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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 35 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 116 108 86
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.68% 5.66% 3.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.31% 41.38% 28.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 61 51
10th Percentile £366 £363 £363
25th Percentile £465 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% +4.79% -12.87%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £586
90th Percentile £719 £670 £688
London median daily rate £513 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £33.00
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £37.20 - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -26.67% +18.26% -41.28%

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 256 261 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.34% 13.67% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 154 202
10th Percentile £363 £400 £395
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £18.17 - £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 - £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £40.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.38%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £45.94
90th Percentile £37.20 - £48.53
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -47.86%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -5 111 £544 +3.62% 19
City of Westminster -1 2 - -
West End of London - 2 £550 - 1
Southwark - 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 41 (35.34%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) 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%) IIS
4 1 (0.86%) JBoss
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.03%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.59%) Trello
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.86%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Fidessa
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
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.97%) AWS
1 22 (18.97%) Azure
2 13 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.62%) GitHub
4 8 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.90%) Serverless
5 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.03%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.17%) GCP
6 6 (5.17%) SaaS
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.59%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.59%) Slack
10 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) DHCP
1 2 (1.72%) DNS
1 2 (1.72%) Firewall
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
1 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (0.86%) Network Security
2 1 (0.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) DynamoDB
2 6 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.17%) Power BI
2 6 (5.17%) Tableau
3 5 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.72%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.72%) Metadata
5 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.86%) Looker
6 1 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.86%) QlikView
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.79%) Git
3 7 (6.03%) GitLab
3 7 (6.03%) JUnit
4 6 (5.17%) Postman
5 5 (4.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.31%) Selenium
6 4 (3.45%) Mockito
7 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.59%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.72%) Ant
8 2 (1.72%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.72%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.86%) Maven
9 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.86%) TestRail
General
1 56 (48.28%) Finance
2 40 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 31 (26.72%) Banking
4 21 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Front Office
7 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Retail
8 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.45%) Legal
9 4 (3.45%) Marketing
10 3 (2.59%) Back Office
11 2 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.86%) Military
12 1 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (21.55%) Analyst
2 17 (14.66%) Senior
3 14 (12.07%) Business Analyst
3 14 (12.07%) Developer
4 10 (8.62%) Delivery Manager
5 9 (7.76%) Lead
6 8 (6.90%) Banking Analyst
7 7 (6.03%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.17%) IT Support
8 6 (5.17%) Scrum Master
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.31%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Banking Business Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) Product Owner
9 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.59%) CRM Manager
11 3 (2.59%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) Spring
2 6 (5.17%) Kafka
2 6 (5.17%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.45%) Gherkin
3 4 (3.45%) React
3 4 (3.45%) REST
3 4 (3.45%) SOAP
3 4 (3.45%) Web Services
3 4 (3.45%) WireMock
3 4 (3.45%) YAML
4 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.59%) J2EE
4 3 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.59%) Playwright
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%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.59%) Derivative
5 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.59%) PMI
6 2 (1.72%) Equities
6 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.86%) DTCC
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.86%) FMCG
7 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) SUSE
4 1 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Agile
2 36 (31.03%) Scrum
3 28 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (16.38%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.38%) Migration
7 18 (15.52%) DevOps
8 16 (13.79%) Project Management
8 16 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.07%) Project Delivery
9 14 (12.07%) Sprint Planning
10 13 (11.21%) Waterfall
11 12 (10.34%) Decision-Making
11 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 11 (9.48%) Backlog Management
12 11 (9.48%) Sprint Retrospective
12 11 (9.48%) User Stories
12 11 (9.48%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.21%) Java
1 13 (11.21%) Python
2 11 (9.48%) C#
3 10 (8.62%) SQL
4 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.17%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.72%) Bash
5 2 (1.72%) C++
5 2 (1.72%) VBA
6 1 (0.86%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.86%) Korn
6 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.86%) Scala
6 1 (0.86%) Swift
6 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.45%) CBAP
5 4 (3.45%) PMP
6 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.86%) CEH
8 1 (0.86%) CFA
8 1 (0.86%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.86%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.86%) IIBA
8 1 (0.86%) ISEB
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) QA
2 11 (9.48%) PMO
3 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.59%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.86%) Basel III
6 1 (0.86%) EMIR
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) MiFID
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.86%) P3O
6 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.03%) Terraform
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.86%) Consul
4 1 (0.86%) Control-M
4 1 (0.86%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.90%) Oracle
4 7 (6.03%) Google
5 6 (5.17%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.31%) Remedy
7 4 (3.45%) Planview
8 3 (2.59%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.59%) Databricks
8 3 (2.59%) Murex
8 3 (2.59%) SAP
8 3 (2.59%) Workday
9 2 (1.72%) Citrix
9 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.72%) IBM
9 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.86%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.86%) Solace