
90th Percentile £687 £808 £806
London median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.77% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £43.75 £26.54 £50.25
% change year-on-year +64.88% -47.19% +142.17%

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 312 308 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.82% 12.96% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 180 218
10th Percentile £354 £348 £361
25th Percentile £425 £471 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £572
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% -4.75%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £686
90th Percentile £731 £785 £779
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%

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 25 November 2025.

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
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 25 November 2025. 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 +20 124 £513 -4.21% 23
Southwark +1 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £230 - 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 65 (48.51%) Confluence
2 10 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.22%) CMS
4 4 (2.99%) WordPress
5 3 (2.24%) Drupal
6 2 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.75%) Camunda
7 1 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (10.45%) MS Visio
2 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.49%) Trello
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.75%) InVision
6 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.49%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.49%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.67%) Azure
2 13 (9.70%) AWS
2 13 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (9.70%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.97%) GitHub
4 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.99%) Miro
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.24%) Figma
5 3 (2.24%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.24%) SaaS
5 3 (2.24%) Serverless
6 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.49%) Firebase
6 2 (1.49%) PaaS
6 2 (1.49%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) Firewall
2 2 (1.49%) DNS
2 2 (1.49%) SSL
3 1 (0.75%) DKIM
3 1 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.96%) Power BI
2 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.99%) Redis
4 3 (2.24%) Tableau
5 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.49%) Metadata
5 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.49%) SQLite
5 2 (1.49%) Tick Data
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.75%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.75%) GIS
6 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.70%) Git
2 12 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.22%) Postman
3 7 (5.22%) Selenium
4 6 (4.48%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.73%) Maven
5 5 (3.73%) Xcode
6 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.99%) GitLab
6 4 (2.99%) JUnit
6 4 (2.99%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.24%) Mockito
7 3 (2.24%) SoapUI
7 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.24%) Subversion
7 3 (2.24%) XCTest
8 2 (1.49%) CocoaPods
8 2 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (39.55%) Social Skills
2 50 (37.31%) Finance
3 28 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (20.15%) Banking
5 11 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.99%) Legal
9 3 (2.24%) Front Office
9 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.24%) Retail
10 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Automotive
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
11 1 (0.75%) Billing
11 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.75%) French Language
11 1 (0.75%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (23.88%) Analyst
2 26 (19.40%) Business Analyst
3 20 (14.93%) Senior
4 13 (9.70%) Developer
5 11 (8.21%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.46%) Lead
7 9 (6.72%) Product Owner
8 7 (5.22%) Consultant
8 7 (5.22%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (5.22%) Tester
9 6 (4.48%) Administrator
9 6 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.73%) Architect
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (3.73%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (2.99%) JIRA Administrator
11 4 (2.99%) Payments Analyst
11 4 (2.99%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.46%) HTML
1 10 (7.46%) REST
2 8 (5.97%) CSS
3 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
3 7 (5.22%) HTML5
3 7 (5.22%) SOAP
3 7 (5.22%) Spring
4 6 (4.48%) Web Services
5 5 (3.73%) .NET
5 5 (3.73%) ADO
6 4 (2.99%) JPA
6 4 (2.99%) Kafka
6 4 (2.99%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.24%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.24%) CSS3
7 3 (2.24%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.24%) J2EE
7 3 (2.24%) LDAP
7 3 (2.24%) React
7 3 (2.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.93%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.73%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (2.99%) Derivative
3 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.99%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.24%) Equities
4 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.49%) Animation
5 2 (1.49%) CMDB
5 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.49%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.49%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.49%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Unix
2 4 (2.99%) Windows
3 3 (2.24%) Linux
4 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (64.18%) Agile
2 33 (24.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.13%) Scrum
5 30 (22.39%) DevOps
6 29 (21.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (20.15%) User Stories
8 24 (17.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 22 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (15.67%) Project Management
11 20 (14.93%) Roadmaps
12 19 (14.18%) CI/CD
13 17 (12.69%) Migration
14 16 (11.94%) Project Delivery
14 16 (11.94%) Test Automation
15 15 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation
16 14 (10.45%) Risk Management
16 14 (10.45%) SDLC
17 13 (9.70%) Acceptance Criteria
17 13 (9.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.93%) SQL
2 18 (13.43%) Java
3 14 (10.45%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.96%) Python
5 4 (2.99%) Groovy
5 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.24%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.49%) Bash
7 2 (1.49%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.49%) Swift
7 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) Korn
8 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.75%) PHP
8 1 (0.75%) SOQL
8 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
1 26 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) Degree
3 6 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.99%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.24%) CBAP
5 3 (2.24%) CISSP
5 3 (2.24%) PMP
6 2 (1.49%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.49%) ISEB
6 2 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.75%) APMG
7 1 (0.75%) CFA
7 1 (0.75%) CISA
7 1 (0.75%) CSPO
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) QA
2 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.97%) PMO
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.24%) SEPA
5 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.49%) GDPR
5 2 (1.49%) GRC
5 2 (1.49%) NCSC
5 2 (1.49%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) WCAG
6 1 (0.75%) COBIT
6 1 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) PSD2
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.24%) Terraform
4 2 (1.49%) Ansible
4 2 (1.49%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.75%) Ambari
5 1 (0.75%) Consul
5 1 (0.75%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.75%) Packer
5 1 (0.75%) Puppet
5 1 (0.75%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.75%) SCCM
5 1 (0.75%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.48%) Oracle
5 5 (3.73%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.73%) Google
6 4 (2.99%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.99%) HP
6 4 (2.99%) Splunk
7 3 (2.24%) Adobe
7 3 (2.24%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.24%) IBM
7 3 (2.24%) Remedy
7 3 (2.24%) SAP
8 2 (1.49%) Apple
8 2 (1.49%) BMC
8 2 (1.49%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.49%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.49%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.49%) Solace