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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 36 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 -29
Contract jobs citing JIRA 111 109 79
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.37% 5.15% 3.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.96% 36.33% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 59 58
10th Percentile £358 £343 £406
25th Percentile £426 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £569
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -10.95% -0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £675
90th Percentile £679 £646 £762
London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 271 300 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.10% 14.16% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 169 190
10th Percentile £358 £403 £411
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £631 £688
90th Percentile £767 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £530 £568
% change year-on-year -0.94% -6.61% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile - - £52.88
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile - - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £71.40
London median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%

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 6 February 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
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 6 February 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 -2 104 £525 +5.00% 55
West End of London +10 1 £550 +2.80%
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 49 (44.14%) Confluence
2 12 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.70%) CMS
4 2 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.80%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.80%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.90%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.60%) Trello
5 1 (0.90%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.80%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Summit
3 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.90%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) Azure
2 18 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (10.81%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.01%) AWS
5 9 (8.11%) GitHub
6 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.70%) GCP
8 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.70%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.70%) Serverless
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) DNS
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) DKIM
2 1 (0.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Power BI
2 5 (4.50%) Tableau
3 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.70%) Tick Data
4 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.80%) Metadata
4 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.80%) Redis
4 2 (1.80%) SQLite
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.90%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.90%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.90%) GIS
5 1 (0.90%) MySQL
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.11%) Git
3 7 (6.31%) Selenium
4 6 (5.41%) Postman
5 5 (4.50%) JUnit
6 4 (3.60%) GitLab
6 4 (3.60%) Maven
6 4 (3.60%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.70%) Xcode
8 2 (1.80%) CocoaPods
8 2 (1.80%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.80%) fastlane
8 2 (1.80%) Mockito
8 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.80%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.80%) TestRail
General
1 48 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (40.54%) Finance
3 32 (28.83%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (20.72%) Banking
5 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.50%) Front Office
8 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.60%) Legal
8 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Retail
9 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Marketing
10 2 (1.80%) Back Office
10 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.90%) French Language
11 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (27.93%) Analyst
2 25 (22.52%) Business Analyst
3 23 (20.72%) Senior
4 12 (10.81%) Developer
5 11 (9.91%) Lead
6 9 (8.11%) Project Manager
7 8 (7.21%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Business Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Banking Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Banking Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Scrum Master
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Administrator
11 4 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.60%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Junior
11 4 (3.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) Spring
2 6 (5.41%) REST
3 4 (3.60%) .NET
3 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.60%) Kafka
3 4 (3.60%) SOAP
3 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.70%) CSS
4 3 (2.70%) HTML
4 3 (2.70%) J2EE
4 3 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.70%) Web Services
5 2 (1.80%) ADO
5 2 (1.80%) AVFoundation
5 2 (1.80%) Core Animation
5 2 (1.80%) Playwright
5 2 (1.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.80%) RxSwift
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.80%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Equities
4 4 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.70%) Derivative
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.70%) PMI
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.80%) Animation
6 2 (1.80%) CMDB
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.90%) DTCC
7 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (63.96%) Agile
2 31 (27.93%) Scrum
2 31 (27.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (24.32%) DevOps
6 23 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (20.72%) Project Delivery
7 20 (18.02%) Project Management
8 18 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (14.41%) CI/CD
9 16 (14.41%) Migration
9 16 (14.41%) Workshop Facilitation
10 15 (13.51%) User Stories
10 15 (13.51%) Waterfall
11 14 (12.61%) Risk Management
12 13 (11.71%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
12 13 (11.71%) Test Automation
13 11 (9.91%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.71%) Java
2 10 (9.01%) Python
2 10 (9.01%) SQL
3 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.70%) C#
5 2 (1.80%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.80%) Bash
5 2 (1.80%) Korn
5 2 (1.80%) Objective-C
5 2 (1.80%) Swift
5 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.90%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) Groovy
6 1 (0.90%) PHP
6 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.90%) SOQL
6 1 (0.90%) VBA
6 1 (0.90%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.51%) Degree
4 7 (6.31%) PMI Certification
5 6 (5.41%) CBAP
6 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
6 5 (4.50%) PMP
7 3 (2.70%) ISEB
7 3 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.80%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.80%) CFA
8 2 (1.80%) CISSP
8 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.80%) IIBA
8 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.32%) QA
2 6 (5.41%) PMO
3 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.80%) GRC
5 2 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.90%) Basel III
6 1 (0.90%) EMIR
6 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.90%) MiFID
6 1 (0.90%) NCSC
6 1 (0.90%) PSD2
6 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) SEPA
6 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Ansible
1 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
1 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.90%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.90%) SCCM
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.01%) Salesforce
3 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (7.21%) Google
5 7 (6.31%) Oracle
6 5 (4.50%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.70%) Apple
7 3 (2.70%) Planview
7 3 (2.70%) SAP
7 3 (2.70%) Solace
7 3 (2.70%) Workday
8 2 (1.80%) Adobe
8 2 (1.80%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.80%) Databricks
8 2 (1.80%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.80%) HP
8 2 (1.80%) Murex
8 2 (1.80%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.80%) Splunk
9 1 (0.90%) Screaming Frog
58 JIRA jobs in Central London