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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 31 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 119 126 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.70% 6.29% 4.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.65% 43.30% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 90 61
10th Percentile £394 £312 £331
25th Percentile £475 £385 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -10.43% -8.22%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £621
90th Percentile £732 £683 £719
London median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
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 £71.25 - -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £44.75 £32.75
% change year-on-year -29.61% +36.64% -39.35%

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 279 291 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.02% 14.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 201 205
10th Percentile £413 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.65% +2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £737 £713 £780
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £18.17 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -45.45%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -12 113 £550 +10.00% 21
City of Westminster -3 7 £425 +13.33% 5
West End of London - 5 £425 - 1
Southwark -3 2 £625 - 1
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 45 (37.82%) Confluence
2 7 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.84%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.84%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.84%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.81%) AWS
1 20 (16.81%) Azure
2 11 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
3 10 (8.40%) Serverless
4 9 (7.56%) Amazon S3
4 9 (7.56%) GitHub
4 9 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.88%) SaaS
7 6 (5.04%) GCP
8 5 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.36%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.68%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) DNS
2 10 (8.40%) VPN
3 8 (6.72%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.04%) DHCP
5 3 (2.52%) Firewall
6 2 (1.68%) HTTP
6 2 (1.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.84%) Internet
7 1 (0.84%) Network Security
7 1 (0.84%) NGFW
7 1 (0.84%) SSH
7 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) Power BI
2 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.52%) Tableau
6 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.84%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.84%) QlikView
7 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Git
2 14 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.56%) GitLab
4 5 (4.20%) JUnit
5 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.36%) Mockito
5 4 (3.36%) Postman
6 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.52%) Selenium
6 3 (2.52%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.68%) Xcode
8 1 (0.84%) Gatling
8 1 (0.84%) JMeter
8 1 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 51 (42.86%) Finance
2 46 (38.66%) Social Skills
3 29 (24.37%) Banking
4 20 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Front Office
7 5 (4.20%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Retail
9 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Back Office
10 2 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.84%) Marketing
11 1 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (15.13%) Analyst
2 17 (14.29%) Developer
3 9 (7.56%) Business Analyst
4 8 (6.72%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.72%) Senior
5 7 (5.88%) Lead
5 7 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) IT Support
6 6 (5.04%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.20%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.36%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.36%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Tester
9 3 (2.52%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) Terraform
2 7 (5.88%) SOAP
3 6 (5.04%) REST
4 5 (4.20%) JSON
4 5 (4.20%) Spring
5 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.36%) HTML
5 4 (3.36%) Kafka
5 4 (3.36%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.52%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.52%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.52%) React
6 3 (2.52%) SwiftUI
6 3 (2.52%) UIKit
6 3 (2.52%) WireMock
6 3 (2.52%) YAML
7 2 (1.68%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.68%) Playwright
7 2 (1.68%) Web Services
7 2 (1.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.04%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.36%) Derivative
6 3 (2.52%) Clustering
6 3 (2.52%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) PKI
8 1 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.76%) Windows
2 6 (5.04%) Linux
3 4 (3.36%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.36%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.68%) Android
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.84%) SUSE
6 1 (0.84%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.62%) Agile
2 37 (31.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (23.53%) Scrum
5 27 (22.69%) Migration
6 23 (19.33%) CI/CD
7 22 (18.49%) DevOps
8 20 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
9 17 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 16 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (10.92%) ITSM
12 12 (10.08%) Project Management
12 12 (10.08%) Sprint Retrospective
12 12 (10.08%) User Stories
13 11 (9.24%) Customer Service
13 11 (9.24%) Data Migration
13 11 (9.24%) Incident Management
14 10 (8.40%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.13%) SQL
2 17 (14.29%) Python
3 10 (8.40%) Java
4 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.04%) C#
7 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.52%) Bash
8 3 (2.52%) Swift
9 2 (1.68%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.68%) Korn
10 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) Degree
4 3 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.68%) PMP
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.84%) CBAP
6 1 (0.84%) CEH
6 1 (0.84%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.84%) CISM
6 1 (0.84%) CISSP
6 1 (0.84%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) IIBA
6 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.84%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.29%) QA
2 7 (5.88%) PMO
3 5 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.84%) GDPR
7 1 (0.84%) GRC
7 1 (0.84%) NCSC
7 1 (0.84%) NIST
7 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.84%) P3O
7 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.88%) Docker
3 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.52%) Grafana
2 3 (2.52%) Istio
2 3 (2.52%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.52%) SCOM
2 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.68%) Ansible
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.68%) SCCM
4 1 (0.84%) Consul
4 1 (0.84%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.97%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.56%) Remedy
4 7 (5.88%) Oracle
5 6 (5.04%) Google
6 4 (3.36%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.36%) VMware
7 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.52%) BMC
7 3 (2.52%) Commvault
7 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.52%) Okta
7 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.52%) Splunk
8 2 (1.68%) Adobe
8 2 (1.68%) Citrix
8 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.68%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.68%) Refinitiv