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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 124 128 95
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.96% 6.46% 4.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.51% 44.29% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 94 62
10th Percentile £315 £313 £338
25th Percentile £463 £386 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% -4.76% -8.22%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £679 £718
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £17.98 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% +165.15% -
75th Percentile £42.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
London median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -5.06% +35.88% -39.35%

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 285 289 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.40% 14.58% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 198 210
10th Percentile £407 £355 £400
25th Percentile £463 £414 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £684
90th Percentile £733 £700 £776
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £17.98 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £42.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -44.44%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -8 118 £542 +5.24% 42
City of Westminster -3 7 £425 +84.78% 2
West End of London - 5 £425 - 1
Southwark -2 1 £600 -
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 50 (40.32%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.81%) Apache
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.81%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.81%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.74%) AWS
1 22 (17.74%) Azure
2 13 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.87%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.26%) GitHub
5 8 (6.45%) GCP
5 8 (6.45%) Serverless
6 7 (5.65%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.65%) SaaS
7 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.61%) Miro
11 2 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) DNS
2 11 (8.87%) VPN
3 9 (7.26%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.45%) DHCP
5 3 (2.42%) Firewall
6 2 (1.61%) HTTP
6 2 (1.61%) VLAN
7 1 (0.81%) INAP
7 1 (0.81%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.81%) Internet
7 1 (0.81%) Network Security
7 1 (0.81%) NGFW
7 1 (0.81%) RTP
7 1 (0.81%) SSH
7 1 (0.81%) SSL
7 1 (0.81%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.81%) VoIP
7 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) Power BI
2 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.03%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.42%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.61%) Tableau
8 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.81%) Flink
8 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.29%) Git
3 10 (8.06%) GitLab
4 6 (4.84%) JUnit
4 6 (4.84%) Mockito
5 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.23%) Postman
6 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.42%) Selenium
6 3 (2.42%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.61%) JMeter
7 2 (1.61%) Maven
7 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.61%) Xcode
8 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.81%) Gatling
8 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.81%) TestCafe
General
1 55 (44.35%) Finance
2 48 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 30 (24.19%) Banking
4 22 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.65%) Front Office
7 7 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.23%) Retail
9 4 (3.23%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.42%) Marketing
11 2 (1.61%) Back Office
11 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.81%) Law
12 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (13.71%) Analyst
2 15 (12.10%) Developer
3 11 (8.87%) Project Manager
3 11 (8.87%) Senior
4 9 (7.26%) Lead
5 8 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.65%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (4.84%) IT Support
7 6 (4.84%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Coordinator
8 5 (4.03%) QA Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.23%) Architect
9 4 (3.23%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Support Analyst
9 4 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) SOAP
2 8 (6.45%) REST
3 7 (5.65%) Terraform
4 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.84%) Spring
4 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.03%) JSON
5 5 (4.03%) Kafka
6 4 (3.23%) HTML
7 3 (2.42%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.42%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.42%) RESTful
7 3 (2.42%) SwiftUI
7 3 (2.42%) UIKit
7 3 (2.42%) Web Services
7 3 (2.42%) WireMock
7 3 (2.42%) YAML
8 2 (1.61%) JPA
8 2 (1.61%) Playwright
8 2 (1.61%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.26%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.03%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.42%) Clustering
6 3 (2.42%) Derivative
6 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.42%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.81%) CSOC
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.90%) Windows
2 6 (4.84%) Linux
3 5 (4.03%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.61%) Android
6 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.61%) Unix
7 1 (0.81%) CentOS
7 1 (0.81%) SUSE
7 1 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.81%) VMS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.03%) Agile
2 44 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (25.00%) Scrum
5 29 (23.39%) Migration
6 27 (21.77%) CI/CD
7 25 (20.16%) DevOps
8 24 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (16.94%) Sprint Planning
10 18 (14.52%) Test Automation
11 17 (13.71%) Project Management
11 17 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (12.10%) User Stories
13 13 (10.48%) Incident Management
13 13 (10.48%) ITSM
14 12 (9.68%) Backlog Management
14 12 (9.68%) Data Migration
14 12 (9.68%) Sprint Retrospective
15 11 (8.87%) AI
15 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.52%) SQL
2 17 (13.71%) Python
3 11 (8.87%) Java
4 8 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.84%) C#
7 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.42%) Bash
8 3 (2.42%) Swift
9 2 (1.61%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.61%) Korn
10 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) Degree
4 6 (4.84%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.03%) PMP
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) CBAP
7 1 (0.81%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) IIBA
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) OSCP
7 1 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.13%) QA
2 10 (8.06%) PMO
3 5 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.23%) SLA
5 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.81%) GDPR
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.81%) NIST
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.81%) P3O
7 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.26%) Docker
3 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.03%) Grafana
3 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.42%) Istio
4 3 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.42%) SCCM
4 3 (2.42%) SCOM
4 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.81%) Ansible
6 1 (0.81%) Consul
Vendors
1 25 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.13%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.26%) Remedy
4 7 (5.65%) Oracle
5 6 (4.84%) Google
6 5 (4.03%) Bloomberg
7 4 (3.23%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.23%) BMC
7 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.23%) VMware
8 3 (2.42%) Commvault
8 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.42%) Okta
8 3 (2.42%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.61%) Adobe
9 2 (1.61%) Citrix
9 2 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.61%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.61%) Splunk