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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 41 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing JIRA 127 105 100
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.39% 4.46% 3.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.19% 33.87% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 60 61
10th Percentile £323 £322 £425
25th Percentile £408 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -10.83% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £700
90th Percentile £697 £733 £788
London median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.43% -8.59% -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 316 310 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.90% 13.17% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 178 205
10th Percentile £355 £380 £359
25th Percentile £425 £465 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -10.31%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £750 £775
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 £50.75 £52.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.44% -10.87%

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 17 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 17 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 +9 117 £510 -8.31% 15
City of Westminster - 1 £230 - 3
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 58 (45.67%) Confluence
2 11 (8.66%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.51%) CMS
4 4 (3.15%) WordPress
5 3 (2.36%) Drupal
6 2 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (9.45%) MS Visio
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.15%) Trello
5 2 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.79%) InVision
6 1 (0.79%) Notion
6 1 (0.79%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.57%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.57%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Summit
3 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.11%) Azure
2 14 (11.02%) AWS
3 12 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.66%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.30%) GitHub
6 5 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.15%) Figma
7 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.15%) Miro
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.36%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.36%) Serverless
9 2 (1.57%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) Firewall
2 2 (1.57%) DNS
2 2 (1.57%) SSL
3 1 (0.79%) DKIM
3 1 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.79%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.87%) Power BI
2 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.15%) Redis
3 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.57%) Metadata
4 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.57%) SQLite
4 2 (1.57%) Tableau
4 2 (1.57%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.79%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.79%) GIS
5 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.09%) Git
3 8 (6.30%) Selenium
4 7 (5.51%) Postman
5 6 (4.72%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.94%) Maven
6 5 (3.94%) Xcode
7 4 (3.15%) GitLab
7 4 (3.15%) JUnit
8 3 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.36%) Mockito
8 3 (2.36%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.36%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.36%) Subversion
8 3 (2.36%) XCTest
9 2 (1.57%) Crashlytics
9 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.57%) fastlane
General
1 48 (37.80%) Finance
2 45 (35.43%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (20.47%) Banking
5 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.15%) Legal
9 3 (2.36%) Front Office
9 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Retail
9 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Back Office
11 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.79%) French Language
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Marketing
11 1 (0.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (22.05%) Analyst
2 22 (17.32%) Business Analyst
2 22 (17.32%) Senior
3 10 (7.87%) Lead
3 10 (7.87%) Product Owner
4 9 (7.09%) Developer
4 9 (7.09%) Project Manager
5 7 (5.51%) Tester
6 6 (4.72%) Administrator
6 6 (4.72%) Senior Manager
6 6 (4.72%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Architect
7 5 (3.94%) Consultant
7 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.15%) JIRA Administrator
8 4 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.15%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) HTML
2 8 (6.30%) REST
3 7 (5.51%) CSS
3 7 (5.51%) SOAP
4 6 (4.72%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.72%) Spring
4 6 (4.72%) Web Services
5 5 (3.94%) HTML5
6 4 (3.15%) .NET
6 4 (3.15%) ADO
6 4 (3.15%) JSON
7 3 (2.36%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.36%) CSS3
7 3 (2.36%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.36%) J2EE
7 3 (2.36%) JPA
7 3 (2.36%) Kafka
7 3 (2.36%) LDAP
7 3 (2.36%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.36%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.15%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.36%) Derivative
5 3 (2.36%) Equities
5 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.57%) Animation
6 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.57%) CMDB
6 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.57%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.57%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Unix
2 4 (3.15%) Windows
3 2 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.57%) Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (61.42%) Agile
2 33 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (25.98%) Scrum
3 31 (24.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (23.62%) DevOps
4 30 (23.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (18.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 23 (18.11%) User Stories
6 21 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (14.96%) Project Management
7 19 (14.96%) Roadmaps
8 18 (14.17%) Test Automation
9 17 (13.39%) Migration
9 17 (13.39%) Project Delivery
10 16 (12.60%) CI/CD
11 14 (11.02%) Backlog Management
12 13 (10.24%) Acceptance Criteria
12 13 (10.24%) Risk Management
12 13 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (9.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.60%) SQL
2 15 (11.81%) Java
3 13 (10.24%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.45%) Python
5 4 (3.15%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.36%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.36%) Groovy
7 2 (1.57%) Bash
7 2 (1.57%) Korn
7 2 (1.57%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.57%) Swift
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) Go
8 1 (0.79%) PHP
8 1 (0.79%) SOQL
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
8 1 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
1 22 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.02%) Degree
3 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.15%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.15%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.36%) CBAP
4 3 (2.36%) CISSP
4 3 (2.36%) PMP
5 2 (1.57%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (1.57%) ISEB
6 1 (0.79%) CFA
6 1 (0.79%) CISA
6 1 (0.79%) CRISC
6 1 (0.79%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.79%) IIBA
6 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.54%) QA
2 7 (5.51%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.51%) PMO
3 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) GRC
3 2 (1.57%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.57%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) EMIR
4 1 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.79%) MiFID
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) PSD2
4 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.36%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.57%) Ansible
3 2 (1.57%) Terraform
4 1 (0.79%) Ambari
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.79%) SCCM
4 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.09%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.30%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.51%) Google
5 6 (4.72%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.72%) Oracle
6 5 (3.94%) HP
6 5 (3.94%) SAP
7 4 (3.15%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (3.15%) Splunk
8 3 (2.36%) Adobe
8 3 (2.36%) Apple
8 3 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.36%) Remedy
9 2 (1.57%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.57%) BMC
9 2 (1.57%) IBM
9 2 (1.57%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.57%) Planview
9 2 (1.57%) SmartStream