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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 117 119 97
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.46% 5.92% 4.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.49% 43.12% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 73 59
10th Percentile £387 £352 £388
25th Percentile £474 £405 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £678 £715
London median daily rate £520 £520 £533
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.78%
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 263 276 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.03% 13.73% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 167 218
10th Percentile £369 £379 £400
25th Percentile £453 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £545 £551
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -1.04% -7.44%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £725 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 £37.50 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -50.00%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -12 109 £550 +4.76% 53
City of Westminster -4 4 - - 2
West End of London - 4 £550 - 1
Southwark +2 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 41 (35.04%) Confluence
2 6 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) CMS
3 2 (1.71%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.71%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) JBoss
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (5.98%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.85%) Actimize
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.85%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.85%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.85%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.51%) Azure
2 22 (18.80%) AWS
3 15 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.26%) GitHub
5 11 (9.40%) Serverless
6 10 (8.55%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.98%) SaaS
9 6 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.42%) GCP
11 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.56%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) HTTP
2 3 (2.56%) DNS
2 3 (2.56%) Firewall
3 2 (1.71%) DHCP
3 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.71%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 8 (6.84%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.13%) Power BI
4 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.56%) Tableau
6 2 (1.71%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.71%) Metadata
6 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.85%) QlikView
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (17.09%) Git
2 19 (16.24%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.55%) GitLab
4 9 (7.69%) JUnit
5 6 (5.13%) Mockito
5 6 (5.13%) Postman
6 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.27%) Selenium
7 3 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.56%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.71%) Ant
8 2 (1.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.71%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.71%) Xcode
9 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.85%) Maven
9 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (47.01%) Finance
2 44 (37.61%) Social Skills
3 33 (28.21%) Banking
4 15 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Front Office
7 4 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Retail
8 3 (2.56%) Back Office
8 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Legal
9 2 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Developer
2 18 (15.38%) Analyst
3 14 (11.97%) Senior
4 9 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 8 (6.84%) IT Support
6 7 (5.98%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.27%) Lead
8 5 (4.27%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.27%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.42%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (3.42%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.42%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Tester
10 3 (2.56%) Consultant
10 3 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.55%) Spring
2 9 (7.69%) SOAP
3 8 (6.84%) Kafka
3 8 (6.84%) REST
3 8 (6.84%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.27%) Gherkin
4 5 (4.27%) JSON
4 5 (4.27%) WireMock
4 5 (4.27%) YAML
5 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.42%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (3.42%) Web Services
6 3 (2.56%) J2EE
6 3 (2.56%) Playwright
6 3 (2.56%) React
6 3 (2.56%) RESTful
6 3 (2.56%) SwiftUI
6 3 (2.56%) UIKit
7 2 (1.71%) COM
7 2 (1.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.56%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.71%) Derivative
5 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.85%) CSOC
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) FMCG
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.98%) Windows
2 6 (5.13%) Linux
3 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) SUSE
5 1 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (57.26%) Agile
2 32 (27.35%) Scrum
3 26 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (21.37%) CI/CD
5 21 (17.95%) DevOps
6 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (17.09%) Migration
7 18 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 15 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (9.40%) Decision-Making
11 11 (9.40%) ITSM
11 11 (9.40%) Roadmaps
11 11 (9.40%) Sprint Retrospective
12 10 (8.55%) Analytics
12 10 (8.55%) Project Management
13 9 (7.69%) Defect Management
13 9 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.82%) Python
2 14 (11.97%) Java
3 12 (10.26%) C#
3 12 (10.26%) SQL
4 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.56%) Swift
7 2 (1.71%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.71%) Bash
7 2 (1.71%) C++
7 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.71%) VBA
8 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) Degree
4 4 (3.42%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.42%) PMP
5 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.71%) CBAP
5 2 (1.71%) IIBA
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.85%) CEH
6 1 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.85%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) ISEB
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) QA
2 9 (7.69%) PMO
3 5 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
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%) SLA
7 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Docker
2 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.55%) Terraform
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Control-M
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Istio
6 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 17 (14.53%) ServiceNow
2 14 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) Remedy
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle
4 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.42%) Google
6 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.56%) Databricks
6 3 (2.56%) Okta
6 3 (2.56%) Planview
7 2 (1.71%) Adobe
7 2 (1.71%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.71%) Citrix
7 2 (1.71%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.71%) IBM
7 2 (1.71%) Murex
7 2 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.71%) Workday
8 1 (0.85%) Alias
8 1 (0.85%) VMware