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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 -29
Contract jobs citing JIRA 116 114 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.19% 5.60% 2.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.58% 39.45% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 68 45
10th Percentile £364 £348 £359
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -5.81% -5.70%
75th Percentile £644 £576 £658
90th Percentile £706 £629 £739
London median daily rate £518 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.50% -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £33.00
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £48.50 - -
London median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £32.36
% change year-on-year -35.00% -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 279 289 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.47% 14.20% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 173 169
10th Percentile £363 £366 £405
25th Percentile £429 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% -5.83%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £680
90th Percentile £764 £735 £751
London median daily rate £520 £530 £563
% change year-on-year -1.89% -5.78% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £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 £48.50 - £69.05
London median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -35.00% -25.00% -30.43%

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 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -6 108 £550 +10.00% 44
West End of London +8 1 £550 +2.80% 1
Southwark +2 1 £650 -
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 49 (42.24%) Confluence
2 10 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) CMS
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 12 (10.34%) MS Visio
2 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.45%) Trello
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.86%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.59%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.72%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.72%) Summit
4 1 (0.86%) Actimize
4 1 (0.86%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.86%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.86%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.97%) Azure
2 17 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (11.21%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) GitHub
4 10 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.31%) Serverless
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.45%) GCP
7 4 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.59%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.72%) Firebase
9 2 (1.72%) SaaS
9 2 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) Power BI
2 7 (6.03%) Tableau
3 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.59%) Tick Data
6 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.72%) SQLite
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.86%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.86%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.86%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.86%) Looker
7 1 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.86%) Redis
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.93%) 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
5 4 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.59%) Maven
6 3 (2.59%) Mockito
7 2 (1.72%) Ant
7 2 (1.72%) CocoaPods
7 2 (1.72%) Crashlytics
7 2 (1.72%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.72%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.72%) TestRail
7 2 (1.72%) Xcode
General
1 57 (49.14%) Finance
2 45 (38.79%) Social Skills
3 28 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (24.14%) Banking
4 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Front Office
8 5 (4.31%) Legal
9 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.45%) Retail
10 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.59%) Marketing
11 2 (1.72%) Back Office
12 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.86%) Military
12 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (30.17%) Analyst
2 26 (22.41%) Business Analyst
3 22 (18.97%) Senior
4 16 (13.79%) Developer
5 10 (8.62%) Lead
5 10 (8.62%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) Banking Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.17%) Banking Business Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.17%) IT Support
7 6 (5.17%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.31%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.31%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.31%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Junior
9 4 (3.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Spring
2 5 (4.31%) Kafka
2 5 (4.31%) REST
2 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.45%) SOAP
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%) Playwright
4 3 (2.59%) React
4 3 (2.59%) UIKit
4 3 (2.59%) WireMock
4 3 (2.59%) YAML
5 2 (1.72%) AVFoundation
5 2 (1.72%) Core Data
5 2 (1.72%) gRPC
5 2 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.72%) RxSwift
5 2 (1.72%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) Onboarding
1 11 (9.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.45%) Derivative
3 4 (3.45%) Equities
3 4 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.72%) Animation
5 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.72%) PMI
6 1 (0.86%) CMDB
6 1 (0.86%) DTCC
6 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.86%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.86%) NHS
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Windows
2 4 (3.45%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Agile
2 34 (29.31%) Scrum
3 28 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (19.83%) DevOps
7 21 (18.10%) Project Delivery
8 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
8 18 (15.52%) Project Management
9 16 (13.79%) Migration
9 16 (13.79%) Risk Management
9 16 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (13.79%) Workshop Facilitation
10 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
10 15 (12.93%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
11 13 (11.21%) Business Analysis
11 13 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
11 13 (11.21%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.93%) Java
2 13 (11.21%) Python
2 13 (11.21%) SQL
3 8 (6.90%) C#
4 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.59%) Swift
7 2 (1.72%) Bash
7 2 (1.72%) C++
7 2 (1.72%) Korn
7 2 (1.72%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (0.86%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.86%) PHP
8 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.31%) CBAP
5 5 (4.31%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.31%) PMP
6 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.59%) ISEB
6 3 (2.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.72%) CFA
7 2 (1.72%) CISSP
7 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.72%) IIBA
7 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) PMO
3 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.59%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.59%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) Basel III
6 1 (0.86%) EMIR
6 1 (0.86%) GDPR
6 1 (0.86%) MiFID
6 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.17%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Ansible
1 5 (4.31%) Terraform
2 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.72%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.86%) Control-M
4 1 (0.86%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) ServiceNow
2 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.90%) Google
4 7 (6.03%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.17%) Oracle
5 6 (5.17%) Remedy
6 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.31%) Planview
7 4 (3.45%) Workday
8 3 (2.59%) Apple
8 3 (2.59%) Databricks
8 3 (2.59%) IBM
8 3 (2.59%) Murex
8 3 (2.59%) Solace
9 2 (1.72%) HP
9 2 (1.72%) SAP
9 2 (1.72%) SmartStream
10 1 (0.86%) Adobe
10 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.86%) Informatica