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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing JIRA 116 108 78
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.87% 5.37% 3.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.94% 38.43% 28.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 63 46
10th Percentile £369 £363 £394
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £711 £640 £706
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £17.98 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £33.00
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £42.85 - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.36
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.28% -40.08%

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 264 281 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.09% 13.97% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 167 183
10th Percentile £363 £404 £413
25th Percentile £450 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £677
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
London median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £17.98 - £35.75
25th Percentile £18.75 - £39.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £62.00
90th Percentile £42.85 - £69.05
London median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -1.67% -22.58% -32.61%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -2 109 £525 - 48
Southwark 0 1 £650 -
West End of London - 1 £550 -
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 44 (37.93%) Confluence
2 10 (8.62%) 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%) JBoss
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Project
1 10 (8.62%) MS Visio
2 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.59%) Trello
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.86%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.72%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.72%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.72%) Summit
4 1 (0.86%) Actimize
4 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.86%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.86%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.86%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.86%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.86%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.24%) Azure
2 18 (15.52%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.62%) GitHub
5 8 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.17%) GCP
6 6 (5.17%) Serverless
7 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.59%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.59%) SaaS
9 3 (2.59%) Slack
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.72%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) Power BI
2 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
2 6 (5.17%) Tableau
3 4 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.72%) Tick Data
6 1 (0.86%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.86%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.86%) Looker
6 1 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.07%) Git
3 6 (5.17%) JUnit
3 6 (5.17%) Selenium
4 5 (4.31%) Postman
5 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.45%) GitLab
6 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.59%) Mockito
7 2 (1.72%) Ant
7 2 (1.72%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.72%) Maven
7 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.72%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.72%) TestRail
8 1 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (47.41%) Finance
2 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (24.14%) Banking
5 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.03%) Front Office
7 7 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.31%) Legal
9 5 (4.31%) Retail
10 4 (3.45%) Back Office
11 3 (2.59%) Marketing
12 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.86%) French Language
12 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Military
12 1 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (25.86%) Analyst
2 22 (18.97%) Business Analyst
3 21 (18.10%) Senior
4 14 (12.07%) Developer
5 12 (10.34%) Lead
6 10 (8.62%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (7.76%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (6.90%) Banking Analyst
9 7 (6.03%) Project Manager
10 6 (5.17%) Banking Business Analyst
10 6 (5.17%) IT Support
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 5 (4.31%) 2nd Line Support
12 4 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Junior
12 4 (3.45%) Scrum Master
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) Spring
2 5 (4.31%) Kafka
2 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.45%) REST
3 4 (3.45%) Web Services
4 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.59%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.59%) J2EE
4 3 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.59%) Playwright
4 3 (2.59%) React
4 3 (2.59%) SOAP
4 3 (2.59%) WireMock
4 3 (2.59%) YAML
5 2 (1.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (1.72%) COM
5 2 (1.72%) gRPC
5 2 (1.72%) Qt
5 2 (1.72%) RESTful
5 2 (1.72%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.45%) Derivative
4 4 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.59%) Equities
5 3 (2.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.72%) PMI
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.86%) DTCC
7 1 (0.86%) FMCG
7 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.86%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.86%) NHS
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Windows
2 4 (3.45%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Agile
2 32 (27.59%) Scrum
3 30 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (23.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
7 18 (15.52%) DevOps
7 18 (15.52%) Migration
7 18 (15.52%) Test Automation
8 17 (14.66%) Project Delivery
9 16 (13.79%) Project Management
9 16 (13.79%) Workshop Facilitation
10 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
10 15 (12.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
11 14 (12.07%) Risk Management
12 13 (11.21%) User Stories
13 12 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
14 11 (9.48%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.21%) Java
2 12 (10.34%) Python
2 12 (10.34%) SQL
3 9 (7.76%) C#
4 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.72%) Bash
6 2 (1.72%) C++
6 2 (1.72%) VBA
7 1 (0.86%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.86%) Korn
7 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.86%) Scala
7 1 (0.86%) Swift
7 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) Degree
4 5 (4.31%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.59%) CBAP
6 3 (2.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.59%) PMP
7 2 (1.72%) CFA
7 2 (1.72%) IIBA
7 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.86%) CEH
8 1 (0.86%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.86%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.86%) ISEB
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.52%) QA
2 9 (7.76%) PMO
3 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.59%) SLA
4 2 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.86%) Basel III
5 1 (0.86%) EMIR
5 1 (0.86%) GRC
5 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) MiFID
5 1 (0.86%) NCSC
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.17%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.31%) Terraform
2 4 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (1.72%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.86%) Consul
4 1 (0.86%) Control-M
4 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.03%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.17%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) Remedy
5 4 (3.45%) Planview
5 4 (3.45%) Workday
6 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.59%) Databricks
6 3 (2.59%) IBM
6 3 (2.59%) Murex
6 3 (2.59%) SAP
7 2 (1.72%) HP
7 2 (1.72%) SmartStream
7 2 (1.72%) Solace
8 1 (0.86%) LexisNexis
8 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.86%) Splunk