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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 42 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -20
Contract jobs citing JIRA 128 105 95
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.30% 4.54% 3.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.89% 34.43% 35.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 59 62
10th Percentile £321 £319 £428
25th Percentile £411 £413 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £697
90th Percentile £675 £725 £786
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 313 305 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.41% 13.19% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 177 192
10th Percentile £357 £370 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -0.09% -9.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £759 £738 £786
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.30% +58.82% -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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +5 118 £500 -6.54% 79
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 59 (46.09%) Confluence
2 12 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.47%) CMS
4 4 (3.13%) WordPress
5 3 (2.34%) Drupal
6 2 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (3.13%) Trello
7 2 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.78%) InVision
8 1 (0.78%) Notion
8 1 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.56%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.78%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Summit
3 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.75%) Azure
2 15 (11.72%) AWS
3 13 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.25%) GitHub
6 5 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.13%) Figma
7 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.13%) Miro
8 3 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.34%) Serverless
9 2 (1.56%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.56%) Firebase
9 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) DNS
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
1 2 (1.56%) SSL
2 1 (0.78%) DKIM
2 1 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.59%) Power BI
2 4 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.13%) Redis
2 4 (3.13%) Tableau
3 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.56%) Metadata
4 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.56%) SQLite
4 2 (1.56%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.78%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.78%) GIS
5 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.78%) MySQL
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.03%) Git
3 8 (6.25%) Selenium
4 7 (5.47%) Postman
5 6 (4.69%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.91%) Maven
6 5 (3.91%) Xcode
7 4 (3.13%) GitLab
7 4 (3.13%) JUnit
8 3 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.34%) Mockito
8 3 (2.34%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.34%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.34%) Subversion
8 3 (2.34%) XCTest
9 2 (1.56%) Crashlytics
9 2 (1.56%) fastlane
9 2 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 51 (39.84%) Finance
2 47 (36.72%) Social Skills
3 32 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (21.09%) Banking
5 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.13%) Front Office
9 4 (3.13%) Legal
10 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.34%) Retail
10 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.56%) Marketing
11 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Back Office
12 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.78%) French Language
12 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (22.66%) Analyst
2 22 (17.19%) Business Analyst
3 20 (15.63%) Senior
4 11 (8.59%) Lead
5 10 (7.81%) Product Owner
6 9 (7.03%) Developer
6 9 (7.03%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.47%) Tester
8 6 (4.69%) Administrator
8 6 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Consultant
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.91%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (3.13%) Architect
10 4 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.13%) JIRA Administrator
10 4 (3.13%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.03%) HTML
2 8 (6.25%) REST
3 7 (5.47%) CSS
3 7 (5.47%) SOAP
4 6 (4.69%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.69%) Spring
4 6 (4.69%) Web Services
5 5 (3.91%) HTML5
6 4 (3.13%) .NET
6 4 (3.13%) ADO
6 4 (3.13%) JSON
7 3 (2.34%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.34%) CSS3
7 3 (2.34%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.34%) J2EE
7 3 (2.34%) JPA
7 3 (2.34%) Kafka
7 3 (2.34%) LDAP
7 3 (2.34%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.34%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Equities
4 4 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.34%) Derivative
5 3 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.34%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.56%) Animation
6 2 (1.56%) CMDB
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.56%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.47%) Unix
2 4 (3.13%) Windows
3 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.56%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (61.72%) Agile
2 34 (26.56%) Scrum
3 33 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (25.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (24.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 30 (23.44%) DevOps
6 23 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (17.97%) User Acceptance Testing
7 22 (17.19%) Project Management
7 22 (17.19%) User Stories
8 19 (14.84%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.84%) Roadmaps
9 18 (14.06%) Test Automation
10 16 (12.50%) Migration
11 15 (11.72%) Backlog Management
11 15 (11.72%) CI/CD
12 14 (10.94%) Workshop Facilitation
13 13 (10.16%) Risk Management
14 12 (9.38%) Acceptance Criteria
14 12 (9.38%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.50%) SQL
2 15 (11.72%) Java
3 13 (10.16%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.38%) Python
5 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.34%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.34%) Groovy
7 2 (1.56%) Bash
7 2 (1.56%) Korn
7 2 (1.56%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.56%) Swift
8 1 (0.78%) C#
8 1 (0.78%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) SOQL
8 1 (0.78%) VBA
8 1 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (17.97%) SC Cleared
1 23 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.94%) Degree
3 5 (3.91%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.13%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.13%) PMP
5 3 (2.34%) CBAP
5 3 (2.34%) CISSP
6 2 (1.56%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.56%) CFA
6 2 (1.56%) ISEB
6 2 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.78%) CISA
7 1 (0.78%) CRISC
7 1 (0.78%) CSPO
7 1 (0.78%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.41%) QA
2 7 (5.47%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.47%) PMO
3 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) GRC
4 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.56%) WCAG
5 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.78%) Basel III
5 1 (0.78%) EMIR
5 1 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.78%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) PSD2
5 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.78%) SEPA
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.34%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) Ambari
4 1 (0.78%) Puppet
4 1 (0.78%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.78%) SCCM
4 1 (0.78%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) Salesforce
2 9 (7.03%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.47%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.91%) HP
5 5 (3.91%) SAP
6 4 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (3.13%) Splunk
7 3 (2.34%) Adobe
7 3 (2.34%) Apple
7 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.34%) Remedy
8 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.56%) BMC
8 2 (1.56%) IBM
8 2 (1.56%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.56%) Planview
8 2 (1.56%) SmartStream