JIRA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Atlassian JIRA
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 40 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 118 116 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.17% 6.47% 4.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.19% 43.28% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 85 59
10th Percentile £314 £313 £383
25th Percentile £463 £405 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £642 £641 £626
90th Percentile £725 £700 £735
Central London median daily rate £547 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +9.40% -4.76% -8.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £17.60 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -77.71% +165.15% -

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 267 268 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.70% 14.94% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 180 198
10th Percentile £401 £357 £404
25th Percentile £463 £425 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £698
90th Percentile £732 £713 £777
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £17.60 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

JIRA job vacancy trend in the City of London

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the City of London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 47 (39.83%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.85%) IIS
6 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.85%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.85%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.80%) AWS
1 21 (17.80%) Azure
2 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.32%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.63%) GitHub
6 8 (6.78%) GCP
6 8 (6.78%) Serverless
7 7 (5.93%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.39%) SaaS
11 3 (2.54%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.69%) dbt
12 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.17%) DNS
2 11 (9.32%) VPN
3 8 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.93%) DHCP
5 3 (2.54%) Firewall
6 2 (1.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.85%) INAP
7 1 (0.85%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.85%) Internet
7 1 (0.85%) Network Security
7 1 (0.85%) NGFW
7 1 (0.85%) RTP
7 1 (0.85%) SSH
7 1 (0.85%) SSL
7 1 (0.85%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.85%) VoIP
7 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.32%) Power BI
2 9 (7.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.69%) Tableau
8 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.85%) Flink
8 1 (0.85%) Looker
8 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.86%) Git
3 10 (8.47%) GitLab
4 6 (5.08%) JUnit
4 6 (5.08%) Mockito
5 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.54%) Postman
6 3 (2.54%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.69%) Maven
7 2 (1.69%) Selenium
7 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.69%) Xcode
8 1 (0.85%) JMeter
8 1 (0.85%) Locust
8 1 (0.85%) Newman
8 1 (0.85%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.85%) TestCafe
General
1 54 (45.76%) Finance
2 42 (35.59%) Social Skills
3 30 (25.42%) Banking
4 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.93%) Front Office
8 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.24%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Retail
9 4 (3.39%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.54%) Marketing
11 2 (1.69%) Back Office
11 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.85%) Law
12 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (14.41%) Analyst
2 13 (11.02%) Developer
3 11 (9.32%) Senior
4 9 (7.63%) Lead
4 9 (7.63%) Project Manager
5 8 (6.78%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.08%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.08%) Product Owner
6 6 (5.08%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Coordinator
7 5 (4.24%) IT Support
7 5 (4.24%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.39%) Architect
8 4 (3.39%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.39%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) SOAP
1 7 (5.93%) Terraform
2 6 (5.08%) Spring
2 6 (5.08%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.24%) Kafka
3 5 (4.24%) REST
4 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.54%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.54%) JSON
5 3 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.54%) RESTful
5 3 (2.54%) SwiftUI
5 3 (2.54%) UIKit
5 3 (2.54%) Web Services
5 3 (2.54%) WireMock
5 3 (2.54%) YAML
6 2 (1.69%) .NET
6 2 (1.69%) HTML
6 2 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.24%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.54%) Clustering
5 3 (2.54%) Derivative
5 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) CSOC
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.71%) Windows
2 6 (5.08%) Linux
3 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.85%) Android
7 1 (0.85%) CentOS
7 1 (0.85%) SUSE
7 1 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.85%) VMS
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.39%) Agile
2 41 (34.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (23.73%) Scrum
5 27 (22.88%) Migration
6 26 (22.03%) CI/CD
7 24 (20.34%) DevOps
8 21 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.95%) Sprint Planning
10 17 (14.41%) Test Automation
11 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (12.71%) Project Management
12 15 (12.71%) User Stories
13 13 (11.02%) Incident Management
14 12 (10.17%) Backlog Management
14 12 (10.17%) Data Migration
14 12 (10.17%) ITSM
15 11 (9.32%) AI
15 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (9.32%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.25%) SQL
2 16 (13.56%) Python
3 10 (8.47%) Java
4 7 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.08%) C#
6 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.54%) Bash
7 3 (2.54%) Swift
8 2 (1.69%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) Degree
4 5 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.39%) PMP
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) CBAP
7 1 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.85%) CISM
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) IIBA
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) OSCP
7 1 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) QA
2 9 (7.63%) PMO
3 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.54%) SLA
6 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) GDPR
7 1 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.85%) NCSC
7 1 (0.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.85%) P3O
7 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.63%) Docker
3 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.24%) Grafana
3 4 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.54%) Istio
4 3 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.54%) SCCM
4 3 (2.54%) SCOM
4 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
5 1 (0.85%) Consul
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.41%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.78%) Remedy
4 7 (5.93%) Oracle
5 6 (5.08%) Google
6 5 (4.24%) Bloomberg
7 4 (3.39%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.39%) BMC
7 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.39%) VMware
8 3 (2.54%) Commvault
8 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.54%) Okta
8 3 (2.54%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.69%) Adobe
9 2 (1.69%) Citrix
9 2 (1.69%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.69%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.69%) Splunk