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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 116 114 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.44% 5.94% 3.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 46.03% 44.19% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 68 58
10th Percentile £410 £360 £384
25th Percentile £474 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £575
90th Percentile £725 £669 £638
London median daily rate £513 £520 £533
% change year-on-year -1.44% -2.44% -7.10%
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 £32.11
% change year-on-year -38.89% +40.17% -40.55%

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 252 258 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.65% 13.44% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 155 213
10th Percentile £369 £383 £400
25th Percentile £452 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £724 £738 £760
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% +114.72% -6.86%
75th Percentile £31.13 £88.75 £45.94
90th Percentile £75.45 - £48.53
London median hourly rate £37.50 £38.75 £38.75
% change year-on-year -3.23% - -48.33%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -15 108 £550 +4.76% 13
City of Westminster -3 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 43 (37.07%) Confluence
2 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.72%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.72%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.86%) JBoss
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.17%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.86%) Actimize
2 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.86%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.86%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.86%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.86%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.86%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.83%) AWS
2 21 (18.10%) Azure
3 15 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.48%) GitHub
5 10 (8.62%) Serverless
6 9 (7.76%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.76%) SaaS
7 8 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.03%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.17%) GCP
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.45%) Slack
12 3 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.59%) Google Workspace
13 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) HTTP
2 3 (2.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.72%) DHCP
3 2 (1.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.86%) Internet
4 1 (0.86%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.17%) Power BI
4 5 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (4.31%) Tableau
5 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.72%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.72%) Metadata
8 1 (0.86%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.86%) QlikView
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) Git
1 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.76%) GitLab
3 8 (6.90%) JUnit
4 5 (4.31%) Mockito
4 5 (4.31%) Postman
5 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.45%) Selenium
6 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.72%) Ant
7 2 (1.72%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.72%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.86%) Maven
8 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.86%) Xcode
General
1 51 (43.97%) Finance
2 48 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 28 (24.14%) Banking
4 17 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Retail
8 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.45%) Front Office
9 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.59%) Back Office
10 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.59%) Legal
10 3 (2.59%) Marketing
11 2 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (18.10%) Analyst
2 19 (16.38%) Developer
3 14 (12.07%) Senior
4 10 (8.62%) Business Analyst
5 8 (6.90%) IT Support
6 7 (6.03%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (6.03%) Lead
6 7 (6.03%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.17%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Scrum Master
7 6 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.31%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.31%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.45%) Java Developer
10 3 (2.59%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Spring
2 7 (6.03%) Kafka
2 7 (6.03%) REST
2 7 (6.03%) SOAP
2 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.45%) Gherkin
3 4 (3.45%) JSON
3 4 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (3.45%) Web Services
3 4 (3.45%) WireMock
3 4 (3.45%) YAML
4 3 (2.59%) J2EE
4 3 (2.59%) React
4 3 (2.59%) RESTful
5 2 (1.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (1.72%) gRPC
5 2 (1.72%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.72%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.72%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.59%) PMI
5 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) Derivative
6 2 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) SUSE
4 1 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (59.48%) Agile
2 32 (27.59%) Scrum
3 29 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (18.97%) CI/CD
7 21 (18.10%) DevOps
8 18 (15.52%) Migration
9 16 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.93%) Project Management
10 15 (12.93%) Sprint Planning
10 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (10.34%) Backlog Management
11 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 11 (9.48%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 11 (9.48%) Decision-Making
12 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.48%) Project Delivery
12 11 (9.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 11 (9.48%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.21%) Java
1 13 (11.21%) Python
2 11 (9.48%) C#
3 10 (8.62%) SQL
4 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.72%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.72%) Bash
6 2 (1.72%) C++
6 2 (1.72%) Swift
6 2 (1.72%) VBA
7 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.48%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.45%) CBAP
5 4 (3.45%) PMP
6 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.86%) CEH
8 1 (0.86%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.86%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) IIBA
8 1 (0.86%) ISEB
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 9 (7.76%) PMO
3 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.59%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.86%) P3O
6 1 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.62%) Terraform
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Consul
5 1 (0.86%) Control-M
5 1 (0.86%) Grafana
5 1 (0.86%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (11.21%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.90%) Oracle
4 7 (6.03%) Remedy
4 7 (6.03%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.17%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.59%) Databricks
6 3 (2.59%) Planview
7 2 (1.72%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.72%) Citrix
7 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.72%) IBM
7 2 (1.72%) Murex
7 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.72%) Workday
8 1 (0.86%) Adobe
8 1 (0.86%) Alias
8 1 (0.86%) Informatica
8 1 (0.86%) VMware