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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 115 100 117
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.68% 4.72% 4.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.75% 33.22% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 62 77
10th Percentile £313 £302 £398
25th Percentile £406 £408 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £614 £675
90th Percentile £697 £792 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £572
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.22% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 269 301 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.63% 14.20% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 188 234
10th Percentile £358 £371 £375
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -7.25% -
75th Percentile £663 £691 £697
90th Percentile £725 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 - -
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 59 (51.30%) Confluence
2 6 (5.22%) CMS
2 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.48%) Drupal
3 4 (3.48%) WordPress
4 2 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.87%) Camunda
5 1 (0.87%) nginx
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.74%) Trello
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.87%) InVision
7 1 (0.87%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.87%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.78%) Azure
2 16 (13.91%) AWS
3 12 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.35%) GitHub
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.61%) Figma
7 3 (2.61%) IaaS
7 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.61%) Miro
7 3 (2.61%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.61%) SaaS
7 3 (2.61%) Serverless
8 2 (1.74%) Asana
8 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) Firewall
2 4 (3.48%) DNS
3 2 (1.74%) SSL
3 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.87%) DKIM
4 1 (0.87%) LAN
4 1 (0.87%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.87%) SSH
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) Power BI
2 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.74%) Metadata
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.74%) Tableau
3 1 (0.87%) Big Data
3 1 (0.87%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.87%) GIS
3 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.87%) MySQL
3 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.87%) Redis
3 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.87%) SQLite
3 1 (0.87%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.22%) Selenium
4 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.48%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (2.61%) GitLab
6 3 (2.61%) Postman
6 3 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.87%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.87%) fastlane
8 1 (0.87%) Gatling
8 1 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.87%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 49 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 43 (37.39%) Finance
3 23 (20.00%) Banking
4 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Front Office
9 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 2 (1.74%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Automotive
10 1 (0.87%) Back Office
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) Analyst
2 16 (13.91%) Business Analyst
3 14 (12.17%) Developer
3 14 (12.17%) Senior
4 12 (10.43%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.09%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Architect
6 6 (5.22%) Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) Lead
6 6 (5.22%) Product Owner
6 6 (5.22%) Tester
7 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Administrator
8 4 (3.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.61%) Angular Developer
9 3 (2.61%) Payments Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Senior Architect
9 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (2.61%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) HTML
2 8 (6.96%) REST
3 7 (6.09%) CSS
4 5 (4.35%) .NET
4 5 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.35%) HTML5
5 4 (3.48%) ADO
5 4 (3.48%) React
5 4 (3.48%) SOAP
6 3 (2.61%) jQuery
6 3 (2.61%) JSON
6 3 (2.61%) LDAP
6 3 (2.61%) Next.js
6 3 (2.61%) Spring
6 3 (2.61%) Web Services
7 2 (1.74%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.74%) JDBC
7 2 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.91%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.48%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.61%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) CMDB
5 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.74%) Derivative
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.74%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.74%) Equities
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Unix
1 4 (3.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.87%) Android
3 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (63.48%) Agile
2 28 (24.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (23.48%) DevOps
3 27 (23.48%) Scrum
4 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.52%) Project Management
5 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (15.65%) User Stories
7 17 (14.78%) Roadmaps
8 15 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 15 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.04%) Migration
8 15 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (11.30%) Project Delivery
10 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.57%) Backlog Management
12 10 (8.70%) Risk Management
12 10 (8.70%) SDLC
12 10 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (7.83%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.91%) Java
2 13 (11.30%) SQL
3 12 (10.43%) Python
4 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.48%) Groovy
6 3 (2.61%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.61%) Bash
6 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.74%) C#
8 1 (0.87%) C
8 1 (0.87%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) Korn
8 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.87%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.87%) PHP
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.87%) SOQL
8 1 (0.87%) Swift
8 1 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) Degree
3 5 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.48%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.48%) PMP
5 3 (2.61%) CBAP
5 3 (2.61%) CISSP
6 2 (1.74%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.74%) ISEB
7 1 (0.87%) APMG
7 1 (0.87%) CISA
7 1 (0.87%) CRISC
7 1 (0.87%) CSPO
7 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) PhD
7 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) QA
2 8 (6.96%) PMO
3 7 (6.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.61%) SEPA
5 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) GRC
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 2 (1.74%) NIST
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) COBIT
6 1 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.87%) PSD2
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (2.61%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.87%) Ambari
3 1 (0.87%) Consul
3 1 (0.87%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.87%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.87%) Packer
3 1 (0.87%) Puppet
3 1 (0.87%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.87%) SCCM
3 1 (0.87%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.09%) Atlassian
3 7 (6.09%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.48%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) Adobe
5 3 (2.61%) Google
5 3 (2.61%) HP
6 2 (1.74%) BMC
6 2 (1.74%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.74%) IBM
6 2 (1.74%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.74%) Remedy
6 2 (1.74%) Tenable
7 1 (0.87%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.87%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.87%) Sonatype