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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 128 106 101
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.43% 4.53% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.51% 34.08% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 61 62
10th Percentile £324 £326 £428
25th Percentile £409 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -10.83% +3.00%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £697
90th Percentile £706 £800 £786
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 316 311 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.86% 13.28% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 179 207
10th Percentile £356 £381 £360
25th Percentile £425 £468 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £684
90th Percentile £750 £754 £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 16 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 16 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 +10 118 £510 -9.33% 17
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 11 (8.59%) 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%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (3.13%) Trello
6 2 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.78%) InVision
7 1 (0.78%) Notion
7 1 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.56%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.56%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
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 23 (17.97%) Azure
2 14 (10.94%) AWS
3 12 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.59%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.25%) GitHub
6 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.13%) Figma
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.13%) Miro
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.34%) Serverless
8 2 (1.56%) Firebase
8 2 (1.56%) GCP
8 2 (1.56%) PaaS
8 2 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) DNS
2 2 (1.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.78%) DKIM
3 1 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) Power BI
2 4 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.13%) Redis
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%) Tableau
4 2 (1.56%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.78%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
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 49 (38.28%) Finance
2 45 (35.16%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (20.31%) Banking
5 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.13%) Front Office
8 4 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.13%) Legal
9 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Retail
9 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Back Office
11 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.78%) French Language
11 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.78%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (22.66%) Analyst
2 23 (17.97%) Business Analyst
3 21 (16.41%) Senior
4 10 (7.81%) Lead
4 10 (7.81%) Product Owner
4 10 (7.81%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.03%) Developer
6 7 (5.47%) Tester
7 6 (4.69%) Administrator
7 6 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (3.91%) Architect
8 5 (3.91%) Consultant
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Manager
8 5 (3.91%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.13%) JIRA Administrator
9 4 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Test Engineer
10 3 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
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%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.34%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.13%) Derivative
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.34%) Equities
5 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.56%) Animation
6 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.56%) CMDB
6 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.56%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.56%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
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 80 (62.50%) Agile
2 33 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (25.00%) Scrum
4 31 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (23.44%) DevOps
5 30 (23.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (18.75%) User Stories
7 23 (17.97%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (14.84%) Project Management
9 19 (14.84%) Roadmaps
10 18 (14.06%) Test Automation
11 17 (13.28%) Migration
11 17 (13.28%) Project Delivery
12 16 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 14 (10.94%) Backlog Management
13 14 (10.94%) Risk Management
14 13 (10.16%) Acceptance Criteria
14 13 (10.16%) Workshop Facilitation
15 12 (9.38%) Waterfall
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 22 (17.19%) SC Cleared
1 22 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.72%) Degree
3 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.13%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.34%) CBAP
4 3 (2.34%) CISSP
4 3 (2.34%) PMP
5 2 (1.56%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (1.56%) ISEB
6 1 (0.78%) CFA
6 1 (0.78%) CISA
6 1 (0.78%) CRISC
6 1 (0.78%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.78%) IIBA
6 1 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.63%) QA
2 8 (6.25%) PMO
3 7 (5.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) GRC
4 2 (1.56%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.56%) WCAG
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
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
3 2 (1.56%) Terraform
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.47%) Google
5 6 (4.69%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.69%) Oracle
6 5 (3.91%) HP
6 5 (3.91%) SAP
7 4 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (3.13%) Splunk
8 3 (2.34%) Adobe
8 3 (2.34%) Apple
8 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.34%) Remedy
9 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.56%) BMC
9 2 (1.56%) IBM
9 2 (1.56%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.56%) Murex
9 2 (1.56%) SmartStream