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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 39 54
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 114 108 86
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.62% 5.48% 3.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.36% 40.00% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 62 51
10th Percentile £366 £363 £363
25th Percentile £467 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £613
90th Percentile £719 £667 £706
London median daily rate £505 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +0.91% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £33.00
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £37.20 - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -26.67% +18.26% -41.28%

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 257 270 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.43% 13.70% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 161 198
10th Percentile £363 £400 £392
25th Percentile £452 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £18.17 - £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 - £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £40.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.38%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £45.94
90th Percentile £37.20 - £48.53
London median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year -18.71% +6.16% -46.72%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -7 109 £550 +3.29% 54
City of Westminster -2 2 - -
West End of London - 2 £550 -
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 39 (34.21%) Confluence
2 8 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.75%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.75%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.75%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (7.02%) MS Visio
3 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.63%) Trello
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.88%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.75%) Summit
4 1 (0.88%) Actimize
4 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.88%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.88%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.88%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.88%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.88%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.18%) Azure
2 21 (18.42%) AWS
3 14 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.89%) GitHub
5 7 (6.14%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.14%) Serverless
6 6 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.26%) GCP
7 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.39%) SaaS
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.63%) Slack
10 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) DHCP
1 2 (1.75%) DNS
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) HTTP
1 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.75%) VPN
2 1 (0.88%) Network Security
2 1 (0.88%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 6 (5.26%) Power BI
1 6 (5.26%) Tableau
2 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.75%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.75%) Metadata
5 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Looker
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.88%) QlikView
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.88%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.16%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) JUnit
4 5 (4.39%) GitLab
4 5 (4.39%) Postman
4 5 (4.39%) Selenium
5 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.63%) Mockito
7 2 (1.75%) Ant
7 2 (1.75%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.75%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.75%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.88%) Maven
8 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 56 (49.12%) Finance
2 38 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.44%) Banking
4 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.14%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Front Office
8 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
8 5 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.39%) Retail
9 4 (3.51%) Marketing
10 3 (2.63%) Back Office
11 2 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.88%) Military
12 1 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (23.68%) Analyst
2 20 (17.54%) Senior
3 16 (14.04%) Business Analyst
4 14 (12.28%) Developer
5 11 (9.65%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (7.89%) Lead
7 8 (7.02%) Banking Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.14%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.26%) IT Support
10 5 (4.39%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.39%) Banking Business Analyst
10 5 (4.39%) Product Owner
10 5 (4.39%) Scrum Master
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 3 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (2.63%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) Spring
2 5 (4.39%) Kafka
2 5 (4.39%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.51%) React
3 4 (3.51%) REST
3 4 (3.51%) Web Services
4 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.63%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.63%) J2EE
4 3 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.63%) Playwright
4 3 (2.63%) SOAP
4 3 (2.63%) WireMock
4 3 (2.63%) YAML
5 2 (1.75%) COM
5 2 (1.75%) gRPC
5 2 (1.75%) Qt
5 2 (1.75%) RESTful
5 2 (1.75%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.75%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.63%) Derivative
5 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.63%) PMI
6 2 (1.75%) Equities
6 2 (1.75%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) DTCC
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) FMCG
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (60.53%) Agile
2 36 (31.58%) Scrum
3 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.79%) DevOps
6 18 (15.79%) Migration
7 17 (14.91%) Project Management
8 15 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.28%) Project Delivery
10 13 (11.40%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.40%) Sprint Planning
10 13 (11.40%) Waterfall
11 12 (10.53%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.53%) User Stories
11 12 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (9.65%) Backlog Management
12 11 (9.65%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.53%) Java
1 12 (10.53%) Python
2 10 (8.77%) C#
2 10 (8.77%) SQL
3 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.26%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.75%) Bash
4 2 (1.75%) C++
4 2 (1.75%) VBA
5 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.88%) Korn
5 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.88%) Scala
5 1 (0.88%) Swift
5 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.51%) CBAP
5 4 (3.51%) PMP
6 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.75%) IIBA
7 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.88%) CEH
8 1 (0.88%) CFA
8 1 (0.88%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.88%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.88%) ISEB
8 1 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.04%) QA
2 10 (8.77%) PMO
3 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) SLA
5 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) Basel III
6 1 (0.88%) EMIR
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.88%) P3O
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Terraform
2 6 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Consul
4 1 (0.88%) Control-M
4 1 (0.88%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.14%) Oracle
4 6 (5.26%) Google
4 6 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.39%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.39%) Remedy
6 4 (3.51%) Planview
7 3 (2.63%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.63%) Databricks
7 3 (2.63%) Murex
7 3 (2.63%) SAP
7 3 (2.63%) Workday
8 2 (1.75%) Citrix
8 2 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.88%) LexisNexis
9 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.88%) Solace