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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 31 45
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 113 114 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.86% 6.29% 4.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.30% 42.38% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 81 58
10th Percentile £389 £306 £377
25th Percentile £475 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £656 £638 £629
90th Percentile £725 £713 £743
Central London median daily rate £550 £470 £525
% change year-on-year +16.96% -10.43% -8.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £17.79 - -
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 261 269 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.23% 14.84% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 182 194
10th Percentile £413 £351 £400
25th Percentile £463 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -2.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £698
90th Percentile £738 £724 £781
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.65% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £17.79 £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 29 August 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
London Bridge +1 1 £650 -
JIRA
Central London

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 42 (37.17%) Confluence
2 7 (6.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) CMS
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.31%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.88%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.88%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.81%) AWS
1 19 (16.81%) Azure
2 11 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.85%) Power Platform
3 10 (8.85%) Serverless
4 9 (7.96%) Amazon S3
4 9 (7.96%) GitHub
5 8 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.31%) GCP
7 5 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.54%) SaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.77%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) DNS
1 10 (8.85%) VPN
2 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.42%) DHCP
4 3 (2.65%) Firewall
5 2 (1.77%) VLAN
6 1 (0.88%) Internet
6 1 (0.88%) Network Security
6 1 (0.88%) NGFW
6 1 (0.88%) SSH
6 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) Power BI
2 9 (7.96%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.19%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.65%) Tableau
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.88%) QlikView
7 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.16%) Git
2 14 (12.39%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.96%) GitLab
4 5 (4.42%) JUnit
5 4 (3.54%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.54%) Mockito
6 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.65%) Postman
6 3 (2.65%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.77%) Selenium
7 2 (1.77%) Xcode
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 50 (44.25%) Finance
2 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.66%) Banking
4 19 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Front Office
7 5 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.54%) Retail
9 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.65%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.77%) Back Office
10 2 (1.77%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.88%) Law
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (15.93%) Analyst
2 15 (13.27%) Developer
3 9 (7.96%) Business Analyst
4 8 (7.08%) Senior
5 7 (6.19%) Lead
6 6 (5.31%) Product Owner
6 6 (5.31%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.31%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.42%) IT Support
7 5 (4.42%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.54%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.54%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Tester
9 3 (2.65%) Architect
9 3 (2.65%) Consultant
9 3 (2.65%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) Terraform
2 5 (4.42%) SOAP
2 5 (4.42%) Spring
3 4 (3.54%) Kafka
3 4 (3.54%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.65%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.65%) JSON
4 3 (2.65%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.65%) React
4 3 (2.65%) REST
4 3 (2.65%) SwiftUI
4 3 (2.65%) UIKit
4 3 (2.65%) WireMock
4 3 (2.65%) YAML
5 2 (1.77%) .NET
5 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.77%) HTML
5 2 (1.77%) Web Services
5 2 (1.77%) XML
6 1 (0.88%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.27%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.42%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.54%) Derivative
6 3 (2.65%) Clustering
6 3 (2.65%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.77%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.88%) CSOC
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.88%) FMCG
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.50%) Windows
2 6 (5.31%) Linux
3 4 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.65%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.88%) SUSE
5 1 (0.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.98%) Agile
2 34 (30.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (22.12%) Migration
4 25 (22.12%) Scrum
5 22 (19.47%) CI/CD
6 21 (18.58%) DevOps
7 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (14.16%) Sprint Planning
8 16 (14.16%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.62%) ITSM
11 12 (10.62%) User Stories
12 11 (9.73%) Data Migration
12 11 (9.73%) Incident Management
12 11 (9.73%) Sprint Retrospective
13 10 (8.85%) Backlog Management
13 10 (8.85%) Project Management
14 9 (7.96%) AI
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.93%) SQL
2 16 (14.16%) Python
3 9 (7.96%) Java
4 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.31%) C#
5 6 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.54%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.65%) Bash
7 3 (2.65%) Swift
8 2 (1.77%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.77%) Korn
9 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) Degree
4 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CBAP
5 1 (0.88%) CEH
5 1 (0.88%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (0.88%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) CISSP
5 1 (0.88%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) IIBA
5 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) OSCP
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) QA
2 6 (5.31%) PMO
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.88%) P3O
6 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.19%) Docker
3 4 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.65%) Grafana
2 3 (2.65%) Istio
2 3 (2.65%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.65%) SCOM
2 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.77%) Ansible
3 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.77%) SCCM
4 1 (0.88%) Consul
4 1 (0.88%) Control-M
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.08%) Remedy
4 7 (6.19%) Oracle
5 6 (5.31%) Google
6 4 (3.54%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.54%) VMware
7 3 (2.65%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.65%) BMC
7 3 (2.65%) Commvault
7 3 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.65%) Okta
7 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.65%) Splunk
8 2 (1.77%) Adobe
8 2 (1.77%) Citrix
8 2 (1.77%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.77%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.77%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.77%) Refinitiv