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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 50
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 117 125 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.45% 6.09% 3.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.98% 43.25% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 82 59
10th Percentile £385 £334 £388
25th Percentile £467 £388 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £647 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £679 £715
London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
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 £31.13 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.45 - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year -38.89% +41.91% -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 266 289 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.12% 14.09% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 180 217
10th Percentile £375 £362 £400
25th Percentile £453 £422 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £538 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -2.36% -4.26%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £727 £720 £768
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile - £63.75 £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +84.05% -22.38%
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 £45.94
90th Percentile £75.45 £86.25 £48.53
London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%

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 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -12 107 £544 +3.62% 15
City of Westminster -3 7 £425 +13.33%
West End of London - 6 £488 -
Southwark 0 2 £625 -
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 40 (34.19%) Confluence
2 6 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) CMS
3 2 (1.71%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.71%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) JBoss
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (5.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.85%) Actimize
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.85%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) Azure
2 23 (19.66%) AWS
3 14 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.40%) GitHub
4 11 (9.40%) Serverless
5 10 (8.55%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.98%) SaaS
8 6 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.13%) GCP
8 6 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) VPN
3 4 (3.42%) DHCP
3 4 (3.42%) HTTP
3 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.56%) Firewall
5 1 (0.85%) Internet
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 8 (6.84%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.13%) Power BI
4 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.56%) Tableau
6 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.71%) Metadata
6 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.85%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.85%) QlikView
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (17.09%) Git
2 18 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.26%) GitLab
4 9 (7.69%) JUnit
5 7 (5.98%) Postman
6 6 (5.13%) Mockito
6 6 (5.13%) Selenium
7 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.56%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.56%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.71%) Ant
10 2 (1.71%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.71%) Xcode
11 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.85%) Gatling
11 1 (0.85%) JMeter
11 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 53 (45.30%) Finance
2 46 (39.32%) Social Skills
3 32 (27.35%) Banking
4 15 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Retail
7 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Front Office
7 3 (2.56%) Legal
8 2 (1.71%) Back Office
8 2 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Military
9 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (16.24%) Developer
2 17 (14.53%) Analyst
3 14 (11.97%) Senior
4 9 (7.69%) IT Support
5 7 (5.98%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (5.98%) Business Analyst
5 7 (5.98%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (5.98%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.27%) Lead
7 5 (4.27%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.27%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.42%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.42%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) Tester
9 3 (2.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) REST
1 9 (7.69%) SOAP
1 9 (7.69%) Spring
2 8 (6.84%) Kafka
2 8 (6.84%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.27%) Gherkin
3 5 (4.27%) JSON
3 5 (4.27%) WireMock
3 5 (4.27%) YAML
4 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.42%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.42%) Playwright
4 4 (3.42%) Web Services
5 3 (2.56%) J2EE
5 3 (2.56%) React
5 3 (2.56%) RESTful
5 3 (2.56%) SwiftUI
5 3 (2.56%) UIKit
6 2 (1.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (1.71%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.56%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.71%) Derivative
5 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.85%) FMCG
6 1 (0.85%) iPad
6 1 (0.85%) iPhone
6 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) NHS
6 1 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) Windows
2 6 (5.13%) Linux
3 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) SUSE
5 1 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (54.70%) Agile
2 32 (27.35%) Scrum
3 26 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 26 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (18.80%) DevOps
6 20 (17.09%) Migration
7 19 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (16.24%) Test Automation
8 17 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.11%) ITSM
9 13 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (9.40%) Customer Service
11 11 (9.40%) Sprint Retrospective
12 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
12 10 (8.55%) Problem Management
12 10 (8.55%) Project Management
13 9 (7.69%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.97%) Java
1 14 (11.97%) Python
2 12 (10.26%) C#
3 11 (9.40%) SQL
4 8 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.56%) Swift
7 2 (1.71%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.71%) Bash
7 2 (1.71%) C++
7 2 (1.71%) VBA
8 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.42%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.42%) PMP
5 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.85%) CBAP
6 1 (0.85%) CEH
6 1 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.85%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) IIBA
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.53%) QA
2 9 (7.69%) PMO
3 6 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.56%) SLA
5 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.85%) P3O
6 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Docker
2 7 (5.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.55%) Terraform
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Istio
4 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Control-M
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 19 (16.24%) ServiceNow
2 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.69%) Remedy
4 6 (5.13%) Google
5 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.42%) Oracle
7 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.56%) Okta
7 3 (2.56%) Planview
8 2 (1.71%) Adobe
8 2 (1.71%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.71%) Citrix
8 2 (1.71%) Databricks
8 2 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.71%) IBM
8 2 (1.71%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.71%) Workday
9 1 (0.85%) Alias
9 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.85%) VMware