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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 -16
Contract jobs citing JIRA 136 104 109
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.91% 4.29% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.04% 32.91% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 62 65
10th Percentile £318 £260 £345
25th Percentile £410 £416 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +2.13%
75th Percentile £638 £610 £675
90th Percentile £695 £792 £810
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -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 £43.13
% change year-on-year +64.88% -38.47% +107.83%

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 316 316 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.07% 13.02% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 184 217
10th Percentile £355 £352 £360
25th Percentile £425 £471 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.58% -5.21%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £741 £781 £780
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 - - +31.82%
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 28 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 28 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 +13 126 £518 -3.27% 24
Southwark +1 1 - -
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 67 (49.26%) Confluence
2 10 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.15%) CMS
4 4 (2.94%) WordPress
5 3 (2.21%) Drupal
6 2 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.74%) Camunda
7 1 (0.74%) nginx
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (10.29%) MS Visio
2 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.94%) Trello
5 2 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.74%) InVision
6 1 (0.74%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.47%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.91%) Azure
2 13 (9.56%) AWS
2 13 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (9.56%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.15%) GitHub
4 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (2.94%) Figma
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.94%) Miro
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.21%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.21%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Serverless
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.47%) Firebase
6 2 (1.47%) PaaS
6 2 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Firewall
2 2 (1.47%) DNS
2 2 (1.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.74%) DKIM
3 1 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) Power BI
2 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.94%) Redis
4 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.21%) Tableau
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.47%) Metadata
5 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.47%) SQLite
5 2 (1.47%) Tick Data
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.74%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.74%) GIS
6 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.74%) MySQL
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Git
2 12 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.15%) Postman
3 7 (5.15%) Selenium
4 6 (4.41%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.68%) Maven
5 5 (3.68%) Xcode
6 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.94%) GitLab
6 4 (2.94%) JUnit
6 4 (2.94%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.21%) Mockito
7 3 (2.21%) SoapUI
7 3 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.21%) Subversion
7 3 (2.21%) XCTest
8 2 (1.47%) CocoaPods
8 2 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 52 (38.24%) Finance
3 30 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (20.59%) Banking
5 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.94%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Front Office
9 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.74%) Billing
11 1 (0.74%) French Language
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Police
11 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (24.26%) Analyst
2 27 (19.85%) Business Analyst
3 20 (14.71%) Senior
4 13 (9.56%) Developer
5 11 (8.09%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.35%) Lead
7 9 (6.62%) Product Owner
8 7 (5.15%) Consultant
8 7 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (5.15%) Tester
9 6 (4.41%) Administrator
9 6 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (2.94%) JIRA Administrator
11 4 (2.94%) Payments Analyst
11 4 (2.94%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.35%) HTML
1 10 (7.35%) REST
2 8 (5.88%) CSS
3 7 (5.15%) AngularJS
3 7 (5.15%) HTML5
3 7 (5.15%) SOAP
3 7 (5.15%) Spring
4 6 (4.41%) Web Services
5 5 (3.68%) ADO
6 4 (2.94%) .NET
6 4 (2.94%) JPA
6 4 (2.94%) Kafka
6 4 (2.94%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.21%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.21%) CSS3
7 3 (2.21%) JSON
7 3 (2.21%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.21%) React
7 3 (2.21%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (2.94%) Derivative
3 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.94%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.21%) Equities
4 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.47%) Animation
5 2 (1.47%) CMDB
5 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.47%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.47%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.47%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Unix
2 4 (2.94%) Windows
3 3 (2.21%) Linux
4 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (63.97%) Agile
2 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (24.26%) Scrum
4 31 (22.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 30 (22.06%) DevOps
6 27 (19.85%) User Stories
7 24 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (15.44%) Project Management
9 20 (14.71%) Roadmaps
10 18 (13.24%) CI/CD
10 18 (13.24%) Project Delivery
11 17 (12.50%) Migration
12 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 15 (11.03%) Workshop Facilitation
14 14 (10.29%) Risk Management
14 14 (10.29%) SDLC
15 13 (9.56%) Acceptance Criteria
15 13 (9.56%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.71%) SQL
2 18 (13.24%) Java
3 13 (9.56%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.82%) Python
5 4 (2.94%) Groovy
5 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.21%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.47%) Bash
7 2 (1.47%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.47%) Swift
7 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.74%) Go
8 1 (0.74%) Korn
8 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.74%) PHP
8 1 (0.74%) SOQL
8 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) SC Cleared
1 26 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) Degree
3 6 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.21%) CBAP
5 3 (2.21%) CISSP
5 3 (2.21%) PMP
6 2 (1.47%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.47%) ISEB
6 2 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.74%) APMG
7 1 (0.74%) CFA
7 1 (0.74%) CISA
7 1 (0.74%) CRISC
7 1 (0.74%) CSPO
7 1 (0.74%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.88%) PMO
3 4 (2.94%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) SEPA
5 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.47%) GDPR
5 2 (1.47%) GRC
5 2 (1.47%) NCSC
5 2 (1.47%) NIST
5 2 (1.47%) WCAG
6 1 (0.74%) COBIT
6 1 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.74%) PSD2
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.21%) Terraform
4 2 (1.47%) Ansible
4 2 (1.47%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.74%) Ambari
5 1 (0.74%) Consul
5 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.74%) Packer
5 1 (0.74%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.74%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.35%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.15%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.41%) Oracle
6 5 (3.68%) Google
7 4 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (2.94%) HP
7 4 (2.94%) Splunk
8 3 (2.21%) Adobe
8 3 (2.21%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.21%) IBM
8 3 (2.21%) Remedy
8 3 (2.21%) SAP
9 2 (1.47%) Apple
9 2 (1.47%) BMC
9 2 (1.47%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.47%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.47%) SmartStream