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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 42 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing JIRA 117 98 82
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.91% 4.52% 3.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.07% 35.25% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 55 60
10th Percentile £358 £304 £448
25th Percentile £421 £413 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -12.92% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £675
90th Percentile £683 £673 £775
London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 292 278 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.75% 12.82% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 160 194
10th Percentile £363 £361 £404
25th Percentile £431 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -1.07%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £688
90th Percentile £772 £739 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
% change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%

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 11 January 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
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 11 January 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 +8 111 £525 +3.61% 16
City of Westminster - 1 £230 -
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 58 (49.57%) Confluence
2 11 (9.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.56%) CMS
4 2 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (9.40%) MS Visio
2 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.42%) Trello
5 1 (0.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.71%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.71%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.85%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) Summit
3 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.66%) Azure
2 15 (12.82%) AWS
3 14 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.40%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.84%) GitHub
6 5 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.56%) GCP
8 3 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.56%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.56%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.56%) SaaS
8 3 (2.56%) Serverless
9 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.71%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.71%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) DNS
1 2 (1.71%) Firewall
1 2 (1.71%) SSL
2 1 (0.85%) DKIM
2 1 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) Power BI
2 5 (4.27%) Tableau
3 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.71%) Metadata
4 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.71%) Redis
4 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.71%) SQLite
4 2 (1.71%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.85%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.85%) GIS
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.84%) Selenium
3 7 (5.98%) Git
4 5 (4.27%) Postman
5 4 (3.42%) GitLab
5 4 (3.42%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.56%) Maven
6 3 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.56%) Xcode
7 2 (1.71%) CocoaPods
7 2 (1.71%) Crashlytics
7 2 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.71%) fastlane
7 2 (1.71%) JUnit
7 2 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.71%) TestRail
8 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (37.61%) Finance
1 44 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (19.66%) Banking
4 8 (6.84%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.42%) Front Office
7 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Legal
8 3 (2.56%) Marketing
8 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) French Language
10 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (26.50%) Analyst
2 24 (20.51%) Business Analyst
3 21 (17.95%) Senior
4 12 (10.26%) Lead
5 9 (7.69%) Developer
5 9 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (5.98%) Senior Business Analyst
6 7 (5.98%) Tester
7 6 (5.13%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Administrator
8 5 (4.27%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.42%) Architect
9 4 (3.42%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.42%) JIRA Administrator
9 4 (3.42%) Junior
9 4 (3.42%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) HTML
1 6 (5.13%) REST
2 5 (4.27%) SOAP
3 4 (3.42%) .NET
3 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.42%) CSS
3 4 (3.42%) JSON
3 4 (3.42%) Spring
3 4 (3.42%) Web Services
4 3 (2.56%) HTML5
4 3 (2.56%) LDAP
5 2 (1.71%) ADO
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Camel
5 2 (1.71%) AVFoundation
5 2 (1.71%) Core Animation
5 2 (1.71%) ODBC
5 2 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.71%) SAML
5 2 (1.71%) UIKit
5 2 (1.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.42%) Equities
4 4 (3.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.56%) Derivative
5 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.56%) PMI
5 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.71%) Animation
6 2 (1.71%) CMDB
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Unix
1 4 (3.42%) Windows
2 2 (1.71%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (61.54%) Agile
2 35 (29.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (25.64%) Scrum
3 30 (25.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (24.79%) DevOps
5 23 (19.66%) Project Management
6 22 (18.80%) Project Delivery
7 21 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (16.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (14.53%) Migration
10 16 (13.68%) Test Automation
10 16 (13.68%) User Stories
11 15 (12.82%) CI/CD
11 15 (12.82%) Waterfall
11 15 (12.82%) Workshop Facilitation
12 14 (11.97%) Backlog Management
13 13 (11.11%) Risk Management
13 13 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.26%) Java
1 12 (10.26%) SQL
2 11 (9.40%) JavaScript
2 11 (9.40%) Python
3 3 (2.56%) Apex Code
4 2 (1.71%) Bash
4 2 (1.71%) Korn
4 2 (1.71%) Objective-C
4 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.71%) Swift
5 1 (0.85%) C#
5 1 (0.85%) Go
5 1 (0.85%) Groovy
5 1 (0.85%) PHP
5 1 (0.85%) SOQL
5 1 (0.85%) VBA
5 1 (0.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) SC Cleared
1 22 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.97%) Degree
3 6 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.27%) CBAP
5 4 (3.42%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.56%) PMP
7 2 (1.71%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.71%) CFA
7 2 (1.71%) CISSP
7 2 (1.71%) ISEB
7 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) CSPO
8 1 (0.85%) IIBA
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.53%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) PMO
3 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.56%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.71%) GDPR
5 2 (1.71%) GRC
5 2 (1.71%) SLA
5 2 (1.71%) WCAG
6 1 (0.85%) Basel III
6 1 (0.85%) EMIR
6 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) PSD2
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.71%) Ansible
2 2 (1.71%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.85%) SCCM
3 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.55%) Salesforce
3 9 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.84%) Google
5 6 (5.13%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.13%) Oracle
6 4 (3.42%) HP
6 4 (3.42%) SAP
7 3 (2.56%) Apple
7 3 (2.56%) Remedy
8 2 (1.71%) Adobe
8 2 (1.71%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.71%) BMC
8 2 (1.71%) IBM
8 2 (1.71%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.71%) Planview
8 2 (1.71%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.71%) Solace
8 2 (1.71%) Splunk
8 2 (1.71%) Workday