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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 30 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 120 126 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.54% 6.15% 3.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.61% 44.06% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 84 59
10th Percentile £384 £327 £388
25th Percentile £466 £385 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £648 £625 £614
90th Percentile £726 £677 £715
London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
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 £75.45 - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year -38.89% +41.91% -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 269 286 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.19% 13.96% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 180 214
10th Percentile £375 £361 £400
25th Percentile £456 £422 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £551
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.54% -4.22%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £720 £773
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile - £63.75 £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +84.05% -22.38%
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 £45.94
90th Percentile £75.45 £86.25 £48.53
London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -13 110 £547 +5.19% 16
City of Westminster -3 7 £425 +13.33% 1
West End of London - 6 £488 - 1
Southwark 0 2 £625 -
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 40 (33.33%) Confluence
2 6 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) CMS
3 2 (1.67%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.67%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) Actimize
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.83%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.83%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) AWS
3 14 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.17%) GitHub
4 11 (9.17%) Serverless
5 10 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.83%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.83%) SaaS
8 6 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.00%) GCP
8 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.67%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) DNS
2 6 (5.00%) VPN
3 5 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.33%) DHCP
4 4 (3.33%) HTTP
5 3 (2.50%) Firewall
6 1 (0.83%) Internet
6 1 (0.83%) Network Security
6 1 (0.83%) NGFW
6 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 8 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.00%) Power BI
4 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.50%) Tableau
6 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.67%) Metadata
6 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.83%) QlikView
7 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (17.50%) Git
2 19 (15.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.00%) GitLab
4 9 (7.50%) JUnit
5 7 (5.83%) Postman
6 6 (5.00%) Mockito
7 5 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.17%) Selenium
8 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.50%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.50%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.67%) Ant
9 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.67%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.67%) Xcode
10 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.83%) Gatling
10 1 (0.83%) JMeter
General
1 57 (47.50%) Finance
2 46 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 35 (29.17%) Banking
4 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Retail
8 3 (2.50%) Front Office
8 3 (2.50%) Legal
8 3 (2.50%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Back Office
9 2 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (15.83%) Developer
2 18 (15.00%) Analyst
3 13 (10.83%) Senior
4 9 (7.50%) Business Analyst
4 9 (7.50%) IT Support
5 7 (5.83%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (5.83%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Lead
7 5 (4.17%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.17%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.33%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.33%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) REST
1 9 (7.50%) SOAP
1 9 (7.50%) Spring
2 8 (6.67%) Kafka
2 8 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.17%) Gherkin
3 5 (4.17%) JSON
3 5 (4.17%) WireMock
3 5 (4.17%) YAML
4 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.33%) Web Services
5 3 (2.50%) J2EE
5 3 (2.50%) Playwright
5 3 (2.50%) React
5 3 (2.50%) RESTful
5 3 (2.50%) SwiftUI
5 3 (2.50%) UIKit
6 2 (1.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (1.67%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.50%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) Derivative
5 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.83%) FMCG
6 1 (0.83%) iPad
6 1 (0.83%) iPhone
6 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.33%) Windows
2 7 (5.83%) Linux
3 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.50%) Unix
4 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) SUSE
5 1 (0.83%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.00%) Agile
2 33 (27.50%) Scrum
3 29 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (21.67%) CI/CD
6 23 (19.17%) DevOps
7 20 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (16.67%) Migration
8 18 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (11.67%) ITSM
11 13 (10.83%) Sprint Planning
12 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (9.17%) Customer Service
13 11 (9.17%) Sprint Retrospective
14 10 (8.33%) Decision-Making
14 10 (8.33%) Problem Management
14 10 (8.33%) Project Management
14 10 (8.33%) User Stories
15 9 (7.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.67%) Java
1 14 (11.67%) Python
2 12 (10.00%) C#
3 11 (9.17%) SQL
4 8 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.50%) Bash
7 3 (2.50%) Swift
8 2 (1.67%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.67%) C++
8 2 (1.67%) VBA
9 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.33%) PMP
5 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.83%) CBAP
6 1 (0.83%) CEH
6 1 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.83%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) IIBA
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) PMO
3 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.50%) SLA
5 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.83%) P3O
6 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.17%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.33%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Ansible
4 3 (2.50%) Istio
4 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.67%) Grafana
5 2 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) Consul
6 1 (0.83%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (15.83%) ServiceNow
2 15 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.50%) Remedy
4 6 (5.00%) Google
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle
5 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.50%) Okta
6 3 (2.50%) Planview
7 2 (1.67%) Adobe
7 2 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.67%) Citrix
7 2 (1.67%) Databricks
7 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.67%) IBM
7 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.67%) Splunk
7 2 (1.67%) Workday
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat