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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 118 126 95
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.74% 6.40% 4.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.29% 43.75% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 90 61
10th Percentile £389 £312 £331
25th Percentile £475 £385 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -10.43% -8.22%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £621
90th Percentile £725 £683 £719
London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £17.98 - -
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 £42.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
London median hourly rate £42.25 £44.75 £32.75
% change year-on-year -5.59% +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 279 288 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.21% 14.62% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 199 206
10th Percentile £413 £357 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.65% +2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £684
90th Percentile £738 £714 £779
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £17.98 £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 £42.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -45.45%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -14 112 £550 +10.00% 55
City of Westminster -3 7 £425 +13.33% 6
West End of London - 5 £425 - 4
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 46 (38.98%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.85%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.64%) AWS
2 20 (16.95%) Azure
3 11 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.47%) Serverless
5 9 (7.63%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.63%) GitHub
5 9 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.93%) SaaS
8 6 (5.08%) GCP
9 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.39%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.69%) dbt
12 2 (1.69%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.32%) DNS
2 10 (8.47%) VPN
3 8 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.08%) DHCP
5 3 (2.54%) Firewall
6 2 (1.69%) HTTP
6 2 (1.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.85%) Internet
7 1 (0.85%) Network Security
7 1 (0.85%) NGFW
7 1 (0.85%) SSH
7 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) Power BI
2 9 (7.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.93%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.54%) Tableau
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.85%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.85%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 17 (14.41%) Git
2 15 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.63%) GitLab
4 6 (5.08%) JUnit
4 6 (5.08%) Mockito
5 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.39%) Postman
6 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.54%) Selenium
6 3 (2.54%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.69%) Maven
7 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.69%) Xcode
8 1 (0.85%) Gatling
8 1 (0.85%) JMeter
8 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
General
1 51 (43.22%) Finance
2 46 (38.98%) Social Skills
3 28 (23.73%) Banking
4 22 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.24%) Front Office
9 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Retail
10 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.54%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.69%) Back Office
11 2 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.85%) Law
12 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (15.25%) Developer
2 16 (13.56%) Analyst
3 10 (8.47%) Senior
4 9 (7.63%) Lead
4 9 (7.63%) Project Manager
5 8 (6.78%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.93%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.24%) IT Support
8 5 (4.24%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.39%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.39%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) QA Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Tester
10 3 (2.54%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.63%) SOAP
1 9 (7.63%) Terraform
2 8 (6.78%) REST
3 6 (5.08%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.08%) Spring
3 6 (5.08%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.24%) JSON
5 4 (3.39%) HTML
5 4 (3.39%) Kafka
6 3 (2.54%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.54%) React
6 3 (2.54%) RESTful
6 3 (2.54%) SwiftUI
6 3 (2.54%) UIKit
6 3 (2.54%) Web Services
6 3 (2.54%) WireMock
6 3 (2.54%) YAML
7 2 (1.69%) Playwright
7 2 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.24%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.54%) Clustering
5 3 (2.54%) Derivative
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.85%) CSOC
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.86%) Windows
2 6 (5.08%) Linux
3 4 (3.39%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.39%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.54%) Unix
5 2 (1.69%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) SUSE
6 1 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.85%) VMS
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (54.24%) Agile
2 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (32.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (24.58%) Scrum
4 26 (22.03%) Migration
5 25 (21.19%) CI/CD
6 22 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (18.64%) DevOps
7 19 (16.10%) Sprint Planning
7 19 (16.10%) Test Automation
8 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (11.86%) User Stories
10 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (11.02%) Project Management
11 12 (10.17%) ITSM
11 12 (10.17%) Sprint Retrospective
12 11 (9.32%) Data Migration
12 11 (9.32%) Incident Management
13 10 (8.47%) Backlog Management
13 10 (8.47%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.25%) SQL
2 17 (14.41%) Python
3 11 (9.32%) Java
4 9 (7.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.08%) C#
6 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.54%) Bash
7 3 (2.54%) Swift
8 2 (1.69%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) Degree
4 3 (2.54%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.69%) PMP
6 1 (0.85%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.85%) CBAP
6 1 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.85%) CISM
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) IIBA
6 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.41%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) PMO
3 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.54%) SLA
6 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) GDPR
7 1 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.85%) NCSC
7 1 (0.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.85%) P3O
7 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.63%) Docker
3 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.24%) Grafana
3 4 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.54%) Istio
4 3 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.54%) SCOM
4 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.69%) SCCM
6 1 (0.85%) Ansible
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.25%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.78%) Remedy
4 7 (5.93%) Oracle
5 6 (5.08%) Google
6 4 (3.39%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.39%) VMware
7 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.54%) BMC
7 3 (2.54%) Commvault
7 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.54%) Okta
7 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.54%) Splunk
8 2 (1.69%) Adobe
8 2 (1.69%) Citrix
8 2 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.69%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.69%) Refinitiv